Set out ready for use:
Straightener / iron
Scissors
Hairspray / plastic spray
Comb
Cotton wool pads
Tissues
When you are going to be using the Wool Crepe hairpiece, you soak it gently loose from the head with alcohol and place it in tissues in a sturdy box. Now it is ready to take away for use.
Please note: in the following text you can also read 'ceramic head' instead of 'skin', depending on what you choose.
Before starting, you ensure your hands and nails are well cleaned. File your nails if necessary, so that there are no snags. By doing this you prevent damages on the face and risk of infection.
Always work with clean materials.
Get the subject to put on any clothes beforehand that have to be put on over the head. Protect your models clothing with a hairdressing cape or a towel.
Grimas Wolcrêpe is used to create beards, moustaches and eyebrows or to camouflage the edges of a beard set. It is a series of pieces of sheep's wool (approximately 15 cm in length) braided together.
Wool crepe sideburns:
Pull a braid of 20 cm Wool Crepe loose from the strings around which it has been wound.
Straighten the part you are working with, using a curler, styling tongs or an iron (on the 'wool' setting), until it has a slight wave.
Now make the piece that you are working with longer and looser: run it through your hands and pull it gently bit by bit in the lengthwise direction, but so that the piece still remains intact.
If you want, you can mix the tuft with Wool Crepe of another colour.
Note: using hairspray or plastic spray on the Wool Crepe will make it inflammable.
Work preferably work on a dry base. First degrease and clean the skin you are going to be working on with Grimas Cleansing Lotion. Using Grimas Mastix Extra (or Mastix Watersoluble in a training course situation), you attach these obliquely cut pieces step by step.
Absolutely do not use near or above the eyes.
Please note: place the cut surfaces on the skin in such a way that the points of the tufts, which have been gently snipped diagonally, point forward or downward, in the natural direction of growth of the sideburns. Work piece by piece.
Please note: during attachment, keep the cut surfaces tightly together to ensure full whiskers (sideburns), also after modelling.
Press the adhesive edge onto the skin with one hand, and model the Wool Crepe whiskers with the other hand, you can do this with the end of a pin-tail comb or the back of a brush.
You can use scissors and/or clippers to create the desired model for the whiskers.
Please note: do not comb!
Fix the result with a hairspray.
If you have worked with Grimas Mastix Watersoluble, you can remove the Wool Crepe with lukewarm water and a little soap if necessary. Wool Crepe that has been stuck on with Mastix Extra you remove with Mastix Remover. You can then already pull some of the hairs loose and remove them with a tissue. The remaining hairs and the adhesive you remove with a cotton wool pad and Mastix Remover. Dab it carefully onto the skin and roll the residual material off the skin. You can cleanse the skin with water and soap (shampoo can also be used). Cleanse afterwards with Cleansing Lotion.
