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It took a lot of hard work to prepare Tina Fey for her debut role as Sarah Palin, but somebody had to do it.
A hairdresser, a team of wig makers, colorists, a pound of specifically styled human hair and ear glue were all required to get Fey looking like the Republican vice presidential candidate, according to The New York Times.
“After Tina saw the wig on her head, she thought her ears stuck out,” SNL‘s hairstyling department head Bettie Rogers told the paper. “She wanted her ears glued back. That required the services of Louie the Makeup God. That was around the dress rehearsal, late in the day Saturday.”
But getting ear glue in place was just the beginning; the wig had to be just right. “A wig takes 40 to 50 hours to make,” said the hairstyling guru. “We read the sketches on Wednesday night to determine the wigs to be built at Bob Kelly’s, a wig maker on 46th Street. The ladies who make the wigs work around the clock until Friday night, sometimes even late Saturday.”
The result, Rogers told the paper, was a “French twist with a ‘60s bouffant kind of thing, and bangs. It’s darker at the nape of the neck, and shows transitions to a lot of different colors.”
As for the rest, Fey “changed the shape of her lips to make them more like Palin’s, but that was done with makeup, not with prosthetics.”
Rogers also said that the wig has been properly stored at SNL, but, so far, there are no official plans to put it back on Fey’s head for an encore appearance.
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