Pre-Halloween costumes unveiled!

Tonight our friend Laura hosted her long-anticipated 80s themed Halloween party. Tom's been working on his costume for weeks: Beetlejuice!

The Costume:
He picked up a tuxedo jacket from The Garment District in Cambridge and used white duct tape from the Home Depot to make the white stripes. White duct tape? Am I the only person who didn't know this stuff came in anything other than silver? Not only do they have it in white, but try yellow, red, green...even camo!

Tom paired the jacket with a pair of black pants and a white collared shirt he already had. Throw on some black shoes, and he's ready to go.


The Make-up
Okay, this got messy, but very cool! Tom picked up a black wig from The Garment District -- I think it was some sort of rocker style. He sprayed it with both white and green Halloween hair color (the temporary stuff you can pick up anywhere) and hung it upside down from a door frame so the hair would dry sticking out all over. We had a lot of laughs over how much it looked like a dead animal. His sister, Judy, trimmed it a bit to make it look more like Michael Keaton's do.

Judy also did Tom's make-up, using a few photos Tom had pulled off the internet as a guide. I have to say, as the night wore on, the make-up got better and better! I have to hand it to Tom -- I would go nuts if I ever had to do full make-up! But Tom's the "go big or go home" type, and his costume came out awesome.

And what did I do? I changed my mind about 50 times. For awhile, everyone had lobbied for a Revere Beach 80s Prom Queen (with all due respect to folks from Revere). My sister dug up a few old dresses at my parents, but let's just say I can no longer wear a size 7 or 9 juniors! So random 80s chick it is! I like to describe this as my "Madonna meets Debbie Gibson" look!