Pros-Aide I Adhesive (1 oz)

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Skin usually secrets natural oils to protect it, so cleaning the skin with a toner or mild astringent will help the glues do their job. Silicone adhesives may be a better option in this case, and even using a primer like Top Guard for more severe case. There are a number of adhesives and removers designed applying prosthetics to skin, and it can seem confusing when you start looking. use the transfer paper and acetate technique. As has been seen recently on this group, it is also possible to apply prosaide appliances directly from a flat mould in the same way as is often done with encapsulated silicone appliances, in which case the freezing step is totally unnecessary. If the makeup has to be applied many times in a row, you need to take care to reduce irritation as much as possible. This may mean taking rest days, thinning the glue down and using good moisturising and face creams. Most appliance makeups are wanted once or twice, but regularly appearing characters may well need to have rest days from prosthetics as part of their routine.

This Doc was originally posted by Andrea Dinoboy Leanza in April 2012. Due to technical hitches with Facebooks system they had to be deleted and reposted. Unfortuantely that means comments people added have been lost. My apologies… To paraphrase Lance the drug dealer in Pulp Fiction, “That stuff costs more, but when you use it, you will know where that money went!This process traditionally involves putting the liquid glue into a mixer and beating it on a slow speed for hours and hours. The purpose of this is to gradually expose the water to the air and promote slow evaporation. In cold environments training a fan heater or hairdryer onto the

Silicone adhesives should have their own suitable thinners or solvent available from the glue supplier. By adding a thinner to the glue, you again reduce the strength of the bond to suit. You may need to do some tests to determine how much dilution is required, but by testing small amounts you will save a lot of time later, especially if large appliances are being used. These bubbles are not the same as those introduced in the mix by overbeating, and it is unlikely that the issue is actually purely overheating either, as the temperatures used are too low. It appears to be most likely that the precise mechanism by which they form is due to a combination of excessive water remaining in the mix PLUS using accelerated drying. Either of these factors on their own would not seem to be an insurmaountable issue, but when they combine, the components in the chemical formulation of the adhesive appear to be negatively affected by too-rapid drying times. Uneven contraction of the various components of the mix results in proper cross-linking failing to occur evenly throughout the piece, and we observe imperfections forming. Here’s the basics, but for a proper tutorial I recommend you get yourself one of the excellent instructional books and dvds that are available. Todd has helpfully posted a How-to for 3D Prosthetic Transfers, with pics, in the Photos section on this group. He asks “What I would like to know is what you both use to remove various prosthetic glues. I used Pros aide to glue some bondo transfers I had made & tried Telesis Super Solv to try & get them off. It took AGES! Would I have been better off using something else?” Both these techniques use Pros-Aide for adhesive and if you are using them repeatedly the last thing you want is to irritate the actors skin. Make sure you PREP the skin – Use all your arsenal: Dermashield, Sweatstop, Barrier Spray, whatever… and then use the best and most efficient remover you can get your hands on. Avoid rubbing the skin wherever possible, dab and roll… Mouldlife do a product called “Life Wipes” that are great for removing Pros-Aide after the prosthetics have been removed. You usually get the internal membrane of Baldiez left behind after removing with Pro Clean or Super Solv but those wipes just get that residue off in seconds. Also brilliant you can just give the actor a hand full to take home in case they stumble across an errant bit of glue. (Thanks Neill!)Isopropyl Alcohol used for cleaning your prosthetic appliance before use and to activate paint palettes. Also used for dissolving edges when encapsulated with Super Baldiez