A Halloween Story For You

This year, Halloween was pretty dang pricey--and I didn't even get to use the things I paid a lot of money for. I was bummed. I had purchased a bald cap that ripped. The foam latex application wasn't soaking the make-up correctly and a slew of other things prevented me from oozing in self-pity for about 3 minutes.

Luckily, I had a bottle of liquid latex.

I am a scary vampire. I was supposed to be Nosferatu from the old silent film, but like I said, things didn't work out too well.

Funny story: My roommate Andrew, who is an acting major at BYU reminded me to glue stick my eyebrows so the rubber latex wouldn't pull them off. I did remember to glue stick my eyebrows--but not my sideburns.

As I put the latex on, I was having so much fun that I thought to myself, "This will be a cinch to take off. No worries!"

Boy, was I wrong.

As I started to pull off the latex, it started to rip off my sideburns. In the process, it tore some skin. It hurt. It hurt real bad.

So, I've learned a lesson in make-up: Glue stick the things you want to keep. If you don't, you'll end up pulling them off. You'll cry. Don't do it.

And, that's my Halloween story for you.