HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY POST YEAH
Halloween is the best day of the year. When else do you get to eat a metric ton of candy and wander around in costume without garnering strange looks from the general public? Basically it’s awesome. Therefore I do declare this:
HALLOWEEN PARTY POST!
If you’ve got pics of a costume, jack-o-lanterns or decorations you’re particularly proud of, feel free to post ‘em in the comments for people to ooh and aah over! Bring your gifs and sparkletext if you’d like!
I must inflict yet another picspam upon you all. Brace yourselves.
So. This is probably the most ridiculous thing I’ve done in my whole life. First, have some pumpkins (well, a pumpkin and a mutant squash) that the roommate and I decorated. Zombie and bat!Conrad for the win. (We have problems.)
Allow me to talk shop costume-wise for a sec. I got fed up with all the “build your own arc reactor” tutorials online involving heat-molded plastic, soldering guns, LEDs, and other things that I, as a perpetually broke kid, do not have immediate access to. So I said ‘screw this’ and improvised.
The body of this is the bottom of a water bottle, decorated appropriately with electrical tape, sharpie, and silver nail polish. Inside is a blue glowstick taped into the appropriate circumference. The whole thing is backed with tinfoil so that the light reflects better. Add some duct tape on the back, stick it to a shirt, and voila! With a little finagling, you too can make this in a cave with a box of scraps.
Then…makeup happened. Terrifying, really.
The truth is…I am Iron Man.
Round two happened last night, when one of my friends somehow convinced our whole hall to go to swing dancing lessons in costume. Reluctant to go in full drag again lest I confuse my dance partners (lulz), I decided to skip the facial hair and be a last-minute iteration of Zombie from Hanna Is Not A Boy’s Name. I had no green body paint but I made do with what I had and stole everything else from one of my guy friends. For the record, I can’t tie ties to save my life.
Photoshop magic, otherwise known as what could have been~
Wish I’d gotten some better pics of me as Zombie. A couple people recognized me even with the lack of green skin, and I spent the majority of the night dancing with the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, another (actually male) Tony Stark, Shaggy from Scooby Doo, and a posse of fellow zombies. Pretty excellent stuff right there.
All in all I’d say this qualifies as a win. I’m off to go eat more candy and generally bask in the awesomeness that is Halloween.