Zombie Scarelicious Halloween Makeup

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I realize today is November 2 but.. I feel like it is still okay to talk about Halloween! Mostly because Justin (my boyfriend) and I didn't do any pre-practice Halloween makeup and we wanted to share our looks with y'all (we just kinda did what we liked on the spot). Honestly, I think both his and mine turned out wonderful by doing the makeup on spot as opposed to pre-planning makeup- and it was much for fun.

 

Anyways Justin was a zombie, its too bad we didn't get any pictures with his awfully-disgusting-rotting-zombie teeth but those were pretty spooky themselves. So here are these two...

 

 

The makeup kit was pretty inexpensive too. I think we spent $10 max on the whole look at Walmart.

 

First we took the liquid latex that came with the kit and the sponge and applied it all over the face, letting it air dry between coats. About three coats later we had the desired rotting skin (beware though, that rotting skin lookin' latex stuff smells like rotting death!

 

Second, we applied a bit of makeup that was multiple shades too dark for him on top of the latex to give the skin a "dirty" look to it. This we borrowed from his moms makeup counter, but bronzer would have worked beautifully.

 

Then we took the black and white paint that came with the zombie kit and put black circles around his eyes and mouth and then white on the rest of the face (personally, I wouldn't have gone with so much white but Justin went by the picture on the kit and wanted way more white... to try to explain that he had all this other stuff to be applied was pointless-kinda like talking to a statue if you will).

 

After the fussing of how much white he had on his face we applied the tattoos from the kit. One on the forehead, one on the nose, two around his mouth, one on the chin and one on the side of his neck. Truthfully these tattoos were pretty neat. One had a maggot, one a fly, one with stitches and the others looked like open wounds.

 

Then came the gross stuff that we had to go outside for. The kit came with "bloody scab" which I put all over the tattoos to give it the appearance of it bleeding and then some fingerprint sized dots in various areas to give a real "scab" appearance.

 

We purchased some black zombie blood in a spray container too (this was separate from the kit) and it got sprayed all over the mouth area and some within the "wounds". And some dripped which led to a pretty cool effect too...

 

And that is how Justin and Kayla (but mostly Kayla) achieved this Creepy, Scary Zombie Face lookin' thing!

 

Beware... Some of it was hard to get off and little kids will be pretty freaked out by it. Just a bit of warning!

 

Did you guys dress up? If so what as? Any pictures you'd like to share? Comment or Email (laceinruffles@gmail.com)!

 

Love,