How To Make a Vampire Costume
- July 7, 2008
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You’ll need more than just fake fangs and a Bela Lugosi impersonation to pull off a convincing vampire.
You Will Need
- An elegant outfit
- Vampire fangs
- White face powder
- Red or purple lipstick
- Pomade or hair gel
- Fake blood
- A cape
Step 1: Pick a formal black outfit
Pick an elegant black dress or a formal black suit from your closet, or find one in a used clothing store.
Step 2: Secure fangs
Buy plastic vampire fangs and a rubber bat from a costume shop. Make sure the fangs fit comfortably over your upper teeth.
Spring for moldable fangs and follow the instructions to make them stay securely in place all night.
Step 3: Whiten your face
After dressing, wash your face and then apply white powder with a puff or brush.
Step 4: Highlight your lips
Highlight your lips by making them very pale with a light dusting of face powder, or very dark with a deep red, purple, or black lipstick.
To make your face look even freakier, buy colored contacts—especially a disturbing color, like red, or a shade that is the opposite of your normal coloring.
Step 5: Do your hair
Slick your hair back with pomade or gel. If it’s long, put it in a ponytail.
Step 6: Use fake blood
Dribble a drop or two of fake blood from the corners of your lips, and dot two small drops on your neck, spaced to look like fang puncture wounds.
You can purchase fake blood from most costume shops, or make your own with a few drops of corn syrup, red food coloring, and soy sauce.
Step 7: Don your cape
Don your cape with a flourish, and start practicing replacing your Ws with Vs.
Bram Stoker’s character Dracula was based on Prince Vlad Tepes, a 15th century Romanian known as “The Impaler” for his love of that method of torture.
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Comments (2)
Love how that foolish vampire gets burned up in the end!
about 1 year ago by HeatherM
A T??
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