How do you turn your 3 yr old into a zombie bride?
I bought a white bridal dress, white veil, white tights, white shrug
and white sandals – all from ebay for a total cost of about £15!! Everything was brand new except the sandals,
I searched ‘girls first holy communion’ to find the dress and veil.
I started with my trademark trick – wetting the fabric a little and
then cleaning dirty black shoes! It
helped that I’d parked in the worst part of a car part yesterday and we both
ended up with very muddy shoes!! Some of
the black polish transferred as well as the dirt! This worked a treat on the shrug and tights
but not so much on the dress and veil due to them being made with cheap, high
shine polyester. I ended up taking them
outside (in the snow!!) and squeeshing them into soggy mud concentrating on the
bottom hems to make it look like our zombie was trudging through dirt to find
her next meal…then around the front of the dress from where she’d be kneeling
on the ground to feed! I still didn’t
get the dress as dirty looking as I wanted so I added some brown sauce into the
mix!! I used some black shoe polish on
the white sandals and rubbed some brown sauce into them too and left everything
to dry over night!
This morning, I smothered the neckline of the dress with fake blood
and then trailed it down the front so it looks like she’s slopped her dinner
down the front! I also rubbed the fake
blood into the sides of the veil and shrug to make it look like they’d gotten
in the way of her meal. I dried the
blood as best I could with a hairdryer.
I covered ¾ of her face with a white loose powder (its actually a
mineral concealer so it helped to hide her rosey cheeks!!) then applied a dark
purple eye shadow around her eyes, temples and just under her cheek bones. I
added a little blue to the upper eyelids too.
Most people make the mistake of using black to hollow facial features –
purple is more natural looking so way more effective! Start with a little then build it up, you don’t
want a block of colour though and should still be able to see some skin
underneath.
I then got a small Snazaroo face painting kit, ‘Deadly Dracula’. I used a clean lip brush rather than the bush
that comes with the kit and painted a black half smile coming off the left side
of her mouth. I drew the outline of
teeth with it and filled in the rest. I
painted the teeth white then outlined with the red face paint,
with streaks coming off to give the appearance of torn flesh. I then applied a my favourite Maybelline Super Stay 24 hour lippy around her lips and down her chin!
As it started snowing last night (?!) I put 2 vests on her and a
short pair of leggings. I then scotch
taped a cut up plastic carrier bag to the vest to prevent the fake blood on the
dress from soaking through (it doesn’t fully dry!) and put another plastic
carrier bag on top of the dress so we could fasten her coat to take her to her
party at Daddy Club! She won first prize
and thought she was the bees knees!!
She’s got another party tonight so I’ll be touching the make-up up
again and keeping fingers crossed for another prize!! I’ll let you know how it goes!
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