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Okay, I guess I'm one of those people who is bad at detecting wigs or have different opinions on wigs than others. Could people post pictures of what they think good/bad wigs look like?

Sometimes I can detect, sometimes I can't. Usually it doesn't bother me. The only one that I can think of that really bugged me was Natasha in Cap 2.

https://d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net/wp/wp-content/images/Scarlett-Johansson-as-Black-Widow-in-Captain-America-The-Winter-Soldier.jpg

Just something about the really straight wig makes it look really fake to me. Not sure why this one.

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I can literally never tell when someone is wearing a wig. I didn't realize Dany on GoT was wearing a wig until someone told me. I thought she had extensions.

Edited 2019-05-16 23:22 (UTC)

Maybe because I was so....enthralled with what was going on in the film, but I didn't know Kate Mara had a wig in the second half of Fantastic Four until I got online.

https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2015/08/07/07-kate-mara-f4-wig.w700.h467.2x.jpg

This is pretty awful. If you look at her part, you can see that's not a scalp. See how her natural hair falls into the part but it starts off going away from her scalp? That is hair. The other is wig. It also looks super dry and terrible. It might be real hair, but nobody has taken the time to care for it after bleaching it to whatever the hell shade that is. Wigs need a lot of care to look remotely real and this hasn't had enough.

Personally, my opinion with wigs, as a general rule of thumb, is the more of the hairline you can see "growing out of their head" the better. It's a little funny, because people's real hair hangs forwards obscuring their hairline all the time. But because of the way a wig sits slightly unnaturally on the head, when it drapes forwards and obscures the hairline there's just something subtly off about it that says "wig." Whereas when we can clearly see the hairline, it overpowers the subtle "fake" cues with a stronger "this is real" cue.

Like, this is an ugly, OTT wig, but it looks like hair:

http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/SJat56HQ2LEl.jpg

Again, not a subtle wig, but it looks pretty good:

http://www.catanna.com/aliasblondeshort2.jpg

Whereas these look more like wigs to me because the style is covering more of the hairline, so my brain is picking up subtler cues about how the wig is behaving (i.e. not naturally):

https://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/c_limit,w_680/fl_lossy,pg_1,q_auto/lwtzzqyvy4uoj8nh0pje.jpg

http://www.twoevilmonks.org/alias/asimg/thumbs/alias1_124.jpg

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I quite like the Melisandre wig in GoT

http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/V2wU9x9KjCil.jpg

It's a nice shade of red on the actress with her pale skin, a little bit over the top because she's a creepy witch type, and the style they normally use suits a wig and still looks like a normal way hair might behave.

In contrast you can see this wig from Twilight. The hair on the top of the head is very fixed in place to keep from exposing any gaps, but the hair is supposed to be loose and flowing. It doesn't look natural, and IMO that's a hairline for a mature man, not a teenager.

https://www.trbimg.com/img-532b435f/turbine/chi-twilight-wigs-20111110

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I can't find the screenshot I took to show a friend, but the chick who played Hester in Mortal Engines. All the money they spent on that movie and they couldn't get her a decent wig.

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I can't tell apparently, because most of the time I think it's their actual hair, or has been dyed(if it's a funky colour).

I think I just don't care enough to pay attention. I know that actors may wear wigs in movies a lot, even when it doesn't seem like it would be necessary, so playing attention to it seems kind of pointless.

I think i'm just thinking, mostly 'it's hollywood, this person has cut/dyed/curled/straightened/styled their hair a million times for life, for this movie, etc. Of *course* it's a little weird'.

That and a lot of the hairstyles obviously require gel or hairspray or whatever, so the hair looks flat or strange or too big to be 'normal' no matter what.

I can't think of a single example where I've ever noticed someone was wearing a wig. I'll watch some show/movie, and read reviews or discussion on a forum or something and there's a ton of people going on about how some character's wig looked soooooo bad and I never realized it...not sure why I can't seem to tell.

Good quality wigs are really hard to tell that they're actually wigs. I follow someone on instagram who has her own wig line and they have to be applied by a professional usually. You can't tell that it's a wig at all.

I'm trying to participate from work since I've missed so many posts due to my hours. And FS is not exactly work safe. But I tried commenting and even with auto fill it took forever and with lot of typos. How do people do all their posts on their phones? Do you get used to it? Is this. A sign of being internet old? Help.

See? I sound drunk lol.

It does get easier as you get used to it

I don't know. I can't do anything on a tiny phone screen.

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Here is the Movie Club poll!

Voting will be on until Saturday. I'll announce the winner on Sunday.

So I have a friend who's just started watching Game of Thrones (like, starting with season one on DVD, not just dropping in to season eight). I am, of course, not a dick, so I'm taking care to avoid giving her any spoilers - but it reminded me of the discussions I've seen about spoilers in general, and how long one should wait before posting important info about a show, movie, game or book *without* a spoiler warning.
So what do you think? How long should it be before a person can just say, "This is as silly as the revelation that Creedence is a Dumbledore" without warning? Does it differ based on the media? Does it matter how popular the thing is?