Summary: Make that actor's bushy mustache look good! Learn how to apply fake facial hair for theater makeup and costuming in this free video.
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
"Hi! I'm Erin on behalf of Expert Village and today we're going to work on the application of facial hair. Let's start trimming before Jamie goes insane because is it's starting to fly away. As you can see, it's all scattered everywhere. We're just going to start trimming here cutting off all that extra hair that's flying up the nose. Right there. That's good. Nice. Believable mustaches don't really hang out there. We don't have any straight hair today, so we're kind of working with the kinkier stuff. Normally, we'd probably have the straighter hair. It would have looked a little bit better and matched her hair a little bit, but the color is right. Still kind of bushy. You might want to tame the beast a little bit here. Be very careful around the lip area. Don't want to cut anybody. You see what you're doing. Cut around the nose. There we go. You can just play with it until you're satisfied with what kind of mustache you're going for. You also want to make sure that you kind of get some of the hairs up in here along the bridge. Look at a man without a mustache and see where naturally the hair grows. Right now, we have a lady, so we can't really see where the stubble is. Usually, you would follow the stubble line or the shadow. There's the bushy mustache."
eHow Article: How to Trim a Fake Bushy Mustache