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.
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.
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 is a fantastic informational site. The FAQ addresses the permanence question about halfway down.
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.
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.
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.
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.”)
I’d really, really like to see a photo of you in costume.
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
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 .
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
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