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| Boom, beheaded. |
In honor of this most wonderful holiday, I'm going to take you on a short journey over the past few years. My freshman year of college I missed out on Halloween because I was involved in choir, don't worry, I wised up and did not join choir ever again. Anyway, that year was a bust but the next year...oh the next year. I spent months planning, seriously months. An idea hit me sometime around March or April (as it tends to do) and I knew that this was a golden idea. When the last weekend in October hit I dressed up in all my garb and headed to my friend's house as Marie Antoinette. Lest you think I was just all pretty and dolled up, let me disillusion you, I had dried blood all around my neck. As you all well know she was beheaded, wait let me backtrack a titch. She was the queen of France right before the revolution, and it was bad luck she was a ruler then. Anyway, her and her husband ran the country into ground (it wasn't all their fault but they didn't fix anything so there you go) and consequently they were beheaded. My dress was a Goodwill find, and I put baby-powder in my hair to make it look like a powdered wig, to finish it off I used a make-up kit from Wal-Mart complete with dried blood. Not only was I a historical figure, I was gruesome enough for Halloween.
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| Got Cannibalism? |
My junior year I had an ensemble costume. This idea came a bit later in the year, sometime around September or even the beginning of October. Don't let this make you think it wasn't as fabulous just because I had less time to dwell on it, it was awesome. My boyfriend and I decided to recreate the Donnor party incident. For those of you who aren't well versed on gruesome pioneer deaths, let me fill you in. The Donnor party was making their way to the West coast, but they got stuck in the Rockies during Winter. Consequently many of them died, and those remaining reverted to cannibalism. We thought it would be a fantastic idea to make this tragic event into costume, so I was a dead member of the party with blood dripping from my face and neck and he had fake blood all over his arms and mouth. Yet again the public was educated on an historical event AND we looked gruesome...WIN!
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| Off with her head! |
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| Happy Halloween! |
This year was a bit unusual for me. I just got back from a week long trip to London, and sadly I missed Halloweekend so I didn't have a costume. This morning it was suggested that I go as the Red Queen. Being an English Literature major I decided that I could honor the work of Lewis Carroll and have a costume that people might actually recognize. Throwing together some things I had in my closet I finished it all off with my theatre make-up kit and was good to go. My boyfriend went as a lumberjack, since he has a job where he makes food and didn't want to scare away customers...or create sanitary issues. While this year was not gruesome, it was still fun to dress up. So may you all enjoy this wonderful holiday, whether you dressed up or not.
