Bre Pettis and Eric Skiff demonstrate how to make your own vampire fangs in the latest episode of Make Magazine’s excellent “Weekend Projects” series.
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Omg this is awesome, now i can
throw away my retarded rubber vampire teeth
and make real ones! in the words of
ghettoness i say “helllsss yah!” to that
I convinced everyone at my new school that I’m a vampire with these by looking dark, mysterious, drinking red kool-aid and flashing my teeth at everyone who crosses me.
Whoa, I completely missed that you posted this! I’m way too far behind on my blogs. Thanks!
Hi, sorry about this,I am interesting in making fangs,but I really don’t speak english as good as I would like to. can you tell me the ingredents for making all that stuff?
Wow.. saves me a trip to tampa!
OMG! WOW…AHH! you guys are amazing, Im hoping to try this out tomorrow..bleh! someone told me you could do it with the fake plastic ones, just warm the plastic up and shape em, or use an white ruler ahh but this! is soo much better, if the website dosen’t give me a list of the stuff i need, then you should most deff make one!:)
THANKS!:D
So…I tried it…and didn’t work out soo great…V_V
that looks hard ta do and i dont have any of that stuff
i think i will just pay a 115 dollars and a lot
more for straighting my teeth and makin the edges straight and smooth and for the vampire fangs and for bleaching my teeth because it wont look rite with cricket teeth so
yeh ill do that but thanks for the tip they look great.
Woah!
This is actually really good! I’ve been searching online for awhile on how to actually make a good set of fangs, and then i stumbled across this!
The only thing i think could help people a little more in making their own fangs would be a written step-by-step guide on how to do this and what things you’ll need. That’d be great.
Never-the-less; Great video! They look amazing!
where do you get the algithing
I went to the dentist today, and they made the mold of my teeth (taking the negative and making the positive both) for 11 bucks. that's without insurance coverage. Probably less gross and way cheaper than doing the mold yourself.
loooks great, i'm looking for ways to make my own set or to purchase…cause for halloween this year, Im gonna be Selene from Underworld. So I neeed to make the Underworld fangs, which is not just the kanines, but as well as the teeth that are beside the two front teeth. soo eesshk this totally helps!
can someone please tell me how to make the fangs on paper or comment
as a matter of fact their is a written step-by-guide on the web. Here is the link: http://www.shades-of-night.com/painneck/fangfil...
go to these two sites: http://psykicfangs.sanguinarius.org/fangs/fangs..., http://www.fxwarehouse.info/.
where can i get all this stuff
hey i'd really love to try this. i've seen your video all over the internet, but i havent found what the ingredients and measurements are. i'm going to a vampire ball this weekend and need to do it ASAP! please help me…
its confusing to me!!!! make me 1!!!!!!!! please!!! XDDDDDDD
what if you have braces will this still work??
Uber geek crush on Bre. I love his creativity and energy.
Plus, vampire fangs are pretty much the hottest thing, evar.
Yes, with an “a”.
hey that was really cool but we missed all the things we need to make the fangs and where could we find the things we need to make them
Wt are the ingredients again?
what are those liquids called in the 2 bottles
i need instructions and that is really cool what you did
please please please written instructions caus the links here wont work and what are the liquids in the 2 bottles
i need to know
Umm, wow, you can just go and by a pair at HOTTOPIC for like 16 bucks, and they work probly even better…or online and you can get differnt sizes and colors and stuff…It would prolly be best just to buy them, they would look better, and it would be cheaper then all the time and money required to get the supplys to make your own…Sorry to be a ball buster, it sounds fun but..im just saying…
in australia, where can you buy the nail acrylic???
i’m going to join a costplay party at our school
and vampire was the one i choose
i do’nt really know how to do that
is there anyway to make fangs even if i dont have a tooth on one side and a tooth on the other side?
Thanx a lot for posting this. I showed it to mom(who is a dentist) and she promised me a pair of razor sharp fangs :P Too bad we don’t have halloween here in Turkey.
this is gr8 i can get rid of my terrible fake plastic fangs and make real ones
yay but do you know what stores in england there are that i can get the ingredients to make the fangs
thankyouu xxx
The written instructions don’t exist any longer, darn it! I volunteer at a haunted house and I know at least 3 people who want to do these and not use the cheap ones at the store-they look to fakey!
yesssssssss
these are awesome!!!
I tried making a mold with wax instead of the alginate stuff and it looked ok…until I tried to mold the acrillic stuff to the tooth….I ended up just shaping it to my real teeth. I’m ok. not poisoned. and I have sweet fangs! even if they aren’t super sharp and narrow. they’re more like lion’s teeth. lol….
oh if u dont have anything to make the negative i found that clay works to :) i found some at the dollar store, just use something that isnt effected by water or heat whenever it dries
thats sooooo damn awesome, i sooo have to do that than i can acctually have vampire teeth without getting implants of vamp teeth… i have an obsession with vamps cause I love blood >.> :P cant wait to try, it’ll be hard for me tho :D
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just some quick questions where where did you buy your alginate, mold and the stuff you made for the teeth cause i have no idea where to buy any of that and I reeeeeaaaaaaaaally want vampire teeth :D
I can’t do this. I don’t know where I can buy all of these stuff cause I’m from Croatia,which is in Europe, and we don’t even have a Halloween store. So I don’t know where I can buy this. It just seems so complicated and I didn’t understand half of the words in the video.
But thanks for your help.
I’m a Dental Assistant. You can skip the impression and use the Nail Acrylic on your actual tooth. It is basically the same stuff we used to make temporaries in the mouth back in the day. This is an old technique called “Block Carving”. It will not “poison” you. It just taste bad if you get it on your tongue. Mix the powder and liquid until it is doughy, not sticky. Roll into a little ball. Shape the ball around your tooth. Use your fingers to mold it around your gums and hold it as it begins to set. It will start to get very warm the closer it is to setting. Remove before it is set completely. Dip into a small container of water and put back on tooth. Do this “Quickly, Repeatedly” until it is cooled and set completely. You can use a cheap motorized nail file to shape. If you are really broke but have the time you can use a regular nail file just be prepared to put in work. If you have a problem getting them to stay on you can buy Dental temp cement from the Pharmacy section at any store, or if you dont wanna spend the $ use a little toothpaste or Vaseline.
Found this vid on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StfRSbVpIXA
It is the same technique but on teeth that have been prepared. Hope this helps. Happy Halloween!
So I just did what Hareema said and molded the acrylic stuff directly onto my teeth. It smells awful and do NOT touch it with your tongue cos it tastes pretty awful too…. but all in all, it worked pretty nicely. It’s pretty much impossible to get them shaped properly right from the get go, so you need something to file them down. I didn’t have a dremel or motorized nail file, so I just used to lovely emery board that came with the acrylic. It’s taken me quite some time, but I’ve ALMOST got them finished— just need to make them a little narrower, but they look great. They pop off pretty easily cos I didn’t get a really good seal on my tooth, but they stay on well enough.
is there any written instructions on how to make this???
love it. Might make my own tutorial!
I loved your clip. I paid $150 for a set of teeth this Halloween…. too bad i didnt see this clip b4. Thanks!!
I just made this according to Hareema’s instructions…only because my local hardware store didn’t have alganite (they looked at me like I was a moron) Anyhow, they turned out GREAT! The only thing I changed was that I found a nail polish (used for french tips) that was close to my normal tooth color, and painted over the fang. The acrylic was a little too yellow and I wanted it to look even more realistic!
My friends get a nail file at nite and always sharped there teeth I look at them like.. what the crap our they doingthey told me to try it so i did my teeth were already natruly long but i did it anyway it was pretty awsome cuz all i did name my teeth soomther but thank alot for helpin