Then comes the detail work — the work that distinguishes a Daynès reconstruction from anything that has been described before.

Individual hairs are set into the silicone surface one at a time, using needles, at the appropriate angles and densities for eyebrows, eyelashes, and (when indicated) head hair.

Glass eyes of the appropriate color and character are fitted.

The skin surface is textured and adjusted until it achieves the visual qualities of actual human skin — the slight translucency over bony prominences, the subtle mottling of natural pigmentation, the micro-texture of pores.

The result, in its best expressions, is genuinely uncanny.