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Doing Some Damage with Simulated Injuries

I like to kill people when I open up my makeup box.  Seriously, I  enjoy trying to replicate death and dismemberment since I find it to be quite challenging to convince an audience that something terrible has happened to an actor.  What's surprising to me is that most people I've worked on  seem to really like getting made up as murder victims.  I've got dozens of stories about freshly made-up actors going out into the unsuspecting world.  I've also had some very amused neighbors over the years.

My husband doesn't like doing horror quite as much as I do, but he has been known to dabble in a lot of blood when asked nicely.  He helped me out on the FX makeup for the Steel  injuries shown here.

My very first victim - my brother

Torn throat

Slitting my own throat.

"Mr. Safety"

Yeas, we sent Duckie to work like this!

Beaten & shot.

Prep for arrows.

Riddled with arrows.

Head shot.

Steel Injury

Steel Injury

Steel Injury

Torn throat for vamp attack.

Death by chicken bone.

Hatchet job.

Death by dolly.

Wedding day.

Stabbed.