By Melody Cen
Staff Writer
Halloween DIY crafts are easy, affordable and perfect to jazz up this spooky holiday season. The first Halloween themed project you need to try is making fake blood or open wounds. The materials are extremely affordable with few materials needed to take your costumes and home decor to the next level.
Fake Blood Wound
To make fake blood wounds, you’ll first need a container of pink vaseline (0.25 oz) or (regular vaseline with food coloring), some thin toilet paper and Cocoa Powder.
- Apply the pink vaseline on any body part of your choice.
- Before it smears everywhere, dab on paper towels and let it sit in the vaseline until it starts to soak up the vaseline and become pink.
- After the toilet paper has set, add cocoa powder near the center of the wound to create a gnawed and gory effect, finishing it up and setting it aside to dry.
The next craft is one for Halloween goers who are aiming for a more gothic or ethereal costume, with these easy to do vampire fangs being perfect for anything from wolves to Draculas.
DIY Vampire Fangs
Making these fangs requires some fake white acrylic press on nails, non-toxic denture adhesive cream, a pair of scissors and some sand paper or metal nail file to prevent the nail from cutting your lip.
- First make sure to find nails that are a similar size to your tooth. You can check by holding them up to your teeth or eyeballing them.
- Then use scissors to cut the desired shape of the nail to make them more fang like.
- After, file down the edges so it doesn’t cut up the inside of your mouth and so that the shape becomes smoother.
- Finally, attach your fangs to the teeth of your choice, holding it in place for ten to fifteen seconds and letting it dry for two to four minutes.
PHOTOS/ Allison Lu, Keilana Pang