I was in MT yesterday, you're right, it is great. Though I think much thinner than the original. I have seen Adele in person - she is double that statute.
+scarlett8895 It's just so the sculptor can get an idea of where the hair will fall around her face, and it makes it easier to position the facial features properly too!
Yeah, unfortunately, these guys will pay a helluva lot more than the NHS will for hair. And the people who give their hair to things like this are being paid for it as opposed to donating it.
+Strawburry643725 Strawberry...people with cancer (if they're nice) give away their wigs afterwards, to be re-used. Humans with cancer aren't really the ones that need real-human-hair-wigs. My mom had cancer twice, she says it's itchy and prickly to wear a wig, you want a soft hat, that's all you need. The people that nééd human-hair-wigs are people with alopecia. Permanent hairloss. Women in their 30's being bald, children at age 5 not having hair. Thése people need a good wig. One each person. They can style it, dye it, like real hair. And if they want shorter hair, they buy another wig.
Strawburry643725 with all due respect. they only used one wig in one figure in a span of three months. and it gave probably more than a handful of artists food on their table.
Oh the hair looks so real- "we use real human hair" boi do you even know why we have so many ghosts like have you ever watched that one episode of Supernatural where the wax figures come to life? I think NOT
maria jyläntö most of the human hair that become wigs are sold, this is a bussiness. Most of it comes from India and Brazil, I'm brazilian so I know it.
It's amazing how perfect stay Adele sculpture, congratulations to all who were helping in this project mayavilloso Adele is one of the best singers in the world and deserves this ince with all his sculptures the museum congratulations
What do you do if the person either looses or gains weight, changes their look (cosmetic surgery) ect.? Do you discard the waxfigure and start all over or do you store the outdated figure in a warehouse? Thought it would be interesting and fun to see Eg. David Bowie in retrospect.
they will probably still keep it for the public to see. If they want they could make a new model for the new look, so we could the timeline of how their appearance is changing
This is so absurd, it’s like saying that if a celebrity has plastic surgery or weight change then they should reshoot every movie they’ve been in, every album cover needs to change, every poster needs to be ripped off of people’s walls and replaced with a new one. Like really?
+Jan Beltre Ultrarey is right. Don't get me wrong, I love Melanie and her music, but Adele is much more famous. She has had many chart topping songs, but Melanie has not. It would be a waste of time to sculpt a wax figure of someone who is kinda popular. Sculpting a celebrity who is extremely famous, like Adele, would create more business for the museum because more people know who Adele is.
If I had to guess I'd say they were used for reference purposes. When they have an image of the person in question, they likely mark particular points on the face -- for instance, as shown here, the eyebrows -- and match that as closely as possible on the sculpt. As for what they are, I think they're just sewing pins. Some pins have colored plastic knobs on the top.
