Hi everyone I was wondering if there is any way to dye the hair while its on my mask without having it stick together or get ruined? if so what should I use and where could I get it? I tried to search this but way too many “hair” resuts came up, if anyone has a link please direct me Thanks for your help
Hey man,im looking for the same answer,i used rit dye on a bunch of mohair before and it ruined the quality of it and was a nightmare to put on. I’ve a tony mask ready to be haired and im just gonna put the mohair on first then use regular hair dye on it,should be ok. If anyone else has any tips could they let us know,thanks.
Try hair dye in the cosmetics department of walmart.
Use any kind of hair dye like Matthew said. I normally pick up Loreal or Revlon. It’s a pain to dye it all… then you have to rinse and let dry, apply and style.
I also iron mohair if it’s too wavy because it can look ‘off’.
Sometimes it literally takes me 5-6 hours to work on the hair alone.
thanks a lot guys
Thanks warlock,i think i’ll have to iron the mohair aswell.
Just remember that some people use glue that will break down if it gets wet and the hair will fall off in your sink 
Just thought I would add that because it happened to me once and I was sick about it! I will try to PM you later with some very helpful tips and some do’s and don’ts for hair work that I have learned the hard way 
JC
Could you send those to me as well?
im worrying about having the hair stick together and loose its shape, or have it get stuck together or pul out when i run the dye comb through it
how did carpenter and his crew dye the hair on the hero???
It was spray painted black, I believe. The hair looks a lot lighter in part 2 because most of the paint had come off.
Man, that’ll get you about 10 different answers! I say they misted the Kirk hair with black spray paint or maybe Streak N’ Tips or maybe ummmm, hmmmm, not sure man! I’ll still go with the black spray paint misted over lightly. 
JC
From The Halloween Mask Association’s 2004 interview with that mask’s designer, Bill Malone:
H.M.A.: So in 1977, a young film director named John Carpenter decided to use your Captain Kirk mask for the baby sitter killer Michael Myers in his first horror movie Halloween. There are so many stories revolving around how the famous Myers mask came to be. The most popular story is that the film’s production designer, Tommy Wallace, purchased a Kirk mask at a Hollywood costume shop, widened the eyes, stripped the side burns, messed up the hair, and painted it white. Thus, Michael Myers was born! So, with that story, fans are led to believe that only one mask was used in the filming of Halloween, and Don Post didn’t have much involvement with it. How do you recall the events surrounding the Captain Kirk mask used in “Halloween”? Did you or anyone else at D.P. have any direct involvement with the mask?
Bill Malone: I can’t really say if Tommy Wallace bought one in Hollywood or not. However, I do remember very vividly that John Carpenter did come in with a girl and another guy and ask us to make a very different Captain Kirk mask. What he actually asked for was us to paint one white (with Rubber Cement paint) and spray paint the hair black. If you look at the first film, in the early scenes you’ll see this is actually how it is. Later, during filming, it gets quite thrashed-looking, and more of the brown hair shows through. At the time, I knew who John Carpenter was from Dark Star and I thought whatever he’s up to I want one for my own collection. I had the paint department make two. One for the film and one for myself. I had the sister mask for years until Don Jr. asked to borrow it. It apparently disappeared after that. I never got it back.
So the hero was painted with rubber cement? I heard it was spray painted white.
I always heard it was spray painted.I believe if rubber cement had been used the paint would not have worn off like the hero did.It really sticks when using ruber cement with paint
If you read Malone’s comment it says 1 was painted with rubber cement.
The other Krylon Sprayed White? as he (Wallace) STRESSED White.
J
Listen to Wallace at 1:15…
And in John Carpenters book he say’s the mask was painted a “light Blue-ish.”
haha wow…the mask has so many mysteries.
I don’t know…but here is what I pieced together in talking with Don Post and Bill Malone. I talked to John Carpenter about 1 week ago and we had a really good conversation about ‘Halloween’ and I found out some really neat info that I didn’t know. Maybe it will be on the ‘new’ DVD/Bluray sometime in the future.
Several ‘Kirk’ masks were bought and customized by Tommy Lee Wallace; after the paint started chipping away he contacted Don Post Studios to get one directly customized thru them. Sadly, Don Post Studios was in full “Halloween” production mode of their mass-produced masks so they did have time to do exactly what was asked for. (Don Post say’s they originally wanted a white latex version of a ‘Kirk’ but they didn’t have the time to do that.) Don Post Studios did make a ‘Kirk’ mask for the movie, they grabbed a production copy painted pull, added the hair and painted it using ‘rubber cement’ to make the paint stick more to the already painted mask and painted the hair black last.
From an email with Don Post dated 3/13/2008
They wanted two Kirk masks cast in white with black hair. It was the busy (Halloween mfg) season and did not have the time to custom make masks. We had a few Kirk masks available. I had someone, I can’t remember who (may have been Bill Malone or Bob Short but could have been someone else) paint over the Kirk mask with white paint mixed with rubber cement (side burns removed) and paint the hair black. After these folks left Bill Malone had another Kirk mask painted and he kept it.
The Halloween people have said they were originally looking at a Don Post Emmett Kelly Clown mask for the role of Michael. I understand the production staff had purchased a Kelly mask along with several Kirks from Hollywood Magic (6660 Hollywood Blvd). They claim they painted those masks from Hollywood Magic to depict “The Shape” from the Movie Halloween. I suspect they did repaint whatever masks they used in the movie (Blue was added to lips and other features for photographic reasons) . I suspect they used a harsh lacquer paint that attacked the latex. Because of that paint along with perspiration and the actors skin oil, the masks deteriorated during filming. In some scenes I can see fatigue in the cheeks as the actors face stretched the Kirk mask.
hey guys i asked Dullboy (john from killer creations) what he uses because the mask i bought from him had a killer paint job and this is what he told me
“Hey, I blended some brown and blond mohair and then sprayed it with some black fabric ink/paint called “Tulip cool color spray” from Michaels. its pretty cheap too and also gives it that style able texture. Hope this helps bro.
Later
John”
I’m gunna try this out in a little while and Ill try and post some pics, unless anyone else can post pics of their hair paint jobs