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Steff Metal parties for Halloween: Metalhead Style

Thursday, November 17th, 2011 by steffmetal

Hallween isn’t a big holiday in New Zealand, not like it is in the US (I can’t wait to visit the States during Halloween and see all the decorations and the kids in their costumes). But, since Halloween is practically made for us alternative types, my friends host an annual Halloween party, and this year’s shindig was the best yet.

What are the elements for the perfect Halloween party? Well, we have the group of awesome friends, the creative costumes, and the date and venue. Since the weather’s warming up over here, we fired up the BBQ. Tarah, the gracious host, cooked a feast of Halloween goodies – bat and coffin cakes, devilishly dark chocolate brownies, and severed finger biscuits.

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This year I went as Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile. My dress is vintage, with a cincher belt from an outlet mall. My cartouche necklace come from Egypt, and spells my name, with a depiction of the goddess Ma’at on the back.

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Tarah, the host of the party, looking stunning as a vampire nun.

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Kelli (left) and Amy (right) as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett. These two are studying costume design and made everything themselves (including the pies. One even has a finger poking out).

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Tim, as Getafix.

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Jaimee, looking stunning in her Dia de los Muertos makeup.

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And, probably the best costumes of the evening, two friends showed up dressed as two other friends. Here’s two Johnowars:

steffmetal-lip-service-halloweenAnd two Tarah’s.

Metal was played, silliness and singalongs abounded, pies were consumed, rakishly handsome men disappeared in the night. The perfect Halloween party – heavy metal style.

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steffmetal-lip-service-halloween-partysteffmetal-lip-service-halloweenHalloween used to be a sacred time of year – a time of rebirth, of worship and celebration for the death, a time when magic is profoundly, wonderfully real. I love that in the 21st century we’ve modernized these ideas and created our own rituals. There’s always a little bit of magic in the air on Halloween, don’t you agree?

 

Who am I? I’m Steff. Born in New Zealand, raised on a steady diet of metal and out-of-print archaeology books, I’m now a freelance writer, accessible formats producer, and full-time iron maiden.

You can keep up to date with all the metal madness at my Steff Metal blog. I update 4 times a week with reviews, articles, advice and silliness about living the metal lifestyle. And, for alternative biz owners, I run a creative business community for the dark side at Grymm & Epic.

Keep it brutal \m/

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Lethal Style Halloween Costume “Quiz-a-Matic”

Thursday, October 21st, 2010 by Vanity Kills

Fact! People like dressing up for Halloween. Fact! People like taking quizzes on the Internet. I have come to this conclusion since I block TONS of them from my Facebook feed on a daily basis. They’re poorly written by kids aged somewhere in the neighborhood of 16, they don’t apply to me (Sorry, but I don’t have a favorite Evanescence song), and hello, backdoor viruses anyone? Frankly, I don’t really need to display someone’s stolen picture or an Amy Brown fairy graphic on my page that badly. I mean, for Christ’s sake, you really don’t know “What minuscule subdivision of any given scene that you self identify with” you allegedly belong to by now? You didn’t know you were a “romantigoth” by simply opening your closet doors? I’ve seen people in their 30s post their results and get mad that a quiz told them they were “an emo” or “a prep” instead of “bad ass metal head”. Shit son, me thinks an existential crisis was afoot and that those folks needed more answers than a social networking site app could provide them with.

Alas, sometimes one still doesn’t know just what the fuck they’re going to wear come October 31st a week and a half before the big night. And some are in dire need of a time killer at their 9-to-5 in between dealing with their co-worker’s bullshit. So, I’ve decided to author a little non-Facebook based distraction, designed to throw some costuming ideas in your general direction. No fairy graphics. No backdoor viruses. No promise to reveal the meaning of life.

Obligatory Disclaimer (in case the intro paragraph wasn’t enough): Lethal Style isn’t trying to tell you how to dress, “put you in a box”, nor force you into any high school-esque clique against your will in any shape or form. You’re all unique snowflakes and I would never dream of taking that away from you. This silly little quiz was created for entertainment purposes only and isn’t proven to help you find your identity or cure cancer.

(1) You can have my first, second and third born child if you only bring back:

  • A- Rosary’s Garden
  • B- The Fashionista Resistance
  • C- Rockabilly Rumble
  • D- Easy Rider

(2) Ahhh…October. Bonfires, candy corn, cheesy haunted attractions, and people who don’t know any better stocking up on 99 cent black lipstick at their local drugstore. And naturally, the time for a fresh crop of autumnal apparel vying for real estate in the closets of Lippy Addicts all over the world. Which Fall 2010 line were you most psyched about?

  • A- Blacklist…duh.
  • B- Cyber Sniper
  • C- Pin Me Up
  • D- Nevermind Fall 2010…give me Python Addiction already!

(3) Typical Satuday night out; your fab self is seizing the night at your alcohol-serving establishment of choice, dressed to the nines, with your equally fashionable crew in tow. Trolling for men isn’t high on the agenda, but you’re willing to make an exception for the right male specimen. Bonus points if he’s wearing a:

  • A-Step in Time Dress Coat but always in black, never in brown.
  • B- Dead Nation Death in the Arena Military Jacket
  • C- A Service T-shirt and a gravity-defying pompadour.
  • D- Only a vintage Radioactive Chain Reaction God of Thunder Sleeveless Shallow V Top would do. I love nothing more than seeing a man rock the hell out of a skin tight metallic gold shirt!

(4) Ohmyfuckinggod!You just won Lippy’s Halloween Costume Photo Contest.Gonna put that shiny new $250 gift certificate toward:

  • A- A splurge on a Wicked Winter Long Coat with Faux Fur as an “I’m worth it” present to yourself. You’ve earned it by dodging the bait of getting sucked into the latest round of Facebook scene drama.
  • B- Stocking up on Circuit City closeouts.Gotta look hot at Kinetik 2011.
  • C-Treating thyself to Fall 2010’s select sexy Pin Me Up styles in the red and black colorway, but saving a good chunk of change for winter’s Nocturnal Rendezvous collection. It’s just what you need to spice up your burlesque act.
  • D- Buying out every last thing in the lingerie category . You never know-Bret Michaels might just do a fourth season of Rock of Love and if so, you’ll need a winnin’ wardrobe.

(5) Musically you just can’t seem to tire of:

  • A- As cliché as it sounds, Bauhaus. You just can’t seem to kick that Murphy habit of yours. You even overlook his most recent “I can’t believe the peoples’ hero guest-starred on Dawson’s Creek with vampires“ fiasco. Peter Murphy in Twilight? Nope never happened.
  • B- Tactical Sekt
  • C- Zombie Ghost Train
  • D-RATT

(6) Holy shit! Somehow after a night of Jager-fueled debauchery you magically manage to travel back in time to 2005. You wake up naked next to a handsome stranger, not entirely sure if the reality currently unfolding before you is nothing more than an elaborate hallucination. You opt to ask questions at a later date, since your initial train of thought is that you’ll only be able to make some semblance of sense out of this clusterfuck once your body has been properly dosed with caffeine. But first you must retrieve your crumpled up garments located somewhere on his bedroom floor. What are you looking for?

  • A- Flowers of Evil Ballgown
  • B- Air Raid Sirens Ruffle Mini Skirt in Camo (with a Skinny Puppy patch haphazardly pinned to the side)
  • C- Greaser Seduction Chick’s Capri Pant
  • D- Lyck my Lycra Off the Shoulder Dress

(7) Fast forward to New Year’s Eve 2011. Survey says you’re most likely to be found at:

  • A- An invite-only masked costume gala adorned in a metric ton of ruffles, black lace and a cameo carefully pinned to the collar of your blouse.
  • B- Yelling at the DJ at the local club for only playing new Wumpscut. Who does that guy think he is? He needs to get the fuck out of *your* scene.
  • C- The annual Old Hollywood with Zombies themed swing dance. Not a hair out of place.
  • D- Dropping acid to the tune of a Whitesnake cover band.

(8) Your well connected fairy Godmother allows you to raid the wardrobe closet of any Hollywood production you want. You’re practically bursting at the seams with excitement at the mere prospect of being able to wear:

  • A- Winona Ryder’s decadent red bustle ballgown from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It’s pretty much haunted your dreams on a nightly basis since 1992.
  • B- Leeloo Dallas’ iconic barely there white bandage ensemble from The Fifth Element (Your singular desire is to live in Hollywood circa 1997’s version of the future!)
  • C- Elsa Lanchester’s gauzy getup in 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein. But only if you can take some scissors to it! It’s a fine frock, but it certainly calls for an updated, slightly more deconstructed edge. Your look is that more of the Bride after a bar fight.
  • D- Fuck Tinseltown! A female version of Metalocalypse’s Dr. Rockzo would be fucking hilarious! You already have the 8-ball to go with it.

(9) Besides your smart phone (obviously), keys, a pack of gum and wallet you feel naked without:

  • A- An authentic Victorian mourning brooch
  • B- A circuitboard necklace
  • C- Skeleton hand hair slides
  • D-Your lucky leopard print bra

(10) The most blood pressure raising rumor regarding your personal life you’ve had the displeasure encountering, within the realms of the cesspool known as the Internet, stated that you:

  • A- Look this way due to pop culture’s obsession with vampires
  • B- Are a raver
  • C- Apparently trying to be just like Bettie Page due to an interest in cheesecake modeling
  • D- Got hepatitis from Tommy Lee

Now tally that shit up, see which letter was the most prevalent and scroll down for the obvious answer.

A – Goth with a Capital-fucking-G

You enshrouded yourself in layers of black tulle petticoats and funerary lace when those fucking kids ruining all your clubs with their Combichrist requests were nothing but a glimmer in the eyes of two intoxicated rednecks in the back of a Camarro. You die on the inside just a tiny bit any time that a mallgoth bedecked in chains, spikes and an oversized “I <3 vampires” T-shirt engages you in conversation under the guise that you two have something ... in common. Favorite past-times include: smoking the now contraband cloves, pining for the good old days and sneering at those clueless cybergoths. You wish that the rave scene would reclaim those goddamn human highlighters since it’s clearly where they belong.

Costume Suggestions

Dandy Vampire a’la my friend Meagan Kyla in Fetish Aristocracy, because let’s face it, you probably already have something similar in your closet.

Celebrate your campy side with the flirtatious flair of a Horror Hostess. It’s not like you haven’t been compared to Vampira or Elvira in the past. You know what they say, if the shoe fits…Peruse El Chupacabra for styling ideas.

B – Industrial/Cyber Dancefloor Dictator

Drink hard, dance harder! Sissy goths best get out of the way, or get their asses stomped back to 1985. You have no time for Andrew Eldritch’s whiny, self-serving pretentious bullshit when there are Engrish songs about WAR to be danced to. When not beating the beat, you create your own music in your home studio. The best things in life consist of: World War II documentaries on the TV, Ogre on the Ipod and William Gibson on the bookshelf.

Costume Suggestions

Zombie Nurse- Industrial music and medical fetish go together like Chris Hansen and sexual predators. Zombies go with absolutely everything at all times. Try a Looks That Kill Naughty Nurse Mini Dress and just add gore.

If the idea of wearing a nurse dress on Halloween feels just too sorority skank-esque for your discerning taste, perhaps you’ll find that giving the zombification treatment to militant apparel to be more up your alley. Check out Meagan’s take on soldier chic in Kommandante Kyla for inspiration. Then apply blood, guts, and fake half-eaten brain matter liberally.

Cyber Geisha(as seen in Exit Ritual)- Because flailing kimono sleeves will hit those foolish enough to dance close to you in the face. I speak from experience. If you value your dancefoor space, this can prove to be advantageous.

C – Something or other “a-billy”

Somewhere between Morticia Addams and a Stepford Wife lies a vintage enthusiast with a soft spot for spooky, whimsical kitsch. You know that cleavers serve a dual purpose; preparing a delicious, hearty meal for your loving family and fucking a hooker up if they get out of line. Pinups, classic cars (or better yet, classic hearses), burlesque, swapping cookie recipes, stiff tiki drinks and B-movie 1950’s shlock horror are the hallmark of a fulfilling existence.

Costume Suggestions

Sassy Sailor– Because who doesn’t want a hot boy waiting for them in every port?

Fly the friendly skies in sultry stewardess style featured in Mile High Club.Perfect for gals who want shy away from leg-baring cuts without sacrificing their sex appeal.

Hosting your own Samhain soiree? Have you thought of playing the part of the homicidal hausfrau, my friend Meagan portrayed in Shrunken Heads for All Occassions.

D – Hair Metal Harlot Extraordinaire

Paris and Lindsay could learn a thing or two about partying from you. Never one to be deterred by jealous haters, you proudly embrace the “You only live once” philosophy closely followed by “There’s plenty of time to sleep when you’re dead”. In your world there’s no such thing as a heel too high, a skirt too short or hair too voluminous.

Costume Suggestions

Kelly Bundy

You will need:

  • 25 Years Off The Shoulder Dress
  • Teasing comb and plenty of Aqua Net for that perfect 80′s cock rock groupie rat’s nest
  • Push up bra
  • Fuck me pumps or Lucite stripper heels

“Shout at the Devil”( Crüe or GTFO)


Happy Haunting!

<3

Vanity Kills

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Halloween Horror Nights Review

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 by sagesin13

“What Fear Fears Most,” is the slogan for this year’s Universal Halloween Horror Nights. This annual event has people flocking from all over the world to attend for a night or, if you’re lucky and live local, with a pass that guarantees multiple days of horror.

I get a pass every year for a few reasons: 1) The lines often take up so much time you can’t get to everything! 2) A pass makes it much easier to go with friends when you want. 3) It’s so much fun you’ll be dying for more!

This year, like most others, there are 5 haunted mazes including:
-Nightmare on Elm Street with new Freddy Krueger
-Friday the 13th with new Jason Voorhees
-Saw featuring horrific new traps
-House of 1000 Corpses in 3D Zombie vision
-Vampyre: Castle of the Undead

multiple scare zones featuring:
- La Llorona
-Nightmarez
-Klownz
-Lunaticz
-Freakz
-Pigz

The Terror Tram: Chucky’s Revenge

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure

Most of the main rides are open, too.

You’ll be happy you got there on time when you’re waiting in line for both security and to get into the park. Finally, once through the turnstiles, you’re greeted by Freddy in the middle of the fountain and 2 smokin’ Freddy go-go girls. You know you’re inside, though, when you start hearing those chainsaws go off and the screams of scared tourists. All the rest of us can do is feel like we’re home and sit back to watch the show. Huge pyros go off above a clown ringleader and his army of evil chainsaw welding clowns. Of course, you can’t miss the giant jester towering over you.


Vampyre: Castle of the Undead is the first house you come across, being that it is inside Universal’s year-round House of Horrors. Not much is changed to the actual houses, just a bunch of vampyre girls and guys that actually make a nice addition. If you head toward the left of the park, you walk into “Lunaticz”, where the dangerous and demented asylum inmates have taken to the streets of London on a murderous rampage.


If you make it out of there, you come across your next task, making it through House of 1000 Corpses! Here you’re taken through Captain Spaulding’s and his Murder Ride, The Firefly house where you see Baby, Odius, and Tiny … all in Zombievision. The house is so realistic, you find yourself taking off your 3D glasses just to look at everything. Without even noticing, you exit into Paris where the “Freakz” have set up camp, anxious to get their hands on you food.


Next you come across Friday the 13th and the campgrounds of Camp Crystal Lake, where you see desperate campers in a bear trap and a sleeping bag. Various versions of Jason from the new movie come at you as you go through scenes such as the barn, The Vorhees house, Jason’s lair, the forest making you feel as if you were right there in it. As Jason chases you out, you come across the scarezone of La Llorona weeping for her children. They pushed this on the advertisements over the Vampyre House,why I will never know. It was a pretty big let down, with ghost children running around trying to scare you.

If the scarezone puts you to sleep, you’ll be right where He wants you in the next maze. The notorious Freddy Krueger is back in this new vision of Nightmare On Elmstreet where you see his world, the preschool, the highschool, Nancy’s room, and other familiar scenes from Springwood in the new movie. The sets are very well done, but I’m still a fan of the original Nightmare on Elmstreet editions.


The last main Horror Nights thing to do upstairs is, of course, the Terror Tram, where the legendary tram takes you and lets you out on the back lot. This has always been a thrill, featuring such big names as Jason, Leatherface, and Freddy. This year the theme was Chucky’s Revenge, with a huge hand from La Llorona. Besides the usual things they do to it each year to enhance the back lot (i.e. lots of dead bodies and Psycho with Normal Bates) the rest, sadly, was a disappointment and wasted a lot of space. La Llorona wasn’t scary and the Chucky guys were a little less than horrifying. Although the idea of Chucky being responsible for the fire there so long ago was really funny.


Downstairs more chainsaws, drawn by the ever-haunting Saw Pigs, come after you. The Saw maze awaits as you make your way through the fog. It’s became last on our to do list because of how similar it is to the previous year it was done and, of course, the horrible smells are sort of overwhelming. Although it’s cool to see a few updated traps and realistic set designs, I recommend it for first timers rather than frequent goers.

It is a fun night that keeps your heart pumping and you guessing what’s around every corner, nonetheless.

Remember, the crowds usually hit what they see first, then make their way to the bottom, so the lower lot is more packed later, leaving the front houses less full, with the exception of House of 1000 Corpses! Also, if you scare easily and show it well + happen to be female, they WILL chase you! Just a warning =]

Hope to see you guys there this weekend!

Horrific Dreams!
Rebecca a.k.a Sage Sin

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No Costume … No Candy! The Devil Inside Samhain

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 by Chad Cherry

Chad Cherry - The Last VegasWell, well, well, kiddies. It seems to be that time of year again. The summer is over, the air is a bit cooler, and where I’m at right now the leaves on trees are starting to change their color from green to lively shades of red, orange and yellows before they completely die and fall to the ground. It’s harvest time for 2010. Which means Samhain is coming … The God of Death. HALLOWEEN.

On the last day of October, when the harvest season has ended and the days get shorter and colder, the God Samhain allows the souls of the dead to visit where they once dwelled. For those of you who still think Samhain is just a Glenn Danzig musical act, then good for you! You’re not right, but you are cool for knowing that.

I’m gonna get brainy on ya for a sec … I know you Lip Service junkies love it when I do this … You’re all such smart lil’ fiends!

Chad Cherry - The Devil Inside Samhain - ElviraHistorian Nicholas Rogers noted “… some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman Feast of Pomona, the Goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the Dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic Festival of Samhain. Original spelling – Samuin, an old Irish name meaning Summer’s End”.

This festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the “Lighter Half” of the year and the beginning of the “Darker Half”. Samhian is to be believed to border between this world and the otherworld, allowing spirits (not vodka tonics), some harmless and some harmful, to pass through. The good spookies can go home for a few and see who’s been sleeping with their spouse and the bad spookys are there for pain and mayhem. Those bad bitches need to be chased away … How are ya gonna get rid of a bastard spirit? … You wear a costume or a mask, genius! The purpose is to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit, thus avoiding the bullshit a ghost can pull. (I guess bad phantoms are afraid of their own likeness and are pretty fuckin’ stupid … -Note to ghosts- I’m just kidding, please don’t mess up my house or break my fine China … Epp!!)

Samhain is also time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter (In mid-western tongue this means getting fat as hell for the rest of the year.).

Chad Cherry - The Devil Inside Samhain - VampirellaBonfires!!! Fire! Fire! Fire! Uh-huh, uh-huh! A big part of this festival. The bones of the slaughtered livestock (aka Little Debbie Zebra cake wrappers and empty Doritos bags, in clearer terms) were cast into the flames. Bonfires would be built side by side and people and livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual. Food and drink we’re also involved. To be more clear, once again, this means cow, corn and P.B.R. … I think … I’m getting off track here.

Anyway! Listen! You have to dress up for Halloween! Or yer screwed with the whole spirit harassment thing. It will mess up your night, trust me I’ve seen it. Halloween costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as vamps, ghosts, skeletons, witches, devils, and aliens etc. This is cool. There are also costumes of pop culture figures like presidents, athletes, celebrities, film, TV and cartoon characters, too. However, these costumes are not cool. They are lame unless you get creative with ‘em. And by creative I mean lots and lots of BLOOD!!! The more morbid the better kiddos.

Chad Cherry - The Devil Inside Samhain - ElviraReally though, for me the true meaning of Halloween is the excuse … I mean … The popular trend for women to wear the most revealing and sexiest costumes ever!!! I want ya to show off more skin until you ladies are socially unacceptable … Which is very acceptable! Thank you so much for this evening called Halloween, sweet Satan.

My costume suggestions … Just for the ladies. Vampirella is a very, very, very good one. And don’t forget Elvira!!!! Bikini beach-time Elvira is nice. She will never not be cool. Can’t wait to see it!

There will be more Halloween madness from Lip Service next month. You’re not gettin’ off that easy punks.

Chad Cherry - The Last VegasAll is ROCKING with The Last Vegas this month. We are in the legendary Groovemaster Studios for the next several months (if not more) conjuring up the wicked music that will make hearts beat to the rhythm of voodoo drums and souls go to the other side of reality with deep hard grooves that will make you feel as sexy as you do when yer wearin’ Lip Service … Or when you’re not.
Loving you freaks all to death, C.Cherry TheLastVegas.com

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The Perception of Horror

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 by Nos

Photo by Eric Stanze (Taken for the Cinema Edge Awards) [click for full size]

Photo by Eric Stanze (Taken for the Cinema Edge Awards) - click for full size

Halloween is almost a week away and I’m sure many of you share the same love for this holiday as I do.  If you ask me, it’s the perfect holiday. Sure I love the little perks like buying a new bat covered table cloth or having the best excuse to buy a costume! But, the BEST part about Halloween is that it’s a day just for you. You don’t have to go to someone’s house and eat an awkward dinner or spend money on other people. You’re supposed to dress up and indulge in yourself! It’s also a time that my favorite film genre really shines. Well, at least it used to be anyway….

This fall Hollywood seems to have “dropped the ball” once again.  Instead of opening highly anticipated  movies like  TRICK R TREAT,  NIGHT OF THE DEMONS and NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET around Halloween, they’ve bumped those projects straight to DVD or opted for an April release, ’cause who wants to see scary movies around Halloween?

Some critics are saying that the reason NIGHT OF THE DEMONS got pushed to April is that it’s a terrible film and would do poorly. Now I’ll have to admit that as a HUGE fan of the original, the remake looks pretty silly from the trailers. However, the producer in me is screaming, “Halloween is the ONLY time this film would make money!”

This was the most painful shoot of my life ... click to view full size

This was the most painful shoot of my life ... click to view full size

And you know what’s gonna happen…. April will roll around and the movie will flop. Perfect. Everyone who was involved in the film and was counting on it to show some type of success will be back to the drawing board.

It’s hard to imagine that after decades of turning a profit, studios still doubt horror films. They seem to have this perception that horror is all campy and outdated, that nobody really wants to pay to see these films.

Fucking stupid.

I doubt it’s gonna change anytime soon. All we can do as fans is continue to prove the naysayers wrong.  We have to support the filmmakers and actors we love … no matter what time of year or what format their films come out in.  Someday studios will tire of/be unable to sink millions of dollars into stupid Sandra Bullock movies and horror directors won’t have to scrap for every penny. Someday.

Enjoy Halloween Lippy fans! Rent your favorite scary movie this week!

*heart*

Nos

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True (Fake) Blood

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 by Nos

Me and the red, red kroovy have a long history.

As a young girl I would stock up on “Vampire blood” during Halloween time and un-leash it during key events throughout the year. (Church youths groups, family gatherings, Junior high dances, etc.) The little tubes of gore where always icky tasting and often left huge red stains all over my skin. Yet the magic was there and these little social experiments with gore sent me down the path I walk today.

*Photo by: Jim Wayer *Model: Nos

^Me! Photo by Jim Wayer

When I grew up and starting acting/modeling in in the horror genre, I became quite the connoisseur of fake blood. My arm has been fused to the wall with it, ants have tried to eat me when I’m covered in it, and I’ve even been sent into dry heaving when I’ve had it in my mouth. – And I still love what I do.

Over the years I’ve picked up on what works and what doesn’t concerning the making of fake blood. Today, I wanted to share my top secret recipe with everyone in Lip Service land!

First you’ll need:

  • 2 QRTS KARO SYRUP
  • 20 oz RED FOOD COLOR
  • 2 oz YELLOW FOOD COLOR
  • GREEN FOOD COLOR (Add a little at a time until color looks right)
  • 20 oz LIQUID DISHWASHING DETERGENT (UNLESS you are using in the the mouth … the OMIT DETERGENT!)
  • 10 oz COFFEE
  • 10 TABLESPOONS NON DAIRY COFFEE CREAMER (Mixed into the coffee)
  • 2 TABLESPOONS HOT CHOCOLATE MIX (Mixed into the coffee)

This should make a little over a half gallon. Make sure to use a good mixer for this!

Directions:

  • Mix the creamer, hot chocolate mix, and (hot) coffee together. Mix untill powder lumps go away.
  • Next add the red color and yellow color.
  • Next add Karo syrup.
  • Then add the liquid detergent with the mixer running on the slowest setting.
  • Last, add the green color. Just a few drops at a time untill you get the color you want. Best to test the color on your skin.

The detergent will help get the blood off clothing, the floor, and skin. It does  get rather foamy if you shake it around to much … so keep that in mind when shooting a “live” scene!

Have FUN with it!

Feel free to e-mail any questions to: gorewhorenos@gmail.com

XoXo

Nos


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