How To Make Fake Blood + 4 Ways You Can Use Fake Blood In Your Halloween Celebrations

When we think of Halloween, our minds are instantly drawn to particular imagery, often involving gory accents, and with gore comes fake blood. Fake blood brings a spooky and creepy charm to your Halloween celebrations. It can be incorporated into your Halloween decorations, Halloween costumes, makeup and even your Halloween dinners and desserts, with edible fake blood adding a disgustingly delicious touch to your desserts.

We'll take you through all the ways you can use fake blood to spook-ify your space this Halloween. Don't have any fake blood on hand? Don't worry, we'll take you through how to make fake blood this Halloween!

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• How To Make Fake Blood For Your Halloween Decorations
• Turn Any Costume into A Spooky Halloween Costume With Fake Blood
• How To Make Fake Blood Makeup: Final Touches to Your Halloween Ensemble
• Halloween Baking: Edible Fake Blood For A Terrifying Touch To Your Treats
• Cleaning Up After Halloween: How to Remove Fake Blood

How To Make Fake Blood For Your Halloween Decorations

While you can find a range of ready-made fake blood at Spotlight, if you're looking for a fun craft to bring an additional spook factor to your Halloween decorations, you can also learn how to make fake blood!

One of the easiest ways to make fake blood is with red food colouring. Simply start by adding a little bit of water to a small bowl. Then add red food colouring to the bowl and mix. To make the mixture appear more realistic, you'll want to make it a little darker. Add a drop of black or blue food colouring to darken the colour. It's now ready for adding to your decorations!

Ways You Can Use Fake Blood In Your Halloween Decorations

• Banners: A popular Halloween decoration often labelled with a 'Happy Halloween' message, by decorating with fake blood, you can greet your guests with a terrifying twist. Using a paint brush, add swipes of your fake blood mixture for a bloodcurdling introduction to your Halloween party.
• Curtains: Using older white or lighter toned curtains, dip your hands into your mixture and press onto the curtains for a handprint design, giving the appearance of someone trying to escape your haunted home!
• Buntings: Fill a spray bottle with your fake blood. Spray white fabric buntings with your mixture - this adds the illusion of blood splatters to your Halloween decorations. Display your fake blood buntings from your bookshelf, entranceway or mantlepiece.

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Turn Any Costume into A Spooky Halloween Costume With Fake Blood

Dressing up as a zombie, ghoul or something ghostly? Or maybe you're dressing as a doctor, a zookeeper or a superhero? With fake blood, you can transform any costume into a terrifying get-up. Here are a few of our favourite ways you can add fake blood to your Halloween costume to spook-ify your ensemble this Halloween:

• Spray: Much like how we mentioned before, you can fill a spray bottle up with your fake blood mixture and spray it over your costume for a splatter-like effect.
• Sponge: Dip a sponge into your mixture and press your mixture over your costume. For a further creepy effect, rip pieces of your costume and sponge over these rips.
• Smear: Using your hands, smear your fake blood mixture onto your costume. You can add handprints or fingerprints for a creepy touch.
• Drip: This works for thicker fake blood mixtures. In this case, you would need to get dressed into your Halloween costume. Get a friend or family member to pour the fake blood over your head and allow the mixture to drip down. You can plan this in advance allowing your fake blood to dry into your costume before the big day or complete this process the day of your event with the fake blood settling onto your face as well (just make sure it's all dried up before sitting down anywhere!).

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How To Make Fake Blood Makeup: Final Touches to Your Halloween Ensemble

Any costume can be completely transformed into a terrifying Halloween ensemble with a little bit of gore, and what better way to do this than by incorporating fake blood into your Halloween makeup. Special effects makeup is specifically designed for creating realistic Halloween looks, including for making fake blood.

As seen with our Scar With Blood Effect, special effects makeup helps to bring a terrifying twist to your final look. Using a BYS Cuts and Scratches Colour Wheel, BYS Special FX Thick Clotted Blood and other special effects tools, you can easily recreate this realistic bloody scar, perfect for adding horror to any Halloween costume.

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How To Make Fake Blood With Everyday Makeup Products

While special effects makeup helps you to easily create fake blood looks, you can also use your regular household cosmetics to add a terrifying twist to your Halloween costumes. Think red eyeshadow and lipstick. These cosmetics are typically the most pigmented products in any makeup kit, making them great options for when you're wanting to create fake blood with products you already have on hand. For a quick touch of fake blood, smudge liquid red lipstick around your mouth for a bloodsucking vampire costume or create a nasty cut on your cheek by layering two dark shades of red lipstick.

If you have a little more time on your hands, you can create a fake blood mixture by mixing clear lip-gloss and red eyeshadow together. Simply scrape your red eyeshadow onto a flat surface, such as a plain palette or a container lid, add a few drops of clear lip gloss and mix with a small brush. Mix two different shades of red for your ideal shade of blood red. Apply with another small brush to your cheeks, mouth or forehead. Because you are using makeup to create the fake blood, your Halloween makeup look can be easily removed with your everyday makeup remover or wipes.

Halloween Baking: Edible Fake Blood For A Terrifying Touch To Your Treats

Apart from your costumes, decorations and makeup, fake blood can also be used to add a gory touch to your Halloween desserts. In this case, it's important to make fake blood that is edible and safe to consume. At Spotlight, you can find a range of edible fake blood to help make your Halloween cake making a breeze, but you can also make your own edible fake blood using ingredients from your pantry!

All you need to do is mix cornflour, corn syrup, water and of course, red food colouring. You can also add chocolate syrup for a thicker texture and darker appearance, perfect for creating drips of fake blood.

How to Use Edible Fake Blood

Edible fake blood can be made and incorporated into your Halloween cakes in many ways. Our Bleeding Heart Cake and our Halloween Fault Line Cake projects highlight two different ways you can use fake blood to create a shocking Halloween dessert. Our Bleeding Heart Cake instructs you to conceal fake blood within the cake for a bloody surprise when the cake is cut into, while the Halloween Fault Line Cake features the dripping of edible fake blood as part of its decorations. Both cake projects use edible fake blood in their own creative ways, making great centrepieces to any dessert table at your next Halloween party.

Cleaning Up Fake Blood After Halloween

When your celebrations are over, it's a good idea to remove your fake blood as soon as possible to avoid staining (unless of course you prefer to keep it on your decorations and costumes to reuse for next Halloween!)

How To Get Fake Blood Off Skin

While fake blood makeup is typically easy to remove with a makeup wipe, it can be harder removing homemade fake blood mixtures. If you find makeup remover doesn't seem to work, there are a few household products you can gently rub onto your skin to remove fake blood, such as:

• Soap and water
• Baby oil
• Olive oil
• Toothpaste
• Baking soda and water
• Lemon juice

Removing Fake Blood From Fabrics and Carpets

Accidentally got your fake blood mixture on your favourite shirt? Or, maybe you spilled a little bit of fake blood onto your carpet when preparing for your Halloween celebrations. Don't worry! You can mix either one tablespoon of dishwashing liquid or white vinegar (two common household products) with two cups of cold water to create a homemade cleaning solution. Gently blot the fake blood stain with the solution and a cloth to remove.

Learn How to Make Fake Blood For A Spooky Touch To Your Halloween Celebrations

Whether you're wanting to bring a gory accent to your Halloween decorations or costumes, add a terrifying final touch to your Halloween makeup or create disgustingly delicious Halloween desserts, learning how to make fake blood will elevate your Halloween celebrations.

Spotlight has everything you need to celebrate Halloween. Check out our Halloween hub for more helpful inspiration including Halloween baking ideas and DIY Halloween projects. Or, shop our full Halloween range, including costumes, decorations and craft supplies, online or at a Spotlight store near you!

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