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How To Make Fake Blood

Come on, what's a great Halloween outfit without some great fake blood? We've all seen endless horror films filled with blood spraying in all directions, but when you're not on a picture shoot, how can you make great looking, cheap fake blood for your own use at Halloween parties? Here are some strategies on making practical looking fake blood that's safe for use by all ages. Just be warned- fake blood can stain!

The fake blood recipe here is excellent for using as a part of a Halloween costume or make-up effect, but due to its viscous and sloppy nature, great care must be brought to ensure that everything in the house doesn't get covered in fake blood! Before you make any fake blood, first you have to set up a well-covered work space on a level surface. Lay down some old newspaper or similar covering to make sure you catch any splashes while making your gore.

The most simple method of going about making fake blood for Halloween outfits is by combining corn syrup along with red food colouring. When gently mixed together, putting in more of the colouring as you go along, this makes for a particularly believable fake blood without a great amount of fuss. Add in a bit of black food colouring, or even blue, to add an extra hue of fact to the batch of fake blood you are creating.

A somewhat more sophisticated version of this particular fake blood recipe is to put in a thickener, eg a quantity of flour or a similar safe substance. Keep stirring until the required consistency is achieved. Beware, this may cause some blobs to be made, but these lumps are simply taken out.

A higher level of fake blood and gore can be achieved by including wadded up kitchen paper towels or toilet roll to the mix. Simply add a couple, and while you mix the softened paper matter into your fake blood mixture, it will then make all manner of gory looking globs and lengths of nastiness that are sure to look wonderful as part of your Halloween outfit. Just remember when making your fake blood- keep safe and clean, and ensure that you take relevant steps to keep your home clean and tidy while you make your fake blood and gore for the ultimate in Halloween horror!

How to Make Halloween Wigs

Making Halloween Wigs

It is just so easy to make your own Halloween wigs. All you will need are some quite simple items and your imagination to make any style of wig your want. Of course, you will want to theme it with the Halloween costume you are wearing, and the effect you want to achieve. But you can only be limited by your own ideas and creativity.

The basics for making your own wig are actually quite simple. You will need a baseball cap, knitted hat, pantyhose, or any other sort of hat that will cover your own hair.  Add to this some yarn in any color you choose for your particular wig, fabric glue, scissors, a small cup, and a beach ball or basket ball. You may also require a needle and thread for some of the wigs, if you need to sew the yarn to a knitted cap.

Once you have assembled your supplies, you can begin making your Halloween wigs. Take the cup and glue it to the base of the ball. Use this as a stand for your cap. You now have your head ready to work with. Place your cap on the ball and get ready for a lot of fun.

Cut the yarn into the lengths you want your wig hair to be. You can make short hair, or very long hair. The choice is totally up to you. Next, make a thin line of glue where you want the part to be. You can also make a circle of glue. For a split colored wig, make a line with the glue halfway around your head. Attach the yarn one piece at a time to the glue until the entire ball is covered as you would like it. If you are working on the top, you move the yarn to one side or the other as needed. You may just tie it up to get to the next layer. If using a knit cap you will need to sew the yarn to it instead of using the glue. It sews the same way. Now, you are almost done with the first of your Halloween wigs.

You then just need to let the glue dry and you will have your very own Halloween wig! After the glue dries, you can fix it into any style you like. You may want it to be straight and hanging down, put into ponytails, or just anyway that you would like to show off your own homemade wig. Please do not use your own head as a base for your Halloween wigs model. Be sure to always glue the yarn onto a fake model because any stray glue will be difficult to remove from your own hair!

Halloween Costume Ideas

The tradition of wearing Halloween costumes stems from long ago. Many centuries ago it was believed by people that the veil between the physical and spiritual realms would come down that day, allowing spirits to come back from the dead and cause mischief and mayhem.  So, they themselves would dress up in masks and paint their faces to confuse these spirits. People were hoping to hide their identity. They thought they were disguising themselves as the dead by dressing themselves as demons, ghosts, and zombies.

These days the list of scary costumes has been added to. Vampires, witches, and mummies are all popular for scary Halloween costumes. Classic Movies such as Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, The Wolf Man and Phantom of the Opera have inspired many Halloween costumes over the years. More modern movies such as Friday the Thirteenth, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream and Saw have caused a further plethora of scary masks and costumes. The movie Halloween even produced its own variation on a Halloween costume.

But along with those scary costumes, there are now cowboys, pumpkins, cheerleaders, football players, politicians and pop culture celebrities that have made the Halloween holiday a lighter more fun filled time. These days you are just as likely to bump into a superheroes such as Batman or Superman, a Star Wars character, the US President or Elvis as any scary ghouls in Halloween costume.