Red Shoelaces

Okay, so, I previously did an article whereby I showed how to make a face from scratch  (my third most viewed article).  It wasn't the best quality work out there but I'd been trying for a while and I managed to do it, on my own and as a nice little proof of concept. What you didn't see, was that I had been trying to add those custom heads to other bodies (call me Dr. Frankenstein) and I was having a lot of trouble, mostly with matching conflicting skin tones. Then I found a way. How to do it Once you've erased the previous head and dragged the new head onto your body, match the colours as best you can and desaturate, all using curves. You don't have to get it 100% though, and obviously this works best if your body is lighter than your face. Then add a multiply layer. Duplicate this layer until the image gets really dark, then pull back the percentage of the last layer. It must be really dark. So much so that you can barely make out any details. When you get to that...