Try Using a Grim Reaper Costume

So, have you ever considered using a Grim Reaper costume for Halloween? Halloween is one of my favorite holidays of the year. Usually, I spend a few weeks before just preparing for it. I make the best Halloween costume I can, and I usually get some very positive reactions. Nevertheless, last year there was a change. I was just coming into town the week before Halloween from an extended business trip, and I knew I would have no time to put together a costume. I had to find something that I could assemble quickly, but that was still impressive and in the spirit of the holiday. That is why I wore a Grim Reaper costume.

Making a Grim Reaper Costume

A Grim Reaper costume is actually a pretty easy thing to assemble. If you want to keep it very basic, you can get by with a cloak with a dark hood and some face paint. Add a scythe and you’ve gone a bit further. For my Grim Reaper Halloween costume, however, I wanted to get a better effect. I wanted to look truly creepy. I decided to shave my head and paint my entire face white with black outlines around my eye sockets and my nose. I painted my hands in a similar style to give a skeleton look to my fingers. It was done in a subtle way – I have a friend who is a great make up artist – so that it wasn’t immediately apparent. At first glance, I looked a little pale and sickly. It was only at second glance when I appeared as if my bones were showing through.

Needless to say, my Grim Reaper costume was a big success. Grim Reaper costumes and other distinctly scary costumes usually are. Even if you don’t put that much effort into it, people love to see scary Halloween costumes like ghosts and goblins and ghouls of all kinds. I was lucky enough to be the only person at the costume party that I was at with a Reaper costume.

I had been to Halloween parties before with three or four different people all dressed up in a Grim Reaper costume, and I was afraid that was going to be the deal today. It is nice to be at least somewhat unique, even if your home made costume is not very original. And thanks to my friend, I had one of the best Grim Reaper costumes there were. Few people take time to get the makeup right, and doing so made me outshine most of the other Reaper costumes who were out that night.

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