Happy (be-lated) Halloween!
Posted by Lindsayanng I would liked to have posted a nice Happy Halloween post yesterday, on the day of Halloween. Unfortunately, there was absolutely no time in the day to do that. See, Halloween is my all time favorite holiday and it always has been. I love Halloween because it’s the one time that you can get really overly creative and wacky with your outfits. I love to go all out with my costume, and I love to see what other people did with theirs. Of coarse, if you go to down town New Haven in the Yale district, you will see your share of lame costumes. Sexy fireman, sexy policeman, sexy nurse, sexy french maid, sexy Obama. Well, I didn’t see a sexy Obama, but you get the idea, girls will take anything and make it “sexy”. Halloween seems to be a great excuse to run around town scantily clad. These costumes have little to no thought put into them.
The costumes I love are the ones where people go all out. This year, however, we did not go to New Haven to peruse the bars and watch people. We went to a house party for a little more low key costume party. A bunch of people, good music, AMAZING food and fun times (I feel like I am getting old here). There were definitely some cool costumes, but not the ones you see in New Haven.
My costume was an 80′s Gutter Punk. It’s one of those costumes where if I could, I would dress like this every day. I love the dirty, grungy look of punks. The fishnets were a staple in my closet up until I was 19 or 20, and the dark black eyeshadow still holds a special place in my heart and I have a hard time finding a time to wear it out but I love to do it. The hardest part of this costume was obviously the hair. Yes, that really is my hair, and yes it took forever to do.
This was not the first time I wore this costume, I wore it 2 years ago to New Haven to a gay bar Halloween Party – needless to say that year all the girls thought I was playing on their team. Anyways, the first time I tried to do that hair I bought some super duper hold hair spray and uuber hair gel.
It didn’t work. My hair was too long, resulting in the massive mohawk you see there. So I took page directly from the 80′s punk style handbook. I used good old fashioned Elmer’s glue. I bought the Elmer’s school glue because I remembered last year that it worked really well, but I forgot that last year I had the thought to use the gel version of Elmer’s because it supposedly does not flake. This year, again, I had some white flaky hair.
Most people freaked when my answer to “how did you get your hair to stand up like that” was Elmer’s glue. They thought that I had ruined my hair forever and that it would never be the same. They are so wrong! I found this out last year, but when you spend a nice with your hair hardened in Elmer’s glue, the next day your hair feels super soft! And it’s not that hard to get out. It just takes about 10 minutes of hot water in the shower and 1 shampoos – one for cleaning and one for good luck. I must have missed a spot though, because this morning there was a little dried glue on my scalp in the back of my head, it came off pretty easy – like peeling the dried glue from your fingers.
Oh, and I forgot to mention our kickass pumpkins. My cousin and her girlfriend came over to carve with us and it was an awesome time. They brought some Rolling Rocks and their pumpkins and I made a cinnamon apple thing that burned. We spend a few hours carving our awesome pumpkins. Mine is the big pumpkin eating the small one, my cousin’s is the Freddy Krueger (drawn free hand), Jaz did the Corpse Bride pumpkin, and Matty did the tattoo style cat that I draw for him. Overall it was a fun thing to do on mischief night that kept us out of trouble.
So that is it for our Hallowee fun adventure. If you want to read more about the party and see more pictures from the Halloween party, check out Matt’s photo blog over at bscphoto.com/blog.
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These are so cool! I’m not sure what that one pumpkin is chewin’ on but man it would to be that thing!
He’s chewing on another little dead pumpkin.. It was hard to carve that little pumpkin because it was a cooking pumpkin from the grocery store, and apparently those pumpkins have a MUCH harder skin.. it actually cracked, like it was made of plastic at some points
I was just thinking, “how are you going to get that glue off?” Apparently, it was easier and less messy then I thought.
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BK, the first time I did the mohawk i tried EVERY kind of gel, hairspray and blow drier technique out there. NONE of them made my hair stay up for any period of time. So I called my dad (yes, my dad left his house and came to my appt. across town JUST to bring me glue on halloween) and just “went for it” because i remembered my old school punk friends using it in highschool.
I was worried about getting it out but just said “Ill just shave my head if i have to” and went for it. That first time, i was AMAZED at how easy it came out. Next time i will use the GEL version of elmers which dries clear – no white flakes.
Love the hair! That’s a really well thought out costume. Love the pumpkins too.
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