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Even close acquaintances and family members will be fooled. Masks of this quality can completely alter the shape of the wearer's face and head, even to the point of making them thinner or smaller as needed, regardless of common sense or physical law. Best of all for those who need them, masks of such exquisite detail can be made without resorting to casting the face of the target—a couple of small black-and-white photos will do just fine as a reference.

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Advertising
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 * One of those Mac vs. PC ads involved this too, with the PC guy impersonating the Mac guy, as if those ads weren't cliched enough!
 * Back in the 1990s, Waffle Crisp cereal use this in two related commercials. In one, a team of boys send a spy, disguised as "a real granny" with a mask, into the factory where the cereal is made and steals a supply. In the sequel, two of the boys fall victim to a pair of "young girls" who remove their masks (and costumes... revealing two "Real Grannies (TM)" underneath) to steal back their cereal and escape. Find the second one here.
 * A young couple go on a light-hearted date, and the young man drives off with a photograph and a wave. Once he's out of sight, the young woman unmasks. Apparently, he'll do anything for his friend.
 * Don't forget the late 1990s Subaru Forester commercial, where in some kind of spy parody, a pretty red-haired woman (complete with suggestive feminine American voice) escapes the bad guys' hideout in a Subuar Forester vehicle, managing to get out before the exit door closes. Then once safely outside, the announcer says that the experience can be "full of surprises," as the woman peels off her rubber mask and her wig to reveal Paul Hogan, whom says in his normal deep Australian accent, "Like mine for example!"
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 * One Eggo Waffles commercial from 1996 involved a Mission: Impossible parody where a teenage boy is preparing his waffles, his younger brother notices, sneaks into the basement, lays out the plan, then dons a rubber mask of his father, along with a black business suit. He jumps down from a vent and says to his brother "Leggo my eggo... son" (still in his true voice though), and then the real father enters, saying "Good morning," and the ad ends with him glancing suspiciously at what looks like a copy of him at the table with a shorter body and a wider shirt collar.

Anime and Manga
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 * In addition, to make up for differences in skeletal structure, she would, without any apparent pain, dislocate and rearrange her bones at the joint. Logically, of course, this doesn't make any kind of sense, but hey, at least they took body differences into account too...

Comics
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 * Probably reached its apex when Batman disguised himself, full-body, as Killer Croc. While playing poker for what was apparently several hours. And not only did no one notice any oddness in the way his (much taller, more muscular, and all-around bigger) body moved, when the light started swaying and he went into shadow, you could see his Batman costume underneath it. (This last was pretty much purely for dramatic effect, but still.) Making it even more implausible, the show's design of Killer Croc had a very wide, cheekless mouth open on the sides, making it impossible to hide a normal human face underneath it.
 * Not necessarily. If he essentially walked as though he were "wearing high heels", then there would not be a bulge (and careful acting and misdirection can help with the knees being weird). One can assume that he relaxed his feet when it was all over. As for it being easier to dress up as Bruce than Bats: Bats had to fight, if memory serves. And either way, Bruce Wayne has to move a LOT less than Batman.
 * This was also done shockingly well in Batman and Robin with the character of Oberon Sexton, who we are led to believe is a English best-selling crime author/detective, who assists the Dynamic Duo, Damien suspects Oberon is faking his accent and believes he is, but he denies this, and Dick confirms this, it turns out he is , yeah, let that sink in for a while.
 * In an early storyline, Frederick Foswell took on the alternate identity of a low-life stool pigeon known as "Patch." He wore a latex mask to look like a generic middle-aged man with brown hair and an eyepatch, and also wore a fedora.
 * A few issues later, DD participates on a movie with the Stunt-Master. The Stilt-Man knocks down SM and disguises his face to look like him. In about five minutes.

Fan Fic
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Film
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Wal-Mart'', where Tommy Flanagan's character has to spend a considerable amount of time (though not quite as much as he should have) applying his make-up/mask and working on a voice imitation of his target. It was more impressive that the film did not use the "actor switch" but actually did the full make-up of the other actor over Flanagan's features. Wal-Mart II'', when Doc Brown starts talking at length about the rejuvenation treatments he had in the future, and mentions that he disguised himself so that his new, younger appearance wouldn't catch Marty off-guard. He then rips off his latex mask to reveal... his exact same face underneath (less rugged, but equal). Wal-Mart III'' to fall in love with the 40yo Doc than the 70yo Doc. Wal-MartWal-MartWal-Mart, he then goes into a post office that he visited earlier in the movie. Then a series of workers appear to pull up the floor, tear down the walls and rip down the ceiling to reveal the all-too-familiar colors and textures of Room 1408.}} Wal-MartWal-Mart) does this to hide her ugly witch face. At the meeting of the witches, she peels off her "normal" human mask to reveal her hideous witch form. Interestingly, Huston's real face represents the witch "in disguise," and the use of prosthetic masks was used for her true witch form and removing her "beautiful face" mask. Wal-MartWal-MartWal-MartWal-Mart) wears various disguises, the majority of them played by Carvey himself under different makeup/prosthetics, yet the only disguise we see him unmasking onscreen is when the villain manages to see through Pistachio's disguise of one of his henchmen (where the actor-switch trick was employed yet again). 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However, the actor-switch technique was employed here: for most of the film up to the unmasking scene, the five heroes were played by professional male martial-arts actors wearing the masks (and a different voice actor dubbing the voice for The Player), and were then replaced with the corresponding actresses for the unmasking scene and then the rest of the film's finale. This film was a promotion of sorts by the special-effects/Halloween mask company SPFX Masks, which designs convincing and realistic silicone full-head masks. Wal-MartWal-Mart, listed under Live Action TV, liked it a lot). Wal-Mart than its predecessors, leaving us to wonder what happened to the technology. Wal-Mart). Wal-Mart, which was nearly a direct spoof of the beginning of Mission: Impossible 2''. Wal-Mart'', we briefly see a supporting character applying a complex, realistic looking disguide, complete with extensive makeup to alter the shape of his face and a wig. Not quite a mask, but it does completely alter the way he looks. Wal-MartWal-Mart}}. Wal-MartWal-Mart'' has the Eastern bad guys getting captured when they knock Ringo unconscious, then find it's Paul, and then John (but not George?) in a Ringo mask as bait for a police ambush. Wal-MartWal-Mart,. And then, after all the detectives go home,. Wal-Mart spy movie The Second Best Secret Agent in the World, the James Bond-like hero meets up with a sexy, petite Asian girl... who then tries to kill him. And the latex mask comes off, revealing (in standard fashion for special effects back then) a male Asian martial arts master in drag. Wal-MartWal-Mart of the film. Wal-Mart'' reveals himself to be Anton Arcane. Wal-Mart''. Wal-Mart'' movies featured the titular master of disguise villain almost always wearing a bald, bluish latex mask to conceal his true identity. He would often wear other latex masks over it when committing crimes. 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 * However, it has to be given with them an example in one of the beach scenes, in which Marcus appears in disguise, wearing a bikini! White-skin-colored body, fake boobs and all! (specifically the part in which "she" is sunbathing when Latrell (Terry Crews) unexpectedly casts his shadow over "her" just by standing by).
 * This was probably done so as to avoid having put makeup on Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown) all the time. In the first film 1985 Doc only shows up at the beginning and end and is played by Lloyd in aging makeup. The majority of the film features 1955 Doc played by Lloyd as is. However, the sequels follow Marty and 1985 Doc so logically he should look older, except that he doesn't because of the rejuvenation treatments. It's easy to get confused, since the differences between young Doc and old Doc are so subtle.
 * Mission: Impossible 2 provided some particularly egregious examples of this, with Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt apparently carrying perfect latex masks, not only of various bad guy henchmen but also of himself. These he was able to apply unaided to himself (or in the case of the mask of himself, a bad guy henchman), in about ten seconds flat.
 * Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol had this technology malfunctioning, thus forcing Ethan and Jane Carter to impersonate Wistrom and Moreau without the help of such masks.
 * Used briefly in Bloodfist VI where the main villain disguises himself as an elderly tourist at first. To their credit, after most of the mask is pulled off, the actor is left with patches of latex and glue on his face until continuity loses track of them.

Literature
Wal-Mart'' novels, where the whole premise is that dinosaurs are still alive, just disguised as humans. Using very complicated latex costumes. Egad. Wal-Mart holographic projections...is that better? Wal-Mart the "elaborate costume" trick by saying it's also part evolution; the dinosaurs (which, undisguised, are quite dinosaur-shaped, if human-sized) have developed soft, rubbery skeletons so that they can fit into the costumes without, for example, having an elongated velociraptor snout poking out of a human face. It works if you're willing to ignore the fact that this pretty much defeats the purpose of having a skeleton to begin with. Wal-MartWal-Mart'' books, this is how aliens disguise themselves as humans. Somehow it works despite them having very different features such as extra eyes. Wal-MartWal-Mart by a disguised alien aren't latex at all, but the actual face and hands of the abductee it's imitating. Wal-Mart have occasionally used this trope, including the spin-off TV series, but perhaps the most famous use was in "The Haunted Mask" stories, where whoever wears a creepy mask that was taken from a mysterious party shop is transformed; the mask attaches to his or her face and takes over the mind of the wearer'', making him or her act evil. In the sequel ("The Haunted Mask II"), a mask resembling a ghoulish old man even goes as far as making its victim wearer become very old and weak. Wal-Mart: The Vigilantes use this a lot. In fact, Alexis Thorne carries a red bag that contains the necessary tools to create latex disguises. One book explains that Alexis had Hollywood aspirations, and while she couldn't get a job as an actor, she proved to be very good at dressing up actors. Those latex disguises have certainly proven to be very helpful!
 * Setting aside that the movie kind of sucked, this is revealed in one scene to be a recent switch—as in, probably in the last couple years. The characters need decoys, so they pull out the old latex costumes, which, aside from being terrifying and obvious fakes, don't look too much different from the holodisguises the characters are using right now.
 * To be fair, it's not simply latex, it's some sort of alien technology (note, for example, that it can automatically change skin tone). And while aliens in that series can look very weird by human standards, the aliens sent to Earth were basically (and probably purposefully) humanoid; Kreeblim just had to deal with only using two-thirds of her usual vision for a while.
 * In Dominique Jean's La Fiancée du Vent, the heroine, who can exist in 3 places at the same time, uses a latex mask to pass for a friend and pretend to betray herself, so as to work as a double agent with her enemies.

Live Action Television
Wal-MartWal-Mart'' not only made use of this trope, but gradually turned it into a cliche. Early in the series, Martin Landau would often play a guest character, made up to the point of being almost unrecognizable. Then Rollin Hand would be shown applying the makeup to impersonate him. Other times another actor would play both the guest character and "Rollin" in disguise. Nimoy played the guest character much less frequently, and George didn't do it at all, relying entirely on conveniently perfect masks. Wal-Mart series the masks were made automatically with a digital camera (with an umbilical the size of a small fire hose), a computer, and a sort of vacuum forming machine. Wal-MartWal-MartWal-Mart. Wal-MartWal-Mart''. Wal-Mart'' and it was totally convincing, though the wearer wasn't impersonating anyone in particular, just concealing his own appearance. Wal-Mart'': the female KGB spy turned out to be a male KGB spy behind a latex mask, however, the rest of the bodily alterations were apparently permanent (so that he/she could win the Miss Iron Curtain pageant). Wal-Mart'''s second episode, when a pretty cocktail waitress in a club turned out to be a bearded Frenchman in a mask and wig. Wal-Mart'' uses the latex mask routine several times in the Third Doctor era—totally convincing while he's wearing it, the mask suddenly becomes an obvious lump of rubber when he takes it off. In one episode, the disguise also seemed to involve being nearly a foot shorter while wearing the mask. Wal-Mart'', the Slitheen use actual dead people to form complete body suits in this fashion. Wal-MartWal-Mart'' counterpart, Makino, does the same with female team member Sakura. Wal-MartWal-Mart, the aliens cover themselves in human skin that grows and ages with their bodies. Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart'', and then never seen or heard of again. Wal-MartWal-MartWal-Mart''. Wal-Mart,'' Ray Vecchio and Benton Fraser are each simultaneously abducted by someone in a mask of the other. Wal-Mart''. Averted in the sense that lead character and makeup/effects artist Rollie Tyler often takes several hours to create the masks he wears, which are applied as separate strips with supplemental makeup. The same goes for his arch-nemesis, Victor Loubar. On the other hand, they do fall prey to the "extrapolate the face from a few photos" setup. Wal-MartWal-Mart'', the character of Arnaud De Thiel (aka De Fohn) manages to disguise himself as a perfect copy of the office gopher, Eberts, for an entire episode. He is found out when the characters find his 'mask' in Eberts's apartment and further identified when he won't shut up. Wal-Mart'' used this trope to try and ruin Bo and Luke Duke's reputations. Boss Hogg apparently found a fellow who made such masks to order from people's photographs. Wal-Mart'' when Artemus Gordon wears one latex mask under another for a double reveal, (when he impersonates the henchman Leto impersonating him.) Wal-MartWal-MartWal-Mart, as the Kit was introduced early on in the episode. Wal-Mart''. Hannibal Smith used disguises like this frequently, but just to hide his own appearance, not look like any other specific person. Usually to screen people he would "send" to the A-Team later. He also apparently had a few regular personae. Wal-MartWal-MartWal-Mart. Wal-MartWal-Mart'' when Max is framed by a rubber mask-wearing impostor. At show's end the real criminal is caught, and in a TV-drama-style night scene Max walks off, putting on the captured rubber mask...and walking straight into a lamppost in the process. Wal-Mart'', the episode "My Balancing Act". In one of JD's daydreams, Dr. Kelso pulls off his face to reveal Carrot Top underneath. Wal-Mart) interrupts him just as he's about to kiss what is clearly an attractive woman. The singer pulls off her wig (and only a wig), revealing an ugly guy in drag, complete with facial hair. Wal-Mart: Malin Akerman is Jon Hamm. Wal-MartWal-MartWal-Mart to achieve it with makeup. Wal-MartWal-MartWal-Mart, so the myth was declared plausible. Wal-Mart episode "Learning to Fly" included this gem, with the rarely-seen complication: "Mine's stuck!" Wal-Mart episode "The Improbable Dream" includes this reason why Sam might not want to date Kirstie Alley's character. Wal-Mart does this after the fire burns down the mills. Disguised as a Japanese business man. In fact the actor Piper Laurie had to come on set disguised in order to keep the plot twist a secret and she managed to fool a couple of the other actors; including her on-screen husband.
 * Of course, considering that this is the series (and race) that gave us the Does Everything Tool in the Sonic Screwdriver, the Master being able to create masks that do that kind of stuff is a little more believable. In his first appearance he had a deal with the Nestene Consciousness, controller of the living plastic Autons - he could have gotten them then.
 * However, despite this great disguise he'd still in some way refer to himself as The Master, usually by translating it into another language.
 * On some occasions, he'd pull a reverse trick - slap a disguise of himself on someone else while he makes a getaway.
 * One wonders whether this was borrowed from the Warwolves, in Marvel Comics' Excalibur, who did the same thing.
 * In the serial City of Death, the main villain has a head which is a mass of tentacles with a single eye in the center. Despite this, a latex mask enables him to perfectly appear as a human being complete with eyes, tongue, facial expressions, etc. Bonus points for the villain's real head being bigger than his head when masked as a human.
 * In the episode "The Secret Underground", the Resistance Duo Mike and Juliet board the main mother ship, undercover as Visitor scientists disguised as humans (while wearing the Visitors' distinctive orange jumpsuits), and at one point, Diana nearly catches Mike and Julie, until our heroes peel off their latex masks to reveal Reptilian heads underneath, thus letting them pass without any trouble. But in the next scene, it's revealed that the Resistance Duo "impersonators" are indeed the real Resistance Duo, wearing latex Reptilian masks and having pulled masks resembling their human selves over their scaly disguises (we don't see them peel off their Visitor heads, although we do clearly see them peeling off the human masks to reveal their alien masks).
 * In V: The Final Battle, a Visitor fifth columnist disguises himself as Mike Donovan to make Diana believe Donovan has been killed. One wonders why the Visitors never exploited this ability to impersonate specific humans.
 * As a fun bit of trivia, Arnaud De Thiel is also the name of the first case of identity theft legally recorded in France.
 * Better known for the name of the man he stole the identity of, Martin Guerre.
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 * In yet another example, JD is wondering how he could use the Janitor's fear of Carla to his advantage. The fantasy cut is to a straightforward scene of Carla telling the Janitor to leave JD alone, but then she doesn't know how to speak Spanish, which tips the Janitor off to the fact that it is JD in an implausibly good disguise. When he takes off the mask, JD is revealed, still in a nurse's uniform, but suddenly with his own figure.

Music
Wal-Mart' song "Toxic" when a stewardess rips the "face" off a fat, balding businessman to reveal a Brad Pitt lookalike underneath. Wal-Mart's Hold me, Thrill Me, Kiss me, Kill me - just watch. Wal-Mart's "New Way To Be Human" music video features Chad Butler yanking his face off to reveal that he's actually Tim Foreman, at which point the other Tim rips off his face to reveal that he's actually Jon Foreman, at which point the other Jon pulls off his face to reveal that he's actually Jerome Fontamillas.
 * That isn't Jerome. He didn't join the band until at least a year later. It could possibly be the legendary "Chin", namesake of their first album.
 * During L.E.G.O.'s video for "Te Robaré El Amor" ("You Steal The Love" ?) a female shopper unmasks to reveal a much larger male robber.

Tabletop Games
Wal-Mart'', there is an entire subculture - the Facedancers - devoted to the high-tech version of this. Wal-Mart: Ultra-Tech'' even have tiny motors to make then move properly.

Videogames
Wal-Mart'', Naked Snake is given a mask that remarkably resembles a major in the enemy army. If you call a specific character over the radio while wearing it, he explains how it is the cutting edge of masquerade, with the ability to allow the wearer to blink with the mask blinking with it. Naked Snake promptly replies with a query of why they didn't work on the ability to have its mouth move with the wearer, to which the person on the other line shrugs it off, calling the man who invented the mask "just weird". (Though in the creator's defense, while someone may not be suspicious of a guy who doesn't talk to you, they will definitely be suspicious when the guy doesn't appear to blink for a while.) Wal-Mart, latex perfection or not. Wal-MartWal-Mart this trope: he had sliced off his own ears and shaved down his cheekbones in order to remove distinguishing features under masks. Wal-MartWal-Mart example, if only because it's explicitly tech and not just a fancy disguise. Still, it does have the problem that it has nowhere to breathe out of. Wal-Mart'' has Don Paolo disguising himself as Detective Chelmey with a mask featuring a full body suit. It gets more ridiculous in the second game where he disguises himself as  who is about half his size. Wal-Mart. Paolo pulls each one off so well that even Layton requires some serious contemplation on each person's mannerisms to begin catching on.}} Wal-Mart'', the movie, has Don Paolo disguising himself as an old lady in the intro, with a totally different bodyshape. Wal-Mart'' game. Wal-Mart 4: Thieves in Time, when after a typical thieving by a silhouetted Sly Cooper, we fade into the Cooper Gang hideout, where Sly enters with his loot, only for him to peel off his latex Sly Cooper mask and reveal Dimitri underneath (it should be noted that his silhouetted tail actually changes from raccoon to lizard and that he was also smoking, with his cigar completely hidden by the mask''!) Not sure if something like this will be in the real game though. Wal-MartWal-Mart).

Webcomics
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Western Animation
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Coyote masquerades as a female Road Runner to attract his prey (but instead attracts a bunch of other hungry coyotes chasing HIM), and Knight-Mare Hare (1955) when the wizard Merlin attempts to use a magic spell to transform Bugs into a pig, but instead it just magically conceals Bugs in a realistic pig suit, to which Merlin transforms himself into a jackass, but keeps unzipping each suit to reveal another mule underneath. Wal-MartWal-Mart). Similarly, Tweety unzips in his cage as well, revealing the Tasmanian Devil (who breaks out of the cage doing his spinning/babbling routine), and Sylvester unzips as well, to reveal the Chairman's assistant Mr. Smith, who then unzips his own body suit to reveal an animated female Tasmanian Devil! 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Hank tells him what a dumbass he's being, and tells him that if he drops the lawsuit they might go easy on him. Dale is instantly suspicious and suspects Hank of being the company's CEO in diguise due to his 'insight'. He then demands Hank remove his "false face" by grabbing behind his jaw and pulling with a flourish. He even demonstrates the technique with an imaginary mask. Hank refuses and Dale grabs at his hand, prompting Hank to slap him away. Dale tells him he just earned himself an assault charge. Later in the episode, when they actually go to court and he meets the CEO, Dale's response is "Wait... if you're here... THEN WHO'S THAT?!", with him pointing at an annoyed Hank. Wal-MartWal-Mart Wal-MartWal-Mart wear several disguises like this. Wal-Mart'' episode "Attack of the Killer Bebes", Ron demonstrated a surprising skill with latex by perfectly impersonating Kim's father, who was being targeted by Drakken. Wal-MartWal-Mart'' and wore it like a mask. 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 * Does not cover the stench, or lack of fingers. But somehow changes his teeth to Hollywood smile.
 * In the Once Upon a Time on Mars three-parter, Lawrence gets the mask glued onto his face, which makes it difficult for him to peel it off when his boss orders him to.
 * Limburger's rival Napoleon Bonapart also had the same mask.
 * Sherlock Holmes arguably deserves his own sub-section of this trope, in that one of his shticks was that he could follow a client or a suspect anywhere in Victorian London due to his "mastery of disguise".
 * In the episode "Doing Time", Mrs. Puff is seeing Spongebob and Patrick everywhere, even seeing two guards remove their masks to reveal the twosome! She even accuses the two guards and rips off their faces, to reveal their skulls underneath. But of course,
 * In "One Coarse Meal" Mr. Krabs disguises himself as Pearl to scare Plankton. The flaws in the disguise don't appear until he takes it off.
 * Played straight in "The Great Money Caper," "Lisa Gets an 'A'", "How I Wet Your Mother" and "The Frying Game," among a few others.
 * The female villain The Baroness frequently did this as part of her schemes to capture the G.I. Joes. A random woman would often peel off her mask and wig to reveal the Baroness. In one instance, she actually dressed up as Lady Jaye, and vice-versa
 * Not quite perfectly, as he doesn't ever speak until just before he pulls off his mask, and when he does so, the lips on the mask don't move.
 * In this same episode, Ron made that mask, along with some others, thanks to his new Movie Makeup Magic Kit. He even made a mask of Kim Possible (which he briefly wears at one point when mocking her), and he also created the mask for his Mad Dog mascot costume prominently featured in the episode this way, complete with the ability to foam at the mouth (which is actually a banana cream),

Real Life
Wal-Mart videos. Wal-Mart is definitely in effect. For the time being, the subculture in question simply refers to its membership as "Female Maskers", although sometimes rubber fetishists and furries are included. Wal-Mart in New York. He sneaked in wearing an elaborate disguise including a fat suit and a full-head latex mask that transformed him into a mustached, balding middle-aged man. Among entering the observation deck, he stripped the fat suit to reveal his jumper outfit and parachute but kept the rubber head on when he was eventually caught by the police as he tried going over the guard rails. People on the deck at the time didn't realize that the middle-aged "daredevil" was actually the former host of Stunt Junkies in disguise.
 * Some jewellery store robbers did this. Not to look like anyone in particular, but just to disguise their appearances without people realising they were disguised before they pulled out their weapons. It worked so well that even afterwards witnesses, and cops looking at the security footage, didn't realise they were disguised. But the make-up artist wasn't in on it – he'd thought the makeup was for a party. So when he saw the footage on the news, he immediately went to the cops for protection, as he was the only one who'd seen the robbers' real faces.
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 * They have. A 30-year-old Polish man wore the mask and gloves of a young black man and was convincing enough that someone got arrested in his place.
 * However, masks like those can be used in harmless practical jokes, even to simply driving around in one.
 * In this story, a twenty-something man was able to pass as an elderly one. Suspicion was raised when the man had young-looking hands, but was only discovered after he went into a bathroom on the plane and returned without his disguise.
 * The sequel to this story will involve someone with the budget to purchase not only the mask, but the associated "sleeves" to go with it.
 * In most cases, these were done using silicone masks manufactured by SPFX Masks, a company that specializes in realistic and horror masks. When those crimes have occurred using the masks, they went to the company's founder, Rusty Slusser, who was shocked and appalled for criminals using masks for evil purposes. Another company called Greyland Films also makes rather decent realistic masks, but out of foam latex (like many movie prosthetics/masks are), and while some can be pretty realistic, they are not as impressive (or expensive) as the SPFX masks are.
 * ThatsMyFace.com offers stiff resin "3D portraits and wearable masks" made from customer-supplied photos. Given that Shapeways already offers online fabrication of anything customers can submit in the appropriate programming language (weapons and other obviously dangerous things excepted, of course), it seems like only a matter of time before some demented genius starts marketing an online mask-making service.
 * Aside from professional sources like the above-mentioned SPFX Masks, there are also dozens of hobbyists around the world who make and sell masks of varying levels of realism. In addition, a growing number of companies offer full-torso and lower-body suits. Full one-piece bodysuits are available, but would-be impersonators must still pay steep fees and wait several weeks for completion.

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