It isn’t easy to make the cast of The Walking Dead look like they survived a zombie apocalypse every day. AMC’s latest Dispatches From the Set feature is with make-up artist Donna Premick and hair stylist Taylor Knight, who talk about keeping the cast looking dirty for three seasons of the TV series:

Q: How do you take a cast of Hollywood stunners and make them look like bedraggled survivors of the apocalypse?

Dp: People always say, “You do makeup on the actors?” They think they walk in looking like that and that’s a big compliment… Everybody gets sunscreen. And then if it’s a woman, we will do their makeup very lightly so you don’t see the eyeshadow or eyeliner… When we got hired to do this job, [the producers] told us, “We want them to look sexy but yet to look like they haven’t taken a shower in months.