Harry Potter: Make a Death Eater Mask!

Step 2 Prep work

If you're not sure exactly how you want your mask to look like, head over to Death Eater Art for some inspiration. It will help to sketch out your mask beforehand, especially if you want to leave holes around the mouth area.

Find a nice spot on the floor and lay down the newspaper. Although this isn't too messy if you're careful, you don't want to get plaster all over the floor.

Get a few globs of vasaline and rub it all over your face. Make sure to cover your eyebrows, hairline, sideburns, and any other facial hair well. It can be pretty painful to remove the mask if you forget this vital step!

We wanted to be able to talk through our masks at the book launch/movie premiere, and since plaster would have set directly over our face we wouldn't be able to move our mouths. If you unroll some aluminum foil, fold it in half, and squish it over your lower jaw, that should leave enough room for you to talk behind the mask. It will make your final mask look somewhat gorilla like, but I think it's even more menacing. :)

Cut two pieces of straw about two inches long. These pieces of plastic will fit glamorously up your nose, enabling you to breathe.

Cut your plaster bandages into strips of varying lengths.

I'm blind without my glasses and I don't have contact lenses. What I did was take the lenses off my old glasses and laid them over my eyes. Once the mask comes off, you can glue the lenses inside the mask.

Comments

[whiteoakart]

I will second the warning. Put lots of vaseline on your facial hair. My brother tore his eyebrows out doing this (he thought he had enough vaseline on). That's a special kind of self-induced pain, with a side-helping of humility walking around eyebrowless.

[Crucio]

Couldn't you just cover your face completely with a layer of aluminum foil and then plaster on top of that to avoid vaseline? A-foil is so easy to shape, so this could save a lot of eyebrows and gooey mess. :) BTW, GREAT JOB, GRIM! You guys look AWESOME in those last pix!

[thedubbedmime]

I agree. I think if you put a hole layer of foil on the face this would be alot easier. also, I think you should sand down the mask to a nice finish.

[grimsqueaker]

We did try it with aluminum foil at first, but it didn't mold to our faces at all! So we just went with the plaster and it worked out a lot better.

[grimsqueaker]

Ouch! His WHOLE eyebrow? :S Yeah, my friend didn't put enough over her hairline so that was pretty painful for her. I was pretty paranoid after hearing horror stories from the internet so I did put enough on myself!

[hoolio]

Brilliant idea with the old lens!

[grimsqueaker]

Haha thanks! :) I really need to get a pair of contacts.