Every year, people I work with eagerly await my Halloween costume, or should I say creation. I do not like buying my costume, and take a lot of pride in creating as much as I can from scratch. My 2013 costume idea arose from an innocent comment made by one of my friends. I am … Read more
This year I decided to got to a zombie walk as a zombie soldier The makeup was a fairly simple application, I only painted on liquid latex and then added damaging effects to it with a wooden makeup tool. Painting was the hardest part I was going for a classical Italian style zombie, with more … Read more
This is my Zombie makeup look… You will need: Liquid latex Tissue paper Stage blood Thick blood Ben Nye Colour Wheel – Death Mehron Fantasy FX Face Paint (white) Red eye liner pencil Sponges Setting powder Castor oil Barrier spray Foundation Brown eye shadow Black charchoal powder Hair dryer Steps for Applying this Grotesque … Read more
My boys wanted to be Zombies for Halloween, but they didn’t want a store bought costume that others were also wearing that same night. I gathered all the supplies I needed, including toilet paper, paste, face paints, brushes, and black eye shadow. You clean the area of the face and remove facial hair, because sometimes … Read more
I was pregnant last Halloween and still wanted to dress up, but I wanted to be creative about it and non-traditional. So, I made a simple pregnant zombie costume with a baby doll from a yard sale and an old shirt. The doll I used was the kind with plastic hands and feet that can … Read more
My husband always had me dress as something sexy, but sexy doesn’t win contests. This past year I decided to go with a zombie since The Walking Dead was so popular, but I wanted to be unique, I didn’t want anyone else to have anything even close to what I was going to wear. I … Read more
I decided I wanted to be a zombie when I first started scrolling through Netflix then seeing one of the most popular shows out there; The Walking Dead. I started to watch one episode, then another, then another, I couldn’t stop. In about 2 weeks I watched all 3 seasons and now here I am … Read more
My costume was inspired by a submission I saw on this website. I used black elastic and tied black and yellow strips of tulle to create the skirt. I used black and yellow t-shirts and shredded the black shirt to create a striped bee/ragged zombie look. The striped tights, wings, and antennae were store bought. … Read more
Every year our friends host a Halloween Party and award a prize for the best costume, year after year my wife and I aim to … chew up our competition, tear them apart if you will. This particular Halloween was no different, the reactions were terror and amazement, the steps to create our costumes were … Read more
We both put these day of the dead outfits together for the Hard Day of the Dead festival. We decided to be a dead bride and groom, wearing matching colors (red and black). I also put an A initial (for Alain) over my heart and he put a D initial (for Debbie) on his hat. … Read more
This “bloody gash” face is fairly easy once you get used to working with latex. I used a cream white and green base on my face that dries quickly. I then used black cream base around my eyes and shadow area of face. Next, I poured a small amount of liquid latex into a plastic bowl … Read more
I always try to come up with some type of crazy or different halloween costume, the previous year I wore the illusion costume of the gorilla carrying the safari guy in the cage, it was fun! a cool illusion, I starting to think how I could use the same costume but make changes to it, … Read more