ZOMBIE MAKEUP 101, part I
December 27th 2008 00:29
All right, we all know that you aren't supposed to put things in ALL CAPS on the internet, because it indicates that you are yelling. Well, fine...I'm yelling then. Because I have to tell you that I saw a whole lot of really half-assed zombies walking around at all the various Halloween/costume events that I attended in 2008. I am by no means a makeup artist of high esteem, but I do consider myself to be pretty good at the zombie 'thing' and by zombie 'thing' I means spending pouring so much time and blood into a costume that it's gotta come out looking at least vaguely zombie-like. So in my years (seriously, years) of researching and testing zombie makeup, I can offer you some tips-- and I would love to hear yours! Being a zombie on a budget can be tough so I especially appreciate it when people can get all zombified with leftover cake decorating junk or something. Let me know. In the meantime, to get started:
1) Decide what kind of zombie you want to be and choose a base color accordingly. To my way of thinking you have a few different kind of zombies out there- super dead and rotting with maggots and peely skin/tons of blood, greenish zombies- (mmm, decomposition) and freshlydead kinda gray zombies/possibly with some wounds.
a) For fresh zombie, I recommend either Cadaver Gray or Blithe Spirit creme color by Ben Nye. It's more expensive than your average makeup but that's because it goes on better, stays on longer and requires much less for total coverage. You can use the same container virtually forever. They even have a product called the DEATH WHEEL (shouting again, what a great name!) that contains shades of green, gray and pale blue. Yay!
b) For really rotten zombie, depending on how much blood you are going to use, you may not even want to put a bunch of base on. You can do pale, yellow or green for this one or even skip it if you'll be deluged in red in the end.
c) For a greenish or blueish zombie, again with the Ben Nye. The dead wheel has a great green that you can mix with blue or pale colors to make it look extra sickly. Barring that, get some green face paint and tone it down with a little brown and white.
1) Decide what kind of zombie you want to be and choose a base color accordingly. To my way of thinking you have a few different kind of zombies out there- super dead and rotting with maggots and peely skin/tons of blood, greenish zombies- (mmm, decomposition) and freshlydead kinda gray zombies/possibly with some wounds.
a) For fresh zombie, I recommend either Cadaver Gray or Blithe Spirit creme color by Ben Nye. It's more expensive than your average makeup but that's because it goes on better, stays on longer and requires much less for total coverage. You can use the same container virtually forever. They even have a product called the DEATH WHEEL (shouting again, what a great name!) that contains shades of green, gray and pale blue. Yay!
Fresh (and cute!) Zombie
b) For really rotten zombie, depending on how much blood you are going to use, you may not even want to put a bunch of base on. You can do pale, yellow or green for this one or even skip it if you'll be deluged in red in the end.
Halfway Rotten with Maggots, zombaby included!
c) For a greenish or blueish zombie, again with the Ben Nye. The dead wheel has a great green that you can mix with blue or pale colors to make it look extra sickly. Barring that, get some green face paint and tone it down with a little brown and white.
Blue-ish Zombie. A pregnant blue-ish zombie even!
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