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Here’s my easy tutorial on how to creaate realisitic zombie bites with just TWO cosmetic products! Also, you can use these tricks for other looks such as vampire bites, full on zombie makeups, various trauma and more! You can also check out my full tutorial here on my blog: http://www.glam-express.com/profiles/blogs/quick-and-easy-2d-zombie-bite-tutorial

You Will Need:

Mehron Bruise Wheel ( about $10.80 )

Fake Blood ( homemade or store bought, Graftobian works well if you don’t have a homemade recipe, I used my own recipe however ) it runs about $4.50 a small bottle.

STEP BY STEP TUTORIAL:

STEP 1: With your deep purple Mehron Bruise Wheel shade and Bright Red shade mixed apply a bite mark shaped half circle in the area you plan to create the wound. Blend subtly. Then, with your deep purple shade only, make some subtle teeth marks within the wound. Add some slight irritation with your bright red shade directly around the teeth marks and blend.

STEP 2: Add some veining, depicting the “infectious” qualities of your fake bite wound! Use your Bright Red Mehron wheel shade first, streaking some fake infected veins out from the bite. Make some more apparent then others, and some subtle. Blend, blend, blend. Go back and add some dark purple ones as well, and blend.

STEP 3: Add another half circle just like you did in step 1 across from the other, this will be the other half of the bite mark. Follow steps 1- 2. When finished, add some irritation with your bright red Mehron shade all around the outside of the bite to make it appear swollen. Blend.

STEP 4: Add some fake blood directly to the teeth mark areas.

STEP 5: Apply deep purple shade in your Mehron wheel to the inside of the bite to make it appear deeper, and also add some heavy bruising with this same shade around the outside of the bite to make it appear more infected. Add more blood to the inside of the bite! DONE!

FINISHED LOOK:

Cool 3D trick art: bullet hole in hand

Realistic Bruising Tutorial You can also find my bruise tutorial in full here on my blog! http://www.glam-express.com/profiles/blogs/bruised-eye-and-lip-halloween-tutorial?xg_source=msg_appr_blogpost ⚠TRIGGER WARNING: REALISTIC FACIAL BRUISING/TRAUMA MAKEUP. ⚠ This is strictly all FAKE, and MAKEUP demonstrating realistic bruising used in the SFX profession, with in particular, a street fight in mind as reference. IT DOES DEPICT FACIAL BRUISING HOWEVER. Please do not view this image if you are triggered by facial trauma, or gorey images.

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New to SFX? Been trying it out for a while? This tutorial is friendly for both beginners and those addicted to messing around with SFX techniques. This Eye and Lip Bruising step by step can be used in a multitude of looks and characters and requires no 3D materials! With only TWO yes TWO products it’s also very cost friendly! Check out my transformation below.

You Will Need:

Mehron Bruise Wheel ( about $10.80 )

Fake Blood ( homemade or store bought, Graftobian works well if you don’t have a homemade recipe, I used my own recipe however ) it runs about $4.50 a small bottle.

Step By Step ( from upper right to left )

Step 1.) With your Mehron Bruise Wheel dab a small precision brush into your bright red shade on the wheel. Encircle the area that will looked “bruised” in a bright red circle. Do so in dabbing motions, you want certain areas to look lighter than others in your outline of your bruise. This will make it appear more realistic. Stay away from hard lines. Blend.

Step 2.) Add the yellow from your Mehron wheel to your eyelid or any other area that will look “raised” or inflamed. I added it to my eyelid, upper cheekbone, and in the high areas around my lips. Then do the opposite, and with your dark purple shade in your Mehron wheel LIGHTLY lowlight your “low” areas in your bruises, such as the hollows of your under eye, and in my case some of the ridges of my lips. Blend, blend, blend.

Step 3.) Now we’re going to add irritation! Going back to your bright red, and deep red brown shades in your Mehron wheel, dab both shades randomly in soft strokes around the surrounding area of your fake bruises. Bruises usually look pretty irritated and red, but not directly ON the bruise, and more on the surrounding areas. Remember, you can always look up real bruise reference because it can really help. Just be warned, it can be pretty gruesome!

Step 4.) Create some busted open areas on the bruises by making a slash mark with your deep purple shade in your Mehron Wheel. Then, add homemade fake blood or bought fake blood to those “gashed” areas. Don’t overdo the blood! We want to see the bruise! Too much blood can ruin a realistic makeup.

Step 5.) Again, with the deep purple shade, go back into your hollow areas of your bruises and really accentuate them. Realistic bruises are all about layers! Blend, and you’re done!

Oh, what a lovely day!

This awesome four-legged costume is called a “Stilt Spirit” and it’s the haunting handmade creation of Indiana-based artist Melissa Irwin and her husband Garen. Inspired by the Land Striders from The Dark Crystal as well as the anime films of Hayao Miyazaki, they built a pair of these phenomenal costumes for Halloween back in 2010. Irwin’s stilt suit costume was created using extra-large medical crutches for the arms and circus peg stilts for the legs. They used upholstery foam and fabric to pad and decorate the costumes. The impressively creepy white mask was the perfect finishing touch:

We tried different faces and masks, but nothing seemed to creep out people more than the blank and expressionless human face. On Halloween we stand in yards to pretend like we are decorations then follow families down the street. FREAKS THEM OUT!!! We also walk in our town on random days in the year just to surprise people. : )

Click here to watch a short video that includes both a time-lapse creation process as well as fantastic footage of Melissa and Garen walking around in their stunning costumes.

Irwin didn’t follow any sort of pattern when designing her Stilt Spirit. But the response to her creation has been so overwhelmingly positive that she’s since put together  a set of downloadable instructions and a tutorial for creating your very own Stilt Spirit, currently available via Melissa Irwin’s Etsy shop.