Hey, everyone, Kimo here and welcome to my
patio. I'm excited to participate today in
a collaboration called for the boys. This
collaboration is with some excellent makers
and the whole idea behind the, for the boys,
collaboration is that each of us is creating
a DIY project with the men in our life. In
mind, I have links in my description to the
channels of all the participating makers in
today's collaboration, as well as a link to
the playlist where you can see all the videos
and see what everybody is making today. I
have a Halloween DIY project inspired by the
game of Thrones. Specifically. This one is
inspired by the white walkers and they look
kind of creepy, which is exactly why this
is the perfect project for any guy I'm going
to be using these barber heads or mannequin
heads that I got from a friend who works at
the local cosmetology school.
Now, if you've seen game of Thrones before
you know that the white walkers are the evil
undead army that are basically set up to take
over the world. So I'm going to use some crafting
tips and tricks along the way to create a
really stunning and scary look before we go
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below what your favorite part is of this Halloween,
DIY that's for the boys. All right, let's
get started starting with these heads. I wanted
to talk a little bit about what these heads
are. So it looks like the inside of this head
is made out of foam, but there's this protective
skin outer layer that's made out of sort of
a pliable plastic.
So my plan is to cut into the eyes and create
these deep sockets. So I can put these little
mini lights in them. Now these mini lights
are a little bit smaller than your typical
votive candles. I got them a few years ago
when I was decorating for a party and came
up with the idea to use these in these frosted
glass vases that we used as centerpieces.
I have a few of these leftover, which I'm
going to use to help me light up the eyes
in the piece. And I'm also going to create
the actual blue piercing eyes using these
glass gems that I got from the dollar tree
they come in. So here is our mannequin barber
head, and, uh, I'm going to use a sharp utility
knife to cut these eyes open. I know that
sounds a little gruesome, but Hey, it is Halloween.
So you can see that I'm following the outline
of the eyes with that utility knife. And I'm
going to take off that bit of plastic and
you can see the foam peeking through underneath.
I'm going to cut out some of that foam as
well to create those deep sockets where we'll
put those little mini lights into and that
will help to create the desired blue eye effect
that we're going for. I'm also using that
utility knife to cut open that mouth, just
so that I can get a little bit more of a different
look, a different expression on the face,
something a little creepier.
You can see that I'm also using my fingers
to press down on the foam to create a space
inside of the mouth. And also inside of the
eyes here, I'm adding a little bit of cornstarch
to my black craft acrylic paint. I'm going
to mix that up a little bit. Adding that corn
starch, it gives a little bit of texture to
the paint and creates a, almost a chalk like
a chalk paint, like a fat to where it can
attach to any surface a lot better. I want
to get that black paint over the entire surface.
That way it'll create a really nice undercoat
for the other layers of paint that I'll be
putting on top.
And yes, we're even painting the hair as well.
Now, while that's drying, I'm going to be
working on the eyes and we're going to use
some glass gems. I've already applied just
the small dot of nail Polish, black nail Polish
to the center. And now we're going to use
a couple of other colors of nail Polish to
create a blue cloudy, like effect for the
eyes starting with this lighter blue, a lighter
turquoise, I guess that I'm simply dabbing
on a little bit here and there. I'm not doing
a full coat of it, leading some, leaving some
open spaces for the next color, which is a
richer blue in a nail Polish color. Um, and
we'll be adding that as well. Just kind of
dabbing around as we did with the previous
lighter blue. I have to say I'm so happy for
this collaboration because Halloween is one
of my favorite holidays to decorate for maybe
even more than Christmas Or black acrylic
paint has dried on the surface of our head.
And so now I'm going to be drawing some lines,
using a pastel pencil that will help to mimic
the lines on the white Walker heads.
Once I've drawn all the lines needed on our
face, I'm going to get our hot glue gun and
start tracing those lines carefully. This
will create a texture around those areas where
I had the lines and will help me. And then
later step to really create some dimension.
Once I've added those lines with our hot glue,
and once everything has dried, we're going
to go back with a little bit of leftover white
latex paint I have from a previous home project,
and we're going to do almost a dry brush technique.
I'm really accentuating those lines and creating
the contrast between the white paint and this
underlayment that we've previously painted
in the acrylic black paint.
And now to give the face a little bit of a
blue tinge, we're going to add some light
blue craft paint, but I've watered it down
quite a bit because they really don't want
to put too much on there. I really just want
to create this sort of a highlighted effect
all over the piece, including the face as
well as the hair. Now you can definitely see
the layers upon layers that we're building
with this piece, which is really giving it
some great texture and dimension. And we're
going to start finishing things off with this
little creepy cloth that I got from the dollar
tree. We're going to glue it onto the base
of the neck so that there's not such a hard
edge at the bottom of our head. And once we've
glued on that fabric, now we're going to start
assembling our piece. We're going to turn
on that little mini light and stuff it into
the eye. It's kind of a tight fit, but it
works. And then on top of that, we'll be placing
that glass gem, uh, right on top of the eye.
And it's add a bit more black acrylic paint
to the edges of each of those glass gems.
Just to give it a bit more dimension and to
make the blue pop even more
Here is our final creepy results. You so much
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