Cheap skate zombie!

I'm a little crazy for special occasion make up trials, which normally means Halloween or horror events for me. I'm also a single mom, which means I save my expensive make up for the actual event and find cheaptastic ways to create what I want for my trials. I can't believe I've never done zombie make up before. Of all the costumes I've worn... In my effort to find a cheap way to create a zombie I stumbled upon a fun technique someone had done in an effort to create a burned skin look, I couldn't resist it.
What is so very genius about it is that it will cost you about $5 if you already have make up, if not around $20 on the least expensive side.(As in you get the supplies at a drug store or stick with Walmart or Target, NYX has some pretty inexpensive make up that comes in a variety of colors depending on the season)

What I used to create the skin and wounds:

Liquid Elmers washable school glue and cotton balls. Done.

I also used, Hard Candy's concealer pallet ($8 at walmart)
A translucent powder (I used a cheap one from walmart, I think it's around $3)
Red lipstick(I used Urban Decay Revolution because that's the only red lipstick I own. Any red lipstick will do)    
A reddish/brownish (brick colored) eyeshadow (I used Glamour Doll Eyes Lovers Lane)
A dark purple eyeshadow (I used MAC Fig. 1, again because that's all I had in that color, but you can find dark purple pretty much everywhere)
A Yellow eyeshadow (I used MAC Sun Blonde, which I think was limited edition)
And a clear lip gloss that's free of glitter, preferably unscented/unflavored, if you have a scented one just make sure it's not mint or menthol since it'll be near your eyes.

Obviously I used more then this if you include my eye make up, but for the basic zombie wound, this is what I used. You can do your eye and lip make up any way you'd like. Also if you get one of those cream make up pallets they sell during Halloween at walmart, or target around you wouldn't need the red lipstick, yellow eyeshadow, or even the purple eyeshadow, which would be much cheaper then buying the shadows and lipstick separately. Make sure you also pick up a little brush set, I actually use a $1 plastic crayola paint brush set for children, cream make up and glue is really hard to get off brushes and the cheaper they are the better if you have to throw them away.

First you'll want to make sure your face is clean and dry, skip the primer or lotions.

Then you want to put a small amount of glue either on the back of your hand or on a little plate and spread a thin layer on your face where you want the wounds. Allow it to dry or use the cool setting on your blow dryer and blast it for a few seconds. Apply a second layer and let it dry. Then spread a third layer very thinly and let it dry until it's tacky.

Then take your cotton ball and dab it in the tacky glue so that little bits of fluff stick to it. Press down slightly with your finger just so there isn't random cotton ball fluffs sticking up. At this point you'll want to let it dry completely. Throw another layer of glue on top of the cotton so it's not fluffy. Let it dry completely before you move on.


You should look like you're growing fluffy mold on your face until you paste it down with glue.

Once it's entirely dry, cover your face, including the wounds, with a concealer that's a little lighter than your skin tone. Brush translucent powder all over your face. You don't have to go stark white, so many people do this and it looks awful. Just go 2 shades lighter then your normal skin tone, trust me, it will look so much better then paper white.



When you do this for an actual event try to remember to use your zombie make up color on your neck, chest, and arms if they will show. Don't forget your ears and lips.

Use the yellow eyeshadow and brush it around the edges of each wound, under your nose, and under your eyes extending it slightly downward past your eye socket. Don't be afraid to go heavy on this. 


Yellow it up!

Taking the purple shadow, brush this very lightly on the wound areas and extend it slightly outside the edges. Also use this to make shadows under your eyes, don't forget to brush it slightly upward around the inside corner of your eye. Make it darker in the inside under area and slightly lighter towards the outside. If you aren't doing eye make up, also brush this on your lids and up to your brows. DON'T USE BLACK!! Everyone always makes 2 black circles around their eyes as dark shadows, it looks like a sad panda attempt, don't be a sad panda, use purple and don't go too heavy. You can always add more color if you feel like it's too light, it's much harder to scrape a layer away. You'll also use this color to contour, I don't do that until I'm completely finished because I always forget but, this would be the time for you to lightly brush some purple under your cheek bones and on your temples. Don't go crazy heavy on your first attempt, build it up until you hit the right amount of shadow you want. 



Sleeping is for squares

Use a tweezers to pick a small hole and tear from there to create your wound. Pull the inside edges of your tear up slightly on the inside so you create a small pocket for each wound. The pocket is very important.



It's a nice start to a wound 

Take the red lipstick and put some on the back of your hand, mix in some of the red/brown eyeshadow. Use this on the inside of each wound and into the "pocket" you've created, be sure to get this on the underside of the "skin" as well. An easy way to do this is to paint a generous amount of your lipstick mixture into the pocket and push down on it right away, a nice amount of color will transfer to the "skin".


Also dab some of that red lipstick around your wounds if you want them to look a little fresher

Next, dab the clear gloss liberally on the inside of your new wounds and sparingly on your new dark circles.  If you're using fake blood, forget the gloss on the inside of your wounds, pump your skin pockets full of  whatever fake blood your choose and let gravity make you much more grotesque. Although, I used gloss and my lipstick mixture out once and by the end of the night it had melted and dripped down my face in a disgusting curdled blood way. It was fantastic. I'm just saying you don't always NEED fake blood to get a juicy wound.


It's so exciting!

And you're done. If you'd like to splatter yourself with fake blood now would be the time, do it outside and facing away from your home though. I like to use red body paint as far as blood splatter goes. Add a tiny amount of water to make it a little easier, dip a paint brush in it (don't wipe off any extra you want it dripping wet) and in one fast movement, make like you're going to hit yourself in the face with the paint brush. (Just stop before you actually do.)  If you want to do your eye make up or lipstick, the time to do this is right before you splatter. 



Ignore that wound on my neck, it started to peel because I was moving around too much while it was drying and I was too lazy to glue it back on. Which you totally can, add a little more glue underneath the peeling edges and press back down.

 Here is another zombie trial I did using the same technique just to give you some more ideas!

 

 

Let me know if you have any questions

 

 

Have fun!

and

Enjoy!

So Tired.... Chella Anti Fatigue Eye Mask Review

I decided to test out Chella's anti fatigue eye mask. I believe I received this in a past test tube, meant to try it, and saved it for "the right time". It's about 11pm and I'm so super tired, why is this not the most perfect time to try out an anti fatigue eye mask? All I'm going to do is watch dvr'd episodes of Degrassi and surf around on Pinterest trying to find new random food stuff, because I'm pretty sure the only thing I love as much as my child, is food. It's possible that I love food more then I love me, or my make up, or my dogs... Scratch that, I do love food more then my dogs, I would totally cook and eat them if we were starving to death. Although one is skinny and crazy, and the other is a fattie mcfatkins, I'm not sure how good we'd eat on them. Back to the anti fatigue eye mask. I just have to say that I had to search, on my hands and knees, in the dark, for 20 horrifying minutes while sliding my hand back and forth blindly under my bed. Which reminds me that I totally need to clean out underneath my bed. My child has decided that tonight is the night for her to sleep in my room, and not knowing where this eye mask ended up exactly, I needed to hunt for it, but quietly and stealthy so I didn't wake the nugget in the process.

So the directions for the eye mask is that you open the neat little foil packet containing 2 not so little eye pads, you then open the little single serving eye goop container, squeeze it all in over the pads, and then let it soak it up. I squeezed all the goop in the little tray and it was quickly absorbed by one side of my eye pads. I had to swirl it around a bit and let it sit for about 4 minutes before it all soaked in. So then I'm supposed to pull these pads apart and slap them on my under eye area "like a second skin", the package says. I find that wording a little creepy, but rock on I guess. It did not go on "like a second skin", it folded on itself and got stuck together, and it's super slippery so I had a hard time trying to unfold it. I ended up with one slightly folded and it created an edge, which I'm totally cool with. The eye pads are also super long, they go from the inner corner of my eye all the way out to my hair line, do I just have a small face? I lined it all up, it felt like I had just put a cold jellyfish on my eyes, but after a couple minutes it literally felt like I had nothing on there at all. I did have a slight problem with the eye goop coming out of the pads and running down my face, but I just rubbed it into my cheeks and it all worked out. I just have to say, there is absolutely no smell to this. I even put it so close to my nose that the tip dipped into the eye goop, and I still couldn't detect a smell. It didn't dry up over the course of the 30 minutes I left it on. (Because I was finishing the new Degrassi episode and telling Tristan on tv that the love note was a trap! Alas, they never listen to me, those pesky tv highschoolers) In fact, it was still super full of eye goop, it seems a shame to waste so much product, I feel like I could stuff these in a ziplock baggie and use them again with all the remaining goop, but that hardly seems sanitary. Although I did just wash my face with my clarisonic, so I'm certain my skin is about as clean as it gets, but still.

After my time was up I wandered into the bathroom to remove my eye pads and was shocked to discover that they had "melted" into my face. You could barely even notice they were there. This would be a lovely treatment to do on an overnight flight, if you're concerned with being discreet. I peeled them off, no problem, I can not get over how they feel though, like the way a jellyfish looks in the water, how you'd expect them to feel, delicate and soft but paper thin and slightly gelatinous... Kind of ishy actually. I did, however, notice a slight improvement with some dark circles that decide to bloom on my face after 9pm. Now, the website claims after 4 weekly treatments you'll see "a reduction of under-eye puffiness, fine lines and dehydration." I feel like these would totally be worth a try and at $30 for a 4 pack, which equals out to $30 for a month's supply if you're only doing a once weekly eye mask like they recommend, it's a pretty decent deal compared to other eye masks out there. You can find Chella anti Fatigue Eye Mask HERE

**I received this sample through New Beauty Test Tube that I paid for with my own money. I always give my true and honest reviews, I am not paid to write good or bad reviews of products**