it's never too early

so since there is no blizzcon this year, i get to spend extra time on a halloween costume.  as of right now, my plan is steampunk zombie.  this is totally subject to change several times between now and then, but it's what i'm leaning toward as of right now.  a large portion of this is because it will give me an excuse to buy a shit ton of steampunk jewelry and accessories, which i can always reuse later at a con or just for every day use.  it also gives me more chances to do some crazy effects makeup.  i've already been plotting new idea for zombies march, and this way i'll be able to practice them on other people first before doing it on myself.  i'm going to add leg wounds, as well using things like cereal to add more weird skin textures, and i want to try out some things i saw with scar wax.  now if you'll excuse me, i have some window shopping to do. 

tardío feliz día de los muertos

for the zombie march, we were lucky enough to have tori moss from independent expression photography following us around and taking pictures.  while i didn't make it into any of them since i was doing make up forever, a lot of the people i made up are in the album.  below are the people i did.  some color enhancements were done on some of the pictures, but you still see the over all effect.  for the full photo album, click here.

some more pictures of the bride (she is the only one i did in these pics)

 

 i did the girl in the flower shirt

 

 i did the guy on the far left and the girl

 

i did the girl in the white shirt and the girl in the plaid shirt

 

 

and of course, i had to save the best for last

love, love, love that pic.  and i don't care what you say alex, it's perfectly ok to find a zombie sexy.  melanie will totally back me up on this.

balls

spending one of your favorite holidays fighting the urge to puke, pass out, or both, sucks fat monkey balls.  i'm going to go hide under the covers and sulks now.  to everyone else who is not trying fighting off a zombie virus, because i am now convinced that is what i have, i hope you have a great halloween.  take lots of pics and write down all your stories to share with me so i don't feel so left out.  because i do.  because i'm missing another reason to wear a costume.  balls :(

zomg zombies!

in case any of you were wondering how i got turned into a zombie

zombie march was last night.  and it was pretty awesome.  i did makeup for about ten people over three hours.  i did my own make up in between doing everyone else.  overall i think there was about seventy zombies and nine different effects artists, which lead to an amazing variety of zombies.  some were using an air brush, and the rest, like me, were using traditional make up.  i made all the wounds for every one on the spot.  have i mentioned lately how much i love liquid latex?  these are the wounds i did on my own arms.  the one on the left was liquid latex, make up and blood.  the one on the right is the same, but with cotton to add texture.

i did these first thing when i got there.  i used myself as an example for the other people i was doing makeup on so they could choose their wound style.  i had to wait until the end to use the white outs so i could see what i was doing on everyone else.  really glad i decided to use them because i got a ton of compliments for it.  and i do take "holly crap those are creepy as fuck" to be a compliment, since that was kind of the effect i was going for.  below are some examples of my work on other people.  if you want to see everyone i did, click here.

it helps to be dating the makeup artist.  it means you get the most time spent on your make up.

 front and back of the same girl.  she was fun to work on.  and since she was my last person of the night i was able to spend extra time on her

left the face "pretty" since she was a bride and just slashed open her throat instead

we started off my ambushing the mission in town and have a high school style group picture.  after that we hit up several of the bars in town and more or less scared the crap out of every one there with all of our kick ass looking makeup.  and we did have people following us around town taking pictures and video.   as soon as those get posted, i'll share with every one.  and now i really can add make up artist to my list of accomplishments.  so if anyone needs special effects makeup done for something, hit me up.  i'll most likely do it for free as long as you buy the supplies.

don't we make a cute couple?

brb there's blood in my hair

so that was an actual phrase i used tonight.  and not for any bad reasons.  tonight was the practice run for the zombie march, so they showed us a few different special effect techniques.  basically, lots of liquid latex (love that stuff), cotton, bruise make up, and of course, a shit ton of fake blood.  which happens to be edible.  the end result will be something like this:

i added my white outs after.  very happy with the effect it has.  i just rolled them back for the pic.  love, love, love it.  oh and as a full disclaimer, i did not apply my own make up here.  we were practicing on each other, so one of the other guys did mine.  i was working on making some girl's arm look like it was all bruised to hell.  and i think i did a pretty good job of it.  can't wait until friday!

and as a ps, if you are going to the march and want me to be your effects artist, let me know and i will sign you up on my time sheet. 

BRAINS!!!

via

so i'm crazy excited for october 28th now.  my tattoo artist is putting on a zombie march/pub crawl.  and i can't wait for it!  all i had to hear was "costumes" and "drinking" and i was all over that like white on rice.  in case you don't know, a zombie march is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a large group of people dressed as zombie walking around a public area.  since this one is a pub crawl, we will be hitting up the bars down town as well.  traditional tattoo is the coordinator of the event, and the best part is that they are providing people to do zombie make up for everyone involved.  for free.  because they are awesome.  they just ask that you show up in "zombie attire," which i take to mean torn clothing that you don't mind getting covered in fake blood.  i'm way more excited about this than i thought i would be.  i'm not really into zombies in general, but this event just sounds way too fun to pass up.  plus my guy is going with me, and so are a few other friends.  i can't wait to see us all made up as zombies.  in a weird way, it's a bonding experience.  now i just need to figure out what i'm wearing.  part of me really wants to do zombie prom queen.  methinks it may be time to hit up the thrift stores.  plan b, if i can't find a suitable prom dress, if just simple jeans and tank top.  i have some old jeans that are starting to tear anyway, so i figure i can rip those up without loosing any good clothes.  and i can get a simple white tank top for like $5.  i don't want to go want to go crazy tearing up a top, since i need it to stay on to avoid public indecency charges.  i figure a few small tears and one good horizontal slash across the chest to show some (more) cleavage would be sufficient.  after all, who says zombies can't be sexy?