MACABRE MAKEUP: THE ZOMBIE

5. Add details. You can use a blue or black makeup pencil to draw veins on the side of the forehead — blue will look sickly, while black will look like the blood has been poisoned. Use the black pencil to draw small lines radiating out from around the lips, like the lines you would find on a very old person; if you like, you can also deepen the laugh lines around the mouth. If you have a red makeup pencil, circling the eyes with it will give the zombie a rheumy, sickly look, but be very careful — red makeup can irritate the eye and lead to infection.

6. Color in the injury, and set the makeup. Darken the interior of the injury with purple or black greasepaint to make it look especially hollow. If you have an “injury stack,” take care to make the injury look bruised and mangled. If not, just slather it with copious quantities of fake blood. Before you add blood, though, apply powder to set the makeup.

Now dress in ragged clothes, mess up your hair, and practice staggering and moaning!

TIPS: It’s possible to buy liquid that will turn your teeth yellow. If you add this, or add crooked false teeth (or both!), your zombie will have a particularly decayed look. Also, if you like, cut a ping-pong ball in half, punch eyeholes, glue it onto the zombie’s eyes with liquid latex, and paint on tiny pupils, and you’ll have a weirdly bugeyed zombie, like the ones in 1964’s I Eat Your Skin.

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