Makeup

[Greenman]

To make zombie makeup all you need is a few things.

Elmer's Glue
Toilet Paper
Cheap Halloween makeup pallet
Foundation powder that matches your skin tone (***For you guys, you may want to ask a woman to help you pick out the right one for you at the drug store.)
Fake blood
cotton swabs
cotton balls

[Greenman]

STEP ONE
Clean and prep the area (Guys, you may want to shave the spot on your arm.)

[Greenman]

STEP TWO
Layer glue and TP (tear edges of tp)

Let it dry between layers

[Greenman]

PART THREE
Make tare or wound in still tack last layer.

Then the hardest part. let it dry. This will take about 20 -30 minuets.

[Greenman]

PART FOUR
Add blue and reds for bruising and swelling. Add black, to create the illusion of depth.

[Greenman]

PART FIVE
Use foundation makeup and blend.

[Greenman]

PART SIX
Add fake blood and scare your neighbors.

[Toshu Hongoia]

lol. awsome! you just saved me a cupple bucks

[Greenman]

PART SEVEN
Now the worse part. Removal.
If you wish to save your wound you will have to peel it off carefully and slowly.
You will wish you had shaved the site first. (I didn't)

I don't know if you can reuse the wound. I have never tried.
But the rest of clean up only requires soap and water.

[Monkey Butt Films]

I know a good way to do wounds using just colored makeups and blood actually. I've been working on a tv show thats being shot in HD, so the makeup guys really have their work cut out for them. We were shooting a scene that was suppose to be the aftermath of a bus crash. Dead bodies, people dying, rolled over bus, the works. The makeup teams did some pretty amazing work. They used, black and purple colored makeups on the skin and the effects blood I mentioned on the other board as well as red makeup and a more viscous effects blood (though the home made kind will do).

Put the black and purple on first to discolor the skin, you really have to play with it until you get a good mixture of the two colors on the skin.

Next you wanna put the effects blood at the top of the wound and the sides and let is fall down the area naturally. If you do it right, it'll look like the blood is running out of a wound and around a raised area.

Finally you wanna use the DYI blood towards the center of your wound using a brush (paint brush, I mean) to paint the area over the makeup. It'll take a little practice, but once you get it right, it'll look awesome. Now, these instructions aren't exact. I had to keep my eyes closed for a big chunk of my makeup sessions because they were using alcohol based bloods around my eyes as well as having to actually put makeup on my eye lids.

if you want a good way to pale skin, the cheapest way is to find a shade of foundation that matches your actors skin tone. Once you've found that, buy the foundation that's a few shades lighter than that one. All else fails, Corpse Paint is pretty cheap and every costume shop sells it.

[Greenman]

Zombie or Corpse HAIR

This is a tip I got from Zombie Hunter. You want to make your actors hair look dead and dry, but you don't want to damage anyone's hair. So, just use baby powder. It look great, and it is what Bunkerbewahrer does in his films, now.

[Monkey Butt Films]

shaving cream in the hair works too actually. dries the hair out like you wouldn't believe. Shaving cream also gets blood of REALLY easily. Cuts right through the stain. Makeup guy on set gave me that tip.

[Psycho]

I also discovered that the right mixture of charcoal and flour make a nice Grey foundation that will "pale" the skin well. Works great on face and neck.....don't use charcoal with lighter fluid added!