Halloween Makeup Tutorial: Zombie

To apply the foundation for your zombie Halloween look, begin by prepping the skin with a primer or moisturizer. You'll be applying a lot of makeup, so well-moisturized skin will create the best base. Choose a foundation that's lighter than your natural skin tone and add a touch of gray cream makeup to get the undead look.

Start your zombie makeup with a base. With a makeup sponge, blend foundation over the entire face including the eyes, lips and neck area. Set the makeup using translucent powder.

Grab a makeup brush and some gray eye shadow to add ghoulish contours to the face for zombie makeup. Use the gray tone under the cheekbones, in the hollows of the temples, down the sides of the nose, down the jaw line, in the contours of the neck and in the crease of the eyelid and around the hollows of the eye.

Grab a makeup brush and some gray eye shadow to add ghoulish contours to the face. Use the gray tone under the cheekbones, in the hollows of the temples, down the sides of the nose, down the jaw line, in the contours of the neck and in the crease of the eyelid and around the hollows of the eye. Use a makeup brush to add depth to these areas by blending the gray tone with black shadow in various places. To create an eerie, unnatural look, make this random and uneven on the face.

With a small, flat makeup brush, purse the lips and add black shadow to the natural lines of the lips. When the lips are relaxed they look very real for your zombie look.

To create the eyes of the undead, line the eyes using black eyeliner on the top and bottom in a heavy, uneven pattern.

With an eye shadow brush, add some red blush near the eye and a red eye liner to the water line of the eye. This will make the zombie eyes appear tired and sickly.

For the perfect undead zombie eyes, add red eye liner to the water line of the eye. This will make the eyes appear tired and sickly.

After applying eye liner and eye shadow, complete your zombie eye by adding mascara in a haphazard manner.

Use liquid latex to make your zombie face even scarier and create fake scars. Apply thin, dime-sized layers in various shapes and sizes on your cheek, forehead and chin. The texture gets tacky in about 20 seconds and can be pulled a little off the face to look like decaying skin.

After creating fake scars, add detail to make the wounds look real. With a stipple sponge, add some depth by adding red, black and gray shadow in and around the infection sites.

To complete your zombie look, add red coloring to the lips. Randomly add some red lip liner to the inner lips, but don't cover the black, detail lip lines.

Complete your Halloween zombie look with detail work. Add a few dots of red lipstick then smear it out and away from the lips.

To complete the zombie Halloween look, add drips of stage blood to selected areas around the face and neck.

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