"Penelope does get a makeover, and it attracts a little bit of attention, but it pretty quickly fails spectacularly because she doesn't have the internal confidence yet to own it." Coughlan describes Penelope's new look as an "aesthetic transformation," one that in the end, "doesn't really matter." "She's not confident in herself. She doesn't believe in herself. The real transformation happens through learning to love herself and through loving Colin and becoming a woman and having sex."