Clowning Around.

So at the risk of sounding over confident the three of us were well pleased with how our skitzo clown vision manifested itself....

I was quietly nervous about how we would pull off the make up... the make up was key to looking like clown freaks but we managed to do it. We have learned the trick with the almighty 'white face'.... many make the mistake of just putting the 'paint' straight on.. this then cracks and looks crap by the end of a night out. The trick is to firstly apply a light foundation then powder... THEN use a sponge to apply the white paint... you won't need much. I digress..

What worked really well about our clown collection is that we were a set yet still individual.. each with our own clown materials, make up, masks and other finer details. This is great as it allows us to apply our own individuality while still having a big  group impact.

The masks on the back of the head freaked people out all night.

Some of the best shots below thanks to our photographer friend Stuart York

Mel.

Make up & mask preparation

Ready to hit the town.

Our ring master (Kerry's boyfriend) is mad with us!



Happy vs Crazy clowns on stage with the band The Vamp

Halloween 09 - Dressing The Vamp

1 Halloween Night Down, 1 to go.  When it was not only ourselves we needed transform, but also the 5 members of the band The Vamp, ready for their performance at Passing Clouds.
"Mummie Chic" - we wanted it to look like these 5 guys had woken from death sleep and decided to dress in their fineries and go to a party.

The band had soundcheck till 8:30, rushed round to my flat, we had 1 and 1/2 hours to dress them all, then back to Passing Clouds to be on stage for 11pm.

We were ready...

So the classic mummy bandages we first applied (previously distressed with tea and fake blood).

...then over to the make-up station, where we were able to demonstrate our newly-learnt make-up skills to create Zombie Look (thanks to the Lost in Beauty team)

...the chic gentlemanly parts of the costume added: top hats, shirt panels, cuffs, cummerbunds and bow-ties - thanks to Melanie's bow-tie wearing colleague, who taught her to tie a real bow-tie.
A few gory drip of blood were added ("it's all in the detail")

 

...and voila!

The band looked great on stage - and sounded amazing - such a brilliant set that got the crowd pumping and stomping and ya-ya-ya-ya-ing.  The lead singer very sweetly did a shout out to alteregodiaries.blogspot.com and got us up on stage to dance one track with them.

It was a proud collaboration.

Kx

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):