My life in costume

Halloween isn't as popular as i had hoped in los angeles. Holidays in general are more muted, less festive. I have always loved halloween, loved dressing up, being creative. I finally moved somewhere where i don't have to wear my costume over thermal underwear underneath a parka and no one really wants to play along. Although i probably would fit in in my holiday celebration of one say in Venice for example just add sandwich board with writings of the apocalypse yet to come. (So glad that didn't happen, aren't you?)

I did however get to dress up twice this year, but not for halloween. A couple years back i wrote a post about the Diade los Muertos celebration at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. I had hoped to bring you photos of me in 2011 dressed in calavera make up, i am only behind one year i guess.

There are surprisingly a lot of videos on youtube on how to do this makeup. I watched several before i came up with this look(pictured below somewhere i can't figure out how to place photos in ipad yet) this took about 45 minutes to do including hair. You'd think with how pale i am that i wouldn't have a hard time looking white, but that is about 3 coats of make up.

My friends T and my co-worker from my after school prgm days in minnesota and her husband joined me. Although both California natives, they had never been. See us all pictured below in he foyer of my apartment building.

By the time we got there it was too crowded to see the ofrendss. We grabbed some tacos and walked around and mainly people watched. People really went all out and gave me inspiration for next year. The night ended with a concert by headlining band Ozomatli.

It is amazing what $10 and a little halloween make up can get you in LA.

Here are more pictures from the night: