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!