Hair Color for Frankenstein Halloween Costume

Video Transcript

"I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to show you how to make Frankenstein's monster. A classic dilemma for Frankenstein is how to make the shape of the head and color of the hair workout. What we've come to understand is Frankenstein monsters look is a very square headed look. This actually was not the original description in the book by Mary Shelly, but it's definitely what we've come to expect from Frankenstein. Green skin, square head, black hair. This can present a present a problem for the average person's head because human foreheads tend to slope backwards. They're not straight up and down. We're not all Frankenstein's monster. There's a couple of ways to get around this. First off, they do sell sort of square shaped attachments, which you can put on top of your head. That's one way of getting around it. The other way is to just acknowledge the human forehead is not that way, but to also consider adding in some black hair. You can get black hair spray paint at most stores. What we're going to do is we're going to apply it because in this case, our volunteer has very, very fair colored hair. We're going to darken this up and help Frankensteinify him. We do this by very lightly spraying into the side of the hair. You have an outdoor location to this it's even better because the fumes can get a little overpowering especially in a constrained space. Again, no open flames near this at all. You should also keep in mind that you may have to cover up some of the skin area to make sure that the hair spray paint does not bleed over onto the skin, which you don't want it there it at all. Keep it on the hair."