The Costume Party
10 years ago by
The dreaded costume party…
As a far off idea, somewhere in the distant future, they always seem so fun. Months in advance I have a million brilliant ideas of what to dress up as! Then, suddenly, it’s the day of the party and I’m totally costume-less.
It happens to me every year at Halloween (which is an incredibly important holiday in America when everyone dresses up as a. something witty, b. something scary, c. something sexy, d. a cat).
Every year, a few hours before I’m meant to meet my friends, I end up frantically hot-glueing something I dug out of a craft drawer to something even worse I found at a thrift shop, hoping that I’ll have figured out what the costume is by the time I’ve made it. I know this is a common problem (among my friends at least), but I always wonder about those few people who are actually able to pull together the brilliant costumes I had thought of months before…
In the spirit of upcoming Halloween parties, we wanted to share this Vanity Code video about picking the perfect (or least awful) costume:
What is your costume of choice? And more importantly, what should I dress up as for Halloween?
xx
Christiana
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Cette année je me suis déguisée en poupée, assez saisissant (make-up avec peau de porcelaine, faux cils creepy, craquelures à l’eyeliner sur le front et dans le cou)
i’m afraid of halloween… :)
http://littleaesthete.com
hahah this video is so much fun, I can´t stop laughing !!
XX Luba
Mixing styles and textrues in my working look today on
http://www.well-living-blog.com
Quelques idées d’inspiration sur ces photos vintage de costumes d’Halloween du début du XXe ! Creepy :) http://golem13.fr/haunted-air-ossian-brown/
http://miss-hotel.com
Haha! Excellent! That’s way scarier than costume nowadays actually…
http://www.thedeepbluecory.com
Xoxo! Cory
PS: La colle pour faux-cils est très utile (et pas chère), ma sœur a collé des bouts de laine sur ses yeux (en croix) et sur ses lèvres (points de suture) avec ça et ça a tenu toute la soirée :-)
Si vous voulez des photos c’est possible en mp
I just went halloween costume shopping and I’m gonna be a crayon! You the crayola ? It was the less slutty thing I could find… :)
Great video!
http://www.FashionSnag.com
Trop drôle cette vidéo! Je suis un fantôme!
http://www.laurablogmode.com
Stick some mini cereal boxes on the back of a great tshirt with double tape. Then stab some knife un the boxes, that’s it!! You are a cereal killer (serial killer);)
hahahaha jay, next year! :)
I dressed up as Carrie.
It was a hassle thinking of a Halloween costume! Ugh!
haha
http://downtownhautefashion.blogspot.com
Coucou Garance.
Bon, avec une petite fille de bientôt 5 ans et une autre de 2 ans je n’ai pas à me creuser la tête!!!
Ben oui!!! La folie Monster High. Moi en draculaura , la grande en frankie stein et la petite en ghulia ( une zombie).
Donc voilà. Un tour chez claire’s pour le maquillage , les poupées de mes filles,comme modèle et le tour est joué. On est prête!!!!!!
Big up au maman qui subissent monster High, faut bien trouver un côté positif!
A bientôt Garance.
A.
P.s: un petit peu marre de ses faux coms avec des liens. J’aime plus lire de vrais coms.
I hate hate hate spending money on a costume. It just seems so silly! (I did buy a vintage cheerleader uniform at a thrift store earlier this month though, so I am a little contradictory).
But this year, I’m going to go as a skeleton. I saw some great (and sexy and classy) face paints- a la Lady Gaga’s Born This Way skeleton look- and I’m planning on doing that with a classic LBD. I’m so excited! Maybe if I go out twice I’l be a skeleton cheerleader..? Who knows!
Wear a big fur coat, some tights and flats and you can be any of the Pevensie siblings from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – add a box of Turkish delight to be Edmond, a sword to be Peter, a flower tucked behind an ear to be Susan or a teacup to be Lucy! Snow in your hair is extra credit :)
Idea for a costume: Frida Kahlo (it is easy and glam)
Go as Baby Jane Hudson, baby doll dress, bad makeup, ringlets. Bette Davis looked frightening in that role.
I used to have that issue as well! Now I just dress up as a pop culture character using what’s in my closet. I can’t decide between my Amy Pond costume or the inspired Katniss one though.
Arielle from Tangled Musings
Last year I dressed up as a sick cat. I even wore the huge plastic collar that a vet gives an animal to keep it from scratching. A huge bandaid, bandaged paw, tire tracks on my back and a black eye made me the antithesis of all the sexy/slutty cat costumes.
Hilarious!
http://www.upworthy.com/watch-these-4-girls-destroy-the-female-stereotype-like-the-monsters-they-are-rw1-9b
This video is on point!
This video is hilarious! :D
J’aime pas les déguisements.
Funny video! :D J’etais une araignée à mon dernier halloween, avec des toiles d’araignées partout! pas d’inspiration encore pr cette année..
Un drap avec deux trous ahahah
Je l’ai jamais fait, mais brillant comme idée, quand on ne sait vraiment pas quoi mettre!
Sinon ce déguisé en voleur… tout en noir très serré avec bonnet noir.
I liked the Slutty Rachel Maddow idea…I vote for that one!
Bonemine, la femme du chef dans Astérix. L’Halloween, c’est la journée dans l’année où je suis blonde!
One of the easiest costumes to make –take an oversized old pair of jeans, sew patches and use rope for a belt–old flannel top sew patches on this –then burlap and rope for the neck area–an old garden hat –look at photos of the 1930’s film Wizard of OZ–the scarecrow–I made this years ago –works–I still have the jeans and flannel shirt somewhere in costume land!!
Malheureusement, je travaille ce soir, donc pas de déguisement pour moi ! Mais merci pour la vidéo, ça servira toujours ;)
Rosie the Riveter. Great retro makeup. Easy. Comfortable.