How to: Makeup Ideas for Zombie Costumes
Zombies, the legendary soulless, brain-eating walking corpses, are a perennial favorite for Halloween. You too can have the undead look you crave with some makeup tips and tricks that transform you from living to living dead. Pair your decaying flesh with any outfit that is dirty, shredded and bloody, from a suit to a nurse's uniform.
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Things You'll Need
- Liquid latex
- Paintbrush
- Toilet paper
- Fake skin
- Multicolor makeup kit
- Sponge makeup applicators
- Fake blood
Instructions
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Put on the shirt you are going to be wearing for your costume so you don't mess up your makeup when you are changing clothes.
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Use liquid latex to make peeling, torn skin. To make wrinkled skin, paint a thin layer of latex onto your face and let it dry 15 minutes. Then place a torn single sheet of toilet paper onto the dry layer of latex and paint over it with a second layer. To make torn, decaying flesh, tear the top layer of latex away and leave it hanging when it is almost dry but still pliable. Create gashes, wounds and lacerations by building up several thin layers of liquid latex and then ripping them open. Shave any areas you are painting with latex first so it doesn't pull the hair out when you remove it. Another option is to buy a fake skin product that is shaped and applied like putty to make wounds.
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Apply a thin base coat of white cream makeup over your entire face with a makeup sponge to create an overall death-like pallor. Don't forget to cover your lips.
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Apply black makeup around your eyes, blending it out into the white at the edges of your eye sockets to give the illusion of sunken eyes. Apply more black makeup into the hollows of your cheeks below the cheekbones and the outsides of your forehead and chin. Blend it well at the edges to create sunken contours.
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Use colored makeup to add bruises and color to your wounds. Fill the inside of the wound with red and black. Add dark blue and purple near the wound and inside bruises and blend green and yellow toward the outside.
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Drip some fake blood from your cuts and wounds and smear more blood around your mouth and down your chin, neck and chest as if you've been feeding on brains.
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Tips & Warnings
Blend a little green or blue into your base makeup for an even more decayed look.
Do not use liquid latex if you have a latex allergy. Test first by putting a bit of liquid latex on your inner forearm and waiting 15 minutes.
