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Arts & CraftsHow to Do Special Effects Makeup

How to Do the Eyes for Special FX Zombie Makeup

Transcript

All right. Now, I’m adding a red lip pencil to the waterline of his eye, so I’m going to have you look up, and I’m going right along that little tiny part of the eye. Okay, here you go. That’s the red around the eye. Now what I’m going to do is go around and rip holes in the tissue and put some shadow underneath. A really good place to do this is the nose. I’m just going to pull it up like it’s falling off, and you’ll see the actual skin exposed under there. We’ll just start adding shadows.

Just pulling that up a little and adding shadow underneath. You can get it so that it just kind of hangs there with something exposed underneath. That creates a really cool effect. The same around the mouth. It seems like zombies are always falling apart at the mouth. This looks this might be a good place on the cheek, and add shadow.

You can just do this all around the make-up. Find little places to expose the skin, put some shadow in there. This area around the eye can be super sensitive, so you probably don’t want to be tearing the latex off right there, but you can create a little illusion of depth right there. You can make this as complicated and detailed as you want by adding a little more color depth, adding some blacks and some lighter colors to create highlights. I’m just going to add a tiny bit of black in some of these.

The darkest spot will be where the latex has been ripped. All right, now, we’re going to stipple a little more color all over the make-up before doing the final touches. You can keep adding color or whatever you like, but to complete this look, we’re going to move onto the next step, which is adding blood and ooze.


Lessons in this Guide

How to Add Color to Special FX Zombie Makeup

How to Do the Eyes for Special FX Zombie Makeup

How to Add Color to a Special FX Fake Bullet Hole

How to Make a Fake Special FX Bullet Hole from Dental Floss

How to Do Special FX Makeup with Ciara Rose Griffin

How to Add Wounds to Special FX Zombie Makeup

How to Do the Base for Zombie Special FX Makeup

How to Do the Teeth for Zombie Special FX Makeup

How to Make Scars for Joker Special FX Makeup

How to Do the Mouth for Joker Special FX Makeup

How to Do the White Base for Joker Special FX Makeup

How to Add Blood to a Special FX Zipper Face

How to Do a Special FX Zipper Face Using Spirit Gum

Tools You Need to Make a Fake Neck Wound

How to Do a Fake Neck Wound with Silicone Compound

How to Add Blood to a Fake Neck Wound

How to Blend a Fake Neck Wound into Skin

How to Blend Color for a Special FX Zipper Face

How to Blend a Special FX Makeup Zipper Face into Skin

How to Add Color to a Special FX Zipper Face

How to Add Color to a Fake Neck Wound

How to Twist & Pin Hair for a Wig

How to Do Cheeks & Stitched Lips for Day of the Dead Makeup

How to Do a Day of the Dead Makeup Base

How to Color a Fake Black Eye with Makeup

How to Use a Wig Cap & Wig

Tools You Need to Make a Fake Black Eye

How to Add Embellishments to Day of the Dead Makeup

How to Hollow Out Features for Day of the Dead Makeup

How to Fill In & Set a Fake Tattoo

How to Make a Bleeding Fake Cut

How to Cover a Tattoo Using Foundation

How to Make a Fake Cut Look Real

How to Shade a Fake Tattoo

Tools & Preparation Needed to Make a Fake Cut

How to Layer Concealer to Cover a Tattoo

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