Halloween At Berkeley

As most of you know, I spent Halloween at Berkeley this year. It's also the first year where I invested hours of effort into making a real/legit costume as opposed to the half-assed ones I've been doing for the last 10 years or so. This of course involved buying supplies, a trip to Stanford to visit Nina and have her help me try on various types of makeup, and weeks of building it up to whoever would listen. So let's go through the transformation (click on photos for the full-size high-res versions)

Step One: Get on the patented pin-striped Joker Pants

Step 2: Assemble all the makeup into a pile so that I can post a picture of it on my blogpost

Step 3: To get the hair right, I needed to first spray my luscious black hair white, so that i can overlay the green on top.

Step 4: I waited 20 mins for my now aged hair to dry and harden, then added the layer of green

Step 5: Apply one full tube of white makeup cream

Step 6: I used a black makeup crayon (supplied by Nina Duong!) to draw dark circles around my eyes

Step 7: I used a red makeup crayon (also supplied by Nina) to draw in that strangely terryfying smile on my face

Step 8: I then started my preliminary smudging by rubbing at my face, running in the rain, licking my lips in that Heath Ledger-ish way. I also alternated white and green hairsprays until it was some strange mixture of the two. It also hardened it to a waterproof helmet.


Step 9: After some serious smudging, the adding of the Jacket and the foam insert for the vest/tie, my look is complete. Fucking awesome.

This total process took about two hours.

IM Me/Aneesh/Palash for details on how the night actually went after that :D After a good 4-5 hours of partying, we returned to the dorms where it was time for me to wash off. Luckily the showers in the dorm were awesome. I was very excited to go take a shower:


P.S. Aneesh and Palash sort of dressed up too. Aneesh got real creative and "original" by deciding to pick a character that wasn't likely to be ridiculously commonplace, like the joker (although mine was the best) and Palash decided to wear a mask and gloves. No picture of Palash is available however, but have a gander at "Zero" or his pseudonym for the evening "The Witch-King from Lord of the Rings"