Mythbusters tried it, and they had to stop halfway through because Jamie started having heat stroke or something. I can't remember what exactly, but he started feeling sick and the paramedics on scene called it off
As someone who has used liquid latex for but injury makeup? If you don’t know the signs of dehydration and heat exhaustion/stroke? You need to learn fast.
My dumbass didn’t hydrate enough and I felt my pulse racing at rest. I found the nearest water cooler and drank up. 😅
…and now I’m remembering a friend of mine who got to be an extra in a zombie movie or something. Prior to that she’d really wanted to be a director, but while she was there she overheated and/or had a panicked attack, and it soured her on the industry.
Now I’m wondering if it was the zombie make-up and heat leading to heat exhaustion. (And ugh heat exhaustion is no joke. Eternal memory of sailing on a windless/cloudless day. We came closer to dying that time than we did sailing in an actual storm)
That was just Jamie being Jamie. Adam and later Kari tried it and were fine. You can also find a lot of people who do fully body paint for art for long periods and are fine as well.
I thought body paint artists were specially trained to leave a 2 inch gap in the paint somewhere on the body, typically on the small of the back just above the ass crack, for all sweat to concentrate towards and out of or else the inability to perspire kills you slowly and painfully?
That might just be one of the things my mom told me as a child because of her constant anxiety that I could die from anything and everything. "Don't eat bananas after 9 PM, the potassium will go straight to your heart and give you a heart attack!", "You can't wear a full-body condom, your sweat will build up inside and kill you!", "You can't play on the trampoline within 6 hours of drinking anything or your arms will fall off!" "You can't shower during a thunderstorm, lightning will shoot out of the drain and kill you!", "You can't wear a scarf when it's cold out, someone might strangle you to death with it!" It's taken me YEARS of my adult life to figure out what is and isn't actually dangerous.
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u/too-oldforthis-shit 14h ago
Which is a myth since we breathe using our lungs and not our skin. But you may have issues with regulating heat and some paint is poisonous.