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Anyone else excited about carnival as much as i am? 
Carnival’s something a bit big here in Malta, especially with the kids & teens. It’s a time for everyone to dress up as either their favorite character or else just look plan ridiculous and make someone smile along the way 
I myself am going to Gozo to attend the Nadur Carnival this year dolled up as something between a vampire-fairy being 
while my bf is going as the Grim Reaper (hopefully his costume will arrive in time through the mail!) 
… honestly, i’ve spent quite a bit for my costume (good thing i bought it a bit discounted off a Halloween Costumes website … or i would’ve spent much much more!) BUT i figured out it’s going to be an investment 
– i can wear the same dress next year with different accessories and have a totally new look!
But, the question is – what costumes can you create with either assembling things around the house or spending less than $20?
One costume i highly considered wearing was that of a mafia boss / gangsta- all you need is either a black suit or a vest (very in fashion at the moment) over some pinstripe or black pants, a trilby hat, a bright red rose brooch, and as accessories you can wear some cool black shades, a cigar and a fake gun Pirates and Gypsy costumes are uber easy to create as well if you’ve got bandannas, big white poofy shirts & boho skirts at home! If that doesn’t tickle your fancy you can always get your favourite tunic, wear tonnes of beads and go off as a hippy riffling through your parent’s old trunk of clothes might also help you to assemble a 70′s disco diva or an 80′s punk!
Goth-inspired costumes are easy to make if you’re into that stuff – you can recreate a sexy vampire, zombie or even an evil queen in seconds! If you study / have studied chemistry you can haul your labcoat on yourself, splash on some fake blood & you’ve got yourself a mad scientist or fix it up a bit by making it shorter and lacing the back & you’re a damn sexy candy striper (all you’d need it the hat of course! Don’t forget the syringe as well!)
If you’ve got a really pretty bath / night robe (preferably those really cute silk ones!) you don’t use you can always use it as a kimono in an oriental inspired costume – think geishas. With an old ball gown & a handmade banner you can go off as a pegeant queen, while if you’re totally uninspired you can go out in your pjs! Carnival’s a time where anything goes really 
tip: one thing you DON’T do in carnival is wear clothes that reflect the lable that people have given you (you poor thing!) so if you’re into r’n'b & whatever don’t go out as a rapper (same applies to you metalheads & emos!) – Honestly, you’d just look like you do everyday but with added glam – instead why don’t you wear the opposite of what you normally do? Go off as a geek, a prep, a prude or just wear something that makes you look like you have a totally different different age group! NEVER wear racist costumes! No matter how much you’d like to wear as Osama Bin Laden, Bush, or some other character which might offend someone (ex. Hitler) just DON’T! You might spoil your evening’s whole fun! 
So… what are YOU going / would like to wear for carnival?? 
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We don’t have carnevals where you dress up here. I wish we did! It sounds like so much fun! Like a second halloween.
A vampire fairy being sounds really cute. I dressed up as a evil fairy this halloween.
Are you wearing wings? Making your own wings is so much fun and you can do them exactly as you want. That’s another less than $20 outfit. 
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January 19th, 2008 @ 2:44 am
We don’t have carnivals here in Vietnam, but if we do. I’m going to go off as a drag queen looking dark. But geeky are just nice too. Maybe I’ll even end up having nobel award for biology, if they think enough.
Less than $20 outfit? Let me see… I can just take my long dress, put a couple of colours drag on to it and voila. Or if I want, i can just steal mom’s stuff. It’s FREE!
I’ve been looking through your 43 things. I think you did achieved one! It’s blogging more often. WOOO. *claps for Afef*
P.S: Did you received my letter? NO? I haven’t got your’s either. I’m making your birthday present. Hope you’ll like it.
UsingJanuary 19th, 2008 @ 11:01 am
I got your card!!!!!!! WOOOOOOO! I love it. I’m guilty that you haven’t got mine. I’m also saving money to send one on easter too. Or before that a few day. :
UsingJanuary 19th, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
we dont have a carnival yet.
even when it comes across its not a dressing up one. 
UsingIf we did have one, i would go as something along the lines that your are, vampire fairy sort of thing.
Trilby hats are awesome! I love wearing mine.. ya.. it gives me an “evil” look.
January 19th, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
wow. if we have those here in the philippines, i’d dress up as something darky. like peyton sawyer in one tree hill as a dark angel. ooh, that’s nice.
UsingJanuary 19th, 2008 @ 6:16 pm
I hope you have fun at the carnival. I always love carnivals, but I’m one of those people who probably wouldn’t get dressed up.
UsingJanuary 19th, 2008 @ 6:31 pm
Oh dude we dont have that here. hope you have fun. i dont think ive ever been to a carnival anyhow.
UsingJanuary 19th, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
Cool icon on your blog. Its amazing lol.
UsingIm not sure exactly what a canival is, but it sounds fun. x
January 19th, 2008 @ 7:37 pm
That carnival sounds like fun! The only thing I’ve experienced that’s similar is Halloween…but once I stopped trick-or-treating I didn’t really dress up anymore because I had nowhere to go.
All those costumes sound cool. I don’t know what I’d go as. I tend to favor the spooky, medieval kind of costumes…nothing gory, with fake blood or anything, just something dark and a little eerie. Like vampires, dark fairies, etc. I’d probably dress up in something like that.
UsingJanuary 19th, 2008 @ 10:09 pm
I used to live in an area that celebrated a version of carnival, now that I’ve moved it’s so depressing to be in a place that barely even knows what it is
. I know you’ll have a blast though!!
UsingJanuary 20th, 2008 @ 3:34 am
OMG! That sounds like so much fun! I want to dress up and go to a carnival now!
UsingJanuary 20th, 2008 @ 9:54 am
I want to celebrate Carnival too… But there’s only my village carnival… and there will be only grandparents and little little children. Oh my god it’s depressing.
UsingJanuary 20th, 2008 @ 11:43 am
Well, this years Carnaval I will be Kera punk.
I really wanted to dress up either as Geisha from Obscure/Another Kyo cosplay/Wai lolita, but I didnt have the time nor the money to make it.
Also, a lot of my friends don’t really go full out with the dressing. They usually wear a costume that doesn’t need any painting of the face, while I LOVE to have my face painted <3
UsingJanuary 20th, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
I would vote for Gypsy costume. Mafia boss costume are way to common. At least in my opinion. O_o
UsingJanuary 20th, 2008 @ 5:04 pm
Thank you! again…. haaha.
Oooh, carnivals are alright to me.
I guess it’s fun. ^^ haha.. I’d just rather go to an amusement park or something.
I actually have never dressed up for my entire life, ever. It probably sounds so disappointing to you by the fact that I can feel that you love to dress up so much. hehe.
Well, whatever you’re gonna be… maybe show us some pics afterwards? 
Annd…downloading the smilies you’re using (from the web who made it) and saving it for the next time I want to change my smilies…
hehe, these smilies rocks. 
UsingJanuary 20th, 2008 @ 8:18 pm
Ahh that sounds like so much fun
sadly we don’t have it here 
you must put up pictures of your costume 
UsingJanuary 21st, 2008 @ 3:53 am
cool! diy costumes!! i’d love to see some pics of you in your costume!
Usingwhoa, still unopened pressies?? you’re so lucky! i got so little pressies this year. ;_:
haha, yeah.. i’ll blog soon
January 21st, 2008 @ 4:48 am
huh… Here all carnivals mean are a bunch of sweaty people riding rides, getting ripped off and weird looking carnies running the rides and you are thinking, “Are we going to die??” Also: Hot dogs, funnel cakes, rootbeer… need I say more? hahaha
UsingJanuary 21st, 2008 @ 8:16 am
Oooh I loved this post!
UsingLast year I dressed up as a droog {from A Clockwork Orange!}, and this year I’m going to be either a pig or a farmer, lol.
Have fun!
January 21st, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
Aww, that sounds like SO much fun… I wanna go..!!
I’m lovin’ that gangsta/mafia idea.. 
You need to do that!!!
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January 22nd, 2008 @ 11:13 am
I just go naked, it’s always a laugh.
UsingJanuary 22nd, 2008 @ 5:29 pm
here also carnivl is a super important festival
UsingI was checking few costumes but all ended being kinda vixen ones haha
so I will go as a spanish dancer, you know the one from sevilla that dances with red dresses that has white spots and say oleee hahaha well if you don’t know is ok hahaha
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