Thread: i cant just be like everyone else!

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hey everyone!! i am new to this and i need major help... i live for halloween and am usually all ready come the beginning of september! well this year thanks to 12 weddings, 5 baby showers and other things i have not been able to think about it... so on that note i need help with costume ideas!! i hate being stuff that have been overdone... i am very creative and can make a costume out of almost nothing... my makeup talent is pretty decent so makeup can be factored in... i will not buy a storebought costume, only items that can be pieced together.... plus i am going to a huge benefit halloween party with professional costume makers and i do not want to look to much like an amateur... last year i hand sewed a medievel beer wench that i loved..this year i wouldnt mind doing a little more creative.... if it helps i am a girl about 5'10 long blonde hair that i could do tons with! please help me my creative brain feels fried

How about doing a ghost/ghoul/zombie of a movie, tv, comic character or someone famous or fairy tale characters, or Barbie. Dead Cinderella, Snow White - (really white now). That kind of thing.

for some reason this year im stuck on drowning victims. you could put seaweed type things in your hair..even a starfish lol

How about a "suicide blonde"?...you know, "Dyed by her own hand..." (yes...terrible pun, but an actual phrase)

Make certain your hair is perfect...perhaps a noose around your neck (loosely, of course)...make up yourself a sad, ashen gray...deep circles around your eyes...really hollow out your cheeks...if you mess with latex or prosthetics, perhaps a "rope burn" scar high on your neck.

Keep asking everyone how your hair looks...

How about Lady Justice, paint yourself grey, get a sword and a toga and some scales.

volia!

come out as a MANANANGGAL. It's a scary creature off the pages of Philippine myths.

Originally Posted by Marvin_loves_Jen

come out as a MANANANGGAL. It's a scary creature off the pages of Philippine myths.

Not THAT is not like anyone else....a floating womans head with hanging entrails

Is that popular in the Phillipines?

My wifes cousin is a missionary in the Phillipines...do you know him? (lol, j/k)

I've seem to had a thing for drowning victims this year too, perhaps i've seen too much CSI I'd use a pale blueish grey paint to do the face, some with peels of paper to look like peeling skin. Tattered cloths... Maybe use some seaweed or other sea life to have attached to your clothes and hair

I say go for the truly obscure, but totally recognizable costume. For example, one year one of the kids in my neighborhood came to the door and I was totally floored by his costume. There in front of me was one of the armored police men from "The Fifth Element." I told him how much I liked his costume and gave him a ton of candy and one of the skulls from my yard that he'd been eyeing. When I asked his mom if he had seen the movie (rated R) she quietly told me, "he's a deep sea diver" oops, but I'll never forget that initial shock and still think about it every Halloween.

It seems the OP has left us....maybe it will help someone else.

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