How to Apply a Fake Mustache
Hi, I’m Emily and we’re here at Masters Costumes in Arlington, Virginia and we are about to show you how to turn any one into a scurvy zombie pirate. We are going to start out really small.
First, we are going to start with hair, most pirates are not clean shaven like Jay is, So we are going to show you how to work with a pre-made hair prosthetic and later will show you how to do localized hair like crepe hair.
But the product you’re going to be using to adhere anything to your skin is going to be spirit gum. It’s a really great flesh adhesive. Its basically glue for your skin and you can buy prosthetics with varying degrees of quality at any theatrical supply store or most Halloween stores carry them around this time of year.
So, they are going to come out of the package looking like this. You have basically got mesh netting with little individual hairs set in. This particular brand comes kind of gel bound, so what you can do if you are going to be messing with the style is just break that gel right out and it’s not going to change it too much.
It’s just making it so that it’s a more natural looking for you. Each one of these hair is really well attached to the back mesh. So, if you needed to adjust the size of this, you could do that. I always recommend when using a prosthetic to hold it up where you are going to be putting it and if you need to trim it at all, you could do that at this time.
I always start at the top so you don’t accidentally take away too much off and then you end up with a pencil pen moustache. You want it to be pretty full and gross and nasty looking because our pirate today is going to be very unkempt and not clean shaven, the way our model is.
So, we have a Latex appliance. I apply the spirit gum to it but with a hair appliance or anything with the mesh background, I will not be applying the spirit gum to the piece, I will be applying it to the skin. So, once again you can go ahead and hold that up and just get a feel for where exactly it’s going to be touching. You have got a lot of elasticity in this area here. So you are going to move around, you are going to be eating. It’s always really good to be very strategic with the placement of your spirit gum.
So, I usually find out placing a little here and a little here. It’s usually where it’s going to be touching your skin the most. You don’t want to get this on your lips. It’s not necessary to have it set that low.
You want it to be right here under your nose and it’s going to go on a lot like nail polish. Really thin with the brush, and first you are going to notice that it’s pretty runny and it’s not really sticky. After about a minute though, it’s going to start to really dry and become what’s called tacky, you see how that’s starting to get more and more sticky.
So, that is good because it gives you lot of time to kind of play with the placement of prosthetic and its not going to dry right away. So, if you don’t get the right first time then you can mess with it a little bit. As you can see that’s always a virtue. And we are applying this to a clean face. We are going to do any make up effects, any gore effects, anything like that is going to take place after all prosthetics have been applied. So, always apply prosthetic to a clean face.
The mesh should be pretty much invisible, once it’s done. You can go over that thing with make up. This is going to probably take about five minutes to dry. So, we are going to go ahead and let that dry. We can speed the process by fanning it, you can even take a hair dryer to it, if you would like.
And after that’s dry, we are going to show you how to do a localized hair application with just a few strands of hair.
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