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⌈ Secret Post #6030 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

The dude's wig looks good in that screencap. The woman's wig is at least passable in the screencap. I assume they look a lot worse in other shots, and/or in motion?

[(Anonymous)]

I've worked with enough wigs to be able to tell even in a screencap that the texture is off - even knowing that natural hair can be coarse and frizzy, there's a mental/visual disconnect when a wig that could be much nicer-looking appears texturally rough. The tone of white-blond also doesn't work with the actors' complexions - makeup should have balanced that shit.

But yeah, I'm guessing that it looks worse in motion, or closeups reveal the poorly glued-down lace-fronts. Or, it's just so jarringly clear that they're wigs and it breaks suspension of disbelief. I've seen a lot of half-assed wigs in fantasy lately and I know makeup artists can do better, so I'm basically out here wondering who signed off on the halfassery or genuinely thought it looked good before the cameras rolled.

[philstar22]

They kind of have to be white-blonde given that the entire family has white blonde hair.

[(Anonymous)]

DA
But there are different types of white-blonde. Just using a more ashen tone would have worked wonders for a less artificial look.

[(Anonymous)]

Could you give examples of this? Like, characters I can look up to contrast what they did with their hair and makeup? Because I'm interested, but I don't know what you mean in terms of "this works" and "that looks wrong."

[(Anonymous)]

It highly depends on the skin tone, especially on the undertones, like more yellow, pink or fairly neutral. Different shades of white blond/platinum look better or worse with certain skin tones.

[(Anonymous)]

SA
I looked for examples - while I didn't find any characters, I found this video: https://youtu.be/i92FbnSQ-0s
Maybe this helps!

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Whoa, thank you. That's dramatic. And it does help!

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! Toning would have been amazing here!

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, if they'd dyed their hair those colors then they'd still have the coarse/frizzy textural problem because the amount of bleach necessary to get your hair that pale wrecks the texture, so I don't see how the wigs are somehow a worse option.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I was thinking, too. But it sounds like they could have gone with better wigs. Which, considering they're trying to pretend the characters' hair is just like that, and not dyed, I guess is a fair point.

Fantasy realism for the win?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, hers pings as slightly heavy and unnatural, but not to the point where it's particularly distracting to me. His hair though looks like it could 100% be growing out of his head, IMO. Like sure, if you have a bunch of wig-dressing experience then the tells are going to be more obvious, but that's not most people. *shrugs*

Not a GoT fan at all; I just feel like the wigs aren't nearly bad enough to be a big deal. Clearly YMMV though.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, you've got a point. It's very much subjective, sometimes you can just see something "off" but not be able to articulate what it is. To be fair, I have seen a LOT worse than this. These are, as someone above said, passable.