I saw a post talking about the starfleet pointy side burns and now I’m watching TNG and I CANT STOP SEEING THEM
you can never unsee the sideburns. also, when someone is a traitor or leaves starfleet (permanently or temporarily) the sideburns sometimes go away. tom paris didn’t have pointy sideburns when he was in the penal colony and valeris very noticeably has no sideburns at all
I giggle every time I think of The Bible of how to apply the sideburns/facial hair, the seriousness of the instructions….its a gift that keeps on giving
there’s…there’s a sideburns bible???
Bibles. Plural
Michael Westmore aka the makeup artist for a swath of Star Trek productions, produced numerous Sideburn Bible, aka The Bible, instructing the makeup artsis about how to apply fake hairs, the type of hair to use (crepe wool for preference), how best to integrate with the performers natural hair, when to touch up, when to use makeup vs hairs (as little as possible and only in extremis)…he took this shit seriously.
i hope, out of all my art, this is the thing that will remain long after i’m dead (twitter) [ID: Redraw of the Jersey Shore opening, but with Bones, Jim, Uhura, Chapel, Sulu, Spock, Scotty, and Chekov in the place of the cast. /END ID]
