So Halloween was a mix of "meh" and "cool" this year (yes, I know...I'm a month late posting this!). Friday night some friends and I went to a bar in BFE; they only go to places with the best prizes. Which, I can understand when you have dumped a grand or so into a single costume. But for those of us just looking for an excuse to wear a costume and have a good time...it can lead to a "meh" situation. So my friends went as Gilligan and Mary Ann zombies from Gilligan's Island and I wore my beloved She-ra. Yes, I got the sword right before Halloween!
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Lisa and Alex as Gilligan's Island zombies
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Apparently, no one over the age of 25 goes to bars anymore. Absolutely no one there knew who I was; and one dumb whore actually called me "Wonder Woman." *sigh*
So Saturday night we went to the Q104 BooBash at the Boneyard in Mayfield. I already had done pretty, and that went over like a lead balloon...so on to hideous! Saturday afternoon I went to my local Halloween costume store and bought a generic fairy costume. Then I had some fun...destroying it! I had always wanted to do a zombie fairy so here was my chance!
Quick tips for zombie costumes...being sticky sucks, but looking sticky is cool! I never liked doing zombies until I learned how to do it without leaving traces of my costume everywhere. Best starting point is shredding the costume up a bit. You can use either scissors or (my personal favorite!) burn holes in it with a long grill lighter. Next, dirty it up. Again, don't want to be leaving bits behind in friends' cars or on the inside of your coat, so I use paint. Regular cans of spray paint will cover a large area with a rather even coating of color. I found bottles of craft paint with pump-spray tops which gave a splattered effect. The best part is next...the blood/gore! Use epoxy sets from any home improvement store or even Walmart. These are the kind that have the chemicals in 2 separate tubes but get mixed when you squirt it out. Use disposable plastic cups to put a little epoxy in then mix in some red acrylic paint. Depending on what kind of epoxy you get (there is fast drying - about 5 minutes, and long drying - up to 60 minutes) you have to work fast after the goop is evenly mixed. Use a Popsicle stick to mix and then to smear globs of it on the costume. When it dries, it will be shiny like it's wet, but will feel like plastic. It's great to also get the look of "drips" off of collars and such. Obviously, red is for blood but don't be afraid of other colors...black and green makes awesome perma-slime. I wanted the front of the dress to look like I had been eating lots of princesses so I mixed red acrylic paint with water and just poured in down the front. Then I added my perma-blood to it.
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| That "drip" hanging off the tip of my wing is permanent! |
I just did a quickie zombie make-up job on my face (white base, green and brown blotches, dark under eyes, green veins with a pencil, and of course blood!), teased my hair out, put some holes in a pair of tights and called it done. Oh, yeah, I also wore a pair of bright turquoise contacts to get that "unnatural" look. I have a pair of milky contacts but I can't see well out of them. I didn't want to have to put a ton of makeup on my arms so I threw on a fishnet top to kinda break-up the flesh. Not bad for just an afternoon of work! Still needs work, though, especially the legs and footwear. I had one really drunk chick tell me she was going to have nightmares about me...so totally worth it! It was also nice that all the creeps that kept banging into my wings didn't matter! There's nothing worse than having an awesome costume fucked up cuz some jack ass plows through the crowd.
