Thank you everyone for your wonderful suggestions. There is a lot here to work with.
I am pretty new to AE so I will probably stick to the suggestions that use effects that come with the software at first. I also think I will avoid 3-D at this point. Maybe in a few days I will have more questions if I run into trouble.
By the way, she doesn’t need to look like a vampire for what I am doing – and she already has the glitter make-up on.