13 Best Zombie Makeup Ideas That Are To Die For This Halloween

Tis' the season to be spooky and with Halloween right around the corner, you're probably scrambling to find the best Zombie makeup looks to tap into your dark sides. After all, Zombies play a leading role on some people's favourite day of the year — 31st October.

The girls dominating Halloween makeup on instagram and TikTok make a good case for them; they're spooky, sexy, fun and can be easy to be put together. Don't get us started on the Zombie bride makeup which might just be the best option yet to get your spook on.

Granted, dressing up as a zombie bride might not be the most groundbreaking costume idea for Halloween, however, what's groundbreaking are the makeup looks you're about to see below. And guess what, some are not all that hard to achieve either. We're talking huge lashes, colourful decaying skin, and some faux-blood here and there.

Either way, we've given you some time, so you can get practicing. We scoured the makeup corner of TikTok to find the best zombie makeup tutorials for you to try at home, that will make it all seem so realistically it will scream ‘the actual walking dead’.

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Before you get started, here is a list of tools you might need to achieve anything close to what the girlies on TikTok are doing.

The essential zombie makeup kit list:

• Face paint palette
• Fake blood
• Fake scars and wounds
• Eyeliner
• Eyeshadow palette
• Liquid Latex
• Bald cap

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The Dead Ogre:

Let's bring a bit of Dreamworks into Halloween by turning your zombie look more Shrek. To make it extra scary, draw the teeth over your lips, and on the hollows of your cheeks so you can really play with that deadly smile. Make them as distorted and rotten as you'd expect from a zombiefied Fiona.

Dr. Evil Reloaded:

For this Zombie look, you will need a bold cap for full effect regarless of your natural hair length, so you can add fake scars and draw on bloodied veins all over, with the bruising adding a bit of dimension. This creator also added some special fx teeth, so the mouth area looks lips-less and with more teeth your mouth naturally could fit in. The more the spookier.

Face de Muertos:

Much like the Día de Muertos masks, this look is a bit more colourful and animated suitable for everyone wanting to do something fun, spookie but still cute. You will need a lot of pink face paint and a opaque black around the eyes. For an extra bit of fun, drawn on some squiggly worms around the month and one coming from the cartoon exposed brain by the hairline.

Muscle-Mxn Zombie:

This look features a red tinge to the face which represents exposed muscle. It's the my-skin-ripped-off-no-glow glow. Then go in with some yellow for the teeth drawn on the lips and around the skin to strip away any health and life out of your natural skin tone. Eerie…

Zombie Nurse:

Now this is zombie nurse is really on the extreme gory side. For this, the top half of your makeup can be clean and as feminine as you'd like. It all goes downhill nose down though. The creator uses some cotton wool to add dimension to the bottom half of the face and goes ham on the burgundy face paint. With specks of red trickling up to the cheekbones and a facemask to create that big reveal effect.

Zombie Bride:

The zombie bride is a fan favourite, and much like the look above it means you can create a clean and feminine look nose up and then go really gore on the bottom half of the face, with face wax used as a divider that looks like ripped skin. Cotton wool does the trick to give the effect of exposed and ripped human tissue. As for the bloody effect – you got it – stage blood galore.

The Zombie Cheerleader:

Then of course it's the zombie cheerleader. Who looks mid zombiefication, with an exposed side of muscle, blood and gore, but the rest of the face is contoured but void of pigment. There is no face wax needed. You simply need face paint to draw on a gory half smile. Then using some grey eyeshadow you can create bruising all over the face and neck and a doplet of a black blonded tear trickling down for the inner corner of the eye. Hella spookie.

Pop-Art Zombie:

Pop-Art Zombie is fun, bold and might require a little bit of practice. The secret however, lies in the shadow making. Use black paint for definition of finite lines and wrinkle making, while the white face paint can be used to highlight and add dimension. The pink however, is to give the illusion of flesh and an add extra pop of colour.

Skinned Zombie:

Forget sexy, Halloween is really about the scary. For an extra spooky finish, why no do the skinned head effect. You will need a bald cap, and a tone of SFX makeup as well as fake blood. Don't forget to make your face appear broken by adding fake stitches and elevated skin boils throughout.

Transition Zombie:

This look is relatively simple to achieve, even to the Halloween makeup novices out there. It involves toilet or tissue paper, latex glue for the face and some face paint or your foundation base. Then unpeel as you please for that extra creepy and broken skin finish. Effortlessly spooky.

Vixen Zombie:

You're in your Mean Girls era right? Well this is for you then. It's a more sexy and cute way of doing zombie. A mix of pop art and just a sprinkle of ‘Boo’. You will need red, pink and white paint as well as your A game to give you that sultry, siren makeup look.

Alien Zombie:

Here goes another cute, yet sexy zombie like look. It's pop eart inspired and you can still show off a killer eye makeup look (no pun intended). Go for greens if you're sticking to the zombie theme, but you can keep the look sexy and siren like by only playing with half of your face. Contour using blacks and whites for a 3D effect.

Jennifer's Body:

Jennifer's body might be the ultimate zombie. Sexy, fiery, and spooky. This look is simply your siren eyes look with exagerated lifted eyebrows and very muddy and smudged makeup. For extra drama add blood dripping in various places of the face, as well as bruising, and heavily contoured cheeks. If it's good enough for Megan Fox, it's good enough for us.

We can't wait to see you try out some of these looks.

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