Reanimated Affections

HARPER EFFECTS! What a TALENT!!! A while ago I requested Harper Effects if I could feature this particular photo, and they agreed! 
This will NOT be our only feature of their work! All of the creations found on this blog are amazingly done and fabulous! Best of all, they’re bloody!
Check out more of Harper Effects’ work at:
http://harpersfx.tumblr.com/ 
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Seriously, it’s worth a peek!
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More coming in the future! Stay tuned! 

We return you to your regularly scheduled rotting.

I was not supposed

to be this rotting, dead husk.

Rather, cremated.

Salutations hordes of the undead, or those soon-to-be’s! 
Just a small post to let you know we set up a brand spanking new “About Us!” section on our page!

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Check it out!

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Also, once things settle down on our home-front we’ll be getting profiles out for our writers along with picture ID. I know you’re just bursting with excitement to see it! Sorry I can’t fabricate them out of thin air, but it’ll be up eventually!

Hang in there, guys!

Thank you to everyone following our blog and encouraging us to keep moving foward. Tonight we hit 100 followers!!!
WHOOOO!
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We are very excited and hope to see this site continue to grow and grow! :)
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Happy Trails and Tasty Brains, everyone!

PRESENTING:
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ZOMBOO’S MAKEUP BASICS!!!

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To start, I am so flattered. Someone liked my makeup enough to want more information on it! Now, mind you, I AM an amateur and have been self-taught, so if anyone would like to add suggestions, comments, etc. do so!

Also note that this is with house-hold makeup items. Aside from latex I don’t know any fancy (expensive) professional makeup’s.

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Now, as I said the makeup for my zombie facial was pretty simple. The latex and paper towels were used to give texture, definition, and depth. After allowing it to dry, you’ll want to get a powder foundation (of your skin color) and cover all the bumps, gaps, and crevasses. Once the texture looks like it’s a natural part of your face, you’ll want to use black first. Start at the deepest part of your wound with black eye shadow, or eye brow pencil, or liquid eyeliner – whatever you find easiest. Once the deepest part is filled in you’ll want to take your weapon of black choice and lightly fill in some of the crevasses and dents in the wound.

Next, you’ll want to use lipstick! Red lipstick! It’s important to remember that you want the darkest red shade in the deepest part of the wound – you’ll want to smear it in with the black color a bit so the wound LOOKS deeper. As you move outwards you’ll want to use lighter shades of red until you get to a good fresh-blood-red color.

Side note: You don’t have to ruin your lipstick stash to do this! You can paint your index finger with the lipstick and use your finger as a paintbrush. It may be thicker than the lipstick tip, but that’s ok, the colors need to meld together anyway.

Also: Be sure to get those crevasses or you’ll have random flesh colored specks in the middle of a hideous wound!

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Once your wound is sufficiently bloody (and dry), go over it with a clear lip gloss. I would advise against using gloss that has sparkles, but sometimes you can get away with it depending on how brutal the wound is. The lip gloss will make your wound look fresh and wet.

That takes care of the blood, but wounds don’t isolate themselves to the area of trauma. You’ll have to make the skin around the wound look bruised and tender (this will also make the wound more prominent).  

My BEST advise here is to watch some professional makeup videos to study off of – this WILL take PRACTICE.

When I want to make people think I’m being beaten my favorite bruise make up is Revlon (see image).

I got a simple four-pack eye-shadow with skin, brown, green, and blue colors. It’s not a must, but I find it easier to use gel, or crème eye-shadow because it blurs together smoothly and blends better. The stuff I use has a little bit of shimmer to it, which can be good for big bruises that’ll shine just enough to make it look painful.

I use the darker brown and smear it in the desired area. Once it looks darker than your normal skin tone, you’ll want to come in LIGHTLY with the dark green and blue to give it the ‘shiner’ look. Make sure to smear the colors so that no one hue is more prominent than the other too obviously.  

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As I said, this will take aLOTof practice. If you’re a visual learner like me, you might want to check out some YouTube videos and just observe, then try to follow along. Personally, I started with a cut on my hand (about the size of a finger) then moved to bigger and better wounds.

The best thing to do is to look online at professional wounds and try to mimic it – yes, it is a lot of frustrating trial and error, but absolutely worth it.

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This mostly centralized on the actual makeup application – if anyone would like latex help that might require more individualized attention (how you use the latex depends on the type of wound, where it’s wanted, etc. etc. and so on)

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I hope this helps! If not, ask probing questions! I’ll find a way to help!!

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We’re all zombie-lovers (and/or zombies) and so, let’s spread the plague! 

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Spoiled, rotten kids

have they no respect for the dead?

My how times have changed.

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Back in my day young-

people revered the deceased!

Now they run and scream.

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Damn kids on my lawn!

Just wait til I get my hands

on you! I’m hungry!

I had a fascinating realization

just the other day.

I have never been one

for the gnashing of teeth

or projectile vomit

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(or various other fluids)

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However,

just the other day

I realized that I am alone.

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In this large congregation of congested undead and overflowing streets with no end in sight, just the constant moaning and dead, rotting corpses bumping aimlessly into one another, flailing jaws, or what used to be jaws, nothing on anyone’s (or anything’s, depending on your view) mind but the walking conscience that is the elusive human being, the flesh that sustains us and warms us up and brings feeling to our nerves and tingles up through us like we are alive once again if only until the blood runs cold and that thing called feeling, that thing nerve endings that used to be alive gifted to us everyday, was gone and so they wander on and on and on and on and on and yet still amidst all of it, amidst the thick suffocating large and unyielding crowd

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I am entirely

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alone.

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Upon first realizing this

unfortunate circumstance

I grew enraged.

Why me? Why am I of all

the wretches, murderers, lunatics, guilty mind-and-body fiends and so on

am I the only corpse whose intellect

goes untouched by the plague

that has us all craving flesh?

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Anger subsided.

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Maybe it is because

I am of such intellect

I have been spared from

whatever uncouth disease

kissed our race with a smile

dripping poison.

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Maybe I am special.

Or should I say,

I was.

Another thought raced

Across the synapses of my,

by all means dead,

brain

perhaps I was a

wretch or murderer or lunatic or guilty mind-and-body fiend or so on.

The anger returned.

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If only briefly.

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Regardless of what I am,

what I was or why I am

the way I am,

the fact is that I am still

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alone.

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I was never a man

for the belief of ‘intelligent design’

or ‘creationism’,

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or at least I don’t think I was.

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However, I see why the common

man would lean upon such ideals.

Someone,

something

always watching.

Caring.

A reason for everything.

Everything in its place.

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It’s all very …

organized.

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As I was saying,

I had a fascinating realization

just the other day.

I have never been one

for the gnashing of teeth

or projectile vomit

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(or various other fluids)

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However,

just the other day

I realized that I am alone … 

No one calls a zombie beautiful,

but I find them the lost medium of expression,

varicose veins stenciling the path of life

long after it has faded.

Sightless eyes,

milky cataracts,

focus only on that which is the most important

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Each body is a story;

the clothing and the bite.

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This one a referee,

who made the final call

that the little girl who fell

was not just taking a nap.

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He, a salesman.

The dying breed of door-to-door.

Now he seeks his costumers,

but selling different product.

“Won’t you try this sample?”

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Her, a single mom

working for her children.

Never seeing, never speaking,

only giving.

Her final gift to them

was a kiss before they slept

and now they walk together

with all the time in the world.

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They do not know I’m watching.

They do not care.

With death comes the release

from all social obligation,

all personality defects,

all taxes and payments,

all futures and expectations,

and so it isn’t that they are slaves

stumbling without forethought,

prisoners of a rotting body.

They are truly free.

And they stumble with a sense of pride.

Reanimated

Affections kindly brings you

Intelligent Dead

This movie is rated PG-13

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You know the story, a lethal virus hits and everyone panics. Your number one priority is to survive, second is find a safe place (if there are any), and third to be with only people you can trust. In the gripping thriller Carriers, directed by Alex and David Pastor, we find a typical group of survivors all roughly college-aged, two females and two males, on the road trying to do everything they can to keep alive and uncontaminated. To be honest this isn’t really a ‘zombie’ movie, but don’t let that turn you off. This strange, if not somewhat straight-forward, horror movie takes ‘infection’ to a new level. The disease that has hit is, as in most of these movies, world-wide, but instead of zombies shambling everywhere and biting people it’s a more realistic virus. The scariest part is that it is air-borne.

            An amazing cast brings this movie to life on the screen; especially star Chris Pine (originally James Kirk in the blockbuster Star Trek). The plot revolves around the four main characters, two brothers and their girlfriends, trying to get to a beach house their parents used to own. A world without zombies may seem less intimidating, until you see what people have to do to survive. Strange and incurable, this new virus can be transmitted through touch, breath, saliva, blood, etc. – it starts out as a harmless cough, maybe a little blood in the throat, then as it progresses the victim finds it harder and harder to breath, their temperature raises exponentially, their veins become prominent and their eyes blood shot, and finally they die. It is highly contagious and there are no immunities.

            Despite that horrific description, the film refrains from showing a lot of gore making it a decent experience for teenager and older audiences. The group didn’t have a lot of problems on their trip at first, they seemed to get along well and were even relaxed enough to have a few beers while driving, until they had to stop in the middle of the off-beaten highway. A van was parked sideways on the road with a man out front of it. Upon approaching, gun tucked in jeans (out of sight), the man explained that he and his young daughter had run out of gas and was simply looking to barrow some. Our protagonist, weary of tricks and tomfoolery like this, denied the request. His girlfriend had nearly convinced him to spare just enough for them to get to the next town when the little girl in the back seat popped her head up to look out of the window a little. She had on a cough mask. It was stained red. Immediately recognizing the infection our troupe tried to high-tail it. The father shot their car a few times, which resulting in them returning with tanks of gas, food, bleach and other cleaning supplies. They demanded that he and his daughter go to the far back seat and then duct taped the area off with clear plastic. Bleaching the car thoroughly they were able to all travel together. At high risk to their health.

            It’s a heart-wrenching story that takes several turns for the worst leaving our protagonists hard decisions to make and even harder trying to live. Unfortunately, not much can be said about it without giving away great story elements and surprises, so you’ll have to take my word for it on this one. It defiantly has its flaws, some of the most dramatic scenes are hedged a little short and the ending is not what I would call ‘entirely satisfying’. It’s worth the 84 minutes and chance to see Chris Pine play another splendid role. The characters were all distinct and believable, even if there were a few unexplained (and somewhat irritating) quirks.

            Overall, it’s a very good movie. As I said it withholds a lot of gore (although there are a couple disturbing images) and the morality vs. survival angle is always a thrill to watch unravel. I definitely recommend this, unless you are a hypochondriac.

I don’t like fast food.

Too quick for stiff legs and arms.

Please be less healthy.