How to Make a Vampire Costume
You’ll need more than just fake fangs and a Bela Lugosi impersonation to pull off a convincing vampire.
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Put together a great Halloween costume with the ideas in this Howcast video series.
You Will Need
- An elegant outfit
- Vampire fangs
- White face powder
- Red or purple lipstick
- Pomade or hair gel
- Fake blood
- A cape
Steps
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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.
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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.
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Spring for moldable fangs and follow the instructions to make them stay securely in place all night.
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Step 3
Whiten your face
After dressing, wash your face and then apply white powder with a puff or brush.
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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.
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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.
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Step 5
Do your hair
Slick your hair back with pomade or gel. If it’s long, put it in a ponytail.
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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.
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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.
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Step 7
Don your cape
Don your cape with a flourish, and start practicing replacing your Ws with Vs.
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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.
