Preparation T
he most important aspect of this makeup is the hair. Learning to lay
hair is a real skill and it’s good to practice this before you launch in and try this makeup. It takes patience, and you have to work cleanly. An old makeup man’s trick to learn and practice sounds a little eccentric, but it works really well if you can’t find a willing subject to practice on. Simply roll up your pants, and practice laying a moustache or a beard on your own knee. Yep, try it, it works! Now, I don’t have room to fully cover
hair-laying here as it would be very easy to write ten pages on the subject and still not explain every technique, but you can find an excellent guide in DICK SMITH’S DO- IT-YOURSELF MONSTER MAKEUP HANDBOOK, and I highly recommend you invest in this book for other cool makeup ideas. I’ve had this book in my library since I was a kid, and I still have fun re-reading it! Basically, you lay hair like this: buy about
three or four packs of crepe hair in a color that approximately matches the subject’s hair; it comes in every shade. When you first open the hair it is braided. Unravel it and you will need to pull it slowly under a steam iron, to stretch and straighten it out. Another way to straighten it is to hold it carefully over the steam from a boiling kettle, but be careful as you can easily burn yourself! Perhaps the easiest method is to wet
the hair thoroughly and then peg it onto a washing line with a weight tied to the loose end. In time it will dry and the weight will straighten it out. This takes a little longer, but it works fine, and in fact is what I did. Once you have it all straightened out,
cut it into the desired lengths. For my Werewolf, it was mostly one and two-inch lengths. Once you have done this, lay it aside momentarily. Now take the spirit gum and apply it to the subject’s face where the hair is to go. This is a Werewolf so we will eventually be covering a large area, but you need to do this a little at a time or you will get into a mess. We started with the ears, applying the back-side first and then the front. This is an important feature of the makeup, as we want to give the effect of
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wolf-like ear shapes! Make sure the whole area you are
going to start with is thoroughly covered in spirit gum. Now, touch the spirit gum with your fingers, to see when it becomes tacky enough to grip the hair. Now take the hair, and press the ends into the spirit gum. Sometimes it helps to use the wooden end of a paintbrush to embed the hair fibers into the gum. Work in layers, a little at a time from the BACK (under layer) and working to the FRONT of the hairline in overlapping layers. This way you can gradually build up the hair. Do this until you have the desired look and study my finished picture to see the directions I chose. Also, look at the direction of real hair
growth on beards and hair and you will end up with a very natural look. Allow five minutes or so for it to dry.
Now you can gently wet the hair with a water spritzer and style it gently with a tiny amount of hair gel, or KY Jelly, using the mascara wand, or comb. I used several shades of hair using a lighter, grey shade for highlights and around the edges to give a more realistic look as my subject already had a nice head of graying hair.
MAKING THE EYEBROW COVERS I wanted to change the position of the
subject’s eyebrows and give myself a clean area to work on, so I made some little latex eyebrow covers by painting some little strips of latex onto a clean kitchen tabletop. I painted about three layers, being careful to keep the edges as thin as possible so they would blend into the face invisibly. Then I powdered the latex with talcum powder and peeled the strips off the table to use later.
CABOPATCH OR BONDO I wanted to build up some wrinkles
on the subject’s face. I covered the old age stipple technique in the zombie makeup in the last issue, but I wanted to do something different here so I made a substance we call Cabopatch or Bondo. It’s a paste that you can sculpt very thin, basic shapes with,
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directly onto the face. It’s made by mixing Pros-Aide glue and Cabosil together. You have to be very careful with the Cabosil as it’s a fine powder and you shouldn’t breathe it in. I recommend you ALWAYS wear a dust mask when you use it. Once it’s mixed in with the Pros-Aide it is completely harmless. I pour out a very small amount of Pros-
Aide into a paper cup and then I put on my dust mask and add the Cabosil a little at the time using a plastic spoon. I gently mix it in, using a tongue depressor or another plastic spoon until it becomes a thick paste the consistency of toothpaste. Once you have mixed it, put a lid on before you put it aside or it will dry out and become useless. This can then be applied sparingly, directly to the face, sculpted into the desired wrinkle shapes, and smoothed down with water. It can be dried with a hairdryer, and then powdered. This makes great fake skin! Both Cabosil and Pros-Aide are available
from most theatrical makeup stores; or, you can buy the Cabopatch already made up, called Pros-Aide Cream (Bondo- Cabopatch). It’s available from Theatrical makeup shops.
Okay, you’re ready to start!
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