Halloween Theme 80's Prom Nite
Monday, October 20, 2008
Our first Halloween Party Invitation this year was to a themed 80's Prom Nite party. FINALLY an excuse to wear the prom dresses that I have dragged through 3 states and countless moves. Drag those bitches out, dust off the moth balls, and let's do this PROM THEME.
In addition to the prom dress however, I also have my original crenoline, strapless bra, earrings, pearls and sunglasses. Pretty in Pink eat your heart out. TEAL is the new Pink.
It was a hard decision to make over which dress to wear from my Junior and Senior proms, but ultimately Teal won out over the Wine colored one as most cheesy. I'd give myself a pat on the back for the dresses still fitting, but I wasn't the skinniest girl in high school. Oh well, they DO fit.
To complete this look, I wet my hair down and filled it with Gel, scrunching as I dried it for that fuzzy permed look. Then I pulled the sides out, sprayed the heck out of them and dried them straight out. Finally, I teased the hell out of it. No, I didn't give it a hickey and whisper seductively in it's ear. I used a brush backcombing and hairspraying the likes of which I'm still washing out. Unfortunately since I don't have bangs, I'm going to have to work on the Bear Claw effect. I also put on lots of teal eyeliner, green eyeshadow, and red lipstick.
DG is wearing his original Ray Bans (prescription), Vans, tuxedo pants, and a tuxedo shirt I found for him at local awesome costume/vintage store Flossy McGrew's. He greased his hair up in what my friend Kevin calls "The Squiqqy". On Saturday evening, we grabbed Hadley and headed out for our practice night to a Halloween party.
These are the final results. Not pretty. In fact, DG told me I looked like a Cougar on the prowl. Nice.
If I can find my prom photos in the garage, I am hoping to do a side by side comparison later this week. Lucky you.
Labels: halloween
By AllBeehive Monday, October 20, 2008
6 Comments:
aaaaaawesome! you look like the woman from Heart (ann? or nancy?) in the second picture. I have the tape, yes, TAPE, right here.
I'm inspired to through our own 80's prom party.... CP can wear my 8th grade graduation dress from 1984!
pls post more pictures..... love it!
I refuse to ever, ever, ever let anyone see me in the pink, lacy, awful confection I wore to the junior prom. It needs to be burned, but is probably gathering dust in a closet in Vermont.
Okay, I'm flaking out and can't remember who you went to the Senior prom with. I put the blame squarely on Kevin and Victor, who nagged Heather and I into leaving early. And we did, because we were idiots who put our hormones ahead of friendships and a once in a lifetime memory. Aak, why'd you have to remind me of what an idiot I was. Yuck.
Cyn, get a sitter and come to the prom party with us! Pretty please?
Saffry, please don't be mad at me, but I'm having DG scan pics of your in that lovely mauve frilly number AND the teal one from senior year. I so badly want to post them, but I'll send them to you first :) Um, your date has white gloves on. You'll hear all about my date in the next post. He was a friend from church camp.
when/where is the party? I don't have a closet full of 20 -50 yr old dresses for nothing! (plus, who needs a sitter when we have grandma)
Bet your eyebrows didn't look so sculpted in the 80s, huh? I'm very impressed that your dress fits so well. Goodness knows, I couldn't wear one of my prom dresses now.
Love the pix!
I've decided that I'll agree to the posting of the pink monstrosity as a thank you for your Obama volunteering. But you most also post the green one, because I looked HOT in that.
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