If you are not afraid of repulsive images and want to shock others, then the image of a zombie is ideal for Halloween. It’s not easy to create, but with effort and rehearsal in advance, you can create a terribly effective image. You can limit yourself to a zombie costume: torn clothes; to add a terrifying effect, you can sprinkle the outfit with fake blood. But without expressive makeup, the image will be unfinished. Therefore, it is worth spending some time to create repulsive makeup.
Important details for a zombie Halloween look
To create the perfect image of the living dead, you need more than just clothes and makeup. The following details are very important in this image:
- lenses;
- teeth;
- fake blood.
Lenses will help create an impressive effect that no amount of makeup can achieve. White lenses or ones with a luminous effect are ideal for this look. An important detail is the teeth , the image of a zombie will not work if you have a snow-white smile. To give them a dark shade, rinse them with dark food coloring. To return them to their natural color, you need to clean them with baking soda.
For a zombie look you need to use fake blood . If you can’t buy it, you can make it yourself. To do this, you will need dyes of two colors - red and blue. If you add a little black paint, you get a gore effect.
- Place a pan of water on the fire.
- Dissolve starch in a glass of cold water.
- Pour the diluted starch into boiling water, stirring while doing so. The more starch you add, the thicker the mixture will be. Then add red dye and a little blue until the “blood” takes on a natural shade. You need to be careful with the blue tint so that it doesn’t turn purple.
There are other options for creating fake blood for Halloween zombie makeup:
- sugar syrup, tinted with dyes;
- gelatin solution with dyes.
Important! Don't try to replace fake blood with lipstick! It looks unnatural and will ruin the whole image.
Video: Halloween Zombie Makeup
Where did the zombie image come from?
The image of zombies is actively exploited in literature, theater, music, computer games, comics and cinema. The word “zombie” was first mentioned in literature in 1929 in the book “The Island of Magic” by William Seabrook, which is dedicated to voodoo rituals, magic and zombies in Haiti. This book aroused interest in the topic of the “revived corpse” and already in 1932 the film “White Zombie” by Victor Halperin was released. Subsequently, zombie cinema emerged as an independent subgenre, and the impetus for this was the classic horror film “Night of the Living Dead” by George Romero (1968).
The enormous popularity of the zombie theme is also evidenced by the so-called zombie mobs. These are mass entertainment parades, the participants of which are made up to look like “living corpses.” The first such procession took place in 2001 in the city of Sacramento (California, USA).
What you need to create zombie makeup for Halloween
To create a zombie look for a girl for Halloween you will need:
- theatrical makeup or light-colored foundation;
- shades of gray or gray-green, purple, blue or crimson flowers.
To create important elements (artificial wounds) you will need theatrical wax. If you were unable to purchase one, paper napkins and eyelash glue or gelatin will do the job.
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Ghost
An unusual ghost costume will help make the holiday truly fun. It is suitable for both boys and girls of different ages.
Halloween Ghost Costume: Pexels
How to make a Halloween ghost costume for kids? This is a very simple option, for the manufacture of which you only need a piece of white fabric or a sheet and scissors. What do we have to do? The instructions are:
- Prepare a large piece of white fabric. An alternative is a worn white sheet.
- Drape the fabric over your head so that it covers your entire body.
- Mark the eyes on the fabric. Remove the sheet and cut out 2 circles in the eye area.
The suit is ready. To prevent the image of a ghost from being boring, cover yourself with a white cloth, stretch your arms, and make muffled sounds and groans. This will help instill fear and make you laugh.
Step-by-step instructions for creating zombie makeup for Halloween
Before doing zombie makeup, practice so that it doesn’t turn out too repulsive, which is especially important for girls.
Step-by-step instructions for performing zombie makeup for Halloween:
- Pre-cleanse your facial skin with toner . Then apply a light shade. You can use theatrical makeup: add a little blue or green tint to white paint.
- Start drawing circles near the eyes . To do this, take dark-colored shadows and blend them thoroughly. Apply a red tint along the edge of the circle and blend the boundaries between these and dark shadows. This helps create a bruising effect. If you paint the upper eyelid with light gray shadows, and paint the lower ones with dark red and highlight the contour of the eyes with a red pencil, this will create the effect of sore eyes.
- Pull in your cheeks and brush over the hollows formed with a brush with gray-green shadows . Add a little burgundy or purple shade and blend.
- Apply foundation to your lips . Apply lipstick without touching the contours of your lips. Your task is to create the effect of a mouth carelessly stained with blood. Use a brush to apply some fake blood.
Video: Halloween makeup in the style of a zombie apocalypse
How to make a DIY Halloween costume
Do it yourself
Making your own Halloween costume is easier than it seems.
There are many patterns and videos on the Internet with tutorials on how to create an outfit for the holiday. Blogger and seamstress Victoria Rakusa got acquainted with the most common options on the Internet and presented her top Halloween costumes to Gazeta.Ru, which everyone can definitely replicate. You don't need a sewing machine or special sewing skills for this. Skeleton
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You can make a skeleton out of a plain black T-shirt without a pattern. To do this, you need to trace the pattern of the ribs (it is available on the Internet) on the fabric with a white pencil or a pointed piece of soap, then carefully cut out along the contour. You can hem white fabric under the bottom of a cut T-shirt or wear a white T-shirt so that the “skeleton” appears more clearly through the slits.
Horns of Maleficent
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To make horns, like from the cartoon “Maleficent,” we take cardboard and make rings from strips of paper 2.5 cm wide. We glue the ends of the strips or connect them with a stapler. Depending on the thickness of the desired horns, we choose the diameter of the rings ourselves. But the first ring will be the largest, while the rest are gradually reduced in diameter. In total you will need 9 rings.
We attach the rings sequentially as they grow larger to each other with glue, while tilting them slightly so that the horn is curved.
Next, we make a cone from a piece of cardboard - this will be the tip of the horn. We wrap our product with electrical tape for beauty and structural strength and attach it to the rim with glue.
Bat
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Tights with a bat are easy to make. To do this, you need to print out several small images of a bat and attach them to the tights with PVA glue. An important point: you must be wearing tights, otherwise they may tear.
Bat legs can be made using thick tights. To do this, cut off the bottom of the tights and put it on your hand. Spread your fingers and sew along the fingers with thread. Then cut the fabric between the stitches and the paws are ready.
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Clothes that you are going to throw away or send as unsuitable to the dacha will come in handy for him. Artistically chop it up in different places, add “bloody” streaks of paint. And the most important thing here is the right makeup, because zombies do not have an ideal complexion.
Frankenstein
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Here you will also need old clothes and about 30-50 pins. Cut the clothing into several large pieces and then pin them together.
Be sure to wear a T-shirt or long sleeve under your layer of clothing to protect your skin from sharp needles, because the pins can come undone.
Here you can play with the combination of colors and the direction of the lines. No restrictions, only imagination.
Harley Quinn
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This costume is somewhat more complex than the previous ones. You will need a white T-shirt with a message on the chest - you probably have one in your closet. But the skirt will have to be made. For this you will need pink and blue tulle. We cut about 50-80 strips from the fabric, the length being calculated by the formula: multiply the length of the skirt by two plus 5 cm for the belt. The width of each strip is about 20 cm. We tie the cut fabric around the elastic band of the belt tightly to each other. You can make two lengths of strips: shorter and longer, and alternate. Remember, the denser the stripes, the fuller the skirt. To complete the look, you can also buy two ribbons in pink and blue from the fabric store and weave them into the ponytail.
Fast and easy
If you do have to spend a little time creating these costumes, experienced party planners offer simpler tips for creating a Halloween look and recommend using what you already have.
Christina Hollo, producer of the Friendly Halloween party, admits that she creates her own image from scrap materials, complementing it with makeup and transferable tattoos. “The main life hack is to buy things throughout the year that can be useful for Halloween. But costume departments also help out, for example, Sergei Agasfer has a large collection [of holiday outfits],” says Hollo.
According to the costume designer and artist Sergei Agasfer
, there are two ways to prepare your Halloween costume. You can turn to professionals for help, or you can make the outfit yourself.
“Paper, cardboard, papier-mâché, sheets, pots can become part of a costume. And the main thing you should pay attention to is old clothes,” notes the costume designer. Any costume can be created if you have the desire and imagination. For example, Gromozeka from the cartoon “The Secret of the Third Planet” can be easily made from unnecessary kitchen utensils and foil.
Trendy costumes, according to Sergei Agasfer, are set by the film industry. This year's top picks include the heroes of the movie "Dune" with their space outfits and the monster Venom from the action movie of the same name.
“The thriller “Halloween Kills” has just been released, and all over the world, and even here at house parties, guys will dress in work uniforms and a white mask. This will be the most popular costume,” predicts the costume designer.
The most popular outfits for Halloween parties among Russians this year were the costumes of the characters from the series Money Heist - red overalls and Salvador Dali masks. The top five also included zombie, Dracula, Harry Potter and Naruto costumes. They talked about this
"Gazeta.Ru" in the press service of the Avito platform.
However, on the eve of Halloween, the characters of Money Heist were still inferior
in popularity to the characters of another popular series, The Squid Game.
Stylist Katya Punch
advises looking for ideas and inspiration on the photo hosting site Pinterest. “The search query halloween ideas costumes has a huge number of options that are easy to create yourself - from an angel to Cruella,” says the fashion expert.
To do this, it is not necessary to cut old things or cut new ones. For example, you can transform into Catwoman by finding black leggings and a crop top of the same color in your wardrobe. “The most important nuance will be the makeup; at a minimum, you can stick on temporary tattoos with blood stains or scars,” explains Katya Punch.
Using the same principle, it will be possible to create a costume for the Joker, Jack Sparrow, the Evil Clown, a vampire, a nurse, Baba Yaga, the devil, characters from the series “The Squid Game” and others.
The easiest way to transform any clothes into Halloween ones is with the help of accessories, says the stylist. To do this, you can use masks, hats, gloves, extensions, colored lenses, and wigs.
Zombie Makeup Feature
The Halloween zombie look will be incomplete without artificially damaging the skin. A simple option would be to make them from napkins. They need to be torn and glued to the skin using eyelash glue. So you need to stick several layers until you get a lumpy surface. When the glue dries, a foundation of the same shade as the skin is applied to the napkins. Use shadows to create a “decomposition” effect.
In some places, tear the napkins with a toothpick, just be careful not to damage your skin. Ruffle the resulting gap to create the illusion of peeling skin. Apply crimson, purple and gray shadows over the area of the resulting gap, and paint the inside with red paint. Sprinkle the resulting “wound” with artificial blood, add a few drips.
Video: Zombie Halloween Makeup
Witch
If you are looking for a beautiful costume for a girl, pay attention to the popular option - the witch costume. How to make a witch Halloween costume for a girl? Author of the book “DIY Carnival Costumes. From a complex idea to a five-minute costume,” Elena Krasovskaya advises using the following principle for composing a costume:
- Make or select the main part of the costume. This is a dress, a sundress, a tunic. You can sew it yourself or purchase it in a store. The main condition is to give preference to black or another dark color. Suitable materials include satin, silk, tulle and knitwear. Some mothers can make a decent dress out of large plastic trash bags. You can wear a T-shirt or turtleneck and a fluffy skirt.
- Decide on the auxiliary parts of the costume. You will need a pointed hat and a mask. Sew a hat from fabric or make it from cardboard according to a pattern: twist a cone from thick paper or A4 cardboard and cut off the excess part. From another sheet, cut out a circle, and in it another one, the diameter of which corresponds to the diameter of the cone. Glue the parts together, paint the hat with black gouache or drape it with black fabric. Decorate with themed decor: silver ribbon, spiders, sparkles.
- To complete the look, the little witch will need a staff, broom or magic wand. They can be wrapped in foil or painted with silver paint.
Halloween Witch Costume for Teenage Girl: Flickr
Don't forget about makeup: wear dark eye shadow, black or red lipstick. The image is complete. It is perfect for both little babies and teenage girls.
Photo gallery of zombie ideas and images for Halloween
The technique for performing zombie makeup is simple; the entire impression of the image depends on the details. Don't be lazy and take the time to make fake blood or burns. But your zombie image will amaze and shock everyone at the Halloween celebration! The main thing is not to overdo it with details: the appearance should not only repel, but also delight with its idea. Practice, add imagination and bring your ideas to life to be the most “scary” beautiful on Halloween!
Video: Zombie makeup for Halloween
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The effect of cuts on the wrists
How to do zombie makeup so that it looks as natural and scary as possible throughout the entire image? Add makeup not only to your face, but also to your hands, decorating your wrists with bloody cuts.
1. Apply liquid latex thinly. Wait for it to dry.
2. Pull the latex in the middle and cut with scissors. So that your skin is visible from under it.
3. Paint it over first with black and then with red, using makeup or lipstick.
4. Dip small pieces of kitchen towel in red paint or fake blood and use makeup glue to glue them inside the cut.
5. Using a concealer, blend the color transitions between the makeup and your natural skin around the edges.
6. Draw thin streams or streaks of blood from the cut.
