Everybody has seen twice-colored candles. The process to create them is quite simple: you make a candle and “double-dip” it, i.e., you add a layer of wax in a different color.

The Epitafe candles (as, I guess, every proper skull candle) tend to “cry” when they are burned, which means that, after a certain amount of burning, liquid wax flows through the eye sockets. Starting from there, it wasn’t too much of a trouble to have a differently colored core inside the skull, so that the wax “tears” would be colored differently.

But I thought that wasn’t enough. In most cases (sic), there is a brain inside a skull :-). So there needed to have a proper brain inside!

That’s why I started by carving a full skull candle, in order to create some kind of “slot” inside. Then, I sculpted and molded a proper small-sized brain.

In practice, the creation of that candle involves casting both parts separately, using a very long wick for the skull part, and a leaving a hollow core in the brain. Then, they are assembled by threading the brain on the skull and sealing both with waw, to end up with that:

I am quite happy with the result :-), especially once the brain starts to oozes through the eye sockets, like this:

All available, in the color of your choice, on Epitafe!

Finally done, and none too late!

I’m quite pleased to welcome you to the brand new Epitafe webshop! As you can see, the look and feel is now consistent with the blog’s.

To conclude such a frenzy of redesign and creation of new candles, I will showcase some of them here in the coming days and resurrect that blog as well :-).