Experiment: Creating a sore scratched hairline

In my first design idea I wanted to include a sore, broken forehead caused from scratching to due headlice occurring from years of unlash and self neglect on Miss Havisham's part.
for this little experiment I used a combination of;
Liquid latex, Foundation, supra colour and Ben Nye fresh scab effect 

Starting with clean skin I applied liquid latex around the hair line of my model using a sponge, trying not to go in to the hair.

I allowed this to dry using a hairdryer on the coolest setting.

I then applied foundation over the top of the latex.

I then tried to peel the latex away from the hairline towards the centre of the face. I found that that was actually quite hard to control and i ended up pulling more away than I intended.

I filled this peeled area with red supra colour and then stippled on the 'fresh scab'. I also tried to make the effect look more 3D and realistic by adding darker tones of red and black.

Overall, I was really disappointed with the result and sort of gave up on it as it really wasn't the effect I had been aiming for. Due to the latex being had to manipulate, the wound area was a lot bigger than I had intended and look much more extreme. I also found that the red was far too bright and looked incredibly fake, I also felt it looked too fresh. I wanted it to the look like the area around the hair line was sore and scabby from years of scratching but instead it sort of ended up looking like someone had tried to peel off my models skin.

I think perhaps I will look in to more subtle ways of representing this idea.