Summary: Learn how to make the gelatin for the makeup with expert tips and advice on special effects makeup in this free video clip.
Brad Schecter has been involved with makeup effects for more than 20 years. He began learning about stage makeup as a child actor in community theatre. He became fascinated with...read more
"OK, so now what we do is we have some water, boiling, boil some water, which I've already boiled so it's all set to go. OK. It's actually just off of boiled, it doesn't have to be. So boiling water, that's kind of scary, what are you going to do with that? I was just wondering. I'm going to make you drink it of course. Oh, great, thank you. Yes, do you have some tea? Afterwards. Tea is afterwards. Good, good, good. Tea is after the makeup. So what we're going to do is go ahead and add that to the gelatin. I just use two packets here. OK. Where do you get that? You can get that at the grocery store, just right by the jello aisle. Really? They just have like no flavor because these, let me see, let me show people, unflavored gelatin for recipes. That's what this is, and you can get this anywhere. Any grocery store and it's unflavored. There's nothing added to it. It's just plain gelatin. Now I have the two packets of jello, which should be more than enough to do just that small out of the face. If you want to do the whole face, maybe three packs or less, it just depends like how much, how detailed you want it to be. OK. And how much of the face, how much of the body you want to do. So two packs will be more than enough for what we're doing today. So two packs for half a face and four packs for a whole face. Yes. Approximately. Approximately or less. Sometimes you can by with three. It just depends on how gory you want it to be really, how textured you want it to be. It's, what I like about the gelatin is, it sets up really fast. Oh really? So how long do you wait, like you pour the water, and then you mix it? Yes, I'll show you, I'll show you right now. And how long, OK, how much water should you add? Just add a little bit right that's plenty right there. Just a tiny bit. Like if you're making jello. Well, you'd probably add more if you're, I'd actually don't know. I don't know, I haven't made jello in a long time. Maybe a little bit more. You know what there. Sorry about that. There's a little clump. That clump right in there. Yes, I need a lot of gelatin. Yes, you just mix it like so. I have a big forehead. Yes. Yes, what do you mean, agreeing with me? Oh, I'm sorry, I was paying attention to the jello. Oh, yes sure, whatever. My mind was on the jello. I really don't feel pretty, because I'm going to have like a car accident thing on my face. That's right. And I need a lot of jello. What else? Anything else to make me feel less pretty perhaps? We'll get to it. Oh thank you. That's where it starts, it all starts with the jello. And it goes downhill. So now that you have it mixed up, you have a nice, see you have a nice consistency here. Nice. OK. That's all you want, something like that. Yes, so it's thick. It should be thick, it should be nice and thick. Nice. You just kind of add it, you can make it a little thinner, it depends. I like it a little thick because I want it to set up fast. OK. So I can get right to it."
eHow Article: How to Make the Gelatin for Makeup