Zombie Altered Cameo Necklace

     Looking for a gift for your undead sweetheart, pal, or maybe for yourself?  Why not give them a cameo necklace - with a twist!

A comparison of the modified and original cameos.  While the original is fine, I'm rather partial to the zombified version.

Materials:

*Faux cameo pendant
*White acrylic paint
*Red acrylic paint
*Black acrylic paint
*Brown acrylic paint
*Green acrylic paint
*Paint for hair (I used yellow and gold, in addition to brown)
*Paint for clothing (I used pink)
*Fine tipped paintbrush (I used a nail art brush)
*Acrylic sealer
*Necklace chain

Directions:

*Mix together paints until you reach a shade that is close to the color of a zombie's complexion.  For a light skinned zombie, you'll want to use mostly white, with a little black and green.  For a darker skinned zombie, you may want to use brown as your base color instead of white, although you may want to add, in addition to the black and green, a little white for pallor.

*Paint the face, neck, and any other exposed skin of the cameo using your zombie skin colored paint mixture.

*Combine colors until you reach the desired hair color for your cameo.  I mixed together yellow, brown, and gold for a dark blond color.

*Paint the cameo's hair and eyebrows.

*Paint the cameo's eyes white.  You may also want to paint any pearl jewelry white, although you could choose other colors for the jewelry as well.

*Paint the cameo's clothing a color of your choice.  I went with pink because blood drips would show up well on pink, but any light color should work for that purpose.

*If your cameo has flowers or other surrounding details, paint those in the color of your choice.  I opted to use a blood red color for the roses, which I made by adding small amounts of black and brown paint to red paint.  I also painted the leaf green.

*Once the base colors are dry, it's time to add some blood.  I made crimson paint by mixing a little black and brown into red paint.  I painted her lips, added a trickle of blood dribbling down the side of her face, and then added some drips of blood along her necklace and across her dress.

*Add in any missing details.  I used brown paint to add some detail to her hair.

*Coat pendant with an acrylic sealer to keep paint from chipping.

*Place pendant on a necklace chain and now you have a stylish zombie accessory to wear.