Halloween Shenanigans
You gotta love Halloween! What’s not to love about a holiday where it’s perfectly acceptable for a man to dress like a woman and for a woman to dress like a complete tart and get away with it! Oftentimes, I feel like the most fun thing about Halloween is preparing your costume and thinking of funny ideas rather than the actual holiday itself.
This year, I had no idea what I wanted to be nor did I know definitively where I wanted to go. I thought the theme at FINDS ‘REHAB’ was pretty funny so the idea came to me that I should dress as a famous (or infamous junkie).
Amy Winehouse was already played out and I had a friend that was also looking for a costume, so at the 11th hour, it occurred to me that perhaps we should dress as Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. It never occurred to me, however, that I was wayyy too tan and wayyy too Asian to be Courtney Love.
I figured out that I would never be able to pull off Courtney Love when I went down to the costume street at the corner of Lyndhurst Terrace and Wellington Street on the day OF Halloween! The narrow alley was so packed with people, I thought I was going get trampled before I even made it to Lan Kwai Fong. It was literally so elbow-to-elbow that I could not penetrate the sheer wall of fancy-dressed partygoers.
I decided to cut to the chase, go to the wig shop at the top of the street and get the first blonde wig I could find. The problem was, the wig I purchased made me look more like Dolly Parton or Pamela Anderson rather than Courtney Love. By then it was too late to change my costume to ‘Dolly’ since I promised ‘Kurt’ I would go along with the original plan. So, over vodkas, we cut holes in Kurt’s jeans, drew graffiti on my wife-beater dress chopped our wigs, taped fake syringes onto our arms and attempted in vain to slather white make-up on ourselves.
My other girlfriend, who is one of Hong Kong’s top fashion stylists, joined us in the preparation. She was coming as a ‘corpse bride’. When she walked into my flat wearing white makeup and a head to toe nude veil, I got so scared! I had no idea that a veil could be so frightening!!! We laughed our heads off taking photos of each other and getting into character.
Once on the street, we began the Halloween party drift. We had loose plans to go to FINDS (Rehab), ZUMA (Dead not Alive), Dragon-I (Doctors and Nurses) and possibly Drop (Egyptian Tomb). The action was not really in the venues though but on the streets!
As we drifted from Soho to Wyndham Street down to Queens Road you found people dressed as super heroes, ghouls, sexy cops, sexy kittens, sexy brides, sexy French maids, sexy belly dancers.. You get the idea… and I was a sexy junkie! I decided that I would tell people I was Courtney ‘Rub’ instead of Courtney Love. It was a cross between Courtney Love and a South East Asian bargirl. LOL! (Notice how my legs are blue? That was from the white makeup)
We had a great time drifting from one party to another amidst the crowds and the chaos- taking photos ohhing and ahhing at people’s costumes and having a good laugh in general.
The sluttiest costumes we came across were a gang of naked chefs who were wearing nothing but skimpy underwears with aprons on top. They were more than happy to expose their backsides if prompted- we got some juicy photos but I will not post them here ;P
Ahhhh Halloween! Every day should be halloween!
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