Easy way to make a latex prosthetic / appliance

Includes video of full face make-up that was made using this method. Cheap video camera=flaky lighting, but it's still informative!

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• prosthetic
• appliance
• mold
• cast
• masks
• latex
• monsters
• halloween
• haloween
• special
• effect

[LivingDeadDollsGirl]

Ok so this is just what I needed...But heres the thing I wanted to make a cut open mouth around the nose and mouth but when I build the mold could I just mold it from my face and then take it off and add the latex? Please help

[gryphern]

@LivingDeadDollsGirl If you want a super accurate mold of your face painting on layers of latex will irritate your skin, and take about 12 hours to do. Now, the books tell you make a plaster bandage mold of you face, use alginate, or buy expensive silicone. What I'd suggest is to ask around and see if any of your friends have one of those "home spa" paraffin wax baths. As long as you are careful to make sure your lips are not sensitive to heat, you can use a cotton swab and dab on the wax.

[gryphern]

@gryphern (part 2) ...Quickly producing a thick wax mold of your mouth and chin. Now, people have different tolerances, so do some tests first. If you develop a red patch near your mouth then paraffin is NOT the way to go because you're sensitive to heat. Also, this would be waxing your face. So if you're fuzzy, you want to moisturize like crazy first so little hairs don't catch in the wax as badly. To apply latex to wax you have to DAUB it on, called stippling. You use a big brush.

[gryphern]

@gryphern (part 3) Dip the brush in dish soap, wipe it off, then dip in latex. Gently make a stamping motion to apply a thin layer of latex to the wax.  Let it dry, then you can paint normally over the first layer. Don't be so intense with stamping that you end up wiping the dish soap onto your wax mold.

[lesrick93]

Buying Liquid Latex is way cheaper then making it.

[gryphern]

@lesrick93 I KNOW. And if you don't harvest it right, you can end up killing your rubber tree by not leaving a wide enough patch of undamaged bark for nutrient flow. Man, when I was a kid I spent HOURS breaking off leaves and twigs on the rubber tree behind the garage trying to figure out how to make liquid latex by reducing the sap.

[titan371]

mmmm toasted subs mmmmmm goooodddd sorry latex what???

[udderlymootastic]

this is an excellent tutorial. I'm going to give it a try - thanks

[kellezy]

Where can you buy the latex ???????

[YangWarrior18]

Thank you for making this tutorial! I'm going to use it to help make fish fins for my face!

[LivingDeadDollsGirl]

@purplellamarider Yeah he could only if there were wholes in it :)