Halloween!

[Jammo]

Think I'll rock a white saber this year...

[Master Rel]

Walked and competed in a local Zombie walk for charity...I won the adult division...donated my prizes back to the charity for reissue

I have tons of pics in the camera, need to download, until then I have a couple phone pics!









Walked a mile along with 2000+ other zombies, hunters, survivors, and lots of weirdos...I mean to say a pack of furries, a goth couple wearing black and white checkered outfits, superman and batman, etc.

The whole walk was loaded with people, I did the off center shamble...one shoe one and one shoe off...

[Darth Kitsune]

Anyone else think it's funny that our parents always told us to never take candy from strangers... But every Halloween we do exactly that?

Parents and Churches have pretty much destroyed Halloween around where I live, especially considering I live in the Bible Belt in an area of high religious zealousness. You know. Halloween = Satan and all of that nonsense (poisoned candy, razor blade apples, etc), even though most of them do not even know the true and honest origin of the holiday. It's all of the Trunk-or-Treating at the Churches now. With hardly any candy, sweets, or tomfoolery.

[ed_ification]

Walked and competed in a local Zombie walk for charity...I won the adult division...donated my prizes back to the charity for reissue

I have tons of pics in the camera, need to download, until then I have a couple phone pics!









Walked a mile along with 2000+ other zombies, hunters, survivors, and lots of weirdos...I mean to say a pack of furries, a goth couple wearing black and white checkered outfits, superman and batman, etc.

The whole walk was loaded with people, I did the off center shamble...one shoe one and one shoe off...

Very nice facial effects there, Rel - kudos!  Might one ask how you did that?

[Master Rel]

Haunted house basics lol...liquid latex ($8), layered/blow dried to create a base layer, liquid latex and torn toilet tissue to create a second skin, leave wet, move onto another section then come back and press the wet tissue/latex to create skin sloughing and rips, paint in red with acrylic paint to create a base for the torn sections, repeat, blow dry, touch the low points with black, blowdry, touch up high points with cheap mart-wal cover powder ($2)...final touches I used dirt and weeds to create a just on the ground look.



PS
Whole make up including dress out, 47mins.

[Jammo]

I should see if Michelle wants to go to a haunted house... I hope she's jumpy.

[B1ondeange1]

Wow, amazing job rel!!!

[Master Bluespike74]

Parents and Churches have pretty much destroyed Halloween around where I live, especially considering I live in the Bible Belt in an area of high religious zealousness. You know. Halloween = Satan and all of that nonsense (poisoned candy, razor blade apples, etc), even though most of them do not even know the true and honest origin of the holiday. It's all of the Trunk-or-Treating at the Churches now. With hardly any candy, sweets, or tomfoolery.

I understand your plight oh too well.  This is not trying to be religious but factual.  Halloween is the only holiday created by Christianity.  The others were either Jewish or pagan that received a twist. 

I am cool with the kids dressing up and getting candy.  It has in some ways become a huge time for vandalism though and that is where I usually have issue.  TP in the trees and houses is fine.  Silly string is cool too.  I have had the unfortunate experience of seeing people set fires to synagogues, mosques, churches, community centers, and senior centers and when caught tried to claim it was a Halloween prank.  Cars having windows bashed in because someone was Halloween "pranking." 

You also have the highest reports of animals being stolen and the acceptable answer by communities is that it is "Satanists" doing sacrifices when often times it is someone using Halloween as a cover to resell an expensive pet. 

I love Halloween because it gives me joy to see everyone's creativity and a chance to meet my neighbors.  I love to see the joy on people's faces when they get their candy or getting to see an adult Halloween party with some adult beverages being served. 

Like anything, it will have both an upside and a downside but I think the religious argument is disingenuous and a little hypocritical. 

[ed_ification]

I understand your plight oh too well.  This is not trying to be religious but factual.  Halloween is the only holiday created by Christianity.  The others were either Jewish or pagan that received a twist. 

Not to be a jerk, but Halloween is at least somewhat centered around the Celtic tradition of Samhain...

[Johnyclueless]

@Vyk I'm from Michigan also...I used to attend Silverleaf every year! My great kilt is getting dusty...

now Free

[Master Rel]

I am in the process of creating an adult Halloween Mask Ball...adult meaning over 18yrs and not X or NC17 lol.

I have not had to deal with any of these rough issues...so far all my Halloweens have been fun and no major pranks.  I have worked and built dozens of haunted houses, made up hundreds of zombies, etc.

Sorry for the grief others have experienced 

[Master Bluespike74]

Not to be a jerk, but Halloween is at least somewhat centered around the Celtic tradition of Samhain...

You're not being one.  I had heard that.  The costuming part, which will cause almost riots in the region known as BB, has it's origins in this document I kept from time I spent with the HRCC:


"Part of the history of Halloween  is Halloween costumes. The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays goes back to the Middle Ages. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of "souling," when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and Britain, although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy. Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of 'puling [whimpering, whining], like a beggar at Hallowmas.'"


Prayers for the dead have a huge root in the HRCC. 


To me, Halloween is the most fun that one can have as a child and it helps some adults to loosen up.  I am always amazed at the amount of creativity some people have when creating a costume.  I watched a guy that worked in the material management department make a complete Sub-Zero costume and used dry ice in pouches along the costume to create a cold aura around him.  I heard that he added some gray the next year and created a Smoke rendition the next.