Happy Weekend.

A Tim Burton Halloween Special For You

How To: Gouge Your Eye Out

Last week we attended a workshop hosted by The Last Tuesday Society to learn the craft of Halloween Make-Up.  An amazing evening where we learnt everything from zombie make-up to bloody prosthetic wounds, all demonstrated by the lovely ladies from Lost in Beauty.  We got to practice on each other and went home with a little goody bag in time for the 31st.

A brilliant evening - and FREE!

Clowning all around

I think Show Studio must have seen our blog this week and realised the time was ripe to release their beautiful film of the recent harlequin themed shoot 'Dark Annie'. Beautiful imagery, check out the photos too, oooo doesn't it just make you wish and wonder......

Click on her to the left to see the film.

Happy weekend!
H
x

Broken Hearted

With all this talk of clowns and mummies we have neglected the second costume of the weekend for Work It on Friday night - the Broken Hearted Damsels.

Being a Friday we have gone with a simple yet striking concept to allow for minimal get-ready time and maximum fun-time.

This idea came out of nowhere really, inspired by one photo, found on White Mischief:

And the rest just happened - bloody hearts will hang out of our chests, red gunk oozing onto pretty white nighties as we wander round, sunken eyed and forlorn, lamenting our lost loves and broken hearts to anyone who'll listen and giving out suicidal halloween love letters to the specially selected.

Obviously we'll be cranking out to the early ninties hip hop on the Work It dancefloor at some points throughout the evening too.

The hearts arrived in the post at work today and my boss screamed like a girl when he opened the package. The desired affect:

Breaking News

An exciting new addition was confirmed today as we will be joined by The Heartbreaker - an Italian Stallion who leaves a trail of female destruction in his wake, collecting broken bloody hearts like trophies. And probably eating them for breakfast too. We are his latest victims.....

Mwaaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaa.......

H

x

Project for Alter Ego Diaries: Dressing the Band

So - word has got out to the wider public of our dress-up desires and we have been asked to dress a band that will be playing at Passing Clouds in Dalston for Halloween night!  How exciting!

Planning started last week - we gave them three options: the winning dress up?......

MUMMIE CHIC

Spookily sophisticated, gruesomely grandeur, eerily aristocratic these 5 mummified gentleman will the best dressed band ever to grace the graveyards of East London.

To give you a better idea (thanks to ellie):

It's all in the detail

One of our main dress-up rules: the brilliance is in the detail.  Perfectly represented here by this sailors jacket (of which we can't take credit). 
Underneath the rigidly prescribed uniform cuffs:

this sailor had a few tricks up his sleeve:

Other clown bits

Ok girls.. so that leaves us with the final touches..

I'm thinking we get an old bra and cover it with harlequin material to look something like this..


 
 
 

Depending how high the skirt sits we can have tassles under the bra too... maybe breaded ones would look cute...

 
 
 
 
 

Final touch then are top hats... mini ones to give us a cutesey clown look hey (to juxtaposition against our sickness)...let's get a different colour each? I'm thinking ivory...

And last but not least... the masks we put on the back of our head...these are from ChildReach... how we paint these well is going to be a challenge to say the least!?


Over and out.
Mel

Happy Weekend.

Skirting around the subject

So, after much inspiration and deliberation we have our schizo clown outfits pretty much sorted. Here's a little insight into the journey of the skirt...

Before I get there I just had to share this - got a bag of material scraps from freecycle the other week, and the second thing I pull out is this delightful ruffled pink rubber thong!

Interesting. I had to wash my hands. And the floor. At least it's on theme....

Luckily said freecycle trip also brought the most amazing free thing ever - a crinolin!!

Wanting to wear it immediately I thought of fitting this into the schizo clowns costume but it's a little like wearing a boat and there is only one.

However it reminded me of something much better to incorporate. Kerry and I once went to a terrible piece of theater called The Porcelain Project - essentially a porn fest on stage where 2 female dancers were subjected to systematic theatrical rape by men with phallic shaped pieces of porcelain. It was really bad.

I give it the time of day here because the costumes were amazing and have now inspired the base of our schizo clown outfits - hooped skirts - starting fitted under the boobs and flaring out to a small hoop mid-thigh length, held over the shoulders with braces.

Inspired by The Porcelain Project:

The material will be harlequin inspired - I found a dress in the family dressing up box that will be perfect - pictured here under a potential orange ruffle option and other cool mutil-coloured cheque material that could be overlaid to a plain colour in diamond shapes:

It's all coming together....

And finally - if you're passing by All Saints Spitalfields this weekend stop to look at the window display - full of beautiful old Singer machines - the picture below does not do them justice:

Happy weekend!!

HW

x

Somewhere Over Nova's Rainbow

Nova Dando and her new "Rainbow Collection" have got the creative juices flowing in multicolour!  Not only is she great stylist but a brilliant person to work with. 

Ruffles Ruffles Everywhere - how should I make mine?

Friday Night Halloween...

OK peops...
I definitely got the Friday night sorted for Halloween....Let's definitely do the Work It party
This party will be pumping. Fact.
As its a Friday we will have to work quickly after work...
Mel.

We heart Viktor & Rolf

Paris Fashion Week - Viktor & Rolf's new collection "Cutting Edge Couture": UNREAL.  Imagine getting to wear one of these pieces....serious dressing-up box envy!
Kerry


Here are some shots but check out full show here and here. 

Happy Weekend.