How-To Zombie Makeup
For this makeup, we used Mehron’s Zombie Character Kit. I recommend this kit because it included liquid latex, blood, and a color wheel of great bruise colors.
* Fake skin mixture – Use cornstarch to make this fake skin to replace liquid latex in a pinch.
* Cream face paint in red, blue or purple, yellow and green.
* Fake blood – Make your own fake blood using everyday kitchen items. I have 8 different recipes so you can make bright red blood, dried blood, realistic blood and even scabs.
* Paintbrush and Q-tips.
* Stipple sponge. Use a bath loofa or scouring pad if you don’t have a stipple sponge.
Use your cream white to pale the skin. To keep things looking real and creepy, add a light swipe of green and red under the cheekbones to create a sunken-cheeked look.
Use a brush loaded with black and red to create these veins that are often characteristic of zombies that were created by an outbreak or disease.
Be sure to make these lines emerge from the edges of the face. Next, we will sink and bruise the eyes.
For a sunken, diseased or bruised zombie eye, first use your finger to blot red along the bottom of the eye socket and around the top of the lid.
For a bruise, Apply a light layer of blue over the red, and add yellow around the edges of the bruise.
For a sunken eye socket, use your paintbrush to outline the bottom of the eye socket in black, just like in our Skull Face Paint Tutorial. Blend the black in toward the eye. Blot the red area with a light layer of black and blue.
Every zombie remembers their first zombifying bite. To create yours, use liquid latex or a fake skin recipe.
For a round bite like this one, blot on the latex with a q-tip, as shown. Use a press-and-lift blotting motion rather than simply drawing on the circle.
Use a hair dryer to solidify the latex. This will take a minute or two for small areas of latex.
Cover the latex with black makeup, then brush a generous amount of red into the middle of the wound. Lightly brush over the black area with red. We aren’t done with the bite just yet.
Now we need to blend the bite into the rest of your skin. This method also works to make wounds anywhere on the body.
Use your fingers to pat on dark blue around the rim of the black latex. Start out thick around the edge of the latex and gradually apply less as you move away from the wound. Apply red over the blue areas, blending into your skin color at the outside of the bruise.
Now add blots of yellow at choice spots, using your finger again to lightly apply the makeup. The yellow blotches will give the bruise a more realistic look. Next, let’s add some fake blood.
Need blood? You can make your own out of common items in the kitchen: Make Fake Blood.
Use a stipple sponge to apply droplets of blood to the wound. If you don’t have a stipple sponge, use a scouring pad or bath puff instead.
Coat the front of your sponge with fake blood and gently blot it over the wound. The idea is to create round droplets.
For dripping blood, just give the sponge a squeeze to make the fake blood run out over the skin. You can add a little bit of blood to the bite wound, or go crazy and cover the side of your face in a tell-tale blood spatter.
If there is any one scary part of a zombie, it is their hungry, hungry mouths. People really are bothered by a toothless or rotten mouth.
Black out the teeth of your zombie for a truly disturbing touch. I suggest using Mehron Tooth F-X because it will last all day and tastes a little like mint. Alternately, use black lipstick or even some of that prank candy that will turn your entire mouth black.
Most zombies have a generous amount of blood around the mouth. Use your fingers to apply fake blood around the mouth, then blot and drip with the sponge for a natural blood-flow.
Now you’ve got down the basic maneuvers for zombie makeup. Next lets look at some tips for success.
* Don’t imitate. Everyone becomes a zombie in a different way. Are you a fresh zombie or have you been dead for a week or two? Did you get bitten on the face or the arm? Have you been part of any blood-drenched zombie buffets?
* Easy on the blood. When it comes to using fake blood, less is often more. If you smear your entire body in fake blood, then the effect will not be as striking. Focus on choice areas to smear and blot your blood for realism.
* Blending makes the difference. For bruises, sunken skin or wounds, don’t forget that blending into your own skin tone is what will make the effects look real.
* For a simple makeup job using what is already in your cosmetics bag, try this zombie makeup video tutorial.
Zombie Makeup
For thousands of years makeup has been used by women to enhance beauty, it has also been utilized in the movies to create special effects. One of the most important visual effects in zombie movies is the dramatic, appetence of rotting flesh wounds, dried blood, and pealing skin and other bodily lesions created by using cosmetic makeup. Makeup can make a happy little blond girl look like an intimidating pale walking corpse ready to feast on the living.
Zombie makeup can be a bit tricky without knowing where to start. With the right tools most gory wounds can be a much easier than you think. Here are a few tips to help you with your zombie special effects makeup.
Supplies
Most tools used for creating gruesome zombie special effects don’t have to be expensive. Don’t rush off and buy an expensive “professional” special effects makeup kit. Here are some basic products and information:
Some application tools are going to be required to put the makeup on. Try not to buy expensive brushes because they will get ruined. Don’t use fine art brushes; they will clump up easily and quickly become useless. Cheap children’s paint brushes work just fine. Other household items such as sponges, combs or anything else you can imagine can be great for creating interesting textures, just know that these items will probably need to be thrown away when finished.
Selecting the right makeup is easy. Don’t use normal women’s cosmetic makeup it is usually very expensive. Most costume or Halloween shops sell greasepaints, cream and powders for relatively cheap and they work great. Keep in mind if using greasepaints its good to have a powder to help set it, baby powder works great.
One of the most impressive features of zombie effects are the gashing wounds. Liquid Latex is the best way to make these realistic, thin Elmer’s glue or PVA glue are not as convincing but still get the job done if needed. It is important to spread latex thin, if done so it will dry clear and have better results. Other Prosthetic adhesives such as spirit gum can be used to fix random items on to the skin for long periods of time.
Other items can be used for a wide range of effects. Toilet paper is good for creating more textured and rippled looks. Cables, cut plastic bottles, candles, pretty much anything imaginable can be used to have some kind of effect. Zombies wouldn’t be quit as disgusting without oozing blood. Fake blood is cheap in can usually be found in the same places as the greasepaints and makeup. Even cheaper alternatives can be made at home by using red food coloring and corn syrup, some powders such as Kool-Aid and cocoa powder can help giver richer colors and also helps to give a clotting look.
How to Make Zombie Makeup
Whether you need zombie makeup for a small film, Halloween costume or stage play, making the creepy effect is cheap and easy. Apply zombie makeup in about 20 to 30 minutes and transform a normal person into a fantastic, frightening zombie.
Test the liquid latex. The arm is the best place to do this. Some people with sensitive skin may be allergic to the liquid latex. You won’t be able to use it on their face if putting it on their arms causes a reaction.
Prepare the face for the makeup. Wash the face thoroughly and remove any facial hair. Pull the person’s hair away from his face with a headband or bandanna.
Apply a thin, even layer of liquid latex on the subject’s face. Allow the latex to dry. This normally takes about 15 minutes, but may vary depending on the brand of latex you use.
Place one square of toilet paper on each of the subject’s cheeks. Apply enough latex to seal the paper to the face. Fold a square of toilet paper in half lengthwise and place it loosely on the person’s forehead. Cover it with a layer of latex and allow it to dry.
Form wrinkles on the future zombie’s cheeks by pushing up on the toilet paper. Use the same technique to create a long, 1/2-inch wide wrinkle on the forehead.
Cover the latex with the white cream makeup. This is the base coat that holds the rest of the makeup in place. Tear open the top layer of toilet paper somewhere on the person’s face to make a gash. Fold back any extra toilet paper to create a peeling flesh effect. Apply dark red and black makeup into the middle of the gash to look like muscle and blood.
Make thick, black circles around both eyes to make them appear sunken in. Ask the actor to smile and make black lines in the wrinkles around her smile.
Apply the aging makeup. Begin with the light colors and slowly move to the darker colors. Make the skin look as though it is old and rotting. Practice this technique to find the exact look you want or simply experiment as you go along.
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