Fun with silicone

In the past we have done soem pretty cool makeup effects just using latex and old newspaper but after spending literally hours watching brickintheyard tutorials on YouTube we thought it was definitely time to have a go with some silicone.
Knowing absolutely nothing about this and finding myself in Fulham on an unrelated mission I took the opportunity to drop in to Guru Makeup Emporium and have a chat about how to get started. They where really helpful and enthusiastic and I came away with a starter kit of Platsil Gel-10 and some silicone pigments.
Unfortunately I didn't get any thickener so the results of the first test are rather sloppy but it still looks pretty cool considering I just slapped it on randomly to see what it was like to work with.

First impressions are that it will take a bit of getting used to but with practice will definitely improve the quality of our prosthetics and effects in the future.

On the down side, as well as needing some thickener we are quickly building up an expensive list of other bits and pieces to do more moulding, casting, modelling etc. This stuff is great but it puts an end to the days of buying a 5 litre bottle of latex and it lasting us for three films. Ah well, I suppose progress comes at a price.