Dirt and Dirty Teeth

Products:

- Tooth Enamel: in black and yellow 

- Fuller's Earth: can use wet or dry

- AquaColour (to add a powdery colour effect to the Fuller's Earth)

- SupraColour (to colour over the top of Fuller's Earth)

- Surgical Spirit

- Water: to add to the Fuller's Earth

Tools:

- Baby Buds

- Paint Palette

- Paintbrushes 

- Bowl

- Hairdryer

HEALTH AND SAFETY

- You can't use the Tooth Enamel on newly bleached teeth/some caps.

- DO NOT SWALLOW SURGICAL SPIRIT.

- As an alternative to Surgical Spirit, you can use whitening toothpaste but it might not do as good a job as Surgical Spirit. 

- Don't double dip in the product.

- Test the heat of the hairdryer on yourself before using on a model.

- Make sure to cover up your model so that you don't get any product on them or their clothing. 

- Scoop out Fuller's Earth from your bowl and put in the bin to clean it out. 

EXTRA

- If you want to colour the inside of the mouth you can use food colouring. 

-You can also ask your model to suck on some liquorice which will blacken the inside of the mouth.

STEP BY STEP - DIRTY TEETH:

- Shake the bottle to make sure that the product is properly mixed. 

- Use a baby bud to apply the product onto the teeth.

- If any product goes on the lips, use surgical spirit to remove it. 

- You can use the black to block out teeth entirely.

- The yellow will give the rotten look to the teeth. 

- You can also use a fine brush to shape the teeth.

STEP BY STEP- DIRT/MUD:

- You can use this in its powder form, and add it to the face/hair to give the illusion of dirt/dust.

- Add water to the dust to create a paste, which you can apply to the skin with your hands. It's better to apply with your hands as you won't get brush strokes which you would if you used a brush. 

- Remember to open up the fingers to get the product right into the crevices. Do the same with the knuckles as it will look odd when the product doesn't go right into the crevices. 

- Dry with a warm hairdryer, until it goes white in colour. 

- You can add colour to the Fuller's earth with the SupraColour, AquaColour or the Kryolan sprays. 

- Remove using water. 

My Interpretation - Teeth

I did find it quite difficult to get a good coating of the product on the teeth so it does look very patchy.  I think the cotton buds gave it a patchy look and I would've been better off using a paintbrush if I wanted to create an opaque colour. I did begin to use the cotton buds for the black, however I found it  very difficult to get clean lines on the teeth, so I changed to a paintbrush which I found much easier to  block out the entire tooth. The final teeth are slightly messy and some parts needed cleaning up with the surgical spirit, however I think that the small speck of black that I can see on one of the clean teeth would be difficult to clean up without taking off some of the other colour. In future I definitely need to be more careful when applying the product onto the teeth so I can avoid little specks like the ones I had before. 

My Interpretation- Mud

I really liked using this product, it was really fun to work with and I think that it gives a nice effect to the skin. I think that if you caked the product on in multiple layers then it would make a nice look of having just crawled through a lot of mud. 

I did have an issue with the Kryolan spray colours as the brown one did come out in splatters which tried to concentrate in small parts of the hand which didn't go to plan, as the photo demonstrates. I think rather than using the Kryolan spray colours in future I'd prefer to colour using my SupraColour or AquaColour. However I think if I was to use the Spray colour again, I would make sure to spray it in a smaller/larger area so that it doesn't look patchy. 

After colouring with the aerosol colours