So as many of you know I love to do special effects makeup, but alas I have had no formal training and everything that I have learnt has been from YouTube tutorials and pictures on the internet
Because of this my learning process is hard and slow and things go wrong more often than not.
Take my latest "creation" for example. I did this look using Gelatin, but unfortunately due to me rushing through the making of the Gelatin the mixture came out super runny and would not set into something that I could work with.
Not wanting to give up, i made some prosthetics using clay and the Gelatin and let them set thinking it would solve every thing. Then I ran into a second problem. I wanted to use spirit gum to initially glue the pieces down before I built up around them. But the glue was not having a bar of it. it basically just dried up and slipped right off the back of the prosthetics not going tacky at all (and to add salt to the wound I dropped my bottle of spirit gum after this wasting most of it and ruining my floor)
So I gave up on the spirit gum and realised that the pieces would hold on enough until I could build up around them.
I began to build up slowly with the liquid Gelatin I had on me, and everything was running smoothly until I ran into yet another problem. The Gelatin in the prosthetics was cold because I had, had it in the freezer whilst the liquid was at room temperature by this point. So the liquid was melting away at the prosthetic pieces.
Again not wanting to give up because i had a ton of Gelatin left I kept building up what I could silently screaming every time something went wrong. Eventually I got to a point where I could start painting. And even though the paint fixed it a little bit, I still pretty much hated it, but it's all part of the learning experience so I posted it anyway (heavily edited of course)
The only good things in this look in my opinion was the palm of my hand which was done with a super thin layer of Gelatin picked apart and irritated to look like burnt skin, but you can barely see it in the photo and that makes me sad.
Anyway, just wanted to make this post to say that we can all learn from our mistakes. I learnt a whole lot about Gelatin and spirit gum that I can know and avoid for next time!
BEFORE EDIT
AFTER EDIT
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