Masks & Makeup for a Werewolf Costume

Video Transcript

"Hello! I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here today to show you how to put together a werewolf costume. So far, we've set up that our werewolf was going to be one where the face is made up. We're using makeup for our werewolf effect. I don't want to short shrift the idea that you can use a mask. Although in this case, a werewolf mask of course, for your werewolf effect this Halloween. The mask, it has a bunch of varying advantages and disadvantages compared with makeup. Masks tend to breathe less then your skin would. This means you can have a lot perspiration inside the mask that you're not going to have with makeup. With that said, it's a lot easier to function in a mask in other ways. For example, if you want to go to the punch bowl you can simply take off your mask, get a drink, and then drink. While with makeup you can do the same thing, but you have to watch out. You have to watch out for the cup or the wall or the door or anything else touching your face because even the best makeup is only semi permanent. If it was permanent that would be a whole other list of problems you'd have. You have to watch out about the makeup rubbing off. With that said, for really true blended and original effects, makeup’s beats masks. Masks you also have the chance of somebody else that's going to have a match exactly like your own and you're not going to be an original werewolf. Your makeup is almost always an original creation unless somebody's exactly copying from you, which is very, very unlikely."