Dexter’s victim for Halloween

In the all about Halloween costumes, Dexter’s victim Halloween costume idea is famous. I have the experience about it. So, to recreate this look, here’s what you need:
The most basic is shirt, pants, shoes, and accessory. The shirt: Dexter’s kill shirt is American Apparel’s Baby Thermal Long Sleeve Henley in color “Army,” available online for $28.The pants: Dexter wears cargo pants, and I believe Eric found a pair of olive-colored cargo pants at Old Navy for fairly cheap. Shoes: If memory serves, Eric just wore brown or black shoes, nothing special. Accessories: Eric accessorized his costume with a black plastic apron, which I believe we found on Amazon for fairly cheap. I’m sure you could also find something similar in a hardware store, Target, Wal-Mart, etc., but we went the online shopping route. He also picked up some black leather gloves from a street vendor (again, I’m sure you could find something similar at Target, Wal-Mart, etc.), and of course, a bloody knife purchased at a Halloween store.

As for me as Dexter’s victim, that took a little trial and error, so this is where I give you all my tips. As we all know, Dexter likes to wrap his victims in plastic wrap as he torments them with their bad deeds before going in for the kill: Here’s how I was able to Halloween Costumes recreate that into a workable Halloween costume:

 

What to wear underneath: Unless you are far more daring than I, you will probably want to wear something underneath your plastic wrap. I opted for a nude tube dress or more specifically, the Cotton Spandex Jersey Too-Short Tube Dress from American Apparel in color “Nude,”

The Plastic Wrap: Once you’ve got your tube dress on, it’s time to wrap yourself up. This is where the trial and error came in. First of all, you do NOT want to wrap your full body in one continuous sheet of plastic wrap. What ends up happening there is as you go up and down to cover your top and bottom; you end up with the majority of the plastic being wrapped around your waist, which ends up making you look pretty thick in the middle. And honestly, ladies, who wants that? What you want to do is wrap your top, and then cut off the plastic. Then start again just below your waist and wrap your bottom. When you’re finished, add a little to the middle as needed so it looks continuous, but you should still have something of a waist with this method.

 

Another very important tip: do NOT keep your feet together as you wrap your bottom half. Let me tell you, that plastic wrap gets TIGHT. If you keep your feet together, you will end up unable to walk, sit, and…Well, use the bathroom. I highly recommend keeping your feet at least shoulder-width apart as you wrap to give yourself a little room to move. To add extra wiggle room, I then cut small slits at each side of the “skirt” which gave me enough give that I could lift it, plastic wrap and all, as needed for bathroom breaks. You can probably best see my slits in this picture of me on the subway:

 

 

 

I also added some clear packing tape to the top of my plastic wrap to make sure everything stayed put and there were no plastic wrap malfunctions during the night.

A word of warning: wrapping yourself in plastic is HOT. Not sexy hot (although maybe, if that’s what you’re into), but “OMG I’m so sweaty under here!” kind of hot. Be prepared to sweat like a maniac underneath all that plastic! Now that is sexy.

However, an unexpected bonus for me was that it was quite waterproof when we got caught in a sudden downpour. So multifunctional!

The bleeding face: Everyone knows that before Dexter kills his victims, he takes a souvenir drop of blood by cutting their cheek. I created my face cut with some makeup from a Halloween store: a fake cut, a little adhesive, and some fake blood that I over-applied until it dripped down my face a bit.

If you want to go extra bloody, you might try squirting a little fake blood into the inner layers of your plastic wrap at your belly, to look like you’ve already been stabbed! I planned to try that but hey, we were running late. That’s life.

Accessories: My favorite accessory was my blood slide necklace, which oh-so-perfectly complimented my cut face. I found it on Etsy. I’m sure if you are crafty and/or have access to a blood slide it would be simple to make your own. I just loved that little extra Dexter touch.

And of course, I topped the whole ensemble off with a pair of deep red heels, red earrings and red nails. 

 

If you try according to my method, you will find how exciting you are. You will be the central point in the crowd. Happy Halloween!

 

Spirit of Gwar on Halloween

 

in the spirit of Gwar, an anecdo teIt has been requested by the members of Gwar that I post this drawing representing their ethos on the Halloween Show Blog and since I am merely a public servant I have no choice but to do so, post hast. Please click on the drawing to see the key phrase at the bottom through which they throw down the pus-covered gauntlet.

I will take this occasion to relate a story that smiller told me that involves the Loft, and therefore, sort of the Halloween Show. We were talking about meetings, and how an annoying meeting thing is when a hypothetical situation that will probably never occur is discussed in detail and at length. He said that when they had the first, large meeting about establishing the Loft as a venue, and the hows and whys of how to do it (side story: Nar played a benefit show with Jawbreaker to raise money for the project), a large chunk of the time was taken up by discussing what they would do if GG Alli never asked to play there! That is the funniest thing I have heard in a while(young people, this is what I’m talking about – this is NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!but will explain why you would be afraid to have GG Allin come play your venue)