Priley Riley, Face casting, October- November 2014

I had my face cast for the first time last Friday. In preparation for it, I covered my face in baby oil and put my hair into a cap out of the way. My tutor then started applying alginate to my face, shown in the first two photos. Once the alginate had set, a layer of plaster was applied over the alginate to make it stronger (see the 3^rd photo). Once the plaster had set, I was able to pull the alginate and plaster layers off in one go. As you may be able to see from the 4^th photo, however, the alginate cast you take off curves inwards instead of outwards, so I continued to work on it on Friday by applying plaster to the inside of the alginate cast. Today, as the plaster that I had laid inside had set, I was able to carefully separate the final plaster cast, shown in the final 3 photos, from the alginate one.