How has the Borg make-up evolved?

I had to figure out what to do with the hands and the head. They had these helmet-like devices on that had openings in them, and they could be scarred. It was a very quick make-up that way, the helmets were all pre-painted, even if there was a hole and an opening, that area could have been pre-painted with the same colour make-up that we'd use on their face.

It was just a matter of putting a foundation on their face, air brushing some shadows into it, slipping the helmets onto them and just gluing down around the edges and putting on the eye piece, of which the original eye pieces didn't have any mechanical workings or lights to them at all.

So, a Borg make-up, in its original state, The Next Generation, was about a two-hour process to put one all together.

When it came down to the feature [First Contact], when we changed them, it turned into a five hour process, between getting dressed. It was very complicated, in dressing them so putting their head, sending to a wardrobe to get dressed, and then coming back to us to do the tweaking and finishing the hands and everything. They became lean, meaner in First Contact. That same look carried over into Voyager where they are today.