Yet another flaky idea.
Spookz, here's something else you could try. Once when I was a kid I tried using just a thick mixture of flour and water to get the effect you're talking about, for a Mummy. Of course, much of this cracked off, but a lot of it stayed on. If GDfreak's stuff doesn't materialize, I'm thinking you could try my idea, which I have since refined:
Glue some cotton on your skin as suggested above for the latex stipple technique. But instead of moistening the adhered cotton with latex, use the flour & water mix. The paste and the cotton can both be dyed with food colors before you start (let the cotton dry out before you start gluing it). If you keep the flour paste application thin, it won't take too long to dry out and start cracking. A hair dryer will help to dry the paste faster.
The drawback of this technique is that the dried flour paste gets pretty uncomfortable. That may have been in part because I glued the cotton on with spirit gum; liquid latex used as the adhesive might have been better as it would have been more flexible. Another problem was hands - I cheated and wrapped them with mummy bandages. Maybe plastering the flour mixture on a pair of cotton gloves would've worked.
I was able to touch up the areas of my face that didn't get colored by the flour with cake makeup. Sorry, but no pictures of the costume have survived.
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Mark McG.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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