The 411 on Liquid Latex

                              The 411 on Liquid Latex

Hello Fxers and welcome back to my blog I know that I always give a brief  summary of how to apply liquid  latex for all the looks I have shown you this far . But there are so many things that you could do with this product its like the ruler of the specail effects world. there are alot of pricey products out there but if you know your facts on liquid latex you can save a lot of money. When it comes to create certain effects and looks .  Lets get started on the many ways you can use this gem of product.
 

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Liquid Latex Prosthetics

Yes instead of spending large amounts of money on prosthetics or prosthetic making products . You can make your very own prosthetics using Liquid Latex ! Warring it is harder to work with until you get used to. Making prosthetics with latex is simple easy and cost effective. I personally make prosthetics out of  gelatin and glycerin which is still very cost effective because you can use it multiple times but that is for a holy different kind of future blog post . Back to Latex!!! Lets get started

Pick something you want to prosthetic. It could be anything just for the sake of explaining this to you i am going to say we want to make a prosthetic of a bullet hole, because it is probably the easies.

So you are going to pick a hard surface That you don't mind working with makeup on you are going to take your liquid latex and put a round circle the size of a bullet hole on to the surface your working with and then let it  dry. do this 3 to 4 times. Tip* you could build it up with tissues if you want a thinker surface to lay around with. But it is not required .

When completely dry peel the prosthetic off  of your surface and bam ! lol that is kind of iconic because we are talking about bullet holes haha okay yes im painfuly funny moving on !

Glue the prostheitc on to your face using lates , sprit gum or some kind of fx glue.

You can use this method to make just about any prosthetic you can work on your face or use some type of mold the options are endless

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Liquid Latex for tears in the skin

Lets face it you can add a cut a tear or rip to the prettiest costume in the world and it will still make it look cooler.

 So if you read any of my other posts you would know i say this alot but this is how you do it because honestly since halloween paseed my blog is probably currently the least intresting.

So you put a layer of latex across any part of your body. Basicly the face neck and arms becsue i cant see you putting it anywhere else  . Then put a layer of 1ply tissues over it. wait for it dry. Repeat this process until you feel that your fake skin is built up enough to play with. I usally do 6 layers because we have to cut this open . I dont want to aciddently slice my neck or face open. so the more layers the more safety.

 

Liquid Latex Body paint ????

I have heard of body painting and I have heard of using latex for special effects. But I never would of thought to put the to of them together . In my research I wanted to find something out that I didn't quite know about latex. This just happens to be it.

At first it was so strange to me because latex sticks to hair and wouldn't that be so painful if your pint on a body part that has hair like arms for example?

But then it occurred  to me that it dry's quick it is able to peel off easily and it is good a base to paint over  sometimes the strangest things can make art I suppose.

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Don'ts of Latex  

Dont put latex in hair because it will not come out you will have to shave your head not kidding. I once got a tiny bit in the tip of my hair once thank god it was only the tip.

Be careful if your putting latex around sentive area like the lips and eyes. Getting latex  in your eye can blind you . Becasue just like any other surface  it will create a thin layer and you dont want a thin layer of latex over your eye.

If your going to be putting latex over your eyebrows please glue them down using sprit gum as long as you have a sprit gum remover it is perfectly safe becasue latex is so hard to get out of your eyebrows.

Until next time Fxers