Materials Needed:
• Chin lace piece
• Lower lip piece
• Sideburns
• Chopped curly hair matching beard color
• Scissors, thinning shears
• Metal tail comb
• Adhesive (W. M. Creations, Inc.
Adhesive)
• Tattoo color (e. g., Reel Hair Palette)
• Hair spray
• Makeup sponges
• Brushes
• Alcohol, 99 percent
• Cotton swabs
• Makeup cape
• Concealer pencil in skin tone matching actor
Steps for Application:
1. Start with a clean face.
2. Start applying the chin beard. Check its placement, and use the concealer pencil to mark dots where the edges of the piece belongs.
3. Brush a thin layer of adhesive onto the skin, staying about 1 cm below the markings of the lace piece edge.
4. Stipple adhesive with your finger until tacky. Apply a thin second layer and repeat. Be careful not to get adhesive over the concealer marks.
5. Glue the lace piece in place using your rattail comb. It is important that you press with the tail in between the hair at the base of the lace. Make sure you do not glue down the beard hair flat against the skin. This will take a few minutes, and a bit of practice.
6. Use a cotton swab dampened with alcohol to carefully remove your concealer markings.
7. Use a new cotton swab or a finer brush to apply a very thin layer of adhesive to the skin. Tack it with
your finger or a brush until flat and tacky.
8. Press lace piece gently into place using your clean rattail. Continue pressing all edges until they are smoothly glued down to the skin.
9. Apply the lip piece in the same manner Because it is very small, you probably don’t need to use the concealer pencil. Placement of a lip piece should be easier than the placement of a larger beard piece.
10. Apply the sideburns in the same manner. It is important that you position them directly at the bottom of the actor’s own sideburns, without a gap in between.
11. Cut the sideburn hair to match the actor’s own sideburn hair at the same length, using thinning shears.
12. Brush in a little tattoo color to blend possible color differences between the actor’s hair and the false sideburns.
PRO TIP
Lace facial hairpieces for HD are much more difficult because the high definition shows every detail so crisply and sharply. The lace pieces have to be designed in sections that puzzle together onto the face, with a lower hairline edge that has to be overlaid with hair by hand to finish off the edge of the facial-hair design. The glue must be totally matte.
13. After all of your lace pieces are applied, you can start using chopped hair to create a patchy, shorter beard stubble.
Lace facial hairpieces require an investment of time and money that pays off in the long run. The work and materials used are expensive, but the result is a more natural, consistent look, with easy maintenance.