We're now going to demonstrate a flash burn. This is a burn that's created from walking past an explosion of extreme heat. It's isolated usually to one area of the face. Deep reddening, it cooks the surface of the skin instantly so you'll have broken flesh and the skin wrinkled, but it's most common in house fires and dramas, where you see something being carried out of a burning building or if you're doing something where a car explodes close to someone they'll come up in their face will be slightly charged and read and that's generally a flash burn. So to begin, we need to prep a piece of Kleenex so you take a standard two ply, this is going to be our fake skin. And we are going to shape it into something like this to cover the side of me In the space using latex, apply one layer on it at a time, it's going to be your foreskin.
So to start, we're going to use our alcohol palette and do a gentle reddening of the area that's about to be burned. big brush to make it go quicker. Again, alcohol paint comes handy for this effect because I can actually put a layer of color underneath where the tissues going to go. A few treads do this with grease paint, you wouldn't be able to do it because then we'll be trading an oily barrier that latex would need here to go over this slightly with my dimpled sponge can to break up any of the edges. This can look more blotchy because parts of this will stick out from latex and then we'll add more color after it's going to go too crazy because I'll have to redo the edges anyways. So this is just sort of like a primer base coat now fit a piece of tissue for the side of his face.
I want to be aware of his hair. I don't want to put any latex in his hair and I don't want this to go beyond my reddened area. I want to get too close to his eye. Because latex has ammonia fumes and I want to be conscious of that and there's no need to have any suffer for no reason. And again, as you get close to the mouth, there'll be movement and that can become problematic later with fear of accuracy. He's a bit of a chatty Cathy.
So that's the general shape we're looking for. Now you want erratic edges because it'll blend into the skin better. You don't want any hard lines. That's why we fray and tear it away. Otherwise, if you have a hard edge, when you color it, you're going to see that line and your eyes is going to automatically go to it, where this will blend into the skin as you'll see in a moment. Some bentonite like tinted latex.
When you use this to adhere or tissue to Anthony's face, it'll sort of act like a glue my liquid latex and makeup, we're going to apply it with a sponge. So first, I'm going to buy some latex to the skin again, stay out of the hair or away from the hair and put it generally in the middle. So you can position your piece you have to work relatively quickly because latex will dry fast now we want this totally saturated with latex. I don't care about wrinkles. Actually, the more texture the better, but I want it totally coated. Avoid puddling the latex, you want to just an even coat because the sicker does, the longer it will take to dry.
Try to not get it to fold in on itself. That's why we do two layers. Because any fine if it tears away a bit. When it's in it dries fast, you'll notice in places that you might start lifting it off. So once you get that covered, quickly dry it. As you're drying, you're gonna see little areas like this that pop up that you thought you had covered in latex and you didn't so you can quickly especially if they're close to the edge.
Want to make sure those are tack down for you add your next layer and we'll quickly go over this. This is our base for our next layer fix skin. Again, tack it in, adjust any sizing on it doesn't have to match totally. And then we'll quickly at our second layer to seal this and matted down. Obviously before doing any makeup like this, ask your model is that a valid use to latex don't wait till you're in the middle of it. Okay we'll try this and then we should be good to continue on.
Notice I tapped where I thought the latex was thick to make sure that it was drying it was one spot stuck to my finger and pulled away you'll also know as a dries the texture it gives To the skin, that's what we want to make it look like this surface has been singed in the skin has been dried up almost that again that chicken kind of texture to it. And again you can see where we thought it was totally covered with latex, how it's separated. We have dry patches which is fine because we're going to add more color to this and final coding stick there just fine. So now I'm going to take a pair of tweezers and create blisters as if the skin broken places. So obviously we're the blushes the cenis which would be your cheekbones. That's where you want this to take place.
See. So do a few. You don't want them all the same size. Some being where things have popped. Again, we tend to be for the skin and be the center. We don't care if the skin wrinkles up because that's gonna add texture and add.
So I'm just gonna add one down here because this is where the jaw bone is, and again, the skin thins out to inject themselves so much in the middle of your face because the flesh in the center is more sick, so it tends to be more. So the random, there's an arbitrary there. Otherwise, if you go too big, they look contrived. So those are fine. So those are list your holes. So now we go back in with our color Again, big brush, big area.
You don't want to spend a lot of time messing around. I'll take a smaller brush and start putting some detail in. Like it's gonna go too crazy because the final thing we add is sick. So I'm going to add extra bruise tone and wrongness to my exploded blisters brighten up the skin area around them. Again, there'll be no bleeding because it's fire and it's singed everything and cauterize it so there would be no bleeding. It's nice that the latex was tinted because it gave us a foundation so I don't have to worry about trying to make the tissue look like flesh.
Again, you want to make sure your redness goes beyond your burn area. To her blister juice that popped in turning out it is a little more irritation in here. To see what's pretty nasty on its own. We still have one final step to do and that's to add some certs. So first I'm going to just use a bigger brush and some black. We're sipping smoke click running neck, bringing it in around your mouth corner your mouth, gets in your eyes.
I'll go over this with some pattern in but miss this part. I know they have to have water in the scene and they have the pumper trucks and stuff going you want to know that your colors are gonna stay put. You notice I use the flat back of the brush. I don't ever use the end. I'm just glazing over, pulling out the texture of the latex in the skin. I'll go in in a minute and do a little detail.
I'm gonna char blister holes. Last thing will be our charcoal powder. Again using this sparingly. It has that dry element to something that looks shiny, which we want to burn would be shiny. So you don't want to get rid of that shame. Okay, that's enough set want to go too nuts.
Ever seen anyone come out of a fire, it goes into your eyes, it gets in your tear ducts are all around your nose because you're eating it you're smoking, breathing it in the corner of the mouth. Now, this is a big fire. We will continue this on and add this sit on the other side of the face and keep going but we're just showing the one side and the last thing I'm going to do is in our broken blisters, add a little gel effects that make it look more wet and raw. You could use ky Essentially it's the same as this. It's a water based product but the lights catch the glint and makes the things you want to appear more with the eyes from the nose that's your nose okay running flash burn