Diy a messy dirty look for post apocalyptic cosplays

So today we had an awesomely fun time doing construction for the Left For Dead 2 cmv we are doing at the end of this month(aka next week).

We Quickly ran into the need to dirty up all of the costumes since, lets face it, a survivor will not be beautiful. I had once seen the suggestion of rubbing coffee grinds on people to achieve the look. 

Now confession time, it works but not very well by itself. You get very light dirt marks using the cheap coffee grinds. 

With a little problem solving RB and i came up with a way around that. Solution???? Just add water, well get your fingers wet for sure and then smear away. This is sticky and it is messy so fair warning, do not do this on your friends carpet. Take this process outside. RB also mixed gatorade in at some point because we needed to finish like 2 full bottles of it.

Now this isn't even the dirtiest we were able to get her shirt. We added a lot more and then blood so you just have to keep adding!

BTW made the shirt design myself (RB in about a 5 minutes from the good ref)

Now don't forget to do the back and the bottom of the jeans as well as any visible skin like the neck and what not. 

(Edit by RB) No pics of the finished results but they basically lookd like this. On clothes.

Gatorade is good for really sticky dirt because of the sugar content but water and this work pretty much the same. WHy Coffee though? Well you might not have some fresh dirt around say in the drier parts of the earth. And it smells much better

~ Lulu/RB