Dead girl

Figured I would share a dead girl look I did a couple of months ago. I was going to a monster or masquarade themed party and stumped I wracked my brain for a costume idea. Not being in the mood to walk out in full costume in the summertime I settled on a dead look. I would get to wear my regular clothes and only had to make myself appear dead. The walking dead are monsters so I figured it was a win. Paling out my skin and drawing in dark shadows I started forming a story to go along with my character.

She was a girl on her way out when she was a victim of a random act of violence. Unbeknownst to anyone she was choked from behind with a chord on an empty subway platform. Poor girl wasn't discovered for some time but by then she had become one of the living dead and it was too late to help her. She would forever wander the subway systems at night looking for a sign of her killer.

I'm satisfied with the results 

My First Bullet Wound!

So I got asked if I could do a zombie look and it got me reading up on the body after death. In general I hate zombies and have never felt a desire to dress up as one. I avoid zombie movies and shows if I can. I didn't have the products I wanted to achieve a zombie look so I decided I would make myself look dead. Doing a little research I figured out what I wanted to portray, Algor Mortis. 


Algor Mortis is basically when the blood pools to the lowest part of the body. An example would be if the body is laying on its back then that's where it will go. It turns this reddish fresh burn looking color then above that is a lightish-medium purple with a tinge of black then on top of that (think of it as in levels) its the pale regular color. I even looked at real pictures so that I could see for myself what it looked like. They were definitely graphic to say the least, not for the faint of heart.


Anyway I just wanted to give it a try using some makeup, it took a lot of blending that in the end I got tired and left it as is. When I do time consuming looks I normally surf youtube and watch videos, it just so happened I watched a lot of sfx videos. One of the videos was about filming bullet wounds and it inspired me to try it. 

I only wanted to try it on half my face 

I improvised with the bullet wound on my forehead and used a 

cotton ball dipped in some color. It looked like muscle or tendon 

in person, pretty cool. 

It looks so sickly but this isn't a glamours look. 

Yet there's something beautiful about something that's really ugly :)

So before I started on my face I did a wound on my wrist with nothing particular in my mind. 

I don't even know what it looks like exactly.