wound details

[Dalila di Capri]

We have been playing with some new make up techniques for a more realistic bullet wound hole (just using blood gel at this point is'nt very acceptable anymore.)

This is a washable product.

Please let me know what you think.

Baci

[bellystabs]

Cool! Or should I say Hot! Whatever the temperature, I like them. Do you plan on doing knife wounds someday too?

[Dalila di Capri]

Cool! Or should I say Hot! Whatever the temperature, I like them. Do you plan on doing knife wounds someday too?

Thanks Bellystabs....of course we do. I am being stabbed in the next shoot

I think the trick in general seems to be the creation of an area of flesh that gets raised just a bit. I am using a product that washes off easily and can be retouched during the shoot...I am not going with the prefabricated latex scars etc....they are to time consuming and show too many flaws in close ups.

I could use an extra make up man

Many of these

[EvilBilly]

The wound f/x look good! The 'holes' appears to have depth to them!

How are you adjusting to life in the NE USA?

[TommyBailey]

Looks great! I agree that it has some depth. It looks like a hole. That's the whole point. (sorry, couldn't resist)

[TenderFlesh]

Dalila, I think these F/X holes look terrific. In my profession as a firefighter I have seen quite a few bullet holes and have known a long time they are not "black holes" as so often depicted in fetish movies. I think you are definitely on the right track and look forward to seeing them used in your movies.

[Dalila di Capri]

Thank you everyone...we are really trying to continue to improve both in terms of story lines and in terms of FX.

At this point for me staying in the genre is as much a personal challenge to offer a better product as to continue to please me fans with what they already enjoy about my work.

For evil billy: I am FREEZING my little round ass off! But aside form that enjoying the older culture out here as opposed to the west coast, Las Vegas etc....

More soon

[Wart]

Very nice! I like it and I agree about bullet holes, cool indeed.
But perhaps you could make blood a bit darker?
I dont mind of course red blood but really dark, allmost black and very thick, looks in my opinion far better. But it`s just me
Her is example of perfect colour in my opinion, under the line. Above the line is your original and very nice picture.

[Dalila di Capri]

Hi Wart,

In fantasy of course this is all a matter of taste. Personally I like the color of blood to match the color of my lipstick (especially because I almost always do some sort of mouth blood. That is a personal subfetish of mine.)

But I think what you have done looks very dramatic.

The reality seems to be that when blood is fresh it is bright red but as it dries it becomes much darker....but we are of course open to much freedom when it comes to this subject.

many of these

[TommyBailey]

I am FREEZING my little round ass off!

Feel free to box it up and then ship it to me. I'll take it.

[Dalila di Capri]

I am FREEZING my little round ass off!

Feel free to box it up and then ship it to me. I'll take it.

Very well....but you have to promise me that it's three degrees hotter than purgatory where you reside, or there is no point in shipping it out

[Wart]

Hi Wart,

In fantasy of course this is all a matter of taste. Personally I like the color of blood to match the color of my lipstick (especially because I almost always do some sort of mouth blood. That is a personal subfetish of mine.)

O, i see.
By the way, would you consider using darker lipstick?
It`s only a joke, sustain it

[Dalila di Capri]

Well...I suppose that I could use chocolate syrup for blood and match with a nice brown lipstick

[bellystabs]

Bosco Chocolate Syrup was used in the shower scene in Psycho, so you would be following a famous precedent. However, you would have to film in black-and-white to truly imitate the effects in Hitchcock's classic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosco_Chocolate_Syrup

[badglrklr]

The belly wounds look good. Blood is always hard to do. In the real world (at least from my own injuries from things like saws and garden tools) blood is a dark crimson so the blood color looks only a bit darker than real. From viewing pictures of dead Japanes and Viets and from personally seeing some of the latter some pretty big wounds show little or no external bleeding. Spillane's description of Charlotte manning's death wound as 'a big ugly bulge on the side of her naked belly' is a pretty good description. I don't know how something like that could be arranged but if it could it would look really erotic. Something like what some other writer ,who I don't remember, had the PI protagonist describe dispatching a naked and heavily armed Bad Girl by 'shooting a couple more belly buttons in her lower abdomen'.

Belly wounds are fascinating in theory and fantasy practice. The Bad Girl is getting lead shot right into what makes her awoman. Like destroying the essence of her being.