Clearly my favorite Holiday is Halloween. Most people wouldn't bother putting on prosthetic wounds complete with latex and high quality fake coagulating blood to celebrate. I really love doing makeup and always get a ton of compliments. I had Bonnie and Clyde telling me that I absolutely must be a make-up artist. Ehhhhhhhmmm, no thanks. Last year I had three different costumes, A dead opera singer, a ridiculously good looking pirate and a hippie. The year before I was Frida Khalo, complete with monkey. This year, since Halloween fell on a Friday there wasn't enough days of partying to justify multiple costumes so I was the murdered lover of Jimmy Conway (DeNiro's character from Goodfellas), Jimmy never actually had a woman in the movie but I thought he should have (not everyone wanted to hump Liotta) and this is my take on what she might have looked like. My partner in crime, Ale, went square for the evening as Clark Kent (I thin he's the best Clark ever).
After being invited to several parties we decided to go with a group of friends to this dj Vikter Duplaix's party which was in a castle in the Hollywood Hills. We agreed to go to only one party and avoid the drunk drivers.The House was extraordinary, I wouldn't say beautiful because honestly it kinda looked like Sleeping Beauty's castle at Disneyland in white, but it was extraordinary nonetheless. Seven stories high with steep spiral staircases, visions of falling down in my stilettos kept me from drinking too much.
I may be a little desensitized to girls dressing super-sexy for Halloween because I too have rocked the naughty nurse gear in my not-so-distant past but some friends talking about how Halloween was just an "excuse to get naked" made me laugh and made me think. Halloween is about creativity and expression for me. It's the one day in the year when anyone can be who they please. I've seen an amazing eight-foot marionette of Jack (Nightmare before Christmas) in West Hollywood, older chubby office guys in full-on drag, quiet demure girls as Godzilla, I've seen a french guy I knew from an acting class, who all the girls were trying to bang, dressed up like a dominant leather man and I am pretty sure it wasn't his first time. The point is, people can let loose and play one day a year. The choices people make never seize to surprise me and the only thing I can see wrong with women choosing to dress like floozies, is that it might not be the most creative. There were a lot of tiny little Wonder-woman outfits but honestly if you look at a picture of Wonder-woman she didn't have a skirt - she had a leotard and belt with a cape. If one of these girls were to go the extra mile and do a wonder woman outfit correctly she not only would be more creative, she'd be wearing even less! Isn't this the goal? On a side note, its funny to me that so many women in L.A. go all out with the sexiness, any girl who has been single in this city can tell you its slim pickings out here. Apparently Denver is where its at (I'm ending a sentence with a preposition in the name of talkin' jive).
Out of all the outfits we saw one of the most creative was the one I heard the most catty remarks about all night. In fact Its reputation preceded its owners arrival to the top floor. I over heard an irate Foxy Brown knock-off tell an impressive, beer guzzling Amy Winehouse that some girl was dressed up as a naked chick. I immediately thought she was just hating on some girl wearing a skimpy outfit. But then I saw who they were talking about, and she was indeed dressed as a naked chick. Hidden in a close circle of her friends was a girl dressed in a skin-colored nylon bodysuit with padded breasts complete with fake nipples (I swear they were cut out of baby bottles) and a tuft of fake hair (probably from an old wig) serving as her muff. Shocking as it was, I had to admire her creativity. I could tell that it was a homemade costume. Right on! I would've admired her audaciousness (or balls, ahem! interesting visual no?) a little more had she refrained from hiding behind her friends and flaunted a little bit more. Come on people! If someone is going to dress as a naked person, they should own it and not be self-conscious. A person could dress as a giraffe or freaking Sarah Palin like everyone else if they didn't want to be conspicuous. Of course no male was complaining about the scantily clad women, they all looked very happy, even Ale "I love theees countrrrry". Dressing a little less than the rest comes with the territory. L.A. is one of the few places in the country that isn't freezing on Oct 31st so us ladies are able to be as sexy as we wanna be, in comfort. I have to agree with my friends that there were a lot of outfits that were a little too raunchy, you could tell which girls were using Halloween to express their inner "girls gone wild," but I also feel that its fun to dress as sexy characters (not only on Halloween ;-) Just do it with 100% creativity.
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