Any Day Zombies

It seems that Zombies are everywhere these days, turn on the news and Zombies are even protesting. The Zombie has had its share of the spotlight. Movies, Television and Music Video have all had Zombies in starring roles. Today, Zombies are even starring in the National News as they protest in New York City. A Zombie is a Character that allows for a great deal of artistic license when creating one with makeup. After all Zombies are the walking dead, reflecting the individually of the living person before they were a Zombie. The Zombie is a Halloween Character that you can be be as individual as you like, there are basic Zombie Characteristics, like torn flesh, that you can achieve with 3D Gel by Mehron.

3-D Gelatin Effects is used to create realistic three dimensional special effect additions to a character’s makeup. Mehron has developed this 3-D Gel to create Realistic 3-D Effects in Blood Red, Clear and Flesh tone in multiple bottle sizes. You can create most ghoulish effects with 3-D Gel. To use the 3-D Gelatin Effects just heat it to a liquid form, brush on, allow curing, and carve it up to your delight. There is no adhesive needed when using the 3-D Gelatin Effects. 3-D Gelatin Effects removes from skin and hair with warm water. 3-D Gel, Gelatin Effects may be used as a substitute for latex on children.

Zombies begin with either 3-D Gel by Mehron or with Extra Flesh with Fixative A both from the Special Effects Makeup Collection by Mehron, the First Name in Theatrical Makeup since 1927. Extra Flesh with Fixative A is easy to use; just rip off a chunk, dab it on and blend it out. This special carded package of Extra Flesh by Mehron comes with a safe non-toxic adhesive, Fixative A used by Special Effect Makeup Artists throughout the entertainment world. Extra Flesh is a synthetic makeup product that can be reused and is easy to apply and remove. This package of Extra Flesh with Fixative A is especially packaged for smaller Special Effects Makeup applications.

After creating torn flesh with Mehron 3-D Gel or with Extra Flesh with Fixative A, it's color time, time to add the bruises, scars, coagulated blood, and decaying teeth, which can all be done using Mehron Makeup Pro-Color Rings, and Mehron Tooth F/X. Once you have the extra, peeling flesh that you have created using one of Mehron Makeup Special Effects Makeup Products, and you have achieved a skin tone that is Zombie, now it's time for your imagination to take over and to color your Zombie Makeup Character with the highlighting colors that you prefer.

If you want to be a Halloween Zombie or a Zombie any day of the year and are hesitant about choosing the right Professional Theatrical Makeup Colors and Products, Mehron Makeup had a Professional Makeup Artist preselect the Mehron Makeup that they would use to create a Zombie and have packaged it in a Zombie Makeup Character Kit. To ease the fear of using Professional Theatrical Makeup to create a Halloween Zombie that will rule the night, Mehron even included a Makeup Artist with each kit in the form of illustrated, detailed step by step instructions on how to create your Zombie using the preselected Professional Theatrical Makeup contained in the Zombie Complete Character Makeup Kit by Mehron.

Halloween Zombies

The Zombie, as part of the myth of literature, first surfaced on the big screen in the 1932 film, White Zombie. Ahead of its time, White Zombie, starring Bela Lugosi, was previewed on June 16, 1932 in a 74 minute long cut which opened in New York City to less than stellar reviews. The distributed print of White Zombie was cut to 62 minutes, which was sixty two minutes long for most film critics. Aside from Lugosi, the rest of the cast of White Zombie was comprised of silent film actors whose careers were waning. White Zombie became more appreciated as time went on, even becoming a quasi cult hit when released on VHS. The significance of White Zombie is that it was the first full length film to introduce the mystery and darkness of The Zombie to mass audiences.

Since White Zombie, many other films concerning Zombies in different incarnations have been released with the most popular being The Night of The Living Dead by George A. Romero in 1968. In The Night of the Living Dead, the Zombie is depicted as the dead who won't stay dead.

Throughout, the modern era The Zombie has been depicted as the risen dead, the reincarnated dead, the living dead, and those under the influence of a master without free will. In the most recent resurgence of The Zombie Myth, Zombies are seen to be humans who are controlled by alien parasites.

Science has also taken an interest in the myth of The Zombie, with many physiologists focusing on the practice of Voodoo and the drugs used in its practices in Haiti and Africa. Voodoo is filled with the legends of Zombies who walk among the living without free will. Scientists from many disciplines have examined Zombie Folklore looking for a way to discredit The Zombie as a myth.

In popular music, no one brought the Zombie to Life better than Michael Jackson in the groundbreaking music video, Thriller. It is his representation of The Zombie that is most often seen as a Halloween Character. Dusty, bruised, with open wounds, rising from the grave with tattered clothing, The Zombie from Thriller by Michael Jackson still remains the model for Halloween Zombies.

The Mehron Makeup Complete Halloween Zombie Makeup Kit allows anyone to replicate The Zombie in the same professional way that Film and Music Video has portrayed the Zombie. Just as the Mehron Team of Professional Makeup Artists turned dozens of ordinary people into Zombies for The Special Halloween Edition of the Rachael Ray Show that will air October 29, 2010 on ABC, anyone can purchase a Complete Mehron Halloween Zombie Makeup Kit and become a Halloween Zombie. Mehron Authorized Retailers are located throughout the world. Each Complete Mehron Halloween Zombie Makeup Kit contains all the Professional Theatrical Makeup, along with illustrated step by step instructions you need to become a Halloween Zombie.