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Halloween Costumes

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21:54 / 25.10.03

I'm off to a Halloween party tonight (yes, I know, a week early).

Originally, I was gonna go as Mata Hari, but then my roommate decided I was going to go as a Chinese Madam, because she found this long 70s cheong-sam style dress at a thrift store, and I can wear my hair up with chopsticks. Then she was moping that I didn't have a white kimono, because then I could go as O-Ren Ishii from Kill Bill.

Well, whatever. In any case, the thrift store dress just doesn't work. It's not fitted enough, the collar isn't a proper cheong-sam collar and neither of us can be bothered to muck around with needle and thread to alter it. So I'm going in my standard fall-back pirate outfit. Stoatie will remember this one; it's almost exactly the same the one I wore to his 30th a couple of years ago (though without the cool jolly roger sweater which is back in London). I have a black and white stripey scoop neck t-shirt, wide-leg black trousers and black and white stripey socks. I also have a piratical pearly choker and a silver braclet made of skulls and bones.

On top of this, I have a sword! It's not a cutlass, but I'm the kind of pirate with no morals who'll steal a sword off a dead man in China -- it's a fake (but pretty fuckin' sharp) ninja sword.

Which brings me on to what my roommate's costume is. She's going as a ninja. She has a sword too. And shuriken.

This could be dangerous....

So, what wonderous outfits do you have planned for your Halloween shenanigans?

21:59 / 25.10.03

Also, I've been trying to find some simple tattoo flash designs that I can draw on my skin because I don't have any tats.

If you image search for "sailor tattoo", you get some disturbing non-work-safe images.... OUCH! OUCH! OUCH!

04:13 / 26.10.03

If I can get in gear and finish up the sewing for it, I'm going as "Strawberry Slutcake". I'm planning on completely dousing myself in Victoria's Secret "Strawberries and Champagne" body spray to complete the effect.

Murray Hamhandler

18:23 / 26.10.03

F.F. Woodycooks. Pictures are soon to follow.

19:11 / 26.10.03

Good old Punisher. All U really need is tha bloody shirt, and maybe some skull apparel. Of course the dream is for me and 3 of my buddies to go as "Boyz R Us" from Milligan/Allred's X-Force... but that's proving to be a little difficult to convince others to do......

23:36 / 26.10.03

I weigh about 150 these days, so I want to go as the Hulk, wearing just cut-offs and my everyday nerdy '80s glasses, for maximum comedic effect.

I gotta figure out how to dye myself green, though. I'm hoping to avoid rubbing off on everything I touch, yet avoid being green for the rest of the year. (Um, suggestions are welcome.)

00:07 / 27.10.03

...with less and less effort going into my costume each year, next week I'll be going out as a ghost. Yep. 1 sheet, cut holes all over for Charlie Brown look, and voila!

The Great Jor of Babylon

03:00 / 27.10.03

Quentin Quire.

Goodness Gracious Meme

13:23 / 27.10.03

'Strawberry slutcake'.

Genius.

I may steal that one at some point...

I've been paddying about a costume for 'In yer mum's' party (strict halloween/horror theme has been resulting in no inspiration) but have come up with a great idea....which i want to be a surprise so will be hush about it for now...

13:57 / 27.10.03

I am TOTALLY stuck for anything for that one. I wanted to go as The Worst Witch but my hair is all wrong. Any ideas welcome. Please help.

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:03 / 27.10.03

Could you and the boy do the 'mione/snape? he's tall and pale?

or there've got to be (shows massive ignorance) some celtic/pagan goddeses that would be reasonably easy(colouring-wise)

14:11 / 27.10.03

Yeah, but he doesn't understand... (and besides, would be too icky, don't you think? There's icky het-fic and icky het, know what I mean?)

I could tip red paint all over myself and go as Carrie, I suppose.

14:19 / 27.10.03

the worst witch! i love that movie!
i'm going as dead morton salt girl. ummm i dunno if they have morton salt in the uk, so if you guys don't know what she looks like, go to mortonsalt.com. it's just the girl on the front of the container. i'm making her dead cos i felt like doing gore makeup this year. i'm pretty good at it. i can do an excellent bruise; i can make it look like my face is all swollen. (i'm proud of this cos otherwise i have no visual art talent.) i'm making my yellow dress from two yellow shirts. and i'm covering my mary janes in yellow fabric, too.
oh i forget who wanted to be the hulk. but when you mentioned getting green but not permanently, i thought of if you go to a club if yr underage and they 'X' you, it's much easier to rub off the X if you put lotion on beforehand. so i'd say, lotion yrself up, wait for it to sink in a bit, then color yourself all over w/a crayola marker. you may want to have some friends help. then, when the party's over, take a shower and scrub yourself down w/a scrub brush. just a thought. i promise nothing!!

14:20 / 27.10.03

oh, and i've always wanted to go as carrie, but i'd only do it if i could get the exact same dress she wore, as well as a long blonde wig. i'd cover myself in fake blood, but only in the front, so that way i could still sit down on things.
god i love halloween.

14:32 / 27.10.03

Went as a cowboy on Saturday, complete with spurs, water-pistols-that-look-like-proper-old-west-guns-cept-they're-blue and holsters.

It was better than it sounds, I swear. Plus I got to take some fun pictures in all that gear! ;o)

I did loads of Tarot readings that night, as well.

I was, essentially, the Wicked Witch of the Old West!

Oh, and I shaved off a bit of my goatee so I just had a 'tash and a little furry bit under my lip. I liked it so much, I'm considering keeping it.

Next week, dressing as a witch and more Tarot readings at another party.

15:47 / 27.10.03

I'm going as a white tiger and my bf is gonna be Roy.

16:02 / 27.10.03

On a design front, I was thinking just the other day how good the Morton Salt girl would look on a t-shirt or a tote bag.

Saturday's party was fun. Seems the two big accessories of the night were swords and tails.

We drove to the party in full pirate and ninja regalia, it was sooo funny -- my roommate had the ninja headwrap on so all you could see were her eyes, and no one noticed at all.

Tip: I drew an anchor tattoo on my arm in black eyeliner pencil, and then brushed over it with Lipcote, which prevented it from smudging all night. Talcum powder would do the same thing if needed, on a larger scale.

17:56 / 27.10.03

no tote bags, but check this out, anna

18:56 / 27.10.03

Uhh, I'm the OTHER Anna. The one whose name actually is Anna? On my birth certificate?

Thank you.

19:05 / 27.10.03

damnit, i tried to get it fixed before you saw.
sorry bout that.

The Tower Always Falls

01:24 / 28.10.03

Chicago feared me as I dressed as The Monkey King. I have an old Peking opera mask I got in Bejing that scratches the tip of my nose all to fuck, but it's worth it to see everyone take a visible step back from me. in shock... No peripheral vision though... Add a big ol staff and imporivsed yellow scrubs with manufactured loincloths and i'm set...

Although it must be said that at the last party, where Quimper and Rorscarch were in attendance, my gay husband yelled at us to have costumes he can actually recognize...

"what ever happened to a witch!"

Looking forward to wearing this costume if I make it to the Captured By Robots show...

08:33 / 28.10.03

Previously I have been:

-The giant from Twin Peaks
-Myself with a 2 foot, two-colour-spunking vampire penis
-Phil Collins
-The Twin Towers (with a tall friend)
-John Leslie

This year:

-A child bride. They've got big old wedding dresses in a charity shop in the town I grew up near for £5. Can't resist the urge to buy one any longer.

19:36 / 28.10.03

Ohmygoodness, I believe I have the best costume.

Im not so sure what it is; it was originally an aladdin costume my mum made for my sister for a dance-show. So its really more like Jasmine, but its SOOOOO Bollywood, so I am going to be Rani, the sexy temptress, from Bombay Dreams. Its a little red satiny top/bra-thing, with gold sequins and shiny leaf-sequins and brass hoops hanging from it. It sounds so awful and gaudy, but its terrific. The trousers are baggy (*ahem*) pirate-shaped trousers, of sheer purple material with gorl thread woven thru them, and flowers growing up from the ankles to below the knees.

And it looks a bit like a belly=dance costume, which is good, cause it means i can get away with, erm, womanly curves on the stomach. I think I need some bells for my wrist or something, and gold ribbon thru my hair, and some big gold jewellery. God I love Bollywood.

16:01 / 29.10.03

I'm going as the Red Skull from the Captain America comics. The skull makeup is going to look great, hopefully, as it's not just a rubber mask but actual prosthetic makeup. The only think I'm kind of concerned about is wearing what is basically a Nazi SS officer uniform. It seemed like a good idea when I thought of it but after buying the leather trenchcoat and the officer's cap and trying them on in front of the mirror, I had the horrible thought that people may be offended by it.

Oh well, too late now. Pictures will be forthcoming, including ones of my friends with the most incredible Freddy and Jason outfits you're likely to see...

21:05 / 29.10.03

With the aid of a distressed blonde wig and some cheap sunglasses -- Andy Warhol.

I think my friend is coming as Valerie Solanis but she's not saying.

14:35 / 16.10.05

So this year I've thought of being Willy Wonka: velvet jacket, top hat or perhaps some kind of punk rock Fagan. Although other than that I've been pretty stumped and those velvet jackets even second hand are mighty expensive.
What's everyone else planning?

14:43 / 16.10.05

Actually to clarify/be truthful despite trying to dress up as Willy Wonka I'm sure that I will end up looking like a slightly punk rock Fagan.

22:49 / 16.10.05

I was planning on spending Halloween Night as No-Face from Spirited Away, but I've recently been informed that My Lovely Lady, the Daughter, and I will be a family of tigers.

The Daughter is crazy for tigers.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

03:53 / 17.10.05

Thought about purchasing grey body paint and going as a Black & White Calvin Klein ad. Except too skinny and all that. But I get weirded out by the thought of putting -that much- paint on my body, and what about my hair?

08:32 / 17.10.05

I have a question for those who know more about horror flicks than me, which is everyone.

I was looking at some extremely shit halloween costumes in a bargain shop at the weekend, and along with Freddy, Jason and random vampire/witch/Morticia dresses, there was one that totally stumped me.

It was called "Mechanic", and was simply a mean-looking guy in a boiler suit carrying a machete. That was it! No mask or other identifying features. Is there a famous homicidal mechanic that I've never heard of? Do all mechanics carry machetes in their toolboxes?

10:11 / 17.10.05

Satanic Mechanic (1982)

About a mechanic (Brad Courento) working on the demonic car* and ends up possessed by it's evil. Fairly low budget slasher film.

*with a machete in the glove compartment, prev owner: a great white hunter taken over by the same evil spirit when he killed a possessed African witch doctor in the 40s etc.

10:13 / 17.10.05

Thank you! Gold star for you. Assuming you're not making it up to toy with me.

11:16 / 17.10.05

Should be on imdb. The film was fairly interesting IIRC because there were two narratives, one showing the demon/familiar being passed along from person to person, the main one with the Mechanic murderising your usual gaggle of urban yoof. But the kids never knew that, they just thought they were in your run-of-the-mill slasher flick mit unstoppable psycho du jour.

foot long subbacultcha

16:48 / 17.10.05

I've been invited to one of these things by one of the girls running the Halloween night at Water Rats on the 28th. She's doing the Carrie thing. I don't know how to do the costume thing. I tend to do one of two things at costume parties: a) wear my Morrocan jalaaba and go as a monk/jedi/terrorist or b) wear my hong kong shirt and go as a kung fu master.

But this one has a theme - you have to be something from cult horror. Damn these parties where you can't just wear anything.

Thing thing things.

23:41 / 17.10.05

well i'm having a Pirate Party this week, so i will definitely be pirating this year. It should be good i have a map that i've ripped up and different people will all have seperate pieces, so by the end of the night they should be able to find the treasure i buried.
The party is also complete with plank and ropes for swashbuckling.
I will be wearing a hemp frog buttion shirt with brown flowy pants, flashy scarves and a nice exotic looking curve bladed dirk.
I'm excited, as there should be much pilaging and rum.

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