Effective prosthetics for your YouTube videos

Step 3 Try a test

Once the basic ribs are dry, you can try a test or go on to the next stages.

Keep the prosthetic on the wax paper until the very last moment. This will help keep it in good condition. You can use Spirit Gum, Pros-Aid or theatrical latex to stick the prosthetic on. I tend to use latex as I find it easier to remove after you have finished.

Use a cut up bath sponge, dip it in the latex and dab on a very thin layer to the skin slightly bigger than the area required. Let it dry.
Peel one edge of the prosthetic CAREFULLY from the wax paper. If it touches itself it will instantly stick together and be ruined.

Stick the edge carefully in place on the skin and then peel away the wax paper stick down as you go. Once it's all stuck down dust over with a large blusher brush dipped in talc.

Here's Tara with an unfinished prosthetic stuck to her chest. the black mark is a test painted area.

Comments

[timsbro2000]

If you liberally brush talcum powder (baby powder) or even something like flour, with a big fluffy brush, onto the back of the prosthetic as you peel it up the first time, It won't stick to itself.  So you won't have to worry about it being "ruined" by touching itself.  it also won't stick as readily to the latex patch you put on the skin though, not to a great extent, but that is something to think about.  still you won't have to worry about inadvertently ruining your prosthetic and it can still be attached quite easily using any of the products you mentioned.

[marshon]

Yes by all means brush the front. But if you brush the wax paper side the adhesion is much poorer to the skin. My comment was meant to show that the prosthetic needs to stay on the wax paper until the very last moment and be sure that the BACK does not curl over and touch itself or it will be almost impossible to successfully separate if it does stick to itself.