How to

Make a masquerade mask!

Holly's Sweet 16 is masquerade themed; guests either make their own or take a black or white one at the door. Obviously I chose to make my own. My dress is blue with florals, so I'm covering my mask in flowers! I'm making this 'How to' because I'm pretty bored haha.

Step 1:
Materials:
Fake Flowers (they're the most expensive of the materials), plain white mask, paint to use as a base, brush, and a hot glue gun for later. When picking out a paint colour, remember IT ALWAYS DRIES DARKER. Don't look at the colour in the tube, look at the little swatch on the bottle.

All of these I got at AC Moore.


Step 2:
Paint the mask! It's going to go on thin at first, or some areas might not hold the paint that well, but don't panic! This is why the universe created 2nd and 3rd coats. Wait until the paint it completely dry until you do another coat (have patience, it's 10 minutes max). Make sure the paint goes on even, or there will be globs that won't dry.

And make sure you don't make a mess!


Step 3: Clean the paint brush. Seriously. If you wait to clean it until the paint is dry the brush is pretty much ruined forever, unless you use paint thinner... Anyway, clean it! Or you're wasting the brush. So if you were going to spend money on a brush then kill, save it instead and send it my way!

Step 4: Cut the flowers off the stem. When you cut them really close, the part that holds the flower together is gone so you might want to glue the flowers themselves before you put them on the mask.


Step 5: Arrange and glue the flowers on the mask. Hot glue guns are exactly that, HOT. Be careful because you can actually burn yourself on them. Also make sure that while you're waiting for the glue gun to get hot that you put paper towels or something under it because it drips. Make sure the eye holes are not obstructed. If they are after the flowers are glued on, just cut the petals to make room

Done!