The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 12: Instead of putting makeup on your girlfriend, you put makeup on the puppet first?

Thanks to the strong logistics system.

Thanks to Zhuxi Town for being in a large free shipping area.

The various tools and materials that Shen Le ordered began arriving one after another on the third day. Especially the small handheld electric grinder, which was loaded with sandpaper and turned on its own with the press of a switch. The one-centimeter-diameter grinding head was attached to the puppet's head. After just a few turns, the remaining paint turned into a fine powder mist, which left and slowly fell.

"Ah... the power of machines really exceeds human power by a huge margin..."

Use coarse sandpaper, 400-grit fine sandpaper, and 600-grit sandpaper. On the flat surface, use a -cm or -cm diameter sanding head for grinding. For subtle turning points, such as eyebrows, eyes, nose and lips, use a -mm diameter sanding head and use the side of the sanding head to move along the groove.

Seeing the rough and dull surface of the puppet gradually become smooth and finally glowing softly, Shen Le's eyebrows relaxed and smiled slightly. It only took one morning to grind and polish every part of the puppet.

After the sanding was completed, Shen Le picked up a rag, dipped it in explosion-proof glue, and applied it to the entire puppet to prevent the wood from cracking. Next, he raised the air gun, rotated the puppet, and blew away the glue to prevent the glue from accumulating in any corner:
"Huh, huh... repairing wood is such a tough job..."

After blowing the glue, Shen Le washed his hands, applied hand cream, crossed his fingers, rubbed them constantly, and shook his head helplessly. For a job like applying glue, even if you wear gloves, you can't stop the glue from penetrating; in the final analysis, you still have to rely on the skin on your hands to withstand the damage.

His mentor's hands were rough and cracked. When he stretched out his hands to shake hands with people, people who didn't know him would think he was a migrant worker. Every time the senior sister in the group finished work and applied hand cream, she looked distressed. Fortunately, he had the magic copper sheet, otherwise he would be too embarrassed to shake hands with girls after doing this job for a long time!
"Well... although the puppet is also a beautiful lady, a puppet is still a puppet after all... the hands used for work should still be protected... All right! Treat the lady's skin! Apply paint!"

Color correction and other processing are also essential skills for wood carving restoration, and Shen Le became very proficient in them during his postgraduate studies.

He didn't even use a palette, he just spread out a piece of tin foil and started pouring paint on it. He poured a lump, looked at it, changed to another color, stirred it a few times, and looked at it again.

After two or three brush strokes, the color exactly the same as the surface of the puppet was mixed, and then I picked up the brush and painted it on the puppet.

"So those mahogany furniture, mahogany tables, and mahogany wood carvings really can't be bought casually." Looking at the puppets he painted, the broken, repaired, and dovetailed parts were completely covered with paint, and Shen Le sighed from the bottom of his heart:

"If you're not an expert, you really don't know whether you're buying a whole piece of material or a patched piece of material that's cracked, broken or rotten. You can't tell with the naked eye!"

With a brush in one hand and a high-power hair dryer in the other, quickly apply and blow dry. To make it realistic, after drying the surface, use a brush to carefully draw the wood grain, and then use a spray gun to spray the wood pattern. Finally, polish the repaired area, which is exactly the same as the surrounding area and cannot be distinguished by the naked eye!

"Okay, little sister, the repair is done, it's time to put on makeup. Wait a moment, I'll practice on someone else's head first!"

I have to say that thanks to modern large-scale industry, some things are really cheap.

Just like the BJD doll in his hand, his junior sister bought a few of them during the graduate school stage. The cheapest ones cost 500 or 600 yuan, and the most expensive ones cost tens of thousands. However, the plain head in his hand, which is used for makeup practice, has no makeup on the face except two eye holes. Guess how much it costs?
9!

Buy four and get free shipping, dear!
By the way, the shop selling doll heads also sells a full set of doll head makeup tools, 68 per set. 12 colors of powder, 6 colors of acrylic paint, black and red water-soluble colored pencils, double-headed makeup brushes, outline pens, basic brushes, pen knives, varnish, matte protective paint, diluent, eye mud, white glue, makeup remover cotton, cotton swabs, color palette, all kinds of tools are available.

By the way, you will also get a random makeup doll head, a pair of random eyeballs, and a pair of random eyelashes. It can't be said that everything you want is available, after all, tools are endless, but for beginners, it is basically enough!

With a dozen plain heads to practice with, Shen Le was very skilled at it. He first sprayed a layer of matte protective paint, then grabbed a makeup brush, dipped it in the shaved powder, and gave the baby's head a bloody color. He painted the cheeks, forehead, eye sockets, ears, mouth and tongue all in a light pink color... What?
Can’t draw?
Oh, there are so many teaching videos on the Internet now. Just watch more and practice more, and you can learn it anyway!
Practicing makeup is not difficult, but it is not difficult either. First, you need to have a solid foundation in painting. Shen Le is a graduate student in ancient building restoration, so his foundation is more than enough.

Another thing is to practice more. With enough makeup materials, Shen Le felt relieved and bold, and just started:

"Oops! I swept too much! I went beyond the area! Erase it and start again..."

"Erase it and start over!"

"wipe……"

"Finally done, spray a layer of matte paint and continue painting!"

"Alas, I miss Shen Le. I don't have a girlfriend yet, and I've never done makeup for my girlfriend. Of course, I've never been a makeup artist at a comic convention. The first time I did makeup for a young lady, I actually gave it to the puppet lady!"

The first doll head failed as expected. The second failed, the third failed, the fourth failed...

Until the sixth one, Shen Le looked left and right and finally found it more pleasing to the eye. Then, the next one was...

Shen Le carefully reviewed the puppet makeup that he had recorded in advance, and compared it with the picture in his memory again and again, and finally took the water-soluble colored pencil and began to draw a draft on the doll's head. Willow eyebrows, almond eyes, peach cheeks, red lips, especially the cinnabar mole at the right corner of the eye, full of tears, making people unforgettable.

"It still doesn't seem to be working... It's really not that easy to move from 2D to 3D... I'll try erasing it and drawing it again..."

Draw and erase, erase and draw, draw and erase again. Even though water-soluble colored pencils are easy to wipe off, after dozens of drafts, there are still indelible marks on the doll's head. Fortunately, the last draft is finally readable. Shen Le grabbed the eighth doll's head and began to formally try makeup:
"Puppet sister, please bless me to succeed soon! I will finish the painting soon, and you will recover your beauty soon~~~"

After painting for a whole day, Shen Le felt sore in the waist and back, and his stomach was rumbling, so he had to go out to find food. He walked around randomly, and before he knew it, he had come to the residential building where the children were learning to play the erhu. Before he had taken a few steps, the sound of music, which was more unpleasant than sawing wood, rang out again.

Shen Le's cheeks twitched, and without hesitation, he turned around and walked away. When he was about to disappear at the intersection after crossing the zebra crossing, a loud shout suddenly came from behind him, from a distant building:
"I didn't lie! I really didn't lie!"

"I'll prove it to you!"

"boom!!!"

"Someone jumped off the building! Call 120 quickly——"

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