A brown peak extends down from her hairline and identical brown colouring under her cheekbones resembles'sideburns'. ( In the first nine episodes, Maya has dark brown ears as well; this was abandoned without an on-screen explanation as some executives felt the makeup made her ears look'dirty'; at this time, the'sideburns'became less dramatic as well . ) Her eyebrows are a line of wart-like'octopods'that are a distinctive Keith Wilson in the development of the Maya makeup and has stated she would have liked to have seen Maya with a dark neck and a peak extending upwards from her chin and arms that were pigmented on the tops and light on the bottoms.
