All the buzz surrounding BBC America's very buzzy sci-fi drama Orphan Black is about lead actress Tatiana Maslany's jaw-dropping performance as a host of clones fighting to find out where they came from. And she deserves every kudo out there. (Emmy voters, are you listening?)

But she's not alone: There are people working hard behind the scenes, too, visually transforming Maslany into five clones so thoroughly distinct that we sometimes have to remind ourselves it's the same actress playing both uptight soccer mom Alison and whacked-out murderer Helena. (Those two don't even look like they belong to the same species.)

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Yahoo TV asked the show's key makeup artist Stephen Lynch and key hair stylist Sandy Sokolowski to let us in on their creative process — and it's a hectic one. The Orphan Black shooting schedule is dictated by location, so Maslany ends up switching from clone to clone each day. Once a scene ends, she races to Lynch's chair to get made up to play the next clone, and then to Sokolowski to apply the clone's hairdo.

"We often get 30 to 45 minutes and not much more, for hair and makeup each," Lynch says. Sokolowski adds: "And Tatiana works on her acting with the doubles at the same time, so it's a bit of a race, for sure."

They're both quick to credit Maslany for her shape-shifting performance ("An awful lot of what happens comes from within her," Lynch says), but as you'll see, they deserve a lot of credit, too, for preserving the illusion of five Tatianas running around. Here, they break down their approach, clone by clone.

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Makeup: "She has leftover damage from Season 1; her lip is still split and healing, and she has bruising as well around her eyes and cheeks. I think she likes her eyes. It signals to the world who she is and where she's from. So she'll pile on a lot of sooty eye shadow. Now in Season 2, she has less time for it; she's on the run. So it's whatever she can get, whenever she can get a moment."

"But she's basically a punk. So she'll slather on some soot to make her feel different from the others, and to keep her identity. The show's all about identity, after all."

Hair: "Because [Tatiana] has naturally wavy hair, there's no way you can put that on camera. In the modern day of HD, it would look like a haystack. What you have to do is put product in and process every bit of it. So I'll straighten it first, run a soft iron through it, and then put product in to give it a bit of moisture. … You use a lot of products to make the hair dirty, or have a bit of texture to it."