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Sun, 22 June 2008, 05:26 pm
David Ashton26 posts in thread
Every week I get phone calls asking "Where can I get fake blood"? or "where can I get a car for "Grease"? or "how does a scrim work"?, well if all us technical crew could ask these questions on this forum it would soon become a gold-mine of information for everybody concerned. So how do you make fake blood?

Like Na, I rarely get

Sun, 22 June 2008, 09:26 pm
Like Na, I rarely get involved in making fake {Kensington Gore} blood. Beyond cochineals, I generally leave it to the make up bods.. I realise Red food colouring is the additive of most recipes, mixing a wee bit of blue food colouring to get the required richer blood colour. I know the Yanks all tend to use 'Corn Syrup', which I believe is not readily available here. Although Olive or Peanut Oil will give a similar viscosity to the blood. Also they use liquid soap, but I would not count on it not sudsing & foaming up? Although certain brands will leave your skin as soft as a babies backside. i think the reason for the liquid soap, is that it makes the blood easier to wash out. But one ryder is that it's organic, so left over blood, should be in an air tight container & stored in the fridge. I think most of these recipes are mainly aimed at the Halloween dress ups, which the yanks are big on.

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