How to look like the LIVING DEAD for Halloween this year

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How to look like the LIVING DEAD for Halloween this year!

I got my passion for makeup from my mom, who LOVES prosthetic makeup (and rocks at it). Growing up, it use to EMBARRASS me SOOO much when she would volunteer with the PTA every Halloween and dress up. Not only would she dress up but she would apply prosthetic witch noses and bloody scabs and warts all over. It grossed me out when I was younger but now I appreciate that she is the reason why I love makeup so much.

I love hearing everyone's makeup stories and tips and today I got some GREAT zombie makeup from Buzznet user "I'm on my way."

"How To Look Like A Creature Of The Night!"

By "I'm On My Way"

morninginthesun94.buzznet.com

"I've noticed that they're are a lot of journals on how to look uber cute for Halloween. Well, that's fine and dandy. But some of us aren't gonna be sailors or vampires or ballerinas. No, some of us are gonna throw cutesy out the window and go for strait up, shit-yourself-scary. What I'm doing this year is a little thing called ZOMBIE. You know, zombies? The walking dead? They supposedly eat brains? Yep.

Want to learn how to pull this bloody look off? Read below."

"(The eyes are a certain type of contacts, which you can order from websites like www.coastalcontacts.com.)

1. For the base, you don't want to look like a ghost like this poor girl, but you do want a whitish tone. Mix 2 parts white creme makeup (I use Rubies Creme Makeup, which you can buy for $2 at Wal Mart around the Halloween season) and 2 parts whatever foundation is for your skin tone. Keep in mind, you'll need quite a bit of it. Distribute it EVERYEHERE (yes, your eyelids too) evenly along your face and neck, along the neckline of whatever shirt you're wearing.

2. Apply a black eyeshadow along the creases of your eye, smudging it a bit so it blends with the foundation mix. (If you're strapped for cash, Covergirl shadow works. If you want a little better quality, I recommend Darla's Odyssey compact.)

3. Take a light grey and blend it along the outside of your eyes, taking an angle brush or Q-tip (I'm a Q-tip person myself -- did you know you can't stick those in your ear?) and lining underneath your eye.

4. When it comes to your eyes, this is where you can get creative past this picture. For a more rotten, diseased look (which I always love), yellow and red makeup crayons (again, $1 at wal mart for a good pack of 6) along the lashes gives a great virus look. But if you aren't going to order contacts, and hey, maybe you want to play up a little girly side to this, blues and greens make eyes pop beyond all of the black.

5. There's always the option of taking a 'tooth crayon' and coloring your teeth, to give them a rotten look (think of the teeth in pirate movies). DON'T. It tastes gross and never lasts long.

6. Now here's the fun part. It's like decorating the cake. Putting the gore on! Personally, I love the gashes and cuts. Above is a horrible example. Cheap blood, halfway dried, looks thrown on. I will say this once and only once: Fake skin is a Halloween girl's best friend. Ya heard? Latex-based fake skin smells horrible (think chocolate and dog sh*t), but when drying, dab at it with a makeup sponge and let it pull. It won't hurt, I swear. It makes good scars, rotten skin, etc.

7. This is my favorite part. Fake blood. Drench yourself in it! Why not? I personally don't like putting it on areas like my forehead or my nose, because it either ends up in my eyes or I'm snortin' it or something. Which isn't fun. A really cool thing to do is a masking trick. Use masking or painter's tape and make a clean, strait line across your cheek or neck. Take whatever bottle of blood you have and keep it close to the tape, and let it just drip an even stripe of blood. When you pull back the tape, you should have a clean line.

8. For hair, I recommend not washing it the day before you go out to hold whatever style you're going to do. I plan on briding chunks of my hair and slicking in some gel for a slick, grungy look.

Look, you can be the cutest little thing at the Halloween party, but are you the most creative? Guys like creative girls. And what's more creative than a blood-drenched zombie?

Well, probably a lot."

Halloween is by far my FAVORITE holiday of the year but I NEVER know what to be. I am into scary stuff but I dont like gory makeup on myself (I leave that to my mom) however, I also dont want to dress like a Playboy Bunny. Maybe I should be something funny like a carrot?

What are all of you going to be for Halloween??

What is your favorite makeup tip?

Thanks again Jess for the great advice!

XOX,