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Summary: Making a Halloween mummy involves wearing a simple Egyptian skirt and wrapping the entire body in cheesecloth strips, dirtying them up and applying some makeup to the face for an authentic look. Be an ancient mummy for Halloween with a demonstration from a professional costume designer and makeup artist in this free video on Halloween attire.
Angel Jones has been designing and costuming for shows and events for more than 20 years. Jones owns and operates Wenches and Warriors, a costume rental store. She is also a licensed...read more
"How to be a mummy for Halloween. Oh, lots of easy ways to go about being a mummy. As we have Ashton here, this is one of the easiest ones to do. We've simply just put together a cute little Egyptian-like skirt, and you could do that...just some sheet torn in half, or, some kind of roughed up skirt that you're not going to use in your own closet. And just rope it off with a belt, or fit it in with some pins. However you want to make your little skirt. You can also do a sash, or maybe perhaps an over-gown, that's an easy look, as well. Those are all easy tricks to just give you that "Egyptian, Pharaohy" kind of mummy look. And then simply go in and add some mummy wrappings. That's easy to do with cheesecloth. You can simply just get it and cut it all up into little pieces that resemble bandages. And just simply tie them on and add them at will where you want them to be for your little mummy look. And they look great wherever you put 'em. And a little bit of make-up to bring out the dead in you. And you've got a nice, easy mummy. Now, if you want to do more of a full mummy, as if you didn't want to see any part of it, you can do simple, easy tricks. Here we've done a Silent Hill nurse, and she's the same way as you would do a mummy. You just simply find a mask that works for you at the fabric store, or whatnot. Get some cheesecloth and just cover it up. Simply hot gluing in certain areas. And just splitting it up the back so that you can easily apply it on to your face. And that makes a great mummy mask. And if you want to do a full mummy body, you just simply gather yourself some white, a white turtleneck, white pair of pants, some white gloves, and do the same thing. Just stripping down the cheesecloth, and simply tacking it in different spots to the...to the glove, and simply covering it up with your bandages, giving you a great mummy look. And of course you can go in and detail a little bit with some paints, or spray paint or whatnot, whatever you have laying around to make it an easy. Give him a little shadow, dirtying it up a little bit, making it a nice, rough mummy. And that is a nice, easy Halloween mummy."