liquid latex and faux leather

I am new to using latex and clothing. Can you put liquid body latex on faux leather to changes it color. Its a black corset and want to put red latex on it for a costume.


Any help would be appreciated.
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I am not sure that is possible, I am kinda new to the latex I would think with Faux leather the possibilties would make the latex crack or flake, not a professional with mixing that combination but my opinion. I would also be interested in hearing a professionals opinion that .

I dont know for sure. BUT I have been doing prosthetics for years now and to make edges disappear we use liquid latex. When its applied to skin and baby powder or corn starch is dabbed on after you will see that the humidity is gone. Considering leather is skin it should soak in the pores the same. Problem is wrinkles will probably happen

ack2000 said:

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I am new to using latex and clothing. Can you put liquid body latex on faux leather to changes it color. Its a black corset and want to put red latex on it for a costume.

Not efficiently. It depends a lot on what the "faux leather" is made of -- it could be latex, or polyurethane, or polyvinyl chloride (PVC), or polyester, or it could be some other variety of synthetic. Latex is a type of rubber, so it will not necessarily adhere to all kinds of vinyl. (And even various types of rubbers do not get along -- for example, latex is damaging to silicone rubber.) You can do a test swatch, of course, but odds are good that if you coated the whole thing in latex, it would peel off.

There are ways to paint PVC and PU -- you can get special vinyl paints that work pretty well, and sometimes you can get away with a very light coat of a flexible spraypaint, but if you're painting a piece that is going to move or bend a lot, you'll likely get cracks in the paint surface. Whatever pigment you use needs to stick to the synthetic AND be flexible enough not to break when rubbed or bent.

Don't bother. It'll peel off. This is an expensive alternative but it does actually change the colour of PU.
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I have used this on really cheap painty type fake leather and good qualtiy matte PVC and once cured it grips. It dissolved the cheap stuff and took a while to cure and bite into the good stuff but it is amazing.

I have used both the reccomended pigments as well as just added mineral pigments (particularly love Pearl Ex duo tone in it).

Highly recommended for painting on faux leather. Just make sure the surface is cleaned well.

That said it is better to go from lighter to darker otherwise you will have to try and make the paint opaque. And red is tough to get opaque.

Thank all of you for your assistance