12th Night Til Halloween - Femme Fatales - Costuming Tips & Free Movies!

I am going to post some psycho women movies as well as some brilliant costume ideas so you can become an evil femme fatale.  You know how I feel about serial killers?  I am going to post some of my favorite costuming ideas for the ladies, yup, for the ladies!!!

I have picked two femme fatale costuming ideas so you can look both pretty and psycho.  I have chosen period ensembles, because its fun to dress as characters from a different era.  Of course, these two historical serial killing chicks really existed.

Belle Gunness - Belle lived in the late 1800's to early 1900's.    I've seen a couple of photos of her and she dressed as a plain women of the day.  She was a woman in her 40's during her murder spree and was well-dressed.  You can "sexyfy" her if you like, but either way, dressing up as Belle is fun!

 A movie about her is in the works, but it appears that its still being made and has been in the works since 2012 since their Kickstarter campaign, in which it appears that they made in excess of $8,000 in support for this film to be created.  I can't wait! 

Belle Gunness (November 11, 1859 – April 28, 1908) was a Norwegian-American serial killer, who resided on a large farm in La Porte, Illinois.  She killed most of her suitors and boyfriends, and her two adopted children, Myrtle and Lucy. She may also have killed both of her husbands and all of her children, on different occasions. Her apparent motives involved collecting life insurance, cash and other valuables, and eliminating witnesses. Reports estimate that she killed between 25 and 40 people over several decades.

Countess Elizabeth Bathory (The Blood Countess) - The Countess was pretty, wealthy, and psycho.  She liked torture, bathing in women's blood, and was a mean, nasty femme fatale, but hey, she was well dressed, so why the hell not wear her in horror cos-play or on Halloween.  Hell, pass out candy as this chick!

To pull off Belle's look, you need a bustle skirt or a long fluffy Victorian skirt or a Victorian styled-dress that a woman in her late thirties to early forties in her class would have worn.  She didn't appear to wear make-up or anything other than Victorian-American dress and a bun on top of her head.

Here are some fabulous finds.  I don't want to post anything too pricy so I won't.  Keep in mind, you can look up lots of these types of period dress online for tutorials so you can make them, but they are cheap enough for most of us to buy (shortcut)!!!

This shirt is under $5 on Ebay.

This shirt is $14.99 on Ebay.

This skirt is $39.95.

This skirt is just $48.95.

You can also choose to be lest historically accurate and sport this for $27.78.

To pull off Elizabeth Bathory, it might be a little easier to find traditional medieval or renaissance period attire so you can look like royalty.  She wore her hair up in a bun-like hairstyle, too, so that's not to difficult.  She appears to have a dark blonde to light brown hair color.  I'll link you to some pre-made costumes below.  It would be very difficult to make a costume for her.

Candy Apple Costumes has a really pretty costume for The Blood Countess or like characters for just under $60.  They come in plus sizes and are around the same price for the larger costumes.

Its Monday - Medical Oddities, Anyone?

Chimeras aren't always human, but in this case, we are talking about human oddities so lets skip through the bull and discuss that.  During your time in utero, when cells get fused with separate sets of DNA instead of splitting, its sort of like having a parasitic twin.  Your parasitic twin has to be non-identical, obviously to get different sets of DNA. 

Invitro makes it more likely for you to give birth to a Chimera.  Often times, Chimeras are sterile as they can have hemaphroditic organs and other fertility issues, but they can sometimes produce offspring.  It depends on just how "intersexed" their organs are if at all.  Chimeras can have parts of their body with entirely different sets of chromosomes.  Let's say that one can have unique DNA in their bones and their skin tissue could be entirely different.

Some Chimeras can have eyes that slightly differ in color, but that's not typically due to Chimerism so you can go for much of your life having no idea you are in fact more than one person rolled into one. Usually under UV light, Chimeras will display "tiger stripes" on their back due to uneven pigment in their skin. 

So, if you are wondering why you have tiger stripes, a ball, an ovary, two different color eyes and a cool blonde streak when the rest of your hair is brown, you might be a Chimera.

Cotard Syndrome (Walking Corpse Syndrome) - No, this is not too tards doing dumb things.  It is a rare mental disorder in which people hold a delusional belief that they are dead (either figuratively or literally), do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. In rare instances, it can include delusions of immortality. 

I wonder if this would apply to Richard Trenton Chase, the Schizophrenic serial killer who believed he had to consume human blood to sustain life.  He was nicknamed "The Vampire of Sacramento because he drank the blood of those he killed and then ate their internal organs. 

When he was a young man, he often complained that his heart sometimes stopped beating or that someone stole bodily organs.  Chase killed and took animials apart first and then he would eat them raw.  Sometimes he'd mix them with soda.  Hey, gotta have some flavor...Once he stopped taking his meds, he moved on to people.  He even committed necrophilia with one of the corpses. 

He drank the parts of animals so his heart wouldn't disappear.  He ended up in the psych ward for injecting rabbit's blood.  He was eating birds while in the hospital and throwing them out the window.  He had blood around his mouth so his nickname hence in the ward became Dracula.