Not strictly DIY, but everybody else seems to be posting fancy dress tales, so here I go.
Last halloween I turned up at my friends house at around 6:30pm, costumeless, to have "A quick drink and a smoke before we went to the pub". Of course, we had a large bottle of jack daniels with us, which proceeded to get drunk *very* quickly.

About an hour later we decided we really should come up with some sort of fancy dress, so my friend proceeded to root about her house to see what she could find. About 15 minutes later she comes down with a bag full of her old army cadets uniform. Honestly, these were the most incredible trousers you've ever seen, with braces and a shirt and everything. So we get kitted out as soldiers, continuing to get more and more drunk. After we're dressed we decide we need something a bit more girly, since we are, after all, both girls. I have the ingenious idea of using lipstick as camo facepaint. Bright pink lipstick. Smeared all over our faces. It all gets a little hazy from here on...

At about half past 9 we finally leave for the pub, already much too drunk for anything, covered in pink and with our "weapons". I had a pink barbie hairdryer stuffed into my pocket, and my friend was harassing everyone we met with a pink barbie hair braider (Really terrifying things if youve ever seen one). We enter the pub, terrorise everybody in there for the duration of the night, and apparently leave at closing time to cause havoc in the pizza shop.

I woke up the next morning fully clothed on my bed, with pink lipstick all over my face and pillow. It stained, and I was stuck with pink sparkly blotches for a good few days.

Moral? Jack Daniels is fucking ace.

EDIT: I forgot to say! My friend also had her "Happy Halo Hat" on, which is basically a proper military helmet, but covered in pink fluff. Beautiful.
( SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Fri 25 Aug 2006, 18:41, Reply)