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How to Choose Fake Facial Hair

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Summary: Pick a type of fake beard or mustache for an actor. Learn how to apply fake facial hair for theater makeup and costuming in this free video.

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By Erin Keith
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Erin Keith has been working in makeup, cosmetics, and special effects makeup professionally for more than two years. Since attending East Carolina University and Margaret Kimura...read more

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"Hi, I'm Erin on behalf of Expert Village. And, today we're going to work on the application of facial hair. Now that we've determined our hair type that we need to get, we need to use more of a mahogany sleeker type of hair. I'm going to show you a few choices that we have right now. We have actual human hair that has been donated. And, also has been cleaned. It's very expensive, a ton of professionals use it and it looks absolutely natural and real which is the point. We also have a little bit of kinky canicula. And, it's a little bit more kinkier than the regular human hair. But, it also goes in great. You can also trim it to be short and straight looking, so it's not that bad. And, I'll show you how to mix them up later. We also have crepe hair, which is more of the cheaper theatrical kind of hair people use. But, it also works great. Right here, we have our different colors. Probably what we are going to do first is since we are going to be doing the pencil thin mustache, we're probably going to be using the kinky canicula. And, we're going to cut it off and mix it up and I'll show you how to do that in just a moment."

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