How to Apply Zombie Makeup

If you want to scare everyone around you at your next costume party or Halloween celebration, transform yourself into a zombie. Zombies will frighten even the most stoic party goers, and you'll know you've done a good job if you look in a mirror and scare even yourself.

Things You'll Need

• Liquid latex
• White or green face paint
• Black face paint
• Paintbrush
• 1 cup corn syrup
• 20 drops red food coloring
• 2 tbsp. chocolate syrup

Instructions

1. Mold the liquid latex to your face. You can create wrinkles or a flesh-peeling effect with the latex or use it to make fake wounds.

2. Apply a base color. Use white or a light green face paint to create the zombie's realistic deathly pallor. Smear a thick layer of paint on your face, neck and any other skin that will show through your costume.

3. Use a paintbrush to paint a thin, black line under each eye. Smudge the black paint so it creates a shadow effect under your eyes.

4. Paint two more black lines along the underside of each cheekbone. Blend the lines so they look gray. This will give your cheeks a hallowed look.

5. Add more shadows to the sides of your neck tendons and the sides of your nose. Again, apply a thin, black line and blend the paint until it appears gray. Zombies should look as gaunt as possible, so don't be afraid to use this hallowing effect liberally.

6. Mix 1 cup corn syrup, 20 drops of red food coloring and 2 tbsp. of chocolate syrup to create fake blood.

7. Smear the fake blood on your face and in your hair. Muss your hair so it stands up a bit. Rub some dirt in it to look completely realistic. You can also throw some fake blood on the rest of your costume.

Tips & Warnings

• Shine a flashlight above your head to create shadows under your eyes and trace the shadows with paint to make sure they're in the most realistic place.

• Add a couple of drops of dish soap to your fake blood before you apply it. The soap makes it not quite as sticky.