After you have completed the suit, take it out and try it! Get a friend and a pair of binoculars, go out into a forest type area or something with bushes and shrubs, (or whereever the place you designed your suit to be used in) have the person close his eyes, cover his ears, count to 300 and open his eyes and try to spot you. If he can’t do it within about 10 minutes, then you have a well-blended suit. If he can spot you, attach some more natural foliage and try again. Don’t worry if you can’t seem to get it down right, there is also an art to hiding with this thing.

     Just wearing a ghillie suit might not be enough to conceal you. The human body creates oil’s for it skins to help keep it moisturized. These oils are extremely reflective and can get you spotted if your not careful. Cover up your hands with gloves, and your face with camouflage face paint. If you don’t have a camo-stick or any other face paint, use charcoal dust, burnt wood dust or walnut colored paint. DO NOT use mud. Despite what you have seen in Rambo, mud has an extremely high level of bacteria content and will do more bad than good. DO NOT use oil because of its high and potent smell. To apply camouflaged face paint, put lighter colors in the darker part of your face, and darker colors in the lighter part of your face. For instance, you would be brown on your nose, cheeks, part of your forehead and neck, and green under your eyes, on your chin, and under your cheek and face bones. And black a little here and there. If you have different shades of brown or green, follow the same rule. Also, be sure not to neglect the neck, the ears, the back of your neck and head (if you have a high 'n tight haircut like me or no hair at all back there), and any other places that you might be exposing. If you are uncomfortable wearing gloves, be sure to camo your hands, wrists, and part of your forearms.

In the mean time, here are some tips on movement and hiding:
 

• Move slowly or don’t move at all. The human eye can detect movement 10 times faster then it can the difference in color. Stay still, breath slow, and only make very slow, smooth movements. When in doubt, don’t move at all.
• Attach whatever natural foliage you can to the suit. A branch, some leaves, anything will make you seem like everything else in the forest, and not a guy wearing a ghillie suit.
• Lying down near some big object makes you look like part of that. This can be good or bad. The human eye detects larger objects faster than smaller object when looking into a vast area filled with objects of different size. You will detect a fallen tree faster then a singular leaf. Therefore, if you aren’t careful, you could be spotted by fluke because the person looking for you may be attracted to the big distinctive object. On the other hand, crouching near a bush that blends in with the environment may be very beneficial; by making you appear as that bush or hiding half or all of your body from the person trying to find you. You way the consequences yourself.
• Hiding in the shadows of other things is better than hiding in direct sunlight. It will take the human eye a longer time to decipher the light difference. Colors also seem to blend in better in the dark, simply because you cannot distinguish them apart.
• Avoid being backlit. Why do I mean by this? Having a lighter color object in front of a darker colored object stands out. Vice versa, a dark colored object in front of a lighter colored object stands out. Try to blend in with your environment and become your environment. Plan out what your intended path of travel is and where you first sit or lie down.
• A ghillie suit is only a piece of camouflage. It does NOT make you invisible. Running and waving your arms in the air with it on does not make you blend in with your environment. Move with your environment. Move slowly. You count the distance you travel in inches and feet while wearing a ghillie suit. Move when the wind blows. Let nature cover your sounds of movement. Another thing about sound; a person will dismiss a breaking twig or a rustling bush as sounds of nature. Metallic noises or a human voice will not. Strap down all metallic gear and keep talking to whispering, and whispering to a minimum (take a pad and pen with you, or learn hand signals if you need to communicate).
• Despite what you may have heard, wearing deodorant will not give your positions away. Matter of fact, not wearing deodorant may give your position away faster. It’s a proven fact that human body odor is stronger then your run of the mill deodorant.