As I am now too old to go trick or treating and the majority of my friends work on Halloween, I don't go to any party so there's not much for me to do. I still carve a pumpkin and put up a few Halloween decorations but I miss dressing up, so I decided that I would put a bit of effort in for all the trick or treaters that come.
I usually do easy and cheap things as I don't want to spend that much money on something not many people will see, but last year I decided I wanted to put a bit more effort in than usual but I didn't decide this until the actual day so I had to think quick on what I could do, so I decided Zombie but there are a lot of things to think about. I already had the clothes side of things sorted I just ripped some of my old clothes that already had holes in.
So the next thing I had to think about was the make up and how I would create the wounds, the majority of people use liquid latex to create this look but I wasn't able to go buy any as I cut it too fine so me and my sister decided we would use PVA glue and toilet roll. This didn't give as good effect as liquid latex would have but it was good enough.
1) I applied white face paint from a cheap Halloween palette then added grey to make my skin look more dead. I then also used the grey with a little black and layered this to contour my face properly so the right areas appeared sunken. So underneath my cheekbones, my jaw line, around my eyes, down my neck in places and my temples.
2) I then gave this a bit of time to dry while I made some fake blood as I only had a small tube. I made this by mixing 1/4 cup of water, 3/4 cup of golden syrup, drops of red food colouring until I achieved the right shade, then I added a drop of blue and green food colouring to achieve a more realistic shade ( keep adding blue and green until you think the shade is realistic enough), to thicken this I then added cornflour until I achieved the thickness I wanted. Then I left this to thicken for about 5-10 Minutes)
3) Whilst the blood was thickening I carried on with my makeup and used grey and black eye shadow to deepen the contour.
4) I then decided where I wanted each of the wounds to go on my face and used a red eye shadow to redden the areas to make them look sore before applying the glue and toilet roll.
5) Once I had decided where I wanted the wounds a applied a thin layer of glue with an old make up brush, then applied small pieces of ripped toilet roll, I applied about 5 layers of each then let this dry. Once this had dried I used some tweezers to make the effect of a cut by pulling part up and away for the skin whilst making sure the edges stayed smooth.
6) When I had received the desired look I started with a dark red face paint to the middle of the wound to give it the effect of being deep and bloody before adding the fake blood. I then reddened to outside of the wound to give it the sore and realistic look. Then came the messy part using the fake blood, I used my finger for this part so it looked more realistic and applied it over the dark red face paint I had applied and I also applied a bit of this around the opening of the wound and around my mouth so it appeared like I had just eaten someone. Then I used the fake blood I already had to drip down from each wound.
7) I then put the clothes I was going to wear and splattered them with blood and applied blood around the tears and underneath them where you could see my skin so there appeared to be more wounds.
8) Finally I backcombed my hair a little to make it appear messy and added any finishing touches I thought I needed.
I hope this has given you some ideas, thank you for reading.
Lou
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Ps. The good thing about making the fake blood with syrup is that it is edible and you don't have to worry about getting any in your mouth.
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