[gumby_cc]

Love the Carmen Miranda!!!
This year I want to go as a tightrope walker, wearing like a tutu type thing and carrying a parasol. And having missing front teeth.

I told my boyfriend he should go as a tool---he would wear white sneaks, kahkis, and a polo shirt with the collar turned up, and carry a bottle of Axe body spray in his pocket.

[hellotampon]

haha.

I've already decided I'd like to go as Little Edie from Grey Gardens this year, but last year I was Frida Kahlo and no one even knew who she was, to my surprise. So I'm not sure.

[indiechick]

oh, i found another one. flickr is such a cool place to find inspiration. *laughs*

[indiechick]

but fasching and karneval are not as much fun! i am also from a part of germany where fasching thankfully is not celebrated. all these parades with drunk people from cologne... scary. ;-)

[shinyx3]

indie, no haloween but you have Fasching.

[LoveMyPugs]

LOL! That's awful!

[indiechick]

dudettes, i just stumpled across this lovely costume on flickr and i had to find this thread to post it. it's too sad that we don't have halloween over here in germany.

[zora]

Here's my Carmen Miranda:


And a different view:

[lorewolf]

Wow! That was a cool rendition of Cloudy With A Chance of Rain! I liked the cloud-concealed water pistol

I really got into being a Pimp Pirate. http://www.geocities.com/lorewolf/PimpPirate.jpg I took the advice about the skull cane. Thanks. Of course there were a ton of other pirates out there, but it's not like we were all Darth Vader. Having a big random band of pirates about was fun. Lots of ARRRR! and stuff.

Where we went, there was a costume contest, but we couldn't stay out long enough for the end There was a girl who made a Scrabble costume with magnetic letters for people to scrabble all over her with. It was really cool, interactive, and creative. I'm glad she won (we heard later). There was also a guy dressed in a Mr. Incredible outfit, but his head was shaved except for a unicorn-ish tuft off his forehead. He was Jack-Jack! Perfect! There was also a guy with a big, foam horseshoe magnet around his neck, and the ends had stickers of baby chicks all over them. He was apparently a "chick magnet".

[maimy]

I dig that mural and anyone who dresses like that little girl. COOL-O!!!!

Pepper, I'd have been happy to see YOUR costume - and you in it. Yep, yep.

Mouse, there is nothing lame about wearing a fab costume composed of things you already own - it just says you own neato-spedito-costume-ready stuff, and that you aren't an Old Navy clone or whatever. (My Clara Bow costume, apart from the wig, came ENTIRELY from existing wardrobe, and I was tickled about that. Cheapest Hallowe'en ever!)

So sad Hallowe'en is over. Geez, less than two months to Christmastime now, y'all! How the HELL did that happen, and I'm still livin' here all alone with no kog3100???

[pepper]

omg maims, you shoulda seed the rest of her costume chica. or lack there of *whew*

mouse, it's funny how many people think i look like someone else. and yet, i get told all the time what a 'unique' face i have. very strange that.

mando, i really liked that idea. i pulled it off in a such a mommy appropriate way too. alls we did was trick or treat and stop in at a kiddie party so no sexy nothing for me. gah, there was so much sexy this and sexy that walking around though. all i could think was "ooh, their poor feet!" i'm gettin' old.

[mouse]

pepper you are almost the spitting image of my family's friend carla. it's almost creepy.

my costumes were okay but all consisted of stuff i had already in my closet (lame, i know). i ended up being, on saturday, a sort of drunken 60's housewife--i wore this blue and white polka-dot vintage cocktail dress i have, with a calf-length vintage turquoise coat over, pearls, big chandelier earrings, too much makeup, and curlers in my hair, plus i drank out of a martini glass all night (even though i was drinking whiskey). actual halloween night i was a sort of cartoon artist--i had a red and white striped shirt, a scarf, painted on a thin curly moustache, stuck a paintbrush behind my ear and spoke in a french accent all night. hee.

my favorite costume this year, though (not mine)--there is this mural in our neighborhood and she went as the girl in the middle. she had a yellow dress on, and a white box over her head painted exactly like the mural. even with little ears on top. the best thing is, it was instantly recognizeable to anyone who lived in the neighborhood, but if you didn't live there, you'd think she was just crazy.

[maimy]

Pepper, you rock harder than a quarry, baby. HOT nun, too. *Fanning self*



STAY TUNED - "Maimy's Mayhem With Makeup" is next!

[nickclick]

mando, bustiecon in salem! yes!

[hellotampon]

My Frida Kahlo costume was perfect. I looked exactly like her! Most people didn't know who she was though, unfortunately.

Not many people at our party wore half-assed costumes, probably in part due to my pre-party haranguing. I know it sucks when you're invited to a Halloween party and you're not sure if you should wear a costume or the host doesn't make it perfectly clear that s/he expects everyone to wear one, so you end up just wearing eyeliner and a headband with cat ears and hoping that you're not the only one who's sorta-dressed-up-but-not. So I harassed everyone for weeks ahead of time. haha. Everyone I talked to was under strict instructions not to do dumb things like show up in your Blockbuster uniform and say you're dressed up as a Blockbuster employee. So the only people who didn't come in costume were some of the ones who found out and just showed up.

[mandolyn]

pepper? that's about 1,000 times better than the 'cloudy with a chance of rain' that came to my party years back. you should copyright it and get rich ... hee!

did you do flyboy too?
i'm commissioning you in advance for next year!

we should do a bustiecon in salem one of these years. hmmmm .....

maimy your honeyblood recipe is brilliant!

"sexy abe lincoln" ... "sexy lobster" ... BWAH!

[pepper]

pics all gone, boo hoo!

[raisingirl]

COCL, those pictures are beautiful. I love New England.

Makeup with Maimy. It could be, like, a public access show on cable.

[crazyoldcatlady]

yay halloween! i ran to the store after work to buy candy for the kiddies. but, i popped in here to post some pix of salem, mass that i took this weekend. the whole town just oozes new england quaint, but there were some cheesy good halloween fun to be had....

shit, how do i post pictures? does this work?

[maimy]

Ooh, PEPP - that kicks SO MUCH BOOTAY!!!! Awesome flyboy. *Grin*

Mando, I had to take all the pics myself, so couldn't get a good full-frontal one. I'm sorry. However, makeup lessons is as good a reason as any I've ever heard to get together! (I was a theater geek, and remembered some 22-year-old wound makeup secrets I scarcely ever get to use.)

Best blood recipe ever: They say to use karo, and that's good stuff - but I used honey this year, being out of corn syrup. It worked just dandy, and the darker color may have been helpful. Then red food coloring, AND a tiny tiny bit of BLUE too. That's what gives the believable dark color. And the drips stayed in place remarkably well, I applied with a toothpick pointed downward so the excess would start sliding down from my chosen starting points. (Great while-you're-out touchup: dark brown or dark purple wand lipgloss. Since you can't carry a pot full of honey fake blood, if you need a quick re-do, the gloss is good for dotting.)

It's getting dark here, so I should be getting kids soon. I found the coolest candy today - gummi fangs. *Totally excited; I so love treating the neighbor kids*