Step 1 (Preparation)

     

The part of the skin where the skin art is to be applied should be shaven and be free of lotion or sunblock. Use a skin shaver and protein remover pad (included in the Professional Kit). You can use any makeup remover if you don't have the protein remover pads. More often than not, this step is NOT necessary. Little bit of hair and lotion residue is okay but you definitely want to get rid of residue sunblock. Sunblock prevents the base design to be transferred on to the skin properly.

Step 3 (Transfer Design on to Skin)

     

     

Immediately after spraying the Transfer Liquid, place the front side of the wet base design on the skin and apply light pressure with your fingers for 2 - 3 seconds. Use vertical pressing motion, not side-to-side rubbing motion when you do this. Then lift the base design to reveal the image transferred over on to the skin.

Step 4 (Apply Skin Adhesive)

     

     

Apply skin adhesive along the blackened area. We're "tracing" with the glue. (See? No artistic talent required!) Silver Cap glue has thick brush and Gold Cap has thin brush. Choose appropriate brush to do different parts of the design. When the skin adhesive is first applied (when wet), it has whilte/faint blue color to it. Use mini-fan (included in Professional & Junior Kit) to help along the drying process. Even without the fan, the glue should dry in a minute or two.

This is the most time consuming and important step. Using too much or too little glue results in your skin art not lasting as it's supposed to. A few practice runs will help perfect your technique. After you apply the skin adhesive, you have to wait until the glue is dry before you move on to next step. Take notice that as it dries, the glue becomes transparent, as shown on the last picture.

Step 5 (Apply Glitter)



     

Now we begin the fun part. Once the glue is dry, choose your glitter color(s) and hold it as shown above and tap the bottom of the glitter bottle lightly so that the glitter particles flow out slowly. 2 things to keep in mind when you do this: 1). Do not hold the bottle completely upside down - it becomes difficult to control the outflow of glitter. 2). Make sure the tip of the glitter bottle does NOT touch the glued area for it will clog up the bottle opening.

You can choose whatever colors and however many colors you want. Practice it a few times and you will automatically get a sense of how to do this. Sometimes, it's better to use only 2 or 3 colors. Take note: there is no time limit as to when you have to apply glitter after the glue dries. The glue doesn't go away or evaporate. You can wait 2 hours before you apply glitter if you so desire (obviously you won't want to). So there's no rush.

Step 6 (Applying Pressure on Glitter to Adhesive)



     

After you've sprinkled glitter to cover the entire skin art area with different colors, apply vertical pressing motion with your fingers to help the glitter particles stick to the glue properly. Try not to use side-to-side rubbing motion.

Don't worry when you do this. It's supposed to look messy like the last picture does.

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Step 7 (Finishing Touches)

     

     

Use makeup brush (included in Professional or Junior Kit) to brush away the loose glitter particles. You can use any makeup brush you have. It's advisable to use one-way brushing motion so that loose glitter particles collect in the same general area (easier to clean up afterwards). Use medical tape (included in Professional or Junior Kit) to lift away any other loose particles. And voila!! You're done.