I watched World War Z this week. Let me tell you, it
is crazy insane!! Normally I’m not fazed by zombie movies, but holy cow! At
first I couldn’t think of how to get someone to look like a zombie from this movie,
so I looked it up on YouTube. I watched countless videos and I still didn’t find
any techniques that I felt were suitable for what I’m trying to provide.
Everything was either too advanced, not advanced enough, or it used items that
I didn’t feel someone could buy easily or for a reasonable amount of money. I
decided to come up with something myself.
I hope
this works. I have been thinking for awhile about this… actually, like all
week. I came to the conclusion that I want to just mix some techniques
together, and then add some other elements to give it the right touch. If you
can get your hands on a makeup primer that would be ideal due to the amount of
makeup I am going to have you pile upon your face. You will also need a very
light foundation and powder for your skin tone that is still logical. You need
a brownish blush with a thin line brush, a green eye shadow that looks sickly,
a red eye pencil, black eye shadow, and liquid latex with a brush you don’t care
much about.
After
you prime your face, you can start by caking the light foundation on your face.
You need to look really light because you are the undead so you don’t have this
pumping heart to make you a pretty color. After you get the foundation on you
should apply the same color powder so the color really sets. To get a sickly
color you are going to take the green eye shadow and apply a small amount to
your cheeks and forehead. Blend it in so it doesn’t just look like you have
blotchy green spots on your skin. Next we want to make you look sunken in
because you are starved for human flesh… yummy. Anyways, you can take your
black eye shadow and apply it lightly to your eyes, all the way from your eye
lids to your bags. You should start very light so you can get a good shade
since black is such a dramatic color. Now we can make your cheeks and temples
sunken in. We are going to use the brown color and the straight blush brush to
make lines right where you suck your cheeks in when you make a fish face. At
this point you should also apply a little to your temples. Blend, blend, blend!
Blending makes the difference between a good effect and a tacky effect. Lastly
for the base, we are going to apply a red eye pencil to the bottom of your eye,
right where you put regular eyeliner. This will make you look tired and
infected.
If you
want, you can make texture in your faces and make your eyes go along with the
zombie stereotype. You will make the texture and cuts in your face before you
apply the foundation. You can add cuts to your face by following my previous
post, The
Frighteners Cuts. If you want to have a creepy eye color you can easily buy
contacts that are colored and not prescribed. If you go with this I would buy
this crazy red color, I’d go with silver to a very creepy light blue because in
World War Z they zombies have these glazed eyes and the blue or silver
will get you close to that look.
Hope
this worked well for you!
Dramatic exit—Director J
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