Don't you think a make-up designer can come up with more than one design? Especially for entirely different projects?
Oh, definitely - which is why I said whatever they come up with would never be exactly the same as BtVS.
The Buffy vampire design, btw, was specifically so it wouldn't seem as if the heroine was going around murdering "people," hence the overtly demonic 'game face.'
True - which is also why I said that the simple fact that Harlow worked on BtVS does not mean the Depp/DS film's vamps will have a similar look.
Likewise, the original series made do with pale makeup and fangs, nothing else. It wasn't until the '91 revival that we got golden eyes (very a la Forever Knight btw) whereas for the '04 pilot Barnabas had eyes that went very dark (not unlike The Vampire Diaries) and with extended 'double fangs' (i.e. two on each side, rather like the fang design for Blood Ties).
Also true.
And you'll note that I've never said the vampire look for the Depp/DS film
will be different from what we're used to in the DS universe - only that it "could" and "might" be.
Though even beyond Harlow's background there are two other things that lead me to that possibility: films have bigger budgets, and they tend to want to be different. When you have the resources to go in different directions than what's been done before, you tend to explore the possibilities. But who knows? They could do make up tests of different directions with prosthetics, decide that what they've tried looks hideous, and then decide that hewing closer to what's gone before in the DS universe is a better choice. But maybe not. The possibility also exists that if they experiment with prosthetics in ways that we're not used to seeing, they might like what they come up with. And that's all I'm saying - that there is a possibility for the vampire look in the Depp/DS film to be different. And because that possibility exists, it might be wise to prepare for the possibility should it become a reality.
We've already been warned that many things will be different, so the make up could be one of those things...