Adding Rotting Flesh to Zombie Makeup

Video Transcript

"Hello! I'm Matt Cail on behalf of Expert Village. I'm here today to show you how to make a zombie costume. Alright, so now we're done applying our black. We can kind of see what we did. You can see the more hollow shape, the hollow sunken look that the eye now has. Also, add in a little bit of shading above the eye by getting right up into the eyebrow region. Now, we're going to return back focus on our latex areas. What we're going to do here is we're going to apply a variety of colors starting off with red. Again, similar to the black, only a little bit of red in this region are we going to start applying. Why is that? As we do it, we're going to start doing a little mini circular motion. You'll notice that the red is blending with the white and the black. This is giving more of a blood peach color. What is the effect here? The effect is we're creating bruises here. We're creating more rotting flesh. These colors are going to be brighter and are going to stand out from the black and the white. It's important to keep these colors understated. They do not have to be bright red. There should not be no bright red at all on your zombie face. There should be all mush more subdued, because now this effect here from the surrounding cheek area is going to stand out. You can see that though these colors are still relatively pale. There's a lot of white and black in there that we've all mixed up together. There's no like super strong red or warm color standing out. You're going to repeat this exercise around the latex. Other colors that you're going to throw in are going to be green and purple. The green can also have like more bacteria and rotting effect. Again, applying just like we did with the red. The purple is going to be more of a bruise, unless like blood clotting, which the effect you're getting here."