noses and my sexy face.

I have been making noses, well, attempting to but unfortunately, like many things in life, it's all been rather a lot of trial and error. Only there seems to be an awful lot of error.
Fully loaded with all the suitable equipment I go about making moulds and casts and more moulds then casts from those moulds, all the while getting various liquids down myself. Note to you all- liquid latex never ever comes out of trousers.
After making a great mould of my nose with this stuff called alginate, then casting it in latex , I decide that the next logical step would be to cast my whole face. this isn't for my work, this is because it would just be damn cool.

A very important thing to do when casting ones bodyparts, is to liberally apply plenty of lubrication to the area to avoid sticking- Vaseline is very good for this. Being the sensible person I am, my face soon becomes very shiny. Shiny like bauble. Bauble doused in Vaseline.
Alginate needs to be sieved, mixed with water then applied like paste to area of interest. it sets really fast and when you don't sieve it, becomes super lumpy. I learn this the hard way, leaning forward over what I think is my desk but is actually the floor, unable to see what I'm doing because I have, as Vida has just pointed out, handfuls of sticky grey scrambled egg allover my face. It is at this point where uncontrollable laughter sets in. I ingest quite a bit of goo as I try to calm my sniggers but this only exacerbates the situation, I start weeping behind my squishy mask, creating little face pockets of hot tears.
It's no good, the mask is doomed and so satisfyingly ripped off. However, I am foolishly undeterred and decide to try again but this time with modroc, this being the stuff you get your limbs cast in if you are unfortunate enough to break their bones.
Thankfully I've done this before and so have no particular trouble applying the strips of soggy plaster to my eyes, nose mouth etc. While waiting for it to set Vida and I 'watch' trailers for bad films like Witless Protection. The time comes to do various gurning exercises to loosen, then remove the mould. After a little persuasion I can feel the plaster giving way, there is also quite a lot of it not giving way and this is because, boys and girls, I did not reapply the Vaseline.
Pain. Much angryredskin pain.
These are actual eyebrows, oh and look, an eyelash too!
After making my face I got the need to do it out of my system, that and the raw skin on my face rather deterred me from trying it again soon. Still, the result is ace and quite good for freaking people out.