Mrs Laderman - Final Look & Evaluation

Products/equipment used (plus a hairdryer)

After stretch & stipple, cinewax wounds, liquid latex and oats 

After applying supracolor & bruise wheel colours 

After applying fake blood, wound filler and conditioner to the hair

 This was the make-up and hair complete, but me and my model persevered to get the contact lenses in because we knew that it would give that true zombie look... 

Eventually, we finally managed to do it! The model had to hold her eyes open, whilst I put the contacts in - this was definitely an experience I had never done before, but I was very happy with how it contributed to the final look. The only problem is that it made the models eyes water a lot, and so the make-up around the eyes ran and moved a lot, therefore I had to ensure I touched this up when the contacts were successfully in. 

Final Images

I was actually very satisfied with how the final look turned out - I felt she looked very zombie-like, and furthermore, she looked like a zombie specifically from The Walking Dead. 

If I were to do that look again, one thing I would change and improve would be the neck - where the face had quite a lot of product on and quite a few layers, the neck only had foundation and supracolor on, and therefore made them appear slightly differently on camera. I think I also should have added a bit of blood/darker bruises to the neck. Also, there is a small section just about the eyebrow where it is not as textured as the rest of the face, but I did not notice this until looking back at the pictures, so I would have touched this area up. 

However, I think I had just about the right amount of blood on the face, e.g. you could see that she had a lot of fresh wounds from where she had recently turned into a walker, and the look was not underdone, or even overdone, which was my main concern in this project. I feel that this has made me more confident and actually more interested in using Special FX make-up and I hope to expand my knowledge and technical ability within this area over time. I think my character fits very well into my chosen TV series because this is how zombies are portrayed throughout The Walking Dead (despite any previous/other perceptions of zombies being green,etc.) so I feel that I stuck to the brief and produced a good outcome that took the brief into consideration.