Cuts, Scars and The Perfect Black Eye (Technical)

Products

• Cine-wax or moulding wax.
• Latex
• Sealer
• Black stipple sponges.
• Wound filler.
• Cuts wheel and Bruise wheel.
• Supracolour palette.
• Non flexible collidon.
• Puss
• Tuplast
• Vaseline
• Barrier Cream
• Hair dryer.
• Palette and palette knife.
• Acetone.
• Brushes

Procedure (CUT WAX)

• Warm up wax on back of the hand.
• Apply to skin and blend away the edges with palette knife, use moisturiser to make this easier.
• Create cut/ incision in the wax.
• Cover with latex or sealer to keep this in place.
• Dry with cool hairdryer.
• Stipple on colour, thin this down with alcohol or moisturiser to create a wash.
• Fill the cut with wound filler and blood.
• Use a stipple sponge or pin to create grazes.

Procedure (SCAR)

•  Use barrier cream
• Apply collidon or tuplast to the skin
• hold skin in the scar formation whilst it dries.

Procedure (BLACK EYE)

• Always work from reference material
• Usually heavier in corner and then blend it out
• Mix the colours with moisturiser to make a thinner colour.
• Apply slowly and build it up.
• Add Vaseline on top to make it shiny.

**Health and Safety**

• Make sure you do a patch test when using latex.
• Make sure you are working in a well ventilated room.
• When applying products near eye make sure the eyes are closed and remain closed until the application is finished.
• Cover the models clothing.
• Don't use alcohol near the eye.

Reflection - Black Eye

really struggled creating my black eye, I worked from a reference picture but I found it hard to find one that I liked, after deciding on one I went in with my supracolour palette and mixed this with moisturiser to thin it down,  this was really hard to work with as I didn’t  thin it down enough, and the product slid around the face, on reflection my black eye looks more like a smudge of colour than a black eye, and 
this would not be suitable for HD. 



Reflection - Cuts (Using Wax) 


This cut I have created using wax is probably one of my most successful technical lessons I've had, I really enjoyed sculpting the wax to make it blend into the skin, however on reflection I have realised that it isn't as seamless as I thought, It could do with a lot more blending round the edges and I could have possibly used a sharper tool like a metal spatula to help blend it easier. I found it really difficult to colour as I found that when applying the colour bits of the latex came up which I had used to seal the wax onto the skin so this was really frustrating. I also think I could of benefited from a bit more colouring around the wound.