It takes an insane amount of work to look like the cast of 'Suicide Squad' — here's how we did it

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If you want to assemble a "task force of the most dangerous people on the planet" — who you think can do some good — you're going to need an air compressor, a steady hand, and infinite bottles of hair dye.

That's what my colleague Kirsten Acuna and I recently learned when professional makeup artists fixed us up like the characters of the new "Suicide Squad" movie, which arrives in theaters August 5.

Samsung invited Tech Insider to its "Suicide Squad" installation at San Diego Comic-Con, where Kirsten and I experienced the makeover montage of our dreams. Here's how it went.

Rest assured, Jared Leto does not roll out of bed looking like The Joker. At least, we hope not.

And it takes a lot of work to turn Margot Robbie into her crazed character, Harley Quinn.

We headed to the "Suicide Squad" installation at Comic-Con, where professional makeup artists were hard at work, to find out what it takes to become a member of the most dastardly gang of villains.

First, we had to decide which characters to become.