Halloween Makeup: Special Effects for Your Halloween Costume

In this video above, filmmaker Nick Calder shares a few techniques in creative makeup including how to create realistic blood, cuts, and bruises just like in the movies.

These techniques can help you put your Halloween costume over the top.

Fake Blood

To make fake blood you will need to following items:

Corn Syrup, Red and Green food colouring, Small mixing bowl, Some Cocoa chocolate powder.

1. Put a little corn syrup in your mixing bowl and add 1-2 tablespoons of the red food coloring. Stir it up until everything is evenly mixed.
2. Add just a drop of green food coloring to the mixture. You don’t want to add more than a tiny bit because we’re not trying to make green blood, just darken and brown it up a bit. Mix it until the color is consistent.
3. Add a tiny bit of cocoa powder. Mix it in until you get the desired viscosity. You shouldn’t need much at all, but adding a little extra will make it look more like a scab when it dries.

When completed you’ll have realistic, nice tasting, fake blood!

Check out the video to find out how to create realistic bruises, as well as cuts and bruises.

We have all kinds of fun and interesting costumes for you to choose from at At Fun Halloween Facts. How about one of our top selling kids Batman costume, or a superhero costume. For the wizard in all of us you can conjure up a magical Harry Potter costumes, got together with some friends and be little monsters with Lady Gaga costumes, save the day with Avengers costumes , protect people from the bullies of the world with this realistic Captain America costume, as well as pretend to sail the high seas with our vast selection of Pirate Costumes for Men and Women, as well as Pirate of the Caribbean costumes.

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