Citahellion's best halloween costumes

Published on October 6, 2004 By citahellion In Photography

I mentioned in my previous blog entry here that I owned a pair of oversize black contact lenses. Since at least a minimal level of interest was displayed, here for your viewing pleasure are some pictures of me wearing those contacts.

Here I am a knife fight victim. (Note the defensive cut just showing on my right forearm.)

Here I'm just wearing the lenses with my most expressionless face, for maximum creepiness.

In this one I am dressed as "The Host"....

Here, I am a Zombie in Paradise.

And finally, a plain old ragged zombie.
(If you look carefully, you may see that I also had one end of a worm protruding from the side of my neck, and the other end just below the edge of my right sleeve.)
I got the best compliment ever from this costume, although it took me a year to receive it...
Some trick-or-treaters came by, a mom and her young child (probably 6 or 7), and we (as always) were very nice and gave the kid a good handful of candy. As they said thank you and turned to leave, the mom mentioned to me, "We almost didn't come to your house this year because my kid was so frightened by you last year."

Is that not the greatest endorsement of a halloween costume ever??

(You can also view the Yahoo! photo album here, if the pictures don't show up for you for whatever reason (mainly because Yahoo! sucks).)

Comments (Page 2)

citahellion

on Oct 22, 2004

Nope, I just looked for an article that had some other photos in it, and there yours was at the top, and there all your image links were, pointing to villagephoto...

Texas Wahine

on Oct 22, 2004

I like villagephoto quite a bit . . . I even did the $3/mo subscription thing so that I could keep a bunch of photos on there. I'm a dork.

Angloesque

on Oct 22, 2004

Ha, I had no picture of you in my mind and now I have THIS!

There's no way I'd show up to your house on Halloween. But where did you get those contacts?

-A.

citahellion

on Oct 22, 2004

Sadly, we've been very slack the last couple of years about throwing a real Halloween party anyway.

I got the contacts through a place here in Minnesota called "Costumes for your Eyes." (see www.freakyeyes.com, their website.) At the time of purchase (1997, I think) they cost me about $300 (not counting the eye exam); looks like they're $350-$400ish now.

Texas Wahine

on Oct 22, 2004

At the time of purchase (1997, I think) they cost me about $300 (not counting the eye exam); looks like they're $350-$400ish now.

Holy shit. Are they made out of ground up Fabergé eggs?

citahellion

on Oct 22, 2004

Well, they are prescription, and they're specialty, and they're tinted, and they're oversized.... And they're cool as hell, so people are willing to pay a lot for them regardless.

Texas Wahine

on Oct 22, 2004

Hmmm . . . I guess if someone will pay $300 for a purse or a pair of sunglasses, that's not so unusual . . . and they are prescription and fitted to your eyes, cool as hell, etc.

Don't they bother your eyes, though? I've had contacts that were a bit big for my eyes before, and they drove me crazy.

citahellion

on Oct 22, 2004

Yeah, it definitely takes some getting used to. You have to break them in over a period of several wearings. At first you shouldn't wear them for more than about 90 minutes; you work your way up to as much as 4-6 hours eventually.
Kind of an added benefit as far as creepiness goes is that eventually my eyes would start getting really bloodshot, so after a while I'd have solid black eyes with bloody red corners instead of white corners.

Angloesque

on Oct 23, 2004

Kind of an added benefit as far as creepiness goes is that eventually my eyes would start getting really bloodshot, so after a while I'd have solid black eyes with bloody red corners instead of white corners.

God, I hope I never meet you in a dark alley somewhere....

historyishere

on Oct 25, 2004

Hmmm . . . I guess if someone will pay $300 for a purse or a pair of sunglasses, that's not so unusual . . . and they are prescription and fitted to your eyes, cool as hell, etc.

They are a very specialized item....

mignuna

on Oct 25, 2004

It's right there at the very end of the post, mig. it's also right here, just 'cause I like ya

awwww, thanks, my puzzling friend. i like you right back !. and i adore your costumes. i have a thing about that kind of stuff (i make a great vampire !).

mig XXX

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