"Clues" and hair

[Nakita Akita]

I noticed, for the first time actually, some of the people on the show's hair.
I give a pass to Data because he is supposed to not have actual hair, although there is s scene in this episode where Geordie come to get Data in his quarters, and the back of Data's hair looks like he had just gotten up from a little nap.
But my problem started during the episode I noticed Beverly has this sort of parted on the side hairstyle with this one chunk of hair that is like stuck in a sort of flipped back position.
I noticed it when she and Picard were walking down the corridors and she is explaining how the ensign she examined had 'technobabble' 24 hours, not 1/2 an hour.
So what's up with her hair?
How does that piece just stay like that and not move?
I don't have straight hair at all.
My hair doesn't move at all. During normal activities,( it will move in Say, 40 mph in the car or 40 mph wind)
But she turns her head etc, throughout the episode and her hair doesn't move. I know straight hair moves a lot normally.
Then I noticed Riker's hair, same thing.
I figure Worf's hair is actually a wig gotta give slack on that.
Geordie's hair is short, but like mine, that hair doesn't move too much anyway.
O what do they do to Beverly's hair to make it not move?
I noticed the same thing with the captains hair on Voyager too, what's up with that?

 

[NCC-73515]

Ask Mot.

 

[Tosk]

If you're asking why straight hair might not move, the answer is product. Hairspray, gel, wax, mousse. Something like that.

Although if I remember correctly, Gates wore wigs for the majority of the series.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Although if I remember correctly, Gates wore wigs for the majority of the series.

From Season Three, yes. Very expensive human hair wigs, while Marina's "fall" was a cheaper synthetic hairpiece for quite a while.

Supposedly, Gates had a reputation for being difficult to work with in Season One, but her own natural hair caused considerable havoc on the set. It is very fine, and would lose its style quickly under the hot lights. They'd have to send her off to get a new wash and set, and matched for continuity. Time is money on a TV production. When Gates was invited back, she insisted that she be given a range of red wigs. This then caused Marina Sirtis to campaign (at conventions!) for a higher quality fall.

 

[Mojochi]

Sometimes I think Wesley & Riker did each other's hair. Wigs, product, more product, more wigs. Oh noes! It's all FAAAAAKE!

BTW, on that subject. I'd bet money that between seasons 6 & 7, Barclay began wearing a toupee.

Realm Of Fear

Genesis

 

[Nakita Akita]

If you're asking why straight hair might not move, the answer is product. Hairspray, gel, wax, mousse. Something like that.

Although if I remember correctly, Gates wore wigs for the majority of the series.

Yep, I just wasn't sure.
I've seen people with Mohawks in the old days and I never knew what they used to make their hair like that.
But I guess I just didn't think of people using that on a regular basis. Or I guess I mean for what would be 'normal ' (not radical)
Hairstyles. I used stuff like that to smash my hair flat back in the day. My hair had to be wet when I did it and I had to tie it back to keep it flat.

 

[Nakita Akita]

From Season Three, yes. Very expensive human hair wigs, while Marina's "fall" was a cheaper synthetic hairpiece for quite a while.

Supposedly, Gates had a reputation for being difficult to work with in Season One, but her own natural hair caused considerable havoc on the set. It is very fine, and would lose its style quickly under the hot lights. They'd have to send her off to get a new wash and set, and matched for continuity. Time is money on a TV production. When Gates was invited back, she insisted that she be given a range of red wigs. This then caused Marina Sirtis to campaign (at conventions!) for a higher quality fall.

I had no idea she used wigs.
Troi's hair pieces are pretty obvious.
And Worf's too.
Worf and Troi but had the cheap hair pieces.
Poor Picard-no hair for him!

I wonder if Frakes had his own hair?
Maybe he was a Hair Club For Men member.

 

[diankra]

From Season Three, yes. Very expensive human hair wigs, while Marina's "fall" was a cheaper synthetic hairpiece for quite a while.

Supposedly, Gates had a reputation for being difficult to work with in Season One, but her own natural hair caused considerable havoc on the set. It is very fine, and would lose its style quickly under the hot lights. They'd have to send her off to get a new wash and set, and matched for continuity. Time is money on a TV production. When Gates was invited back, she insisted that she be given a range of red wigs. This then caused Marina Sirtis to campaign (at conventions!) for a higher quality fall.

IIRC Gates wanted a joke scene showing all the wigs in Beverley's quarters, but it never happened.

I hadn't realised why she wore a wig from season three onwards, but it makes sense that a wig creates fewer continuity issues.

 

[diankra]

I had no idea she used wigs.
Troi's hair pieces are pretty obvious.
And Worf's too.
Worf and Troi but had the cheap hair pieces.
Poor Picard-no hair for him!

I wonder if Frakes had his own hair?
Maybe he was a Hair Club For Men member.

There is a test photo of Stewart wearing a wig. Then Roddenberry accepted a bald captain.

 

[Nakita Akita]

I looked up Gates McFadden, to see if there was something that looked like regular hair.
Anyway, it looks like a pretty lady fell for the
"You're old, time to make your face look like some sort of mask or burn victim"
How sad.

 

[Tosk]

There is a test photo of Stewart wearing a wig.

That photo was actually taken during season 5. The hairpiece was for the flashback in Violations.

 

[Mojochi]

That photo was actually taken during season 5. The hairpiece was for the flashback in Violations.

Yeah, the dream sequence where he tells Bev about Jack's death. People have been mistaking that for his screen test for years.

He did actually do a screen test with a wig, by his own admission, but he used one that he owned & had for such things. I believe it's gotta be this one, that I've seen he'd used in other productions.

 

[Nerys Myk]

He did actually do a screen test with a wig, by his own admission, but he used one that he owned & had for such things. I believe it's gotta be this one, that I've seen he'd used in other productions.

Hey, it's Ben Affleck!

 

[Nakita Akita]

Hey, it's Ben Affleck!

John Savage, the one on the bottom.

 

[diankra]

Yeah, the dream sequence where he tells Bev about Jack's death. People have been mistaking that for his screen test for years.

He did actually do a screen test with a wig, by his own admission, but he used one that he owned & had for such things. I believe it's gotta be this one, that I've seen he'd used in other productions.

To ID it, that's from I Claudius, so by 87 it would be more than10 years old. Suspect it might have been another one by then, but still one he had if needed.

 

[Mojochi]

To ID it, that's from I Claudius, so by 87 it would be more than10 years old. Suspect it might have been another one by then, but still one he had if needed.

The thing is though, you're talking about 10 years where he's in his 40s or so, & seemed to regularly adopt a pretty standard grayed curly top style for much of that period. So it was probably something similar to the I Claudius, or like one of these other similar ones from about the same time.

That seemed to be his go to look prior to TNG... & even sometimes after

At least until his Dumbledore/Gandalf phase lol

 

[diankra]

Oh, I just mean that wigs age, so he probably had a new one 10 years on!

In Maybury (and the Smiley series) there are no wigs.

 

[Nakita Akita]

He looks good even with his Gandolf look.

Magician and being The Picard.
He needs an earring though.

The wigs for the most part don't look cheesy like it seems they usually do in movies or shows. Sometimes a bad wig makes a movie unbearable.
But really, unless the movie is 'Rapunzal'
Why does the hair have anything to do with anything?
Can't a pretty lady have thin hair?
Other than like Worf and Data wigs seem kind of silly.

 

[Mojochi]

Can't a pretty lady have thin hair?

In the 1980s? I think they were taken out back & shot

 

[Therin of Andor]

Why does the hair have anything to do with anything?
Can't a pretty lady have thin hair?

As I said, thin hair loses its setting under studio lights. On some days in Season One, Gates got sent back to Hair & Makeup several times to ensure her hair looked the same in each new scene. And people got angry about having to wait. Wigs are traditional way for productions (both stage and screen) to maintain continuity and efficiency. ie. hair can be styled while the actor is elsewhere.