Thread: Okay, help a clueless costume newbie out

If YOU were going to be a zombie belly dancer, what would you do, costume-wise? Please be kind--I'm not crafty, or otherwise good with glue. However, I'd love to try this one out this year. Get me started?

I should mention that I want at least one dangling eyeball. What do you think: styrofoam balls from JoAnn's?

Paint your flesh an unappetizing shade of white, draw dark circles around your eyes, maybe use a little fake blood ..g.:

I'd picture the costume as being a tattered skirt, probably white. Obviously don't wear your best bedlah if you're using fake blood!

Originally Posted by Taj

I should mention that I want at least one dangling eyeball. What do you think: styrofoam balls from JoAnn's?

Oh that is just pleasantly putrid! ..l;,

Styrofoam would work quite nicely!

Originally Posted by SatinWorship19

Paint your flesh an unappetizing shade of white, draw dark circles around your eyes, maybe use a little fake blood ..g.:

I'd picture the costume as being a tattered skirt, probably white. Obviously don't wear your best bedlah if you're using fake blood!

Oooh, dayam, that sounds faintatious. Honestly, doll, you are the best at visual impact.

I should've added that I can't spend much, and I gots no white. Blue and green are my costume colors. Hey, paint my bod green, mebbe? You know, after the "white" phase and just when it starts to putrefy? What do you use for that kind of body paint?

Is it okay to eat brains at a holiday gig?

Originally Posted by Taj

Is it okay to eat brains at a holiday gig?

*snerk* Of course! And ask the ghostess (err, I mean, hostess) to wrap up the brainstem in a bag to take home for your zombie dog!

Maybe you can get that icky rotting corpse color by mixing blue and green together. Hmm. I wonder if there are tutorials on zombie makeup....

Hooooooooly crap, you can learn how to create maggots, warts and compound fractures! This is sweet ..g.:

Zombies

Go to thrift shop and buy and old wedding dress and shred it. Put a bedlah belt over it and wave a ragged veil around. You'll be the belly dance bride of Frankenstein zombie. Doing the zombie arms thing while you shimmy of course.

Originally Posted by SatinWorship19

Hmm. I wonder if there are tutorials on zombie makeup....

I wouldn't be surprised at all.

ETA: Oops, I see you already found one. Neato! And great idea about the thrift shop, Souzan!

Soiled Ace bandages and a ratty bedlah. The original zombie....

I was a zombie bellydancer. I wore my black tribaret bedlah with fishnet and lots of make up. Gray and white facepaint with purple and black eye shadow for shading. Here's a couple pics:

Black melodia's or yoga pants, black wrap top, teased hair, creepy makeup and lots of attitude...i hope the picture works...
I made some funky zombie belts...i'll look for a picture...

the arm drapes are tea dyed cheese cloth

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej90zjYUyQI]YouTube - Zombie/ Bruised wounded flesh[/ame]

Zombie makeup tutorial