Regardless of Claire's on-screen age, wigs were incorporated into her hair and makeup protocol to achieve the character's look.
After attending to Claire 24 hours a day for almost a week, Malva and housekeeper Mrs Bug (Sarah Collier) decided to cut her hair off, thinking it would help reduce Claire's temperature. Having to rock a much shorter hairdo for her character, Balfe, revealed she “wasn't a big fan,” of the shorter look.
She later learns her hair was cut off by some other women in a bid to reduce her temperate and help with her fever. While it's unclear whether this will happen in the show, in the novels Claire's hair is a big part of her identity.
These days a wig gives Bree her iconic red hair, while a practiced American accent hides Skelton's English roots. Skelton was raised near Manchester in a village called Woodford, the youngest child in a family with two older brothers.
Bug cut Claire's hair while everyone else was out. Malva's actions may have been malicious, but Mrs. Bug was likely doing what she thought was right. Claire's fever was high, and many at the time would have believed getting rid of hair would help to bring the fever down.
Jamie Fraser star Sam Heughan detailed the disastrous results of dyeing his hair which forced him to wear a wig.
This is dysentery. Claire tells everyone that a contaminated water source most likely caused it, but after funeral upon funeral — the body count is high! — no one can seem to figure it out. And then Claire falls ill.
However, it does appear when Marsali does have her hair out, Lyle wears a wig for her character's long locks. Balfe and Heughan both wear wigs for their roles, while Richard Rankin - who plays Roger MacKenzie - grew his hair during lockdown for season six.
Brianna Fraser MacKenzie
For one, it did take the casting department a while to capture "thick red hair" since the actor is a natural brunette and had tried to dye her hair a few times to get it right. However, after there was a bit of a hair disaster, Skelton now wears a wig.
Brianna would have wanted to fit in with the others in her time. Ironing the hair wasn't just not considered in the 18th century, but it just wouldn't have been possible (or even safe if it was!). So, Brianna's hair would have been left in its natural state, which means curly just like Claire's.
The whiteness first occurred when Morgana's corruption began so maybe it's connected to Claire's magic. Claire's ability to use shadow magic was limited in Trollhunters, but her magic became more powerful in time and so the whiteness in her hair grew.
In season 6 the wig was awful, the flash sideways clean wig was a little bit better but still. But the on-island Claire look awful, like she had some piece of cloth on her hair.
Claire is about four years older than Jamie in Outlander
20, 1918. It was 1945 when she fell through the stones, and she would have been turning 27 that year. In the show, she has already turned 27 by the time she falls through the stones as the series is set in October rather than May at first.
The haircutting was part of the process. Malva wanted to make Claire undesirable. She wanted to make Jamie turn to her instead of to his wife. We can get a sense of that from the way Claire worried about Jamie seeing her with the short, jagged hair.
The romantic wedding between Claire and Jamie called for an equally romantic metallic gown, which took four months to make by hand and weighed 66 pounds. The haute couture dress also required some creative transportation.
It makes more sense in the book, because Claire left Frank's ring on during the ceremony and that's why she wore Jamie's father's ring (and later her silver wedding band) on her right hand.
Does Beth wear a wig in all the seasons? She does! There are a few potential reasons as to why, but neither the show nor Christina have talked about it specifically for Good Girls.
Roger is the father of Bree's baby in Outlander
The Outlander Season 6 finale included the lice scene. It wasn't quite the same way as the books, but it was still a great way to make it clear that Jemmy and Roger are related by blood.
She's not actually a redhead.
Brianna is supposed to have the same curly red hair as her father, Jamie. But the actress is naturally brunette. Thanks to the magic of Hollywood makeup, Skelton passes as a Fraser in Outlander.
Sam's an actor. Actors change their hair color like they change their clothes. His natural hair color is a dark blond. This red version was done for a series of advertisement of Tennant's Lager a couple of years ago--I'm sure that he'll look Just Fine when in character as Jamie Fraser.
Claire Danes wore a wig throughout Romeo + Juliet, and she even had a specially made aquatic wig for the pool scene.
Jamie is wearing a linen cravat at the neck and would also have a linen shirt underneath this waistcoat.
Jamie denies having slept with her, but the damage to his and to Claire's reputation is done—and the bond between the Frasers and Malva is severed, until just a few weeks later, when Claire finds Malva murdered in the garden. “It's like the peak of the tragedy, and it's so visceral.
Let's learn about the disease that robbed Jocasta Cameron of her eyesight: Glaucoma. Yep, that's the one. Glaucoma (glaw-koh-muh), is a word derived from the Greek glaukommatos meaning “gray-eyed.”
His older brother, Colum, is the ruling laird, but he would be nothing without Dougal. Colum suffers from a condition now known as Toulouse-Lautrec Syndrome, a degenerative disease that renders his legs immobile at times and fills his days with great physical pain.