How To Do Sfx Makeup Without Latex

Homemade Latex Makeup

Before you start special effects makeup school, practise with Fauxtex!
This is my third twelvemonth working to perfect a recipe for a homemade alternative to latex, and the results are better than ever!
After much tweaking, I found something that is like shooting fish in a barrel to work with, very cheap, extremely not-toxic, fairly quick to fix, and fabricated from ingredients y'all tin can become at a grocery store. No, it does not deport exactly like the more than expensive synthetic latex, merely it is a adept "starter fx makeup" that you lot tin can utilize to practice before going to film school, for creating wound simulation, or to employ for fun someday.

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 use information technology to give my product a suppleness that non even latex has. Unfortunately, tapioca lonely has no "hold." For structure, I added gelatin (which y'all volition run across as the footing for about homemade FX makeups). This combination had both hold and suppleness, but was also tacky, making information technology a chip tricky to handle with your hands. The improver of coconut oil (which cools to a solid state) gave what I now call FAUXTEX a trivial fleck more than manageability without affecting the structure of the FX makeup.
It takes near 5 minutes to make a batch of fauxtex, so about fifteen minutes until you can begin to utilise information technology either direct on your skin or on a sheet of plastic for later use. After 30-40 minutes, fauxtex can be squeezed out of a decorating funnel (or sandwich bag) to make shapes such every bit bumps on peel, scales, or brains. It can also be shaped further later on it congeals by using a hot knife as a carving or smoothing tool. Fauxtex is very flexible and comfortable to "wear" and feels more like flesh than latex. Its flexibility allows you to shape information technology on a flat surface for later use on a 3-dimensional surface. And, once more, it is safe to use for anyone who is allergic to latex.

How to Make and Use Fauxtex

Put common cold h2o in a sauce pan and mix in the tapioca flour, gelatin and coconut oil. Stir until the tapioca flour is dissolved (you can add liquid foundation makeup to add the desired pare color if you want). Turn on the rut and stir continuously until the mixture thickens to a pudding consistency. Melt for an boosted minute, turn off the estrus and let cool. This video shows how to make and apply fauxtex (y'all can switch betwixt English and Portuguese narration).

Fake Latex Makeup

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

Latex Substitute Recipe

Recipe for Soft Pare: 1 cup cold h2o, 1/4 cup tapioca flour, 1 packet plain gelatin, i tablespoon solid kokosnoot oil.
Recipe for Moldable Brains: 1 cup common cold water, 1/four cup tapioca flour, ane i/ii packets plain gelatin, 1 tablespoon solid coconut oil.
Recipe for Ears: 1 loving cup common cold water, 1/4 cup tapioca flour (or corn starch), 2 packets plain gelatin, 1 tablespoon solid coconut oil.

The first thing you are probably going to enquire is "can I use corn starch instead of tapioca flour for all the recipes?" and I volition answer "yes, but you won't get the same skin-similar results." A recipe with corn starch volition set upward rigid rather than soft. You may really want this consequence sometimes–say, for exposed tendons and ligaments–just I recollect you will like the tapioca version of fauxtex for most FX makeup jobs.

How to Utilise Fauxtex

Fauxtex can be practical straight to the peel while it'due south notwithstanding warm, or y'all tin spoon it onto a piece of plastic film, allow it set at to the lowest degree 30 minutes, then apply it to your skin. If you are applying a congealed form to your skin, use a bit of left-over fauxtex as adhesive: warm it up for a few seconds in the microwave and rub it on your skin like gum, and then utilise the fauxtex form onto it. To brand shapes, you lot tin either build upward the fauxtex a bit at a time, or let cool xx-xxx minutes subsequently cooking, put it in a cake decorating funnel and eject onto a piece of plastic to set. Yous can also shape it afterwards it's gear up with a heated butter pocketknife (for etching or smoothing the surface). One thing that makes fauxtex easier to apply than latex is that y'all can course it onto a flat surface and, after it congeals, it volition nonetheless adapt to a 3D surface such every bit your face up.
Variations: Y'all can make a couple variations on the fauxtex recipes above for scars or fake breasts. Use the commencement recipe without the coconut oil for fake scars, and (depending on how perky you lot desire your breasts) employ whatever of the recipes above without the gelatin for false breasts (click on the image for instructions).

This research was fun, and I promise you lot accept fun with Fauxtex and save a ton of money with this unproblematic recipe.
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