Set out ready for use:
Towel / cape
Tissues
Cotton wool pads
Before starting, you ensure your hands and nails are well cleaned. File your nails if necessary, so that there are no snags. With this you avoid damaging the skin and avoids the risk of infections.
Always work using clean materials (sponges, brushes, spatulas, water bowls) and change the water regularly.
Protect your models clothing with a hairdressing cape or a towel.
Bend the finger and extend the finger section with Derma Wax. Smooth the edges flat so that grease and moisture can not get underneath.
Dab all over with a dry, clean make-up sponge. Doing this, you remove the excess Cleansing Cream and you create a skin-texture effect.
Opening the wound edges up allows you to create a tattered effect. Raise the 'wound edges' using a Derma Wax spatula, lightly lubricated with Cleansing Cream. Do this carefully.
Grimas Blood Paste is a dark red very thick paste for making older wounds (clotted blood effect) and various special effects. The stiff structure of the Blood Paste lets you produce three-dimensional effects. To improve adhesion to the skin, first clean with Grimas Cleansing Lotion.
Apply Blood Paste to the skin with a Derma Wax spatula. The structure can be modelled for a short time (approximately 5 minutes). Close the packaging properly after use.
Hint: keep a tissue around the 'ripped off finger' wound. It makes it look as if you are stopping the blood flowing and helps mask the bent finger. It also prevents leakage of Blood or Filmblood onto clothing.
Massage Grimas Multi Remover Pure or Cleansing Cream into the skin.
Scrape the Derma Wax off the skin with the spatula.
Repeat this.
If a slight film forms on the skin, cleanse it afterwards with Grimas Cleansing Lotion.
The sponges are disposable so you can throw them away after use. If you do want to reuse them, first rinse them under the tap with some soap or shampoo or wash them in the washing machine (in a net bag or pillow case), set to at least 60°C.
You can clean brushes with water and soap or shampoo. Put the moist hairs of the brushes back into shape by hand after washing. Dry the brushes lying flat on a towel and do not place them upright, since that causes the moisture to run down into the shaft.
