Halloween!!

So halloween is one of my fraviuot times of year, to me its probley more fun then christmas.

my friends always wait in anticipation to see what freaky thing i try and pull off; Last year I made a dramatic Marie Antoinette costume .....so this year I really wanted to top that with crazy special effect makeup! 

To say i didn't scare a few kids trickle treating would be an understatement of the year! mahahahhaha

photo taken by myself on phone
halloween 31st oct 14

So to achieve the first look "zip face" I checked out a few ideas on line and everyone had different techniques to pull it off so I just generalised all that info and made my own plan of action. As i'm allergic to latex I had to be careful with what I used. I bought a zip from a fabric shop, I used eye lash glue to actually stick the zip to my face once I cut it down to shape and size and applied, then using a small painters brush applied 7 layers of none latex glue around the edges to help camaflage the fabric for when I applied my make up. Once it had all dried I applied my base and conceler as i would on a normal day and around the "wound"  for the actual wound i used wet and dried blood and bright red lipstick to cover wound. and to add more definition i used black pencil to smudge around edges.

photo taken by myself on phone
second look
31st oct 14

Again for this look I used the 7 layer technique this may be different for some but i found it made the "skin" look real enough, so using tissue paper i layered 7 times and dried off each layer before continueing, once done I then again applied my make up like normal before adding to the wounds. I wanted this look to be like a car crash victim, with my face half off. Naturally there would be bruising so don't forget to create this in typical areas and blood. I also peeled the skin slightly to create a blown off look. With a white eye pencil I drew in teeth and defined with a black pencil.


Having created both these looks, looking back on it now I no I need to be more vigilant with products that I buy as I still managed to have a reaction to the zip face. which wasn't fun!