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Meet Chris Gallaher, Kenny Myers, and Erik Porn. (Yes, Porn is a real last name. And yes, they call him by his last name most often.) They're all part of the special effects makeup department on Teen Wolf, and they're the people responsible for turning Posey — and all of the other supernatural actors on the show — into monsters.

"I respect them. I love these guys. I love what they do," Posey told BuzzFeed. "They take a lot of time, and it's very tedious. They're good at what they do. I don't think a lot of people take notice of that.”

To be fair, Gallaher, Myers, and Porn probably prefer that viewers don't notice that the actor is wearing makeup, since part of their job is to make Posey's wolf look appear as natural as possible.

"Straight makeup is all about correcting flaws and smoothing out skin, making someone look younger," Gallaher, the head of the department, said of the difference between what he does versus the regular makeup world. "What we do is we try to re-create reality. When we do a paint job on something, we try to put flaws into it because if we made it too perfect, then it would look fake. Of course, the obvious thing we do is we make people scary as opposed to pretty, generally."

BuzzFeed sat in the makeup trailer while Posey was transformed for an upcoming Season 3 episode. And this is what it takes to become a werewolf: