Students incorporate snakeskin, 'slutty lipstick' into theater makeup class

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (Exponent) - A Purdue senior found people in shock, staring at her in a parking lot, thinking she had just been stabbed. In reality, she had just run out of paint.

Katie Kinney, a student in the College of Health and Human Sciences, was applying zombie makeup to her face and neck when she realized she needed more fake blood. On her way into a Halloween store, Kinney was stopped by shoppers.

"They asked if I needed them to call an ambulance and I realized, 'Oh, I'm wearing zombie makeup. I'm a brilliant person.'"

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