How to Apply a Fake Full Beard

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Erin on behalf of Expert Village. And, today we are going to work on the application of facial hair. Once again, you start out with your strand of hair like this. I've already started playing with it and you pull it into kind of a ball just to mix it up so it's not so straight. It's very kinky, though. Like I said before, we would have had a little bit straighter hair. Because, she has very fine straight hair. But, this will work for demonstration. What you want to do is you don't want to add all this on at one time. So, you want to cut a little piece off first. Take your scissors and cut, maybe like this big of a piece off. Now, you're going to go ahead and go in with your thick brush and dip it into your spirit gum. I always like to start right around the side burn area. Get it really tacky. You can see how big this piece is and you can also mold it once you get it stuck on the face. You need some more spirit gum, dip it back in there. We're going to tacky it. It's starting to get a little tacky. That's what we're looking for. Now, you want to start with maybe a side. If it has an angle like the shape of what you just did, then maybe you can squeeze it in here. Start from your side burn area and start to lay it down. Don't press too hard. Just kind of let it grab on gradually. If you press on, then it's going to be all matted down. And, that is not going to look very natural. There you go. You've got this part of the beard already. We're going to continue to down the jaw line and go up and connect with this bushy mustache that we made. Usually, there is no hair right under the lip. But, it does kind of "c"-curve right in here to the chin and maybe up to the dimple to the lip. Once again, lay this down very carefully. Grab another piece of your hair. We probably don't need that big of a piece right now, because you've already used up a good amount of that. It goes a long way if you kind of spread it out a little bit. There you go, nice. Usually, I would drag it down to the neck. But, we're just going to focus right here on this jaw line. There is our application for the beard."