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Their skin is tan or gray in color and hair is dark brown or black.

Their eye color is usually dark-brown.

However, there are some exceptions to this rule, such as Gul Dukat and Elim Garak, who have blue eyes.

Since scale patterns on Cardassian necks have been shown to change from appearance to appearance ( Garak, for example ), makeup artist Michael Westmore has theorized in a 2005 issue of Star Trek Insider that Cardassians continually shed and regrow scales.

In the episode Profit and Loss, an intimate encounter between Quark and his starcrossed lover Natima Lang displayed that stroking the neck ridges of a Cardassian female produces an erogenous reaction.

Whether this is true for males has not been explored.

Female Cardassians have blue-tinted spots on their neck ridges and forehead.