Hi! I’m Emily at Masters Costumes. And today, we’re putting together a scurvy zombie pirate face. And so far we have achieved a prosthetic beard using all prosthetics and what I’m showing you right now is how to build a gore wound effect with liquid latex and tissue. So, right now our latex is pretty much dried. It’s not coming off on my fingers when I touch it. It’s okay if it still has little bit of color to it because if you remember we used toilet paper for this demonstration, single-ply toilet paper, so that’s going to have a color until you put make up over it.
The good thing about it is you can apply make up over this but before we apply make up we’re going to have use a castor sealer. Liquid latex, latex does create what could be referred to as a second skin but unlike normal skin, it doesn’t have its own moisture supply, so, with the castor sealer, we are going to be giving it a moisture supply which will really help in the application of the make up afterwards.
So, we go ahead and dab that on and I’m pretty generous with it. You’re going to wipe off the excess but in the mean time you do want it to be saturated. Now, you can let this sat on there and sink in and moisturize for up to ten minutes. The results will be better but it’s really not necessary to let it set on there for more than just a couple of minutes. For the sake of this, we’re just going to be dab it off a little bit. We will move right into the make up. Now I like to start with a pretty natural color just as a base for the effects to go on. Usually you want to match the person’s skin tone as much as possible so do choose an effect that is close to the skin tone as possible. But once again, we are going to be making up over this, so just some thing to get it, not white, little bit more consistent with the skin tone. We’re going to be making up all over this.
If you are using a base with your pirate face, any type of base color, then go ahead and cover that with that. It’s a good place to start. Now, that’s a little bit closer to your skin tone and we can start adding bruise techniques. Now this is what’s called as bruise wheel. It does come with all of the colors that you need to create a bruise. The main colors that you’re going to need, however, is yellow for a skin deficiency, red for the blood and gore obviously and then this purple is going to create a stipple which will give the effect of busted capillaries. It’s very important for any type of puncture or blunt force object wound, what I am using is a cream makeup which is going to give us the most amount of blend ability. And I usually don’t like to approach this with the water base make up.
So, the first color I’m going to use is yellow. Once again, as a trauma is created in the skin, your body starts to force, all the three sources to it and then tend to healing, and that creates efficiency in the skin around the wound. So all around the wound even where you have not applied the latex, you are going to put the yellow color and if you notice a bruise, when you get a bruise, you will see, it will almost look like a sunflower, deep color in the centre with a yellow coming out and that is an actual skin deficiency. It’s your body’s response to blunt force trauma, and we’ll blend that all in with the base color there.
Now, the center of the bruise can be achieved with either the red or the purple. Let’s go ahead and do a light purple for now and we’re really just going to have very, very localized band.
This is a lighter purple and we’ll go ahead and go into the middle with the deep purple, and see how I am just applying really strategic fingerprints. And then when sets on, I put a big whole glob of red in the center and then take the clean finger or clean latex sponge and go right over that with the yellow as well. And during this part, you will start to blend the colors together. You don’t want to pull it out too far. You definitely don’t want to pull it out beyond the yellow effects. And now, you have got an ugly bruise, but we’re not going to stop there. So, now we blended these colors really well, what we’re going to do next is we’re going to actually rip this open and start to create a wound out of it, out of our false skin there.
So, we go ahead and set the make up beforehand, so we won’t obliterate the actual design. So you can use the same translucent powder that we used on a beard stipple, and just dab that on, pretty generously. I do like to localized application, and then brush off the excess. We’re going to have lots of thick blood that we’re going to add to this. So, that’s going to be the main effect as long as we have a pretty bruised appearance that will be enough for this step.
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