Which is overused and therefore cheesy now. Still looks awesokme.

Looks pretty shit to be honest. Plasticine faces are not a cool effect :\

I've seen some plasticine-like editing on B+w or heavy, pseudo-victorian make-up that looks cool.

Personally, I always thought the appeal of B&W, specially with portraits was the texture it could convey. Getting rid of that texture would kill the photo, imo, though I guess I'd need to see a good example to judge properly.

Yeah, not a fan of that :\ Probably looks better on silver gelatin paper though.

Never had one done. I'd like to learn how to in a dark room tho.

Black and white printing is pretty simple, never tried colour. Developing film is a pain in the arse though, just because you have to do it completely blind.

try color efex or kubota image tools

Shoot in RAW if your camera can do that.