Halloween Makeup Tips: How to Look Like a Zombie? To pull off a zombie look is perhaps the most difficult Halloween costumes. Doing it perfectly needs plenty of skills and doing it wrong will only make you look funnier than scary. To help you out, we have collected some awesome makeup tips to nail a zombie look on Halloween.
Fake blood People often use liquid food coloring for fake blood, and the biggest problem with is that it stains. The best thing for this purpose is corn syrup. A better bet is to get powdered food coloring to make icing which you can bet from a bake shop. To get a great blood color, blend red and yellow food coloring.
Eyes
The color of the eyes is the most striking feature of the zombies. So along with the eye makeup, it is important to put on walking dead contact lenses which come in a wide range of colors and styles. Any of such lenses will make your zombie look more authentic.
Realistic looking wounds For a DIY version of realistic-looking wounds, use sheets of latex, tissue paper or cotton. To decrease the thickness of the latex, feather it, glue it to your face and dry the layers with a hair dryer. It is the easiest way to get wounds.
Keep the skin tone right Some zombie make up kits include different tints and shades, like red, blue or green. They may be good, but make the make up a little weird. Instead of using them, put a sponge in water and apply yellowish brown base color so that your face look paled out. Then proceed with your make up with some browns and dried blood colors. Keep everything muted and don’t use blue or purple. In a zombie look, everything is earth tone.
Keep the shading perfect Going too heavy with the shading is one of the biggest mistakes people often commit. If you mark a picture of a skill, you can notice eye sockets, tip of the nose, temples appear darker. Shading is important but don’t make yourself look like a joker. If you make your eye sockets too dark, shading will not look authentic. It will look more like a mask. It is important to blend the colors evenly to nail a perfect look.
Attaining a perfect zombie look on Halloween may be difficult but not impossible. Hope that with these tips and tricks, you will be able to look like a zombie on Halloween.