making transfers with face mask stuff


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Posted by anita on September 18, 1999 at 16:32:53:

I've been experimenting with making transfers with the Freeman face
mask stuff. I did some henna designs on a glass plate and let them
dry. Then, I covered with a liberal coating of the face mask stuff.
I put it in the sun to dry. After it was completely dry, I peeled
off the design and the henna paste peeled right off with it! To
apply, I wet my skin with lemon juice and carefully pressed on the
transfer, henna-side down. Then, coated the whole thing with a
little lemon juice to rehydrate and applied a fresh coat of face
mask. Allow to dry and remain on the skin like a fresh henna
design. It worked. The flexibility of the face mask stuff let's it
curve to the skin better than paper transfers with no cracking. The
face mask stuff keeps the henna in one piece. The only thing is you
have to be really careful with the henna-transfer, it will fold up
and stick to itself. Also, don't use too much lemon juice. I've only
tried this with small designs, I don't know how well it would work
with large ones. You would probably have to do them in sections.
Maybe you could put the design on the plate and when dry, slice it up
in sections and then remove.


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