Colors to make sure are in your kit: Black, Yellow, Green, White, Red.

Tips: For a good Zombie effect, you want a lot of texture. Vampires can be nice and smooth, but zombie makeup should have some good flesh-eating texture. Besides texture, it’s important to focus on the entire face in terms of highlight and contour. Eyes sockets and under the cheekbones are contours while brow bone and the tops of the cheekbones are highlights.

Set by Step:

1. For a good, healthy Zombie use the green and yellow, mixing together with a touch of black or white to make it lighter or darker, for the face. For less health, lean more towards the white. Take the large makeup sponge and cover the entire face (including lips) and neck. Color application does not have to be even so if there’s a more yellow or green in a part it’s just fine. You are a nasty Zombie.

2. Create your contours with the black. Start with a good wide hallow under the cheekbone. Extend a bit of that lightly towards the sides of the mouth. Then go for the eye sockets, covering all the way into the eyebrows and deep underneath the eyes. Focus a concentration of black right along the inner lower corner where someone naturally will have tired eyes, stipple here with your brush. And finally, add a touch of black on just the inner rim of the lips. Like as though you’ve been sucking a black lollipop.

3. Highlight with a touch of white along the tops of the cheekbones and the brow bone to help accentuate undead dead-like bone structure.

4. Add your gash wound(s). You can use an appliance kit like described in the last post (which sticks best to skin without makeup, so clear the area or stick it on first). Or, just take the red and create stitches, rope burn marks, or pitchfork holes as you like. Use the black to create dimension and the brush for texture.

5. Make sure your clothes are nice and tattered. Something that refers to the zombie’s previous life like a business suit, house dress, pizza delivery uniform, etc. has a strong effect.
I didn’t make my own video, so I’m stealing someone else’s from Scare You.

The easiest and coolest halloween makeup idea is to get a prosthetic makeup kit (or appliance kit). These include fingers coming through the face, screws in the head, oozing brains, huge gash marks, third eyeballs, and the like. I love these because the makeup can be your entire costume if you want. Running to a party straight from work? Just stick a bullet hole on your forehead, add a trickle of blood and -done. And it’s good. Not like the cop-out Jason mask you’ve been dragging around for years.

There’s various skill levels with the prosthetics, but if you can achieve it with just what comes in the kit and it’s less than, say 8 things, it’s probably easy enough for someone with little experience. The gory look is pretty much on the prosthetic already, so once it’s stuck on it looks like a work of art in itself.

Online, The Nightmare Factory looks like it has a good selection of easy ones, or if you consider yourself a near-pro halloween makeup enthusiast, check out Mostly Dead . FYI- probably not the best idea if you’re allergic to latex.

Here’s one I stuck on in like 10 min a couple years ago….