{"id":376,"date":"2015-06-29T19:50:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T19:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/?p=376"},"modified":"2017-05-19T11:47:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T11:47:02","slug":"failed-vampire-hunter-halloween-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/failed-vampire-hunter-halloween-costume\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed vampire hunter Halloween costume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/vampire-hunter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/vampire-hunter.jpg\" alt=\"Failed vampire hunter Castlevania costume for Halloween\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This costume was really simple but it makes me laugh so I&#8217;m posting it! <\/p>\n<p>The way I described my costume depended on who I was talking to. For nerds, I&#8217;d say I was &#8220;Manning Belmont, least talented of the Belmonts&#8221; (get the Castlevania reference?). To non-nerds I&#8217;d just say I was a failed vampire hunter.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n <div class=\"ad-300x250 ad-float-right\">\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MMS 300x250 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5009313124668288\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3616150394\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Anyway, this was my last-minute costume for Halloween 2008. I came up with the concept for the shirt with bats and blood and remembered I&#8217;d recently trash-picked a nice plastic torso mannequin, which turned out to be really helpful for this. I put my white shirt on the mannequin and started painting\/gluing. The blood is acrylic paint, applied with a brush, and then when the paint was dry I superglued the bats onto it. While painting I noticed pretty quickly that the paint was going through the shirt onto the mannequin, so I cleaned the paint off and added a layer of newspaper to protect it.<\/p>\n<p>My vampire-hunting accessories include a few store-bought pieces: the cross necklace, whip, and plastic garlic; not even all that is enough when you&#8217;re going up against Dracula! A friend helped me make a couple wooden stakes out of wood from Home Depot with holes drilled through them so I could easily attach them to my belt with twine. I glued a bat to a barrette and attached it on the back of my head, and I attached another bat to my forehead with liquid latex. I also used some white creme makeup to make myself even paler than usual, and added some stage blood where the bats were biting my head\/face. <a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/tips-for-applying-halloween-makeup-hair-color-fake-blood-contact-lenses-etc\/\">See my post about makeup, liquid latex, fake blood, etc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was one of the few years I didn&#8217;t opt for colored contact lenses, but fortunately this photo gave me red eyes! Perfect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This costume was really simple but it makes me laugh so I&#8217;m posting it! The way I described my costume depended on who I was talking to. For nerds, I&#8217;d say I was &#8220;Manning Belmont, least talented of the Belmonts&#8221; (get the Castlevania reference?). To non-nerds I&#8217;d just say I was a failed vampire hunter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,58,87,232,92,47,39,37,65,43,41],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bats","tag-blood","tag-castlevania","tag-cosplay","tag-costume","tag-costume-ideas","tag-dracula","tag-halloween-costume","tag-makeup","tag-stake","tag-vampire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5886,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/5886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}