February 1999
This is the month of Mardi Gras, a time of wild parties and not-so-wild parties. I got a mailing about a Mardi Gras/Valentine's Day party, and decided to go. I had foregone my usual monthly haircut to do this one. I gotta thank Growltiger for answering a few questions about the Scream Team's Beast prosthetic, since he has one, as I incorporated a technique or two from his into mine. I think I either used too-light makeup (Mehron's soft beige latex mask makeup), or too dark a background. This took 3 hours to do, and had it on for 8 hours.



It wasn't really a wild party, just a group of local deaf and hearing people getting together to have a good time. I was the only one in costume, and of course, won first place. Not only that, but at least HALF the crowd were wondering who I was, and if I were male or female! Some already knew who I was, by my voice, the way I talk, sign, and a few other things. By 11, I had some people begging me to tell me who I was, so I went up front, and carefully took it off. You can see that I had some of those bead necklaces on. Small crowd, maybe 100-150, only 5 necklaces I was given, though I could have gotten more, but only brought home two. [sigh] A good time was had by all.