Today we're going to be applying a ball cap. So the first thing that we need to do is prep model skin. And why used was demo shield the skin protection. This is because you're going to be putting a glue align all the way around the hairline. So this is going to help protect the skin and also in removal of the bald cap later on. So it kind of looks like shaving cream.

And it's good like that because it evaporates really quickly. So it's not like you're putting a heavy cream on somebody's skin, and you just put it on theory where you're gonna put. So the next thing that we're going to be doing is preparing the hair. And Jordan of this product is bald cap gel. It's kind of alcohol free, so it's not going to eat through for years of watermelon bar bald cap, it's not going to eat through it. If you were using a latex bald cap, it doesn't really matter and it's probably going to be Useful with a glass of wine or plastic ballcap it's not going to eat through that either.

If your model has kind of soft pinhead, it's going to be flattened anyway. You probably don't need to use this. Probably won't use it today. But you could, you know, send it out a little bit, maybe put a little bit through. Yeah, it's just gonna help to flatten the head down. The good thing about water based products is an actor has sensitive skin, you know, it won't react with them.

So we try to pick products that will give us the least amount of grief. So I'm just going to use little bit of water. You probably going to be asking yourself, Well, if your model has long hair, what do you do with long hair? So if you do, you have someone that's got long hair, you're gonna run into a few problems. One problem is If you Pinkel, the hair, you're going to have a bald cap that looks pretty heavy on top. And if you've run the hair down the back and in a low ponytail, then you're going to have problems shooting from the sides.

And generally, on a film, you would probably do a plastic and foam latex or silicone ballcap. But if you're using just a regular bald cap, these things have to be cheated with camera angles and wardrobe. So if you if you were to put the hair right down, the back wardrobe would kind of like cover up the back and it dangles will be cheated. But if you have so much short hair that isn't going to be an issue for you. So generally when we know we have to do this, we try to request casting to cast actors who are short hair, careful people or catch ball people so we don't have to do it at all. So this is the cap that we're going to be using today.

Made by Krylon glass and bald cap plastic cap. And this is what it looks like when it's out of the box. Not very skinny like and anyway. So you'll also notice that there's a creases in lines and the bald cap. And usually what I'll do just beforehand is a hair dryer and and heat the inside of the ball cap a little bit just to soften the vinyl. Then you just put your hand inside and give it a little bit of a stretch.

A lot of these wrinkles are going to be pulled when you put the cap on anyway. So the next bit is very unglamorous. And you obviously have to warn your subjects that it is going to go past their eyeline when it goes on for the first time and so you trim a little bit away and it does help if you have two people trying to do this by ourselves a little bit tricky. Randy to hold the phone So at this point, obviously the front of the ball cap has gone lower than the eyes. So we're gonna trim a little bit away. The scissors I'm using are actually safety scissors, which is the best type of scissors to use, you can use cuticle scissors, but these ones have got a nice rounded end so they're not going to stabbing anyone.

Obviously Be very careful doing this, I usually put my finger in there anyway, just so I know they're away from skin. This point now you want to just make sure that everything's kind of level. It's pretty good. So you'll notice that I didn't trim all the way because what's going to happen a little bit later on once the glue line is is glued and it's going to be open around there somewhere. All of this area is going to be dissolved away. So you want to have a little bit of something to hold on to when you do that.

That's why you don't go all the way back up. You can use one glue or you can use a couple of different Claire's going to be using prose aid, you could use a bond strategy telesis. Okay, so the first part when a glue is going to be there underneath the hairline. So, essentially what I'm going to do is you're going to continue working around just to the point where they are, the eyes are going to leave around the ears for now. The great thing with the cat being translucent is that you can actually see the glue line underneath the cap so you know if you missed anything. So what I'm going to do is it's going to show where to cut the ball cap to make this go around the ear, and there's a little trick actually to it.

So I'm going to turn your head slightly that way on your ear where the colleges that comes around to see that not they're not the X. They're the outer but the inside. If you actually feel your own ear, where that cartilage is, that's where your ear returned on the opposite side. So to make a little line on the inside of that, and that is where I'm going to call out and that way when the ball when the ball cap goes behind, it will sit in behind the chair and you're getting like weird polls. And sometimes people do this once the ball kept glued, like they're in there, but it's a little bit tricky to do this, because what tends to happen is that it's glued on both sides. It's under tension.

When you start cutting, you sometimes get a little split, but you don't want to pull the air through and you still got a little bit of a wrinkle, then you know you got to come up a little bit more. These little things take time, but if you don't do them right in the end, take the time and do it right the first time. What are you going to do with the back you're going to get them to tilt the head back when you glue glue the cap on and the reason being is when you put the head natural again, the ball cap will be under tension and you'll lose the horizontal lines which sometimes occur. So if you were just to glue that down as is, if you put your hand back you get all these horizontal lines. So peekaboo it when the head is tilted back slightly Put your head cord that then goes on to tension so it takes some lines on it.

Noticed she's putting an inch swath of glue from the hairline down. You want this really well secured to want a good anchor. So a good inch fanned tinfoil cap till you head back slightly is where you want to hold it just for a little bit because you want to make sure that that's gonna dry tight at this point in color a little bit next, so again, you don't put too much off because you're going to need some of that ballcap material. So the other thing to do as well don't throw this stuff away, just in case if you're on set and this gets a tear or anything like that, sometimes in the process of making bulk apps, some of the areas are thinner than others and you might end up with a little terror splinter you need to do a patch repair on it. So I'm in the excessive is useful to repay ballcap if you need to feel pretty good.

Now we're going to do is pull down on the sides. I'm going to glue in down to the side of the air and just continue the glue line from the From the other side so at this point in coffee's hanging out. Again, we're still leaving about bench also overhang. So we'll need that. I'm going to pull the air through and just see how it fits throughout is that even for someone who knows what they're doing, this usually is a one hour process. Never put some glue around the secure the edge Next thing you want to do is to melt the edges away.

So we're going to be using Kryolan cosmetic grade acetone to blend the edges of the ballcap you're going to be using a cotton swab to apply it. And we're going to be using very little this because you don't want too much of this onto the skin tape because it's one tiny bit of acetone just soak it. Usually just take the excess on on the back of the hand, you're not putting tons and tons on and I'm pulling the ball cap away away from the scanner scan and just Robin cuticle and just before the glue line is essentially. So as you can see, I've been blending the edge all the way around the ball cap of this small piece of the front of the planet. It's gonna finish that Another thing that will help you to do this as well as when you pull in the the bald cap away, roll the Q tip and towards the head as well.

That way it's kind of dragging the edge and doing this kind of motion blending on the skin. So the next thing that I'll be using is a piece of orange pour sponge and Krylon stellar sponge and they use it for rubber mask grease paint. This is a trick that someone showed me blending off edges. If you use this with glue, what happens when you stipple with this is it leaves lots of little raised bumps so it's good for going over the edges of things. If you didn't prosthetics ballcap I'm just going to use pros aid. This is doing two things It is sealing the edge so the edge won't lift up.

It's also creating a texture that will help to blend everything together. I'm also going to step over the entire head as well once you've stumbled over the entire ball cap with pros aide and that's going to again give it texture and hide the edges. Next thing to do is to to dry that so I'm just gonna lightly blow dry hole ballcap take some no color powder and just powder over the entire thing just to stop the excess. So the next thing that we're going to need to start coloring the ballcap is packs pain and if you don't know what packs Paint is its pros aide of Bay a bond, a basically a modified acrylic emulsion which is an adhesive mixed with acrylic paint. So it's 5050 usually I'll use three to four colors of packs before starting any other any other makeup products on top. So I've mixed mixed a couple different colors.

There's like a burn on the color, kind of deep red color and kind of a white flesh tone. So I'm going to use all three of these and you don't want to be applying packs with any good makeup brushes because it will destroy them. I usually use sponges, makeup wedges just picked up and that way you'll get an uneven finish which is what you want. You're kind of putting on layers of paint and you don't want it to be solid colors. So you want all the colors to kind of overlap and of different colors showing through. One of the other reasons for using packs on top of this is Because this is obviously translucent, because you can see the hair shine through the ball caps you want to get rid of that first and then you can start to put in some other colors for flesh tone.

So once you've applied the pack powder to the entire head Yeah, we'll just take up the excess powder. So the next thing I'm going to do is because there's like a lot of powder on there, I'm going to use a damp sponge I'll use a sea sponge or a sponge, just to take off a little bit more of the excess powder. So the next thing to do is To use some rubber mask grease paint, we're going to just tie in from one of the packs and to the skin. I could use Bella straighter but rubber mask grease paints a little bit more opaque. So I'm going to use a little bit of that first and then go to the alcohol base makeup. So you're going to go a little bit onto the scan and onto the ball cap just to blend them.

I'm just using the orange corresponds again, I'm just taking some of that Roadmaster grease paint back over the entire ball count, scale up a little bit more powder. The reason that I'm using the powder on the road for masking it just needs to be to be set The next thing we're going to be using as our base makeup, this one skill illustrate that you could use john Dane real color, Matthew Mangal stay color, there's so many of them out there. So any alcohol makeup you want to use. On the way that I'm going to apply it. First thing that I use as one of these brushes is like a bunch of different companies that sell brushes or do this, what happens is when you add alcohol to a separate, you get all these little spikes, and it's really good for kind of like stippling colors over things.

And also this little concoction just a toothbrush. And a piece of cane is brass tubing. And that's just so it can hold in to some directional flicking. And that's pretty much what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna paint the whole thing just with like lots of layers of slick flake suspension, essentially. So when I get them The color relatively thin down.

You have to be careful here is I call base makeup and tell you back to the closer eyes with the face. first couple of colors I put on actually the skill Australia palette we've been using natural one natural two and a tiny bit of vein tone as well. I'm going to be putting some other colors like red oxide, coral blue, midnight brown in there and go and probably between like a couple of the colors. I'll put in rice paper, just to kill all the colors and then and then work back into it. Because it's kind of like if you're doing a light band stubble kind of like gives up a haze of where the hair was. also kind of print blue and the colors also gives it a little bit translucency This is a midnight Brown.

I'm trying to almost make the color a little bit thicker, so I want to get some kind of discoloration, eight spots kind of thing. Mixed really thin down red oxide. really fine. On layer that over the whole thing. I'm just gonna move on to this is actually a real color palette is a great kind of agent palette and a smaller version of this brush. just added in some discoloration nightspots.

So I'm just going over the whole thing again, we rice paper using this brush, the light powder and all that nice crease pain. So the next thing that I usually do, and it really depends how the ball cap looks by I use this stuff it's from MAC. It's a silicon based anti shine. doesn't go gray which is really good. just good for like glued edges. just takes a little bit of the sheen away.

Usually Use it on appliances as well. Don't have to put it on all the time. Usually finish by just a trial and fix a spray. You can look at the the ball cap now compared to the skin, the skin has like a slight sheen to it whereas the ball caps pretty much flat. So this is gonna get a little bit of a shine back to the head again, show your actors got their eyes closed. So that's the end of the