Tips and Tricks for Creating Zombie Costumes
The slow-paced, stone-cold horrors from the grave called Zombies have become a hot trend today, especially for Halloween costumes. Luckily also, you can create Zombie costumes with ease except you want to achieve deep makeup effects. If you are just getting started with Zombie clothing, this article would provide you with tips and tricks that work.
Step 1: Choose Your Preferred Line of Zombie
There are tons of Zombie varieties to go by, it all depends on your preference. For instance, you can find modern-day zombie versions, as well as the vintage movie zombies. You will also find the comic book depictions of zombie costumes. Some inspirations I’ve recently found on YouTube include the following;
- Zombie celebrity
- Zombie ballerina
- Zombie doctor
- Zombie zookeeper
- Zombie football
- ...zombie anything
Just think of any character or career and you will have it zombified with ease. You only have to ensure optimum creativity when selecting your preferred outfit, style or era. There are vast opportunities with your zombification if you can get creative about it.
Step 2: The Costume Base
When it comes to your costume base, one option is to buy or make a new one. Another option is to rustle up the previous year’s zombie costume and make it over completely. However, choosing any of the option would depend on the choice of zombie persona (e.g. zombie ballerina, zombie doctor etc) you selected.
Warning Note: since it will definitely get destroyed, endeavor to keep it cheap. Before you rustle up the previous year’s costume, ensure you will not mimic that character again. It is more economical to use an old cloth for zombie costumes. But, if you still want to use the old cloth at home for other purposes, a thrift store is a good place to purchase unwanted cloth for zombie outfit.
Tip 3: Turn the Clothing into a Zombie Costume
Now, it’s time to turn the clothing into a zombie costume. At this point, the cloth is in place, you need to make it tattered and unkempt. Attach some ripped elements to the tattered cloth to achieve a perfect zombie look. If you are not satisfied with the scruffiness of the costume so far, don’t hesitate to add more disheveled features.
Tip #4: Add Blood
Blood sprinkle on the clothing is what creates perfect picture of a zombie. Fake blood works best with zombie clothing. When applying fake blood on the costume, there are essential tricks you can employ;
- Go for the water-based darker blood
- The corn-syrup blood causes discomfort as you work around because of its stickiness. Besides, you will end up looking cartoonish instead of mimicking a zombie perfectly.
There are couple of other things you can add to zombie costumes to get more zombie effects. However, the steps above are sufficient to give you an ideal zombie look.