How-To: Makeup

General Tips:

• Use any pale sickly color as a foundation
• Add shadow and highlight colors to create the classic sunken eyed and gaunt look
  • Try looking at a skull for a better idea of what areas could have shadows
  • Darken skin creases (around the nose and mouth, across the forehead, etc)
• Add layers of random bruises, rotten areas, and gore splatter
• Add blood. Usually flaws in the makeup or gore effects can be hidden with more blood.
• Temporary hair color spray works nicely for concealing healthy skin that shows through rips in clothing

Makeups

[ ToDo: Add comparison of various makeups ]

Tools

[ ToDo: Add general info about useful tools ]

• Makeup Sponges
  Grab whatever you can find cheap. Circles are good  large foundation work. Wedges are good for smaller detail work.
• Paint Brushes
  Use cheap ones. There's no reason to ruin good makeup brushes on zombies.
• Stipple Sponge
  Large celled foam that's used to create an uneven, speckled look so the makeup looks more natural

Cheap Zombies in Bulk

Usually, we recommend that everyone do their own makeup before showing up, but if you plan to have a bunch of the living show up expecting to be zombified, here are a few tips.

• Makeup will take longer than you expect
  Trust me. Encourage people to do their own before the event. If you insist on making zombies onsite, plan for creating very quick, simple zombies like shown below.
• Blood...and lots of it
  Nothing makes you creepy looking faster than being soaked in blood
• Bruise Wheels / Makeup Sets
  Most costume makeup companies produce sets of colors for creating bruises (usually ugly reds, blues, greens, and yellows).
• Cheap makeup sponges
  Hit a dollar store for a bunch of the cheapest makeup applicators you can find

A little dark red/brown/grey smeared under the eyes, a few messy bruises, and some blood and you have a two minute zombie!