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face forms for facial hair piece prep and transport/storage
Darrell Green
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I am hoping to find a workpad for holding in my lap that has a tacky surface or pinnable surface for use when styling faux facial hair prosthetics, brows, mustache, sideburns and similar. I have seen the pieces pinned on full mannequin heads but was hoping a face only laptop portable version existed. Like a sketch pad with sticky pages or a pinnable picture frame like a crochet hoop. Does this exist? I could re-invent the wheel here but maybe one exists for set crews transporting hair pieces and doing last minute dressing?
My ideas so far are:
1) Cutting the rubber face off a beauty school manny head
2) Using the old fashioned wax and plastic sheet drawing tablets I had as a kid, came with a stylus and you pressed down to stick the plastic to the wax, making your drawn line which then "erased" when you lifted the plastic sheet
3) gluing the window gel stickers to a clipboard
4) Using a crochet hoop and a set of pinback hat pins or stud earrings
My ideas so far are:
1) Cutting the rubber face off a beauty school manny head
2) Using the old fashioned wax and plastic sheet drawing tablets I had as a kid, came with a stylus and you pressed down to stick the plastic to the wax, making your drawn line which then "erased" when you lifted the plastic sheet
3) gluing the window gel stickers to a clipboard
4) Using a crochet hoop and a set of pinback hat pins or stud earrings
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If you want a custom lightweight form that you can pin to, my suggestion would be to get a head/face mold and use a 2-part expanding foam. You can pick the density that you like, but denser foam will deform less as you work, which might be ideal. If you only want the face, you can tilt the mold so the face is down and limit how much foam you use to determine the thickness.
You could also trim down a foam wig head using a hot wire tool.
/Chris
Definitely want the best of both worlds so likely will cut the face off the rubber skinned head with the hotknife and attach it to a laptop plank. Sonething that is portable but can be attached to an easle or layed on a desk and can be stored in a tupperware when transporting. If I come up with something good, I will post.