Supplies for Making a Werewolf Costume

Series Summary

Awehoooo! As the full moon rises on a dark and mysterious night, a creature emerges from the shadows. Half-man and half-wolf, this shape shifter moves through the night driven to embark on evil and the wild lusts of man. Whether the result of a direct attack of another werewolf, an evil lord’s spell, or drinking tainted werewolf water, a man can find himself twisting and turning into this wild beast on the first full moon. Though the mythical view of the werewolf has many origins, the legend has survived centuries. Today, werewolves creep into our collective consciousness through movies, novels, and iconography. Regardless, “If you hear him howling around your kitchen door, better not let him in.”

If you are looking for something to be this Halloween, this video series is just the thing you have have been looking for. Let's face it- a werewolf is the perfect Halloween costume. Matt Cail shows you how to make a great yet in-expensive werewolf costume. Learn how to pick clothes for your costume. Also, Matt shows you fantastic makeup tricks. Learn how to apply brown and black colors for werewolf makeup. Matt shows you how to make sideburns, werewolf hands, and fangs. So, take some time and learn how to make this great homemade Halloween costume today!

Video Transcript

"Hello! I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here today to show you how to put together a werewolf costume. Let's start getting our items together on how we're going to make our werewolf. There's a couple of basic items you're going to need starting off with makeup supplies. A good blood mixture using corn syrup, cocoa powder, and red and blue food coloring is very helpful for any blood gory effects you're planning for your werewolf. If you're not planning gory effects then you don't need this. A good pair of plastic or rubber fans is also very helpful. You can get a lot of these at stores for very, very cheap. They're one of the cheaper props and they also still look pretty good, even the cheap ones. Of course then we're going to be moving into our makeup colors. The important colors to have are black, a lighter brown, and then a medium and/or dark brown. These are going to be like for forming the fros and the fur effects, everything over our wolf man’s face. Another good color to have are red and gray. Those are two good colors to use in additional shading, and if you want some blood effects and you just don't want solely rely on corn syrup, the red is a good color to have. Of course, you need an assortment of brushes with which to apply the makeup ranging from the wider brushes, even down to q-tip type applicators. We also should be having our makeup pads to both remove and blend in makeup. These are very useful as is our applier sponge, which we use to apply the makeup in broad spots throughout the face. The last thing to correct for any mistakes we're going to be having, hopefully minimal, paper towels to wipe those up, erase them and then get back on track. "