In one of my previous blogs, I touched on the costumes and makeup that I incorporated in my project, but this blog will go more in-depth in a step-by-step on how to look like you have been chased in a forest for hours by a serial killer through makeup specifically.
The first step is always to have the proper materials necessary to create whatever you're wishing to achieve. In this case, you will need a variety of objects:
-A couple different-shaped makeup brushes
-A colorful eyeshadow pallet
-A neutral-colored eyeshadow pallet
-Fake blood
-Patience (kind of a joke, but kind of not)
After having all your materials ready, it's time to begin. I will start by explaining the process of makeup first.
1) Eyes
Makeup around the eyes is extremely important and necessary to pull off this type of look.
Start off by adding light brown eyeshadow all around your eyes. Then lightly layer on top a darker brown closer to the eyes with a small diameter around the eyes. Blend by using your finger and rubbing harshly across your eye. This should give your eyes a tired and exhausted look while also looking messy and dirty.
2) Bruises
Adding bruises is completely optional, however, I think that adding them brings the whole look together and gives it that sense of being hurt, clumsy, and dirty.
I love making fake bruises with eyeshadow because it's such a creative and free range on how to make one. In this case, I made one under her lip, one around her eye, and one on her cheek.
I start by adding a light layer of brown lightly darker than the person's skin tone. After that, I add dark purple with my brush and blend it out into a random shape (do not make it into a circle, this will make it look fake and too perfect). After the layer of purple, I add a little dark blue in the center of the shapes.
If you want to keep them looking very fresh, you can just add a little brown and leave it, but if you want to make some look bigger and older, then follow these steps as well.
Add a tiny part of red and blend it out a lot, then surround it with green and yellow. If it starts looking too colorful, always refer to your brown and purple to make it look more realistic. After that, you have to keep experimenting until you find a combination that fits your need.
3) Nose
A very popular horror or action makeup technique is to incorporate a nosebleed. Nose bleeds are pretty easy to make as long as you don't need to have one happen in the middle of a scene.
Add maroon eyeshadow color around the bottom of the nostril that will be bleeding. Although a little uncomfortable, try to get the red color as high up in your nose as possible, the higher, the better, and more realistic the makeup and nosebleed will look.
After that, just add the fake blood with a q-tip and let it drip down. Dragging the q-tip down will result in a non-natural aspect to the nosebleed, letting the fake blood drip from the q-tip into or onto the nostril will make it look more realistic.
4) Lips
This step, like the others, depends on what type of look you may be going for, but adding the correct makeup on this part of the face is helpful to accomplish your final result.
There are two different types of lip bleeds. The newer and fresher ones and the ones that are older and have been wiped away.
Starting with the fresher lip bleed, begin by using a fluffy makeup brush and apply a maroon color to about 1 finger wide on the lip and blend outwards. Then take a thin makeup brush and apply a brighter red in a line straight down the middle of the maroon area, creating a "cut lip" look. After that, you may add more leading down a little to add to the effect, but it is not necessary. Finally, do the same as the nosebleed and let the fake blood drip down onto your lip and down towards your chin.
The older lip bleep is one of my favorites. Start just like the other one, with the maroon brush, however, this time add it dragging down all the way to your chin and maybe even a little on your neck. As it goes down, make sure to make the streak smaller and smaller until it disappears. Add a smaller streak of brighter red in the middle of the maroon line.
Add fake blood to a q-tip and drag it and pat it at the same time as you go along the trail of red leading to your neck or your chin. This should leave the fake blood scattered very lightly around the "wound". Once everything dries and sits on your face for a couple of minutes, you can also slightly pretend to wipe your lip and smush the eyeshadow over a bit to make it look messier.
-Dana
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