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I just recently had a death in the family. I was wondering if anyone here has had the same and has it affected the way you build props or stopped you from doing them all together? Or did it only fuel your Halloween fire more? I guess this would also go for someone you know as well.
Initially, I thought that making tombstones and skulls might be in some way dishonoring my mother’s memory. But all that changed once I got home and my grandmother showed me letters from my mother back when I was first born. Page after page of nothing but talk of making things for Halloween. Mostly Halloween costumes and make-up.
My father came forward and told me a few days ago that my mother, who was a beautician, secretly wanted to become a Halloween make-up FX artist. I think my mouth about dropped when I heard this. If I had only knew earlier I could have let her go through my Transworld bag of FX Make-up stuff. She could have gone crazy with that stuff. But I should have known anyway. When I was little my mom used to make it look like I had a bullet wound and deep cuts to my face by using tissue paper and eyelash adhesive. Then she would pour a little fake blood in the cut or hole. It was so real looking people would scream when I walked the halls in High School. (It was a costume day) The next year she would cut hair fibers off a costume fabric and use eyelash adhesive to glue it to my face. Instant werewolf.
So I guess through all this, I would say my answer would be that it has only strengthen my love of Halloween.
Initially, I thought that making tombstones and skulls might be in some way dishonoring my mother’s memory. But all that changed once I got home and my grandmother showed me letters from my mother back when I was first born. Page after page of nothing but talk of making things for Halloween. Mostly Halloween costumes and make-up.
My father came forward and told me a few days ago that my mother, who was a beautician, secretly wanted to become a Halloween make-up FX artist. I think my mouth about dropped when I heard this. If I had only knew earlier I could have let her go through my Transworld bag of FX Make-up stuff. She could have gone crazy with that stuff. But I should have known anyway. When I was little my mom used to make it look like I had a bullet wound and deep cuts to my face by using tissue paper and eyelash adhesive. Then she would pour a little fake blood in the cut or hole. It was so real looking people would scream when I walked the halls in High School. (It was a costume day) The next year she would cut hair fibers off a costume fabric and use eyelash adhesive to glue it to my face. Instant werewolf.
So I guess through all this, I would say my answer would be that it has only strengthen my love of Halloween.