Zombie Fest Special Effects

I found the following excerpt on Liquid Latex while searching for zombie makeup ideas, seems pretty useful:

Lets start with some shrivel. Open your liquid latex bottle, and puff out your cheeks, like a trumpet player. With hamster-like swollen cheeks, brush on the liquid latex - give it a couple of coats. Hold it for just a bit - let it dry. Now, let the air out. Your cheeks are now back to normal.. but the latex, spread across a wider area initially, has no place to go. So, it wrinkles. Instant aging, at your service.

How about some peeling flesh? Apply the liquid latex, let it dry, and then artistically strip it off a leading side or two. Looking for something a bit more exciting? Some costume shops sell something they call "Zombie Rot". It is a soup of liquid latex and tiny black pebbles. Spread it on, and it makes the skin rough looking, and corrupted - like an advanced case of leprosy. It's a good effect.
 
From my on set experiences...

Just a friendly warning to newbies:

Liquid Latex + Hair = PAIN!

Trying to remove it from hair is painful. And I've seen accomplished make up artists slip...so be careful...
 
That's right everybody. John recommends for the best zombie look put the whole bottle directly in your hair. :)


Just kidding, DON'T do this...It's my idea...and you can't take it...unless you want to be cool...


No seriously don't do this.
 
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