You were like ... Prince with a serious tan! But that coat and hair were ROCK!

Yeah, the face paint was indeed a little too dark, but it just didn't look right without any. It also didn't work well on my hands. Hoffa has since procured some brown gloves that work well and lightened up the face paint, so it actually looks much better. Hoffa will re-post a new pic the next costume party he goes to if he manages to get a pic taken.

Thanks for the compliments - Hoffa actually did the studding on the coat himself, and it's 100% accurate to the one worn in the film - same size studs with the same amount of rows and columns. Took a lot of freeze frames from the film to get everything just right. Hoffa also sewed the buttons on the pants and made the guitar strap himself from fabric purchased at Jo-Ann's. The hardest part though was getting used to walking in the high-heeled ankle boots!

True story: An old date once asked Hoffa what he was going to be for the costume party we were planning on going to, and Hoffa told her Prince. Well, little did Hoffa know at the time, but she wanted to coordinate our costumes, so she ended up dressing like a princess, thinking that Hoffa was going to be a prince. When Hoffa showed up to pick her up she was like "oh, that Prince." Everyone at the party got a good laugh out of it ;-)

Had Hoffa known her intent, she could have been Wendy or Lisa from The Revolution or Prince's girlfriend Apollonia Kotero. Live and learn, right?

So, where's your picture???

A princess to your Prince?! OMG - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! That is the funniest story I've heard in a while! Vanity could have been an option, too, you know ... just saying

I don't do Halloween. Not because I object or anything - I've always been the one helping with the kids' stuff and never got dressed myself. I'm all about collecting "tax" though when the kids get home. What? They have to learn early! mwahahahah mwahahahaha

It's not racist. Perhaps it's offensive to someone who isn't sophisticated.

Know who you are going out with.

I like turtles.

@Amanda -

Seriously, this is one of the stupidest comments that Hoffa has ever read on Patch - congratulations!

Question to you - does this mean that any White, Latino, Asian, Native, Indian, or basically anyone who does not have roots to Africa, who purchased and wore any of these masks on Halloween are also racists?

https://www.google.com/search?q=barack+obama+halloween+masks&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=ckp&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvnsuo&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=pU-TUIyfOYzmiwLH84GgAQ&ved=0CDwQsxg&biw=1024&bih=601

You may want to quit while you're behind, as the only racist person here appears to be YOU!

Try again!

Amanda,

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If someone is dressing up like a famous person, it is not racism to try to look like them unless it is meant to mock them.

My family is made up of a number of ethnic groups and races. When Halloween comes around the kids naturally pull out the Hmong and Lao costumes, because they are easily available. The next thing that happens is that the brown kids help the white kids to put on makeup so that they look alike.

What you are participating in, Amanda, is your own socialized inhibitions. If you had no bias, you would think, like all my relatives do, that when you try to look like someone you actually should do all the things that help you to do so, including makeup.

As I said, you need to know your audience. Studies show that blacks tend to have a bias against their own color from an early age. That bias is found all the way through adulthood. Similarly, women (not so much men) with lots of freckles show the same bias against themselves.

Therefore, when someone has no bias against skin color, they will have no inhibition involved with makeup that makes them look like a different skin color. But someone who feels inferior because of their skin color will always feel that their internalized, false inferiority is being focused upon.

Watch this video. It is okay to cry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG7U1QsUd1g

True non-racists feel no inhibitions regarding skin color.

agreed!

I agree! Very clever to have everyone dress in a theme! That Dawn Carrillo is one clever gal!