Creating this look was extremely fun and rewarding, this blog will take you step by step through on how to re create this look!
Things you will need, you can always improvise and take what I used as guidance.
White Facepaint
Grey Facpaint
Brown Facepaint
Black Facepaint
Black Facepaint
Red Facepaint
Black Shadow
Brown Shadow
Red Lip Liner
Fake Blood
Eye Liner
Sponge
Stippling Brush
So to begin with I prepped the face with white face paint, covering the entire even the lips and eyelids, blending the paint down onto the chest and arms and any other areas that may have been exposed. This will give you a blank canvas to work on, and with us trying to re create the dead look, then the paler the better :)
Once you have your white base, you want to start contouring, taking your brown and grey face paint, focus on the cheek bones, the eye sockets, and the jaw line. Using a stippling brush apply the brown and grey paints, to the hollow in your cheek underneath the cheek bone, into the socket area of your eye and along the jaw line, making the face look gaunt and skeletal.
The contouring can be revisited and built up as you build the rest of the face makeup. I then focused on the eye socket, taking different shades of brown shadows and really building up the depth of colour on the eye. Taking it under the eye and following the natural tired line on the face, some its more prominent on than others, but its basically the area in which you usually get bags that we want to darken!
Once the eyes were suitably dark, I took a red lip liner and lined the eye, in the water line and around, taking a small smudge brush or any eye shadow brush, I blended the liner down underneath the eye with a brown/burgundy shadow to add extra smoulder to the look. I then took the red lip liner and lined the inside of the nostrils and taking the same smudge brush and blending the liner down and around the nostril, to create that sense of pain and soreness, that I associate with zombies and corpses.
Revisiting the contouring, darken the cheek bones and the jaw line, using the same shadows that you used to darken the eye socket. I also took the contouring into the clavicles on the chest, enhancing the gaunt skeletal look that comes with the reputation of being dead.
Using the stippling brush again, I wanted to create some bruises on the skin, you can pick any place on the skin, and all you need to do is take a red face paint, blotting it on your hand first as you dont want to much paint residue on your hand, and stipple onto the skin, then taking a brown shadow, blend over the top, using the same stippling application, and it will form a purple colour that we associate with a bruise. You can also take some powder and dust over the top, this will give the bruise a yellow tinge, all adding to the look.
For the lips, I lined with black lip liner and filled with the red lip liner, I blended the two together, and then buffed them out using a brown shadow, this looked extremely effective!
And although we are going for the zombie/dead look I still made sure my zombie had groomed eyebrows, if you want you can add some design to them, comb them up, over exaggerate the hair, etc, just make sure they are a few shades darker/black. Using a gel to set the brows in place.
Take your fake blood, and the end of your stippling brush and proceed to flick the fake blood over your face/models face, and body. Do not touch, let the blood take its natural place on the skin where it falls! Looks very realistic!
For the hair I used olive oil and combed it through the models hair, to make it look greasy, unclean and dirty! I then ran some of the blood through it to make it look matted and DISGUSTING!
Finally if you have contacts then do put them in, but make sure you are careful when doing so!
If you are performing this look on somebody else, than remember that hygiene is important, only use clean sterilised brushes on them, and wipe and liner used before applying, deposit some on your hand and use a brush! :)
If you have any further questions then please do not hesitate to ask/comment! I hope your enjoy creating this look and I hope you have a Happy Halloween Weekend!
Lots of Love
Alex
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