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How To Do The Vento Aureo Boat Dance *UPDATED*

As of yesterday this has now been fully animated. Additional choreography between the poses and softening of extreme angles now makes it 50% more physically possible! My old tips on posing mostly still stand (heh) but as of right now I haven’t tried the new version.

Tips on Posing

1)Unless you're double jointed, you can't get your elbows parallel to your head. Please don't hurt yourself trying.

2)To lean farther back without totally throwing your balance and to get extra bounce, get up on your forefeet (like you're wearing high heels). This will take some practice to retain your balance, especially if you're not used to being on your toes

3)All of it will take practice to retain your balance, let's be real

4)Practice in the shoes you'll be wearing, impromptu performing in footwear you're not used to can throw you off

5)Make sure you're bringing your left foot in to center as you bring your arms across into the second pose, raising your right foot with your elbows into the third and dropping it far enough to the right of center to get back into the bounce. Not being a dancer, syncing arms and legs was something I struggled with initially and really threw me off.

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Gyro Grillz Tutorial

Easier and cheaper than you would think!

I used this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sigg34IqrxI for the base. Some costume stores stock packets of the pellet dental fixture for fairly cheap, especially post Halloween. Note that the dental adhesive is different from the pellet plastic used for making actual custom teeth. I didn't realize this initially and almost spent 5x more unnecessarily.

  I had trouble gluing on the fake nails, I ended up needing to use a  of a dab of cooled hot glue on the nail in combination with the nail glue. The heat of the hot glue will melt the dental fixture, so I would not recommend it on its own. Crazy glue would likely have worked just as well.

Once I had completed attaching the nails I made the tiny letters out of worbla, its built-in glue was enough to keep them on the nails.

I used Mehron Gold Tooth Colour (http://store.malabar.net/Tooth-Colour-Gold-3057/) to paint the teeth. Not only is it safe, it's also delightfully minty. For emphasis, I added a tiny bit of dark brown acrylic to a sample of the tooth colour and outlined the letters. I sealed the whole thing up with mod podge as recommended to keep the tooth colour from wearing off.

Just a note that having so much extra plastic in your mouth will make you slur your speech and drool a little bit after a while. I only put mine in for photos. Also if you don't trim up the dental fixture enough it can jab your gums.