Recently, a letter came to my mail with a question: how to make a silicone mold of a face with your own hands at home. And in order not to postpone the answer indefinitely, I decided to describe in detail the process of taking a cast from a person's nature, and more specifically from a face. In a similar way, you can take an impression from any part of the human body: arms, legs, priests, chest, back, etc.

Naturally you need to buy necessary materials for work:

- two-component silicone, which will be safe for human skin. For example, silicone mass for impressions Body Double "Standard Set" and Body Double "Fast Set" is good in this quality. These are fairly tough platinum-based silicones that are applied to areas of skin to create shapes from the face, hands, or other parts of the body. Molds made of these materials are intended for repeated pouring of gypsum, wax, low-melting metals, polyurethane plastics, epoxy or polyester resins, etc. These silicones are non-flowing, so they are easy to apply with a regular brush, and harden very quickly. With the help of this silicone, you can make an impression of your face, and then cast a plaster or plastic impression over it.

- a separating cream-lubricant for the face. It is necessary so that the finished rubber impression is easily detached from the skin.

- a bandage and a 2 kg pack of gypsum - to create a strong substrate for a silicone impression.

- the brushes are thick and thin.

To begin with, the face must be lubricated with a separating cream, so that the silicone mass then easily separates from the skin of the face and accidentally trapped hair also does not remain in the mask.

Then the two-component silicone is diluted according to the instructions, and the brush is applied to the skin. Surprisingly, when solidifying, the silicone mass exactly repeats all the nuances of the face: the smallest pores, scars, hair growing on the face, etc. Near the nostrils, it is advisable to apply the silicone mass for taking impressions with a thin brush so that the holes of the nostrils are even.

When the silicone adheres, it is necessary to spread the bandage cut into pieces evenly over the entire mask and apply gypsum diluted to thickening sour cream. It is advisable to apply several layers of plaster to ensure that the impression substrate is strong.

When the gypsum is completely solidified, and this will come in about 20 minutes, the substrate is carefully removed, and then the finished cast of the face is removed.

Further, using the obtained silicone face and the manufactured plaster substrate, the resulting face can be cast from plaster, plastic, plastic and other materials. To do this, first, the substrate is installed on the table, the finished silicone impression is placed in it, and plaster, plastic, wax and other materials are poured into the resulting mold. And only then the resulting sample of the finished face can be painted with any acrylic paints.

What it gives:

• significant savings in expensive material - silicone
• you coat all the hidden recesses, thus avoiding defects in the shape due to air bubbles
• no shrinkage of the mold due to layer-by-layer application
• increase in form strength again due to layering

Stages of work:

1. Modeling a product from sculptural plasticine. We use a mock-up of the head, and on top we apply sculptural plasticine.
2. The model is coated with silicone for application with a copy-paste brush -
   (there is a special additive in it that allows silicone not to drain from vertical surfaces, and it also hardens very quickly).
3. A rigid frame is then made that supports this thin silicone shape and prevents bursting. A rigid frame is most often made from 1) plaster of paris with bandages or 2) construction foam from a spray can. A stretch film is placed between the silicone and the frame to facilitate removal!
4. The measured by the ratio is poured, circular movements are made to distribute it along the walls, solidification occurs within two minutes. We soak for another 30 minutes in the form until it cools and hardens completely, if necessary we grind, prime, paint, make a soft face pad.

Important points!

The silicone for spreading Kopipasta is very thick. To liquefy it (which, by the way, is not done in the video!), Part A of the silicone must be vigorously stirred for 10 minutes before mixing with the hardener and then allowed to stand for air to escape. Then the silicone becomes fluid! then add the hardener. Knead a little bit, evenly on a layer, as it quickly hardens!

Liquid plastic of this series can be mixed by volume 1: 1. It is very comfortable. Setting time 2 minutes. In the form, it is necessary to withstand until completely solidified, so that there is no deformation of the mask. While warm it bends easily and can change shape!

Making a mask from EasyFlo model plastic

Everyone at this holiday is trying to show with the help of a costume what he is capable of. But the image would not be complete without a mask. You can buy latex faces at your local prank store or make your own at home.

What do you need?

To create a latex mask, you will need special materials that you can buy at a theme store or order online to be delivered to your home or post office. Unfortunately, it is not easy to find some tools for working with such unusual material in all cities. So, to make masks, latex onlays and other attributes for the image, you will need:

• High quality liquid latex.
• Special forms for masks.
• Mannequin head.
• Brushes of different sizes.
• Foam sponges.
• Clean gauze or bandage.
• Scissors.
• Acrylic paints.
• PVA glue.

And, of course, some skill will come in handy. The latex realistic mask may not work the first time, so practice on small animal or fruit shapes.

Separately, I would like to focus on time costs. The fact is that latex dries for a long time, and it will have to be applied in several layers. So plan ahead to make your mask. Latex ones look much more realistic and are more comfortable to use than plastic ones. But it is also more difficult to make them.

How to do it?

• Prepare from plaster or polymer clay shape. If you have a ready-made mannequin for the mask, place it on a flat surface and secure to avoid damage.
• Cut a bandage or gauze and glue them with PVA glue to those areas that need support. Usually this is the so-called T-zone of the face and the area of ​​the cheekbones and cheeks. This is necessary so that the finished mask keeps its shape and does not creep.
• After the glue is dry, carefully use a sponge to apply the first coat of liquid latex to the mold. Don't make it too thick. Firstly, this way it will harden longer, and secondly, it can leak and ruin all the work.
• After the latex is dry, use a brush to gently apply a second coat and wait until it cures completely. In total, 10 such layers need to be created, alternately adding a bandage to the right places.
• When the mask is completely ready, sprinkle generously with talcum powder or baby powder to keep it from sticking together.
• Pry gently ready product and remove from the mold.
• Now you can start painting the resulting mask. Latex work requires thorough surface cleaning prior to paint application.
• Add a small amount of acrylics in and use the brushes to paint the mask.
• Let the material cure well.

Your mask is ready. It remains only to try it on and come up with a mount, unless, of course, you did not make it solid.

The following simple tips will help you preserve for a long time appearance masks. Latex products are finicky in storage and handling.

• Don't spare talcum powder. It is needed to prevent the latex product from sticking to the mold and work surfaces.
• To speed up the setting process, you can dry the layers with a hair dryer.
• If possible, get castor makeup instead of acrylic paints.
• For the mask to last a long time, store it by stuffing with a cloth or paper.
• Be sure to rinse the garment well with soap and dry before storing.

Mask Ideas

The most popular masks today are all kinds of monsters, vampires, superheroes and warriors. For example, the Joker is a favorite character of all comic book fans.

There are also female latex masks. Girls can be transformed by a super-girl or various fantasy characters. Let's say catwoman never loses popularity. However, the choice depends on your taste and imagination!

The task set before me is to make Baba Yaga from Tolya. What with Christmas tree children left gray-haired and with nocturnal enuresis ... The timing was the shortest, they did not leave time for breaking, there was 200 km between me and the model. I love such orders, especially if five minutes ago I had no idea about stage, carnival, theatrical and other makeup. Maximum - how to pinch your own eyebrows, but here you are - from a handsome man to a toothless old woman and back. Well, if it is necessary, it should be so ...

So: "We will not take Baba Yaga from the outside, we will bring up in our team" (c)

What was needed for this:

1) Building alabaster

2) Vaseline

3) Cocktail tubes (or shrink tubes, as in our case)

4) Construction silicone.

5) Acrylic paints

6) Sanitary flax.

7) Stacks, toothpicks, brushes, etc. ..

8) Tolya. Or any other person without fear of a confined space and a runny nose.
9) Starch paste.

Well, it started.

Here, the subject's face, is already greasy with petroleum jelly, heat-shrinkable tubes flaunt in the nose, and each of them is additionally wrapped in fumlent, so that the tube in the nostril does not dangle, does not seek to fall out or let Tolya into the lungs of alabaster. At that moment, we discovered that the fum plant does not stick to the oiled eyebrows at all, and when the model sits and turns its head, it is extremely inconvenient to conjure over it, therefore we went to the basement, where Tole could take a horizontal position, and I could get dirty with almost impunity and continued to do what they started, no matter what it cost.

To prevent the alabaster from flowing into the ears and penetrating the hairdo, they pulled a swimming cap over their head, and a piece of sheet was tied around the face, in the manner of a tooth-suffering person or a client of a cathavern, so that his jaw would not drop ..

Here I, on freshly made paste, carefully glue the fum tape. There was a thought to trust the oracles of the make-up art, and just grease Tolina's vegetation with petroleum jelly thicker, maybe it would not have stuck completely to death, but thank God that we went our own way ... and stopped. It's scary to think how loudly and multi-storey the intelligent Anatoly would have expressed himself if he had fallen into a plaster trap with his eyebrows ...

When the model is already lying, sniffs through the tubes, we start alabaster porridge. Everyone remembers the capital postulates of this action, right? The ratio is about one to two (one part water, two gypsum) alabaster to water and not vice versa. Why so - I have no idea. I just take my word for it.

And when the gruel satisfies with its consistency of liquid sour cream - quickly, accurately and, most importantly, without listening to advice (and literally everyone present, right up to the model itself, is tempted to advise, until a piece of alabaster closes its mouth in mid-sentence) we apply plaster of Paris to the face, swatting well, smearing and pressing down into all the bulges, applying on the bulges and fighting the passionate desire to pull out the tubes, for they sway and get in the way.

Error number times. The free space in the nostril near the tube had to be plugged with cotton wool. Then it would not have swayed so much, and the inevitable vegetation would not have migrated to gypsum.

But what is not done is not done.

The plaster has been applied, the model lies, reflects on the eternal, I wash the containers, the table, my hands, and I am wildly worried about three things at once: 1) well, how badly did I apply alabaster and the cast will have shells? 2) well, how, when the cast is taken, the plaster will fall apart 3) did Tolya die, something is quietly lying ... At times I jumped up to the subject, listened to the quiet whistle from the tubes, tapped the plaster patch with my claws and wondered: it's time / not time And how can I understand that it's time, when I have never taken a cast before the village?

Finally he got tired of lying, we got tired of worrying. I, it was, grabbed the edge of the plaster with my hands, but then Tolya made a kind of rumbling, which meant: "Don't go, I'll do it myself", hugged the plaster with my palms and froze ... two centimeters of alabaster, but they saw only a motionless figure whose breathing quickened at times and toes clenched into fists. It turns out that half of the hair from the nostrils remained in the cast. And she stayed not of her own free will. They did not plan to leave their nose so early ...

The cast was not shot very well, the edges were thin and broke in the forehead area. Which gave me the idea to take a second impression, in reserve. Well, how will the first die in an unequal battle? And, encouraged by the first experience with a not entirely negative result, I became brave and again rolled Tolya into a cast almost to the navel. Again, I didn't bother with my nostrils ...

And in the end this cast was also safely removed, but the remnants of the hair from the nose, part of the hair from the chest and some part from the sideburns passed into it ...

Having carefully packed Fat Face's fragile (because not dry), in places hairy, plaster shells in paper, rags, a box, twine criss-cross and into the trunk, we went home.

PART TWO.

"I love to watch him conjure. Either he will be killed or crippled" (c)

So. Both casts, upon arrival home, migrated to the oven, where they dried up to sonorous sound under the hot air. Then I thickly smeared all the protuberances of the casts with dishwashing liquid, and praying to all the Gods, my husband and I began to pour plaster into plaster. Do you know how scary? It’s very scary ... Thousands "What if the negative from the pisitive does not come off, what then ?!" literally drove me crazy. But everything turned out almost successfully again. A chisel, a mallet, a crunch and something small rolled across the floor. The nose fell off.

Generally, it sounded like magic. When the casts were taken from Toliny's face, they, to be honest, did not make any impression, and looked more like gnarled bowls with holes than a noble human profile. But when the shells were kicked off the casts, both gasped. Tolya is lying on the table in duplicate, one even smiles serenely. This is the first one. Then the man did not yet suspect what it would be and, not smelling the catch, quietly rejoiced in life. But the second Tol concentrated ... Here he already knows for certain how much a pound is dashing and where is Hund begraben. Here he has no time for sly smiles in plaster cast.

Well, now, taking the most smiling (and lightest in weight) face-face, we begin to cover up the irregularities with melted plasticine, and having put plasticine on the face itself, armed with stacks, dental picks, a hairdryer, again, we grumble plasticine here and there, giving birth to a woman I gu.

At least approximately according to the prototype.

And here THIS has cropped up. Since the prototype is thin and spiteful, and the original is full-cheeked and smiling, it turned out to be a symbiosis of spiteful and plump.

AND! Mistake number two. A bit of history.

Blinded the cutie from what was. And now you need to get negative. It all went on as in the first stage, only without tubes and nerves. Just to get the negative out of the positive, both heavy ingots with plasticine in the middle had to be pushed into the oven for half an hour. Then, with a shout: "KiiiiiA!" jerk to pull one out of the other, with disgust following his eyes rolling under the sink nose.

Well, I caught my nose (God knows, not for the first and absolutely not for the last time. washes ", they searched all over the house, while what they were looking for was found in the folds of the sofa deck ...) and went to the negative to smear silicone, making mistake number two.

Of course, it's all about a lack of practice (or rather, in the absence of such) and an excess of theory. On the website of make-up artists, guru, master, sensei, teacher and just a talented make-up artist Denis, in detail and in pictures, told the public about the creation of a latex mask. And there it was that latex was poured into a negative, but in several layers, reinforced with pieces of gauze, dried with a hairdryer and so on. But I don't have latex! Where to get such a miracle ... I have silicone. Building. It is also absolutely wonderful, but it has a number of its own peculiarities that must be taken into account. And there was absolutely no time to take into account and roam the rake, knocking up the bumps of experience! Since a Christmas tree is assigned on the 19th, where Yaga should be in the image. And the point.

So, silicone. Silicone, he's ... he's tricky. And you can safely forget all its technical characteristics written on the packaging after reading it, if you are not going to use it for the purpose prescribed by the manufacturer. It is unlikely that the manufacturer took into account that I would interfere with his silicone acrylic paint, tone cream, ink from gel pens, bronze powder, silver powder, stuffed with plumbing linen and, in principle, I will scoff unprecedentedly. For this objective reason, I had no idea how much silicone + paint + calcium chloride from the ampoule would cure into Baba Yaga, so I applied the above mixture with a thin layer, well, only pushed it into my nose more generously, so that if the silicone refuses to harden, the putty could not be scraped off dying of greed. And if you do it according to your mind, then you had to gurgle the dyed silicone into the mask from the heart, make channels on the sides for removing excess and press down all this beauty with positive Tolya scraped off from plasticine. But! But ... now I'm so smart and have learned a lot, for example, that silicone and gypsum have a layer of dishwashing liquid - and not a layer at all. They didn't notice her. And they became friends almost forever. Now I know that I need to use as a separator silicone cream for the hands (at least for the poor, for the bohatykh - a special silicone separator zashibispocene), and then I was having fun in wild time trouble, in the most severe repair conditions, where the walls are being demolished on the left, they are being erected on the right, and it’s a wonderful miracle that Baba Yaga was not born quite a freak.

Without make-up

On the eyebrows and hair went sanitary linen. Never before has a seller in a building materials store observed such a sincere joy in a customer at the sight of a skein of flax, still, I have not met such noble gray hair in living grandmothers for a long time.

Hello zezhists and accomplices :)!

As a beginner in the community, I bring to your judgment a post about how masks were made in the project "Just the same" on Channel One. The essence of the show is to sing a song of a famous artist in the most similar voice and in the most similar way. And if the first depends entirely on the performing artist, then the second is the fruit of the labor of dozens of people, including plastic make-up artists.

In general, I have the process of preparing images in my LJ, but here I would like to delve into the technology of making a mask that corrects the shape of the face, on which the usual makeup, a wig and, finally, a costume are then applied.

You will find out about how many receptions a silicone mask is poured into, why you need to wrap the artist in black polyethylene, what horror-horror-horror looks like, and who needs it all

First of all, we get acquainted with the guys from the workshop, which is located at Mosfilm. It all looks like a museum of a mad puppeteer, and the first exhibits meet us at the entrance.

In principle, the exhibits at the entrance can be viewed for a long time, but I will show a couple of photographs, and we will move to the workshop, because they are already waiting for us there.

And they are waiting for us at the ready with black bags, plaster and silicone. Because the first thing to do is to take an impression of the face and make a mold for filling the masks. Fourteen programs are filmed in the season, respectively, during this time specialists need to make 14 masks. Fortunately, the cast is removed only once. The cast was filmed in February, and I didn’t know yet that Renas, the man putting the rubber cap on me, would not only sculpt Sting out of me at the end of the season, but also star in my summer video, which will be presented this Thursday;)

So the topic of black packages is revealed. And now a special VERY COLD silicone-based composition is poured onto the face, so that the cast accurately repeats the shape of the face. The thing is so cold that you have to make an effort not to start chattering your teeth.

Plaster is then applied to the mold so as not to damage the silicone layer. For half an hour, while this whole structure dries, you can neither move, nor talk and "breathe neatly too," as the magicians of plastic makeup advised me. I tried to do everything very carefully so as not to repeat the procedure a second time.

As a result, a special polymer is poured into the resulting workpiece, which, after hardening and extraction (and this happens a couple of days after taking the impression), looks like this. Looks like it?

In the background there is a working board with photographs of all the participants in the project and someone's mask left over from the filming of the last program.
Well, half the battle is done, but the most interesting is yet to come. Here's another exhibit, this time a hobby of one of the studio staff on the left.)

By the way, here is the same employee.
The most exciting process begins - preparing the mask. First of all, a plasticine mask is molded on the cast, "complementing" the artist's face to the face of the person he will portray. Today they make Sting out of me, for example :)

And from Lena Maksimova - Mikhail "Thousand Devils!" Boyarsky.

Sometimes the master gets carried away, it turns out like this, completely unlike Alexander Gradsky, for example:

The day is long, there is little strength, and therefore the guys periodically support each other with music :)

But advice is also not complete without help, of course. Especially when it comes to Sting. Responsibility g)

Sculpting a face is the most time-consuming process that takes an entire working day or even more. When the shape of the face is ready, a relief is applied to the "skin" so that the face then looks more natural, and not like a plastic mask (as it actually is).

And a mustache, of course. No mustache.

When the plasticine ends, it's time to pour the workpiece. But first, we line up the masks and admire the result.

What we got is called "positive".

This blank exactly repeats the shape of the hero's face, which will be portrayed in the show "Just the same". But the real mask is still like walking to the moon. We have to make a negative, and only then fill in the composition there, which, when frozen, will become a mask superimposed on the face of the hero of the program. Let's continue.

The positive is coated with a layer of silicone, which will be the upper, soft, negative layer. Tadysch.

On top, another layer is superimposed, thicker.

And one more.

And more, and more. Until the workpiece becomes like this.

We apply a layer of grease to facilitate the subsequent removal of the workpiece from the mold, and you can proceed to the mold itself. Plastic paste, which is a component of the outer part of the negative, although it looks like ice cream, is not recommended for ingestion due to its tendency to harden and toxic. Let's just say the nutritionist will not approve)

The mixture is two-component. Fill and mix.

And mix.

Until we get a homogeneous, slightly foamy mass.

And while this is happening, pay attention to the abundance of tools and words for its designation :)

We apply the plastic mass to the workpiece.

Thick, thick layer. Here, as you can see, they do not spare the material :)

In this state, the workpiece will stand for at least 12 hours so that the soft layers of silicone solidify and are ready to form a mask. For some reason, the word "silence" is asked.

Even despite the fact that each program needs to prepare 14 masks (and since two programs are filmed two days in a row, then in a week and a half, when the images have already been approved, 28 masks need to be made), the guys have a little free time. And they know what to spend it on :)

In fact, if you see in Moscow on Halloween in a freaking-type club with about such a face, then 85% of these guys are the work of these guys. :)

Well, the time has come, and you need to separate the positive and negative in order to make a mask with their help. An iron spacer is inserted into the positive in advance, with the help of which the undocking can be carried out smoothly and without harsh actions (and also with the help of knowledge of the rule of the lever, a simple device with a belt and such a mother) so as not to break the silicone.

Plasticine is no longer needed, so its remains must be removed from both parts.

Now a layer of vinyl is applied to the positive. This film will hold the mask on the artist's face.

Lubrication is applied to the inside of the negative so that the mask does not stick to it (negative) and can be easily reached.

Now begins, in fact, the manufacture of the mask. It is mixed on the basis of several components, but the basis, of course, is silicone (silicone is our everything!). It is very important to keep the proportions.

Without the dyes, the mask would be transparent, and it would have to be painted to match the skin color right on the face, creating a layer of "plaster". In order not to complicate the work of make-up artists, the mask is painted in a corporeal color at the manufacturing stage. A little creamy, a little red in taste and by eye.

Now a very important point, from the silicone mass, before it hardens, it is necessary to remove air bubbles so that the mass is homogeneous. How to do it? It's very simple. Vacuum.

The solution is placed under a bell, from which air is pumped out by an electric pump.

Oleg is closely following the process. Not that something could go wrong here, he just likes to look at the bubbles :)

Never work with a vacuum without gloves. Do you hear? Never!

Finally, the bubble-free liquid mask (this is important) is poured into the negative.

Above is inserted positive. Thus, the resulting mask from the inside will repeat the shape of my face, and from the outside - the face of the artist whom I will play.

It remains to press well and wait again until it hardens.

While we are waiting for the finished mask, let me introduce you to the director of the Illusion Industries Moscow studio, Irina. She is great:)

Finally, the mask is ready, and it needs to be carefully separated from the negative and positive. Almost zen :)

In the instructions provided by American technologists, it is recommended to keep the mask positive, but our guys slightly improved the approach so that the mask does not deform under its own weight.

The makeup process looks something like this, and this is just the beginning.

I have about the following associations.

By the way, although this is not the subject of this post, Sting ended up like this:

Hope you enjoyed it :)

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