Joseph Russell's Blog – February 2008 Archive (3)

It's day 4 of having my hawk charged with Knox using the method I described in the forums.

On day two, I used hairspray on the base of the spikes to reinforce.

After that, no touch-ups.



From the pics, you can see what happened with using blue food coloring in the Knox mixture. It just made it look like I went swimming a lot. Next time, I will try half the water and double the food… Continue

The food coloring made the consistency of the Knox mixture a little too watery, and my bathroom got so messy from it. I think, if I use food coloring, I should use MORE of it, and not use as much water. Also, I used blue food coloring, and by the time the hawk was up, my bleached hair was more of a pukey light-greenish bleached-type hair. Not blue.



In short, adding food coloring to Knox gelatine is messy business, indeed. I'd almost rather never try it again.





But I… Continue

Tonight I'm attempting to use my soon-to-be-perfected Knox routine, but I've added about 25 drops of food coloring to the mix. We'll see how this turns out.