Alginate mold - face

Step 3:

Have your cup of water near you and dip the plaster bandages into water and cover the alginate mold. 
Make sure you have big and small pieces of plaster bandages, use the small ones on and under the nose.
I used 2 or 3 packages of plaster bandages. 1 is not enough and each package was 2 meters. 

This time wait for 10 to 15 minutes. You have to be sure that the bandages are hard enough to hold the alginate. Cause you are going to pour plaster in it afterwards and if the plaster bandages are thin or are not hard enough all your work will get wasted. 

Comments

[danzo321]

Opinion is divided on this. Most people lightly press some sort of fiber into the still-sticky alginate, forming a hairy surface so that 'mother mold' of plaster or plaster gauze will lock to it. If getting both ears, this shown way might be best, so mother mold is free to part from alginate.
Plaster gauze is not merely dipped (in warm water), it should be 'smushed' to make its plaster a thick liquid. I prefer painting some real plaster on the hairy algy surface because poking the delicate algy mask is bad and i want a good surface to lay bandage on. I think you need around six layers of bandage to have a strong enough mother-mold.