okie..now i have a new question.
i was shopping the other day for nothing in particular and bought a dress for the haunted house..
its just a summer dress and looks nothing like a dress for haunted house..but it was five dollars and i thought it had potential..
its dark purple and it comes down to a little past mid-thigh..and its sleeveless but it has like..inch thick straps..and a white layer underneath..
i thought it was good because it was just the right length and with the white underneath i could put some tears in the dress without revealing anything and i could put blood on it and it would show up better..
but it has this flowery pattern on the bottom..
i cant cut it off because then the dress would be too short..
should i just leave it on??
i thought about maybe ripping some of the holes..but theres so many and the thread around it is so thick i dont know if i could and it still look right..
any ideas??
also..i know ill be wearing fishnets and my boots with this..but i also thought about wearing a fishnet shirt underneath..??
i just need some advice on how to make this look more haunted-house like..

p.s.
if yall have any makeup/hair advice that would be nice too..
i thought about pigtails??

im hoping to get another outfit also..so keep the costume ideas coming..

I agree with the sing song rhyme, the little nursery rhymes are actually pretty twisted. Sing them in that discordant manner that horror movies use and they turn freakish.

The words to "pop goes the weasel" even sound creepy and enunciating the POP sets them up for a good scare, especially if the big guy is behind them on the POP.

"Ring around the rosie" is actually about the black plague and how its symptoms/effects. Most of those have a pretty dark background story or are a way for commoners to gossip about the failings of Nobles done in a way to escape beheading/imprisonment. So, they are naturally dark.

I have a friend who was doing the kid thing but was playing with bucky bones (bag of bones from anatomical chart company) like lincoln logs and blocks. He was acting all absorbed and singing....creeped me out a bit.

Would love to hear what you come up with.

What about getting the hem of the dress really dirty. Or burned? Maybe a whole playing with matches bit?

Last year I thought my makeup was boring, but I actually got alot of compliments on it. I applied the lightest shade of foundation (at a $ store) I could find & set it with a light dusting of baby powder. Then with a eyeshadow brush (not pad) I applied a combination of charcoal grey & blue eyeshadow along with some old blush around my eyes. The secret is to not overdo it. I then very lightly dusted blue eyeshadow around my lips. Make sure to use all matte colors. Also, if you want your face to look more gaunt lightly apply some of the grey eyeshadow just under your cheekbones.

Another thought that just came to mind is to make up your face to look like a porcelain doll. I'm just not sure how to pull that off exactly. Other than fake eyelashes, rosy checks & red rosebud lips.

Sorry, I guess I'm rambling huh? Thinking out loud again. Oops!

Here was our demented girl at theSix Flags Metropaulitn Maul from last year.



Her Costume was great. She dance around in circles and sing demented rhymes.

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Rhymes:

Mary Mary quite contray (sp?) How dose your Garden grow? Quite well I bet since it's well fed by your body down bellow.

A tisket a tasket your head is in my basket.

Mary had a little lamb whos flice as stained with blood.

Mary had a little lamb
Her father shot it dead.
Now it goes to school with her,
between two chunks of bread.

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hah..
im totally writing those rhymes down. i want to do the song and rhyme thing..ive just gotta check with another girl who works with me who did that kind of thing last year..she sang ring around the rosie and the freddy song ((which i thought was dum since we dont have a freddy))..
anyways..she was fired last year for coming to work drunk all the time..so hopefully she wont be working this year..

I was going to suggest the 'burn victim'. Burn parts of the dress and do the make up in a 3rd degree burn sort of way.

Only you can prevent forest fires - then throw some flaming garbage at them (just joshin).

haha..
oh how i wish i wouldnt go to jail for throwing flaming balls of trash doom at asshole customers..

OMG!! I agree! That was the worst thing about working in a Haunted house!! The idiot customers!!

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