This Is Halloween!

Coming up with a costume for Halloween is always such a difficult decision. Last year I was the Joker, which so far out of my 21 years is one of my favorite things I have ever dressed up as. So, this year whilst deciding what on earth I should be I must've subconsciously took that into account. I actually (unintentionally) got myself a Pintrest account so I could look at a bunch of costume ideas. I was fresh out out original ideas. I never like to go as something cliche like a witch or zombie or anything that there's going to be thousands of (so I most definitely wasn't going to be going as Elsa, at least not this year XD). Or if I do decide to be one of those things, I need to make it my own (aka special), so that it stands out, ya feel me?

Anyways, looking at costumes on Pintrest got me nowhere, though it was entertaining. I actually entertained the idea of going as short-haired Rapunzel for a bit (I was THIS close to doing it). Then I started looking at super-heroes. That's always tough because women+superheroes= scantily-clad nightmares (whyyyyyy can't women just have normal costumes???). I did manage to find a Spider-man/woman one that might've worked, but then I thought of last year and my costume as a villain. As great as I am, I couldn't think of every single comic villain out there, so I did a search on Spider-man, Batman, Captain America, Superman, etc. villains, looking for a unique, but recognizable villain that might be fun. I listed off a few favorites and then narrowed it down to one… and that's where the Riddler came in.

So I got to work. There weren't as many pieces as last year's costume, but it was more of a process. I found the black shirt and green jacket at Salvation Army, but then I had to use a stencil made by my mom to spray paint all the question marks all over the jacket (it took hours and near-asphyxiation to do it).
I was EXTREMELY lucky with the tie. I found it at Kohl's where ties are usually like $40, but they were having an 80% off sale on a section of the ties and they happened to have a purple one in that section. Hallelujah!
I already had purple pants from last year (though I didn't remember them being quite so tight :/ Apparently I've gotten fat XP).
I found the purple sneakers at Payless on sale.
I ordered the gold question mark cane online at the Batman Costumes Store (who knew such a thing existed?).
I also ordered a hat online at some random site, but it didn't arrive in time so my mom found an ugly blue one and spray painted it for me on Halloween while I was at work.
Then the gloves… argh! Literally EVERYWHERE had gloves of all sorts of colors, but not purple. Walmart has an entire wall of gloves of all colors and patterns… but not just plain purple (they had purple striped). I ended up finding super cheap gloves online as well. "One size fits all", yeah, if you have big hands. I ended up using rubber bands around my wrists to keep them on.
Then, lastly, I combed my hair back and used purple face paint around my eyes for the mask.

Lots of people kept calling me the Joker. No. I know the Riddler is not as well known as the Joker, but really you should know what the Joker looks like and I was clearly not him. Well, at least they linked me with Batman. Speaking of which, I did see several Batmans/girls and there was a bit of tension ;P

I even memorized several riddles just in case somebody asked me for one. Only one person straight out asked me, but at Trunk-or-Treat when kids were coming around to our car for seconds, thirds, and beyond, we made them answer a riddle in order to get more candy.

So here's some pictures:

And here's last year, if you were interested:

READ LAST YEAR'S POST HERE