# What's your costume this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 27, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105 "2006-10-27T13:30:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/41 "2006-10-27T18:14:34Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] No way, Stalker Friend **Draelin**! I was Autumn two years ago! I used the glycerin-soaked real-but-preserved leaves from the craft store and a black butterfly face mask with real leaves attached with thin wires so they looked like they were swirling around my head. I wish I had a picture of it, it was really neat. So…tell me what you were last year so I’ll know what I’m going to be next year! 😃 [/QUOTE] Seriously, we’re really starting to scare me. As it turns out, it’s supposed to rain all day tomorrow (where I was going to wear my costume to an outdoor ritual/party), so I might not even get to wear it. Ah, well. I can save it for next year and make it hundreds of times better. Last year I didn’t dress up, but the year before that, I was a Powerpuff Girl (Blossom, to be exact.) Two pink t-shirts and one black one sewn together to make a dress, big red bow, white tights and mary janes. Cheapest costume I’d made in years. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/42 "2006-10-27T18:24:17Z")
[QUOTE=davenportavenger] —Maybe fake semen, depends on if petroleum jelly looks enough like semen to work [/QUOTE] Dried clumps of plain white glue work for this - that’s what my guy friend used when he went as Monican and his GF went as Clinton ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/43 "2006-10-27T18:33:57Z")
[QUOTE=Poysyn] Dried clumps of plain white glue work for this - that’s what my guy friend used when he went as Monican and his GF went as Clinton [/QUOTE] Haha, only on the SDMB. Thanks! That sounds like an awesome costume, btw. I also think the Kim Jong Il one mentioned above is genius. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/44 "2006-10-27T18:37:55Z")
[QUOTE=Tamryne] Im going as a kinky librarian to one of my college’s halloween parties. I have a job at the local law library, so I should be outfitted fine with the usual demure A-line skirt and button down shirt, high heels, crop, red lipstick and a book on Eminent Domain! [/QUOTE] From one law librarian to another… NICE. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/45 "2006-10-27T18:40:50Z")
I’ll be going as Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. It’s mostly stuff I would wear if I was going out for the night and wanted to look sharp anyway: my shiny blood-red dress shirt over a black T-shirt, new black jeans, black shoes, and my awesome gray trench coat over all that (I’m not buying a black one just for this occasion). I usually shave my head, but I’ve been growing my hair back throughout October just so I have enough to spray blond (seemed easier and less painful than actually bleaching my hair), and I have decent fake vampire fangs and I’ll even paint my nails black. Then I’ll try talking in a tough-guy British accent all night. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/46 "2006-10-27T19:03:14Z")
Just a clown. Tophat and tailcoat made from motley terrycloth. oversized pants- green with white polkadots. one black sneaker and one black one. I’m taking this year off of my usual elaborate costume. ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/47 "2006-10-27T19:03:53Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Uh…I have some news for you which you may or may not like (Hulk will be very happy, however.) Henna doesn’t wash out. Like, ever. I last hennaed my hair almost a year ago, and it’s still a happy flaming red. It’s mousy brownish/blonde to my ears where it’s grown out, and red below that. The good thing is that no one notices the outgrowth until they look for it. Because henna doesn’t lighten or darken tone, it only adds red, there’s not a huge blinding line of demarcation like with a chemical dyejob. [/QUOTE] I’ve done it 3 or 4 times over the years and it’s never stayed red longer than a week or 10 days. My hair just doesn’t take dye of any type very well. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/48 "2006-10-27T19:12:10Z")
[henna hijack] [QUOTE=mlerose] I’ve done it 3 or 4 times over the years and it’s never stayed red longer than a week or 10 days. My hair just doesn’t take dye of any type very well. [/QUOTE] That’s so bizarre! Are you using real henna (green powdered leaves) or cosmetic hair dye with added henna? If real henna, do you do it with an acidic liquid like lemon juice and let it sit overnight to release the color before putting it on your hair? Sorry to be nosy - ignore me if you want. I’ve just never known someone from whom real henna done the traditional way isn’t permanent. By the way, if you’re interested, [www.hennaforhair.com](http://www.hennaforhair.com) is a fantastic informational site. [The FAQ](http://www.hennaforhair.com/faq/index.html) addresses the permanence question about halfway down. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/49 "2006-10-27T20:09:07Z")
[Medusa.](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/toy_snake_medus.html) Yep, that’s me. ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/50 "2006-10-27T20:23:09Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] [henna hijack] That’s so bizarre! Are you using real henna (green powdered leaves) or cosmetic hair dye with added henna? If real henna, do you do it with an acidic liquid like lemon juice and let it sit overnight to release the color before putting it on your hair? Sorry to be nosy - ignore me if you want. I’ve just never known someone from whom real henna done the traditional way isn’t permanent. By the way, if you’re interested, [www.hennaforhair.com](http://www.hennaforhair.com) is a fantastic informational site. [The FAQ](http://www.hennaforhair.com/faq/index.html) addresses the permanence question about halfway down. [/QUOTE] Ha, such a hijack! I only let it sit for a couple of hours, not 12, and I use part lemon juice and part water. And yes, it’s the powdered green leaves, though I don’t know if it’s body art quality or not. And I did consult that site before I hennaed this time. So maybe it will last a little longer. My natural hair color is medium to dark brown with some red and two parts in the front that grow in blonde. The blonde bits are the only parts that really get red. I would probably have to bleach my hair out in order for it to get really red. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/51 "2006-10-27T22:59:12Z")
[QUOTE=mlerose] Ha, such a hijack! I only let it sit for a couple of hours, not 12, and I use part lemon juice and part water. And yes, it’s the powdered green leaves, though I don’t know if it’s body art quality or not. And I did consult that site before I hennaed this time. So maybe it will last a little longer. My natural hair color is medium to dark brown with some red and two parts in the front that grow in blonde. The blonde bits are the only parts that really get red. I would probably have to bleach my hair out in order for it to get really red. [/QUOTE] Sounds gorgeous. I hennaed my friend Gina’s hair - very dark brown Italian hair. You can’t see the red so much until she goes out in the sun, then it’s like WOOSH! That girl’s head is on fire! It’s super curly hair, and all the short pieces give her a halo of light. Tres cool. I let it sit overnight and do it’s thing and then leave it on my hair for only an hour - I noticed the site splits in two camps of opinion - some let it sit for 8 hours then put it on the head for one, and others put it on the head for 9 hours. I find it easier to let the color develop on my counter instead of on my head. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/52 "2006-10-28T03:18:42Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] I’ll be going as Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. It’s mostly stuff I would wear if I was going out for the night and wanted to look sharp anyway: my shiny blood-red dress shirt over a black T-shirt, new black jeans, black shoes, and my awesome gray trench coat over all that (I’m not buying a black one just for this occasion). I usually shave my head, but I’ve been growing my hair back throughout October just so I have enough to spray blond (seemed easier and less painful than actually bleaching my hair), and I have decent fake vampire fangs and I’ll even paint my nails black. Then I’ll try talking in a tough-guy British accent all night. [/QUOTE] Dude! You totally reminded me that I wanted to be Spike a year ago, but decided against it because I had a job and bleaching my hair would have been a tad unprofessional. But, now that I’m a student again, I can bleach away and it doesn’t really matter. But spray blond…hmmm…would be easier and less permanent than a bleach. And, to make things cooler, I actually have a black leather trench coat. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/53 "2006-10-28T05:14:55Z")
I’m going as Charlie Brown, in the costume he wears in _It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown_ – you know, where he tries to be a ghost but has “a little trouble with the scissors.” I have some sheer black material for the eye holes, and the other “holes” will just be circles colored in with a Sharpie. I also have a paper bag, and will gather a couple of rocks over the weekend (Violet: “I got candy!” Lucy: “I got gum!” Charlie Brown: “I got a rock.”) [QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] I’ll be going as Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. [/QUOTE] I’d really, really like to see a photo of you in costume. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/54 "2006-10-28T05:35:10Z")
I am going as Cavity Sam from the Operation board game. Pink scrubs, tongs for tweezers, and “bone” shaped cutouts that are attached with velcro so people can actually use the tongs to pull them off. I also have a red clown nose for added realism. [http://www.primetimeinteractive.com/images/large\_images/operations\_game1.jpg](http://www.primetimeinteractive.com/images/large_images/operations_game1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/55 "2006-10-28T05:39:26Z")
Hogwarts professor. Got to get some more use out of that academic regalia, after all. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/56 "2006-10-28T07:57:09Z")
I’m being a bat girl (not Bat Girl, as in superhero). I found this really cool minidress in a thrift shop - it’s charcoal velvet and pretty slinky and each sleeve has more material than the dress proper - the dress is only mid-thigh, but the sleeves hit my calves! So that, and some batwings and a goth black bob wig (I’m blonde so this is fun for me) and some bat-ish makeup. I made a bat necklace and earrings yesterday too. I test drove it Thursday - I’m pretty happy with it. **Litespeed** is going to be a mime, which will really crack our friends up because she’s not a big talker and gets teased about it. I love Halloween, it’s my favorite. I’ll be dressing up when I’m 90, I know it 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/57 "2006-10-28T08:18:52Z")
Wednesday Addams ---
**Author:** ![Gundhilde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Gundhilde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundhilde)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/58 "2006-10-28T12:41:06Z")
I’m going as a crack-ho-lantern! It’s basically just a jack-o-lantern themed crackwhore - only the name is clever, unless I can miraculously find that “trick or treat” pumpkin temporary tattoo I’ve seen somewhere before. It’ll be fun, kind of a variation on the sexy costume because it’s quite revealing, yet I still manage to look way more gross and skanky than sexy. I do have to try really, really hard, though 😉 ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/59 "2006-10-28T14:26:28Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster] Not me, but **Mrs Duckster**. Last year she dressed entirely in a pink pantsuit, pink skin, pink hair, and an old tennis shoe attached to the top of her head. She won first prize at her office party because no one figured it out. This year she is planning to attach [these](http://www.smarties.com/) to her clothes, with a tiny _working_ light bulb on the top of her head. [/QUOTE] I get last year’s costume: chewing gum on the bottom of a shoe. This year’s is lost on me. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105/60 "2006-10-28T15:37:28Z")
I’ve done it before, but I’ve moved since then so I can reprise it: Shirt, tie, khakis, white lab coat, stethoscope, reflex hammer and eye chart card in pocket. Witch hat, full green makeup with warts, black nail polish. Yep, I’m a witch doctor. The Catlady is going as a bridesmaid. “They told me I’d be able to wear the dress again!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-costume-this-year/378105.md?page=4)