Anonymous asked:

Question for you Tinsnip! I have noticed this a few times watching DS9 and it really punched me in the faces on some gifs recently but.... is it just me or does Garak's (and maybe other Cardassians') skintone occasionally shift between grayer and pinker tones? *If* this is a thing and you are my tumblr's resident Cardassian expert, have folks made note of this as an in universe thing or is it chalked up to makeup can't be perfectly consistent all the time? Because... fanplanation is fascinating!

It toooootally does, and it’s toooootally a makeup thing, and everybody toooootally fanwanks it anyway.

Hmm. Or do they? We’ve fanwanked the occasional blue chufa (spoon) colouration into either a hormonal shift or Garak using a little bit of pasht that day, because he’s super fabulous…

Hmmmm, I wonder! What do you think? Was he short on UV? Cardassian’s sun is not the same as Bajor’s sun. Maybe he’d been falling short on his UV treatments, and that’s why he’d shifted from his lovely shade of grey to that slightly icky shade of brown? Maybe that’s the Cardassian equivalent of being unattractively pasty? Probably quite common in the Cardassians who serve on spaceships and rarely make planetfall…

Peeeeeeeople, help me with this one!