Skin colored silicone and working with silicone ?

Does anyone know where you can buy skin colored silicone ?
Or does it have to mixed to be a skin color ?
Is it easy to work with ?

Id like to learn how to work with silicone makeing heads and stuff like that any help would be great.

Thanks
Billy

This is the guy you need to talk to... Guy Louis XVI (Pronounced Gee) @
http://www.fusefx.ca/

He's Pro and really knows his stuff!

you need clear silicne and flesh tone silicne pigment. smooth on are probably your best bet in your area

Monster makers makes a fantastic flesh tone pigment for silicone. Just a tiny, tiny bit goes a very long way. And a little tip, do a layer in flesh, and then an underlying layer in red. Your blood running through your veins is what gives your skin it's color. The silicone, if translucent enough will have a much more realistic tone to it with teh red behind it, and will also cut down any additional coloring. (also, when phtographing with a flash, keeps it from looking pale or white)

Here are some examples of the coloring technique. Note though, that these next two pictures are eight years old, and not using Monster Makers pigments, but powdered paint.

This is a closeup showing how the red can show up..



And this head has had very little coloring done to it, aside from the layering (though, there is some additional coloring at this stage, particularly nostrils, lips and eye shading to match the actress)



And this one (WIP) is done with Monster Makers. Again, very little extra coloring has been done, really just the lips. (and sorry for the crappy iPhone pic)

sorry to butt in but what do you use to paint the outside of a silicone piece, oil paint,silicone caulk and solvent?

if so what type of solvent?

-z

I know that Smooth-on makes a silicone paint, but I have never tried it. The only thing that is on those I showed is actually makeup. Adheres just fine.

to paint, you can use fuse fx as long as its a platinum silicone, I prefer to use silicone pigment mixed with caulk diluted with either white spirit or heptane