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29 Apr 2010 - 10:24	30868
KhaosKreator Joined: 04 Apr 2009 Posts: 351	Realistic facial hair? I'm currently looking for a good lace moustache/beard but I'm having a lot of trouble tracking a good one down. I normally apply hair to my face with prosaide, but I found out that with smaller moustaches this doesn't work as well as small hairs escape into my nose. So far the only site I've found that does the style I'm after is this one here: Maskworld That's the style I'm looking for, but it's real human hair which squicks me out, and it's £45 with shipping. I'm willing to pay that amount, but I don't want real human. If anyone has any links I would appreciate it. -Tab __________________

29 Apr 2010 - 11:02	30869
Sillabub Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 693	Hmm... don't know how much help this is, but it seems there's a Japanese company called Propia that does natural-looking but synthetic facial hair kits. I haven't had much luck turning up any non-Japanese sellers that have any in stock unfortunately, but that is out there. __________________ Cara bell', cara mia bella, mia bambina, o ciel!

29 Apr 2010 - 13:20	30874
Odangochan Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 302	Hm. All the sites I usually recommend are real human hair, although they do come cheaper than the one you've found (Dauphines is my favourite). They can be trimmed down into different shapes so you don't always have to find one that's an exact match. If you really can't bear the thought of using real hair, the only think I can think of to suggest is to possibly try making your own - the process is similar to making a lace front for a wig, and I'm sure there are tutorials out there. Or you could try what Sands did and make a prosthetic piece using liquid latex and attaching the crepe hair to that (she used human hair but there's no reason crepe wouldn't work). You'll need to use flesh-coloured liquid latex, ideally.

29 Apr 2010 - 16:48	30878
xaerael Joined: 12 Aug 2008 Posts: 530	Quote Odangochan: Dauphines i racked my brain for hours trying to remember that place when tab first asked me. i thought it was in my big handbook of cleverness but it wasn't, and PC failiure lost all my bookmarks. __________________

29 Apr 2010 - 17:05	30880
KhaosKreator Joined: 04 Apr 2009 Posts: 351	Quote Odangochan: Hm. All the sites I usually recommend are real human hair, although they do come cheaper than the one you've found (Dauphines is my favourite). They can be trimmed down into different shapes so you don't always have to find one that's an exact match. If you really can't bear the thought of using real hair, the only think I can think of to suggest is to possibly try making your own - the process is similar to making a lace front for a wig, and I'm sure there are tutorials out there. Or you could try what Sands did and make a prosthetic piece using liquid latex and attaching the crepe hair to that (she used human hair but there's no reason crepe wouldn't work). You'll need to use flesh-coloured liquid latex, ideally. That's what I normally do, but I found the hair goes all in my nose making me like "ARRRRRGGGG" The website you linked looks good, I'll have a good nose about. -Tab __________________

29 Apr 2010 - 18:15	30887
Tak Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 110	Sadly all the places I've used have been for human hair pieces too - Dauphines is the best <3 whilst eBay.COM offers a few good bargains every so often with leftover theatre stock. Maybe worth phoning Charles Fox theatrical makeup supplies to ask if they know of any companies that make synthetic pieces, or like Odango says, lace and darning needle time it is!

04 Feb 2013 - 23:00	96890
Ranma1-2 Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Posts: 527	Im going down this route of home made prosthetic for my Blackadder cosplay - Tab what do you mean the hair keeps going up your nose? are the fibres coming unstuck from the latex and coming loose??

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