Last year, Mark let me paint his face for Halloween (here's what I did). It took forever, but he was a really good sport. This year, he agreed to let me do it again. This time, I set him up in our office so he could watch a movie and that helped the time go by faster.

 I chose to do a zombie look on him, complete with blood and wounds. It looked pretty cool when I finished.



I bought a full kit with grease makeup, cream makeup, blood, scar putty, etc. for about $7 from Walmart. Then I also picked up a little bottle of liquid latex from the Halloween store for a few dollars.

I started with the liquid latex and let me tell you, it does not smell pretty! Mark could hardly stand the smell as I was applying it. He had a sour face the whole time! I was using it to create wounds in a few areas. In the end, it didn't make much of a difference in the way the whole look turned out. If I use it again in the future, I'll have to play with it a little more.

Then I applied the grease makeup all over his face. I used brown, white, gray, yellow, green, and black to make his skin look trashed and worn out. I even added exposed teeth (not sure that it looks entirely believable though).

After all the color was applied and blended, I added some blood and that completed this zombie look.