Each idea includes outfit tips, a DIY zombie twist, and a suggested scene for your separate zombie love story video. Use cosmetics labeled for the intended area, including eyes or lips. Apply fabric decorations to clothing while it is off your body, and let them dry fully before wearing.
Apocalyptic Survivor Duo
Wear tactical cargo pants, layered utility vests, and weathered flannel shirts. Wear scuffed-looking boots and carry foam field radios. Blend brown cosmetic face paint along cheekbones and collarbones.
Zombie twist: Choose already-distressed cargo pants and a worn utility vest. Add dark cosmetic face paint to your cheeks and red fabric-marker stains to the vest pockets.
Video scene: Classic standoff
Make our zombie videoInfected Prom Royalty
Pick thrift-store satin dresses and oversized tuxedo jackets from the eighties. Add cheap craft sashes labeled with metallic markers. Apply running mascara streaks and pale cosmetic face powder to capture a formal evening turned catastrophic.
Zombie twist: Tear the satin dress hem unevenly, rub black eyeshadow across lapels, and dab dried crimson paint along torn sash edges.
Video scene: Classic standoff
Make our zombie videoCampground Park Rangers
Style khaki utility shirts, green shorts, and matching precut cardboard patrol badges. Add braided lanyards with cheap whistles. Sweep dull brown contour beneath jawlines to suggest long, sleepless nights patrolling untamed woods.
Zombie twist: Tear shirt collars into ragged strips, blend gray cosmetic face paint across cheeks, and smear brown fabric paint across torn utility patches.
Video scene: Pumpkin field
Make our zombie videoVintage Harvest Farmers
Combine denim overalls, plaid work shirts, and weathered straw hats. Carry bundles of dried corn husks and burlap sacks. Dust dry terracotta blush across foreheads, adding fine eyebrow-pencil scratches across the bridge of the nose.
Zombie twist: Choose overalls with already-frayed hems, apply pale gray lipstick, and add brown fabric-marker stains to flannel sleeves.
Video scene: Sunflower field
Make our zombie videoPlague Doctors in Love
Layer long dark trench coats, leather gloves, and DIY beak masks shaped from black poster board. Carry dried lavender sprigs. Blend smoky gray eyeshadow around eyes to accentuate pale, hollow skin beneath mask edges.
Zombie twist: Choose a coat with worn cuffs, add dark red fabric-marker stains to its collar, and blend purple eyeshadow around your eyes.
Video scene: Día de Muertos
Make our zombie videoMidnight Vampire Couple
Select high-collar velvet capes, lace blouses, and dark tailored trousers. Accessorize with cheap ornate plastic brooches and silver rings. Dust translucent powder across face contours and dot deep crimson lipstick at mouth corners.
Zombie twist: Tear delicate lace cuffs into shreds, draw burgundy streaks down chins with cosmetic face paint, and blend pale foundation across foreheads.
Video scene: Classic standoff
Make our zombie videoWerewolf and Forest Hunter
One wears torn plaid with faux fur tufts; the other wears dark canvas coats and toy tracking compasses. Use brown face paint for snout shading and soft silver highlighter on the hunter's temples.
Zombie twist: Rip canvas jacket sleeves open, sponge green-gray cosmetic body paint over exposed skin, and spatter fake blood across faux-fur chest patches.
Video scene: Pumpkin field
Make our zombie videoSunken Pirate Captains
Dress in ruffled linen tops, wide buckled belts, and faded tricorn hats. Drape cheap braided rope and shredded fishnet across shoulders. Apply muted green-grey eyeshadow around eye sockets to mimic deep-sea decay.
Zombie twist: Stain linen ruffles with fully cooled black tea and let them dry completely before wearing, fray tricorn brims, and stipple moss-green face paint over hollowed cheekbones.
Video scene: Sunflower field
Make our zombie videoGhost Bride and Groom
Wear already-distressed gray vintage wedding clothes. Carry wilted silk roses and clip torn tulle veils. Add a gray wig and contour cheeks with gray cosmetic makeup.
Zombie twist: Choose a ready-made tattered veil, apply pale gray lipstick, and draw tear-like streaks with eyeliner.
Video scene: Día de Muertos
Make our zombie videoAncient Mummy Pair
Attach short, precolored cotton strips to neutral base layers using fabric tape before getting dressed. Use pale lipstick and sand-colored eyeshadow.
Zombie twist: Layer short gauze accents over the sleeves, add brown fabric-marker stains, and use gray foundation for an undead complexion.
Video scene: Classic standoff
Make our zombie videoWitch and Woodland Sorcerer
Combine draped black shawls, pointed velvet hats, and soft foam wands. Hang small lightweight plastic bottles from twine belts. Blend deep plum tones over eyelids, drawing delicate dark vines down cheeks.
Zombie twist: Choose a shawl with ready-made fringe, smudge black cream makeup down jawlines, and wear leaf-shaped hair clips.
Video scene: Pumpkin field
Make our zombie videoSkeleton Ball Attendees
Wear sharp black evening attire over black base layers. Draw rib bones on the shirts with fabric chalk. Apply matte white foundation with black circles around eyes and vertical skeletal lip lines.
Zombie twist: Choose a worn tuxedo jacket, shade the shirt’s bone markings with a gray fabric marker, and add red lipstick at mouth corners.
Video scene: Día de Muertos
Make our zombie videoSalt and Pepper Shakers
Coordinate solid white and solid black sweatshirts. Attach precut felt letters ‘S’ and ‘P’ to the sweatshirts with fabric tape. Wear lightweight cardboard hats decorated with dots to resemble shaker lids. Apply crisp, monochrome graphic eyeliner wings.
Zombie twist: Dent cardboard hats, tear sweatshirt seams at shoulders, and splatter thick red fabric paint across white felt letters.
Video scene: Classic standoff
Make our zombie videoSunny-Side-Up Egg and Coffee Cup
One wears a white posterboard fried egg with a yellow felt yolk; the partner wears brown apparel inside a white foam cup sleeve. Add warm peach blush and gloss for an energized morning aesthetic.
Zombie twist: Draw crack patterns on the egg prop with a marker, blend brown cosmetic face paint across cheeks, and sponge gray cosmetic body paint onto necks.
Video scene: Sunflower field
Make our zombie videoCampfire and Marshmallow
Layer brown tights with felt flames glued to a red sweater; the second wears puffy white fleece with cardboard stick skewers. Use light bronzer for toasted smudges across noses and cheeks.
Zombie twist: Draw pretend scorch marks on the fleece with a brown fabric marker, snap cardboard skewer props in half, and smear deep plum shadow under eyes.
Video scene: Pumpkin field
Make our zombie videoThunderstorm and Rainbow
One wears grey sweats with cotton ball stormclouds and felt lightning bolts; the other styles multi-colored ribbon stripes on white fabric. Blend glittery silver shadow on one face, vibrant pastel gradients on the other.
Zombie twist: Pull cotton stormclouds into stringy wisps, shade colorful ribbons with a black fabric marker, and draw dark veins along temples with cosmetic face paint.
Video scene: Día de Muertos
Make our zombie video1920s Speakeasy Partners
Pair striped vests, suspenders, newsboy caps, and fringe flapper dresses. Add faux pearl necklaces and cheap toy pocket watches. Apply dark burgundy lipstick with defined Cupid’s bows and pencil-thin vintage eyebrows.
Zombie twist: Wear an intact faux pearl necklace slightly askew, tear flapper fringe skirts, and smudge dark brown greasepaint across vest collars.
Video scene: Classic standoff
Make our zombie video1970s Disco Dancers
Sport flared bell-bottom jeans, satin button-downs with open collars, and circular tinted sunglasses. Add platform shoes. Dust bronze highlighter across cheekbones alongside glossy coral lips.
Zombie twist: Choose bell-bottom jeans with already-frayed cuffs, smear dark red makeup across open satin collars, and apply pale sunken eye contour.
Video scene: Sunflower field
Make our zombie videoEmergency Room Doctors
Put on matching medical scrubs, clip ID badges with fake titles, and drape plastic toy stethoscopes around necks. Blend muted purple eyeshadow beneath the eyes to show exhaustion from long hospital rotations.
Zombie twist: Choose already-distressed scrubs, add crimson fabric-marker stains to chest pockets, and trace bluish veins across foreheads with cosmetic face paint.
Video scene: Pumpkin field
Make our zombie videoRetro Astronaut Duo
Wear white painter’s coveralls detailed with silver duct tape bands, generic flag patches, and clear visor helmets. Add metallic silver face paint stripes across the bridge of the nose and temples.
Zombie twist: Add black fabric-marker smudges to jumpsuit chests, draw pretend crack patterns on a separate cardboard helmet prop, and dab fake blood on collars.
Video scene: Sunflower field
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