Wednesday 23 October 2013

Raffle - Find Me At Expo!

I will be going to London Expo this weekend the Sat and the Sunday in cosplay [yep] and will be handing out business cards for this blog and attached will be a raffle ticket in which there will be a prize draw for it on Halloween [31st] and people can win some awesome freebies.
 
So look out for me : D
 
Much love XJigsaw X

Tuesday 22 October 2013

How To Make Fake Blood

Well that blog post I said I'd post Monday? HERE IT IS....

I've been doing fake blood for cosplays for awhile now and a fair few people always ask me how I do it and really like it. So I thought I would show all you lovely people how I do my shiz.
 
 
What you will need
 
Leaf gelatine
Red food dye
Water
 
That's it! you can get the cheapest of either it still works, I think my food dye was 49p from ASDAs and the gel was like.. £1.05 I think?
 
Now how much you buy is up to you. All of this just about covered a dress, top, corset, flowers, veil so pretty good going.
 
What you do is with the sheets of gel is to cut them up into smaller pieces.
 
 
 
Just cus it's much easier to get them all to melt that way.
 
For each pack of gel I used all of one bottle of food dye for each pack and used water [Water just makes it go further]
 
Add half the food dye first.
 
 
Just wait till the gel starts to melt and add two table spoons of tap water to get it going.
 
 
Stir the fuck out of it till it's all melted in before adding the rest of the food dye.
 
 
It'll go super dark and thick and you have to work very fast with it as it starts to dry almost right away. BIG tip is already have what you want to fake blood up already set up and waiting.
 
More gelatine to food dye/water means it'll be thicker, harder to use , dries much faster and doesn't go as far. Thus the water and a whole bottle of colouring.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And what you have is fake blood that LOOKS wet but is dry and if your in a rush it pretty much dries within five minutes.
 
I like making hand prints so I always stick my hand in and go nuts.
 
 
But it's so easy to wash off since the food dye is in the gel the dye doesn't leave any marks on sides or your skin, It's easy to just peel off and clean away.
 
 
 
 
 
Hopefully this little tip will help you guys in the future.
 
XJigsawX
 
 
 


Thursday 17 October 2013

World Zombie Day

It was that time of the year again in which every zombie fan took to the streets of London in their finniest fake blood and ragged clothes to raise money for  good cause and scare the crap out of the everyday person.
 
I love WZD as it is for a good cause but also it's nice to see other people who like the same things, get to talk [grunt/mumble] to one another as we plod down the people heavy streets of London. People love taking pictures of us, looking at us very confused and being in pictures with us. Makes me feel famous for a day that's for sure.
 
So here is how the day out went, loads of pics as we had stops. Not so much a pub crawl now as there is just too many of us but we stopped along the way for an hour each time and allowed to do our own thing which was go get coffee and scare people. Good times.
 
A lot of pics aren't great as for most the day I didn't wear glasses.. blind zombie grr.
 
If anyone wants to use the pics here just link back to us thanks x
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Much love XJigsawX