How To Do Fx Makeup Without Money

Homemade Latex Makeup

Earlier you lot outset special effects makeup schoolhouse, practice with Fauxtex!
This is my third yr working to perfect a recipe for a homemade alternative to latex, and the results are ameliorate than ever!
After much tweaking, I plant something that is piece of cake to work with, very cheap, extremely not-toxic, fairly quick to set, and made from ingredients y'all can get at a grocery store. No, it does not behave exactly like the more expensive synthetic latex, but it is a adept "starter fx makeup" that yous can use to practice before going to film school, for creating wound simulation, or to apply for fun anytime.

Why Tapioca for Latex Substitute

Since tapioca flour has always intrigued me for its rubbery consistency when mixed with a hot liquid, I wanted to employ it to requite my product a suppleness that non fifty-fifty latex has. Unfortunately, tapioca alone has no "concord." For structure, I added gelatin (which you will see equally the basis for about homemade FX makeups). This combination had both hold and suppleness, but was too tacky, making it a bit tricky to handle with your hands. The addition of coconut oil (which cools to a solid state) gave what I now telephone call FAUXTEX a lilliputian bit more manageability without affecting the structure of the FX makeup.
Information technology takes about five minutes to brand a batch of fauxtex, and so most 15 minutes until you can brainstorm to use information technology either directly on your skin or on a sheet of plastic for later utilise. After 30-40 minutes, fauxtex can be squeezed out of a decorating funnel (or sandwich bag) to make shapes such equally bumps on skin, scales, or brains. It tin can too exist shaped farther afterward it congeals by using a hot knife equally a carving or smoothing tool. Fauxtex is very flexible and comfy to "article of clothing" and feels more like flesh than latex. Its flexibility allows you lot to shape it on a flat surface for later use on a three-dimensional surface. And, again, it is safety to use for anyone who is allergic to latex.

How to Make and Apply Fauxtex

Put cold water in a sauce pan and mix in the tapioca flour, gelatin and coconut oil. Stir until the tapioca flour is dissolved (you tin add together liquid foundation makeup to add the desired skin color if you want). Plow on the oestrus and stir continuously until the mixture thickens to a pudding consistency. Cook for an additional minute, plow off the heat and let cool. This video shows how to make and use fauxtex (you can switch between English and Portuguese narration).

Fake Latex Makeup

I now make fauxtex with three unlike structures: one for soft peel; one for moldable, but yet soft matter; and the third for somewhat rigid structures such as ears. Here are the 3 recipes:

Latex Substitute Recipe

Recipe for Soft Skin: ane loving cup cold h2o, one/4 loving cup tapioca flour, 1 packet manifestly gelatin, 1 tablespoon solid coconut oil.
Recipe for Moldable Brains: 1 loving cup cold h2o, i/iv cup tapioca flour, 1 ane/2 packets obviously gelatin, 1 tablespoon solid coconut oil.
Recipe for Ears: 1 cup cold water, i/4 cup tapioca flour (or corn starch), two packets plain gelatin, 1 tablespoon solid coconut oil.

The first thing you are probably going to ask is "tin can I use corn starch instead of tapioca flour for all the recipes?" and I volition answer "yes, but y'all won't get the same skin-like results." A recipe with corn starch will set up rigid rather than soft. You may actually desire this result sometimes–say, for exposed tendons and ligaments–but I think you will like the tapioca version of fauxtex for well-nigh FX makeup jobs.

How to Apply Fauxtex

Fauxtex can be practical directly to the skin while it'south still warm, or you tin can spoon information technology onto a piece of plastic film, allow it ready at least 30 minutes, then apply information technology to your peel. If you are applying a congealed course to your skin, employ a bit of left-over fauxtex as agglutinative: warm it up for a few seconds in the microwave and rub it on your skin like mucilage, then use the fauxtex form onto it. To make shapes, you can either build upwardly the fauxtex a bit at a time, or let cool xx-30 minutes after cooking, put it in a cake decorating funnel and squirt onto a piece of plastic to set. You tin also shape it after it'due south set with a heated butter pocketknife (for carving or smoothing the surface). One affair that makes fauxtex easier to use than latex is that yous can course it onto a flat surface and, later on information technology congeals, information technology will still accommodate to a 3D surface such equally your face.
Variations: You lot can make a couple variations on the fauxtex recipes above for scars or fake breasts. Apply the first recipe without the coconut oil for fake scars, and (depending on how perky you want your breasts) use any of the recipes above without the gelatin for false breasts (click on the image for instructions).