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This may sound a little (ok, a lot) weird, but I figured someone might be able to help. See, we have this fundrasier in band every year in October called Haunted Forest. It's in a forest (with paths and stuff, it's usually a nature center type thing) and people pay to go walk around and see Halloween type skits that we make up. I signed up to be Carrie, you know, from the book Carrie by Stephen King. I pretty much get to just walk around the whole time. My grandma is coming over tomorrow with some old prom type dresses that I could wear (and ruin) and we're going to get me a tiara at a party shop or something. My question is, is there anything I could whip up and more or less dump all over me to look like blood? My first idea was cornstarch, water, and red food coloring, but my mom said something more gel-ish would be better since that would get all crusty. Any ideas about something that would last for about 4 1/2 hours and that wouldn't be too gross?