Summary: Have you come down to the last minute before Halloween (as in, today is Halloween) and you need something quick and Lovecraftian, here are five quick tips.
Five ideas for really cheap, last minute, Lovecraftian costumes...
BLOT: (31 Oct 2011 - 08:34:30 AM)
Five ideas for really cheap, last minute, Lovecraftian costumes...
If you are like me, the idea of planning for a costume never seems like a good idea until October 31st, when you realize you have nothing and the big day is upon you. Sometimes, homemade costumes created out of low-budgets and desperation are the best, but for many people it just ends up "Me, but like, if I had been out of work for a few years". Now that you can buy Cthulhu Ski Masks, you no longer are quite so able to get by just taping strips of cloth to your face and asking everyone you meet if the stars are right*, but never fear, or um...fear lots...because Lovecraftian costumes still come for cheap. Here are a sampling of just five.
#1. Get a box (either hit up your local UPS store, or go by the backend of a grocery store). Get some tape. Beat the box slightly out of shape and then use the tape on the inside to hold its sags in place and then wear the box. Tell people you are Non-Euclidean Space.
Bonus #1. Cover the box in tin-foil. Now you are the Shining Trapezohedron.
#2. Walk around in kind of ratty clothes, with a slight limp/mis-step, and hold your eyes slightly too wide open (while suppressing, the best you can, blinking). You are the Innsmouth Look. A little bit of aquarium water for cologne and some strips of black garbage bags for sea-weed would not be amiss.
#3. Stand under a street lamp (and or at the brightest spot in the party). Refuse to move. Presto, Robert Blake outfit. Screaming "THE THREE-LOBED EYE!" is a bonus. Unfortunately, if someone shows up as the Shining Trapezohedon, you'll probably have to mumble something about the vistas of space-time and then flee into the night and never been seen again...
#4. Get a piece of poster-board or foam-board, and cut out a square in it to one side so that it resembles the white border of a Polaroid. Use a sharpie to write Pickman's Model along the wider end. Helps if you are really ugly.
#5. Get a couple of cans of tuna and some catnip. Smear all over your legs and shoes. Now walk around until you pick up some neighborhood cats. Explain to everyone that you are Randolph Carter and see if they know the way to Kadath.
There you go. Easy, right? Happy Halloween, lazy people, I have to go to work at the library, which means by default I get to be Armitage. No Necronomicon for you! SHHHHH! Keep the IAs down...
* bonus for wearing a Cthulhu costume, though, you can crash on the couch during the party and just keep telling people the stars are wrong...
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