You probably guessed after watching the above commercial that I would talk about how much I love Halloween make-up kits. However I just wanted to throw out some love to Kooky Spooks for outright using the cheapness of the make up as a selling point. Real ones know cheaper Halloween make up usually cracks on your face as it dries. Kooky Spooks cracks as it dries to give the illusion that it's old and gross skin. Way to go Kooky Spooks... just passing off your cheap ass product as psoriasis.
I'm way more familiar with the Kooky Spooks Make-Up kits than their costume brand. To be honest, I've only learned of these costumes in the more recent years. Before I go any further, can we all give a round of applause for that great music shared across the Kooky Spooks commercial universe? It's so great! I'm not so sure I would have liked these costumes though. The allure of an inflatable costume is hard to resist. Just... a giant inflatable hat just doesn't say "hey, wear this all night".
I'm way more familiar with the Kooky Spooks Make-Up kits than their costume brand. To be honest, I've only learned of these costumes in the more recent years. Before I go any further, can we all give a round of applause for that great music shared across the Kooky Spooks commercial universe? It's so great! I'm not so sure I would have liked these costumes though. The allure of an inflatable costume is hard to resist. Just... a giant inflatable hat just doesn't say "hey, wear this all night".
You probably guessed after watching the above commercial that I would talk about how much I love Halloween make-up kits. However I just wanted to throw out some love to kooky Spooks for outright using the cheapness of the make up as a selling point. Real ones know cheaper Halloween make up usually cracks on your face as it dries. Kooky Spooks cracks as it dries to give the illusion that it's old and gross skin. Way to go Kooky Spooks... just passing off your cheap ass product as psoriasis.
Before you head out to trick or treat, it's always a good idea to check the weather. It might be cold or rainy. It's fall after all and you never know what's waiting for you out there. Even then you still may never know, but at least you tried.
Nothing worse than having
your Kooky Spooks wash off in the rain. My advice, tape a glow stick to
the end of your umbrella and show that storm who's boss! The spooky
season will NOT be held back by some damn rain!
Admittedly the Kooky Spooks will probably fall off on it's own, but at least you can avoid having it wash off all over your horror robe.
Happy Halloween! Rob’s back for another Halloween edition of the
podcast. Join in for talks of Kingdom and Botcon past. Then stay tuned
for Halloween Keshi and blind bags before Rob talks about a few favorite
costumes. Get a pumpkin spiced something and pull up a chair! We’re
going to talk trick or treating!
Halloween isn't free and nothing says I need to buy something better than a trip to Walmart. With those prices it's no surprise they're as big as they are either. You can load up on candy for trick or treaters only $1.97 a bag! BOGO 2 for $3 on Skittles and those are as good as full sized candy bars.
What the hell was the green nosed kid supposed to be?
Hey Look, Walmart is having a costume contest! We should grab something while there and win 1st place. They've got a few pretty good options.
I've got time to win this now! And you've got the power to come in second! Walmart has costumes for around $4. That ain't bad y'all. We're gonna need to grab some of those pumpkin buckets though to go trick or treating after I kick everyone's ass in the contest. You know... I've heard about stuff some people do to candy at Halloween.
Good thing the hospital will x-ray our candy! I was pretty worried, I heard a kid died from one of those peanut butter things. You know... I'm kinda rethinking our costumes. Masks aren't as safe as make-up.
Dang son, we're going to win this contest for sure! We can use make up and be all sorts of cool things now! That Take-Off will come in handy later as well, I don't want to have weird color spots on my face at school. With make-up, we can be anything.
I'm going to win this thing now! What's that, you're going to be Dracula with green hair? Lame, with Kooky Spooks, your ass is grass and I'm the John Deer! What a great Halloween thanks to Walmart. Now let's go home and order pizza while watching the late night horror marathon.
Happy Halloween! What? It's too early? You're wearing a mask right? The annual Halloween celebration at Zone Base starts NOW! Normally my rule is to wait until Halloween stuff is on store shelves to start up my nonsense... and starting last year that began in June. Like I've said, Halloween stuff doesn't really start until halfway into August when the back to school rush is over... uh
It's been a weird year.
What's Halloween like on this site? You're probably well aware by now as it's undoubtedly the most popular time of the year around here, but in case it's your first time, I'll gladly explain. The site is about robots and monsters and all sorts of stuff, but imagine an all out assault of anything and everything Halloween while also being about robots and monsters and all sorts of stuff!
Old Halloween commercials, specials, and other random related (and usually weird) media while you sip that Pumpkin Spice latte and munch on those snack sized candy bars you bought at Kroger. Just like that bag of fun sized candy bars, I'll double dip with some of the classic stuff. It's too good not to! Halloween is my favorite time of the year and I can't wait to celebrate it with you. Three whole months of Jack O Lanterns, skeletons, black cats and bats, Frankenstein drinking Shasta, Garfield going trick or treating, Dracula saving the world. It's the most wonderful time of the year.
New this year is the official Zone Base Halloween Playlist. I can tell you're impressed. To be completely honest, I wasn't ready for Halloween to be over last year. So putting this together was one of the ways I let myself have some Halloween fun through the year. It's four hours of spooky season appropriate music that you can listen to anytime you want. Either here on the side bar (hey mobile users, there's a side bar on the desktop version of the site) or on Spotify. I'd like to think it's perfect for a Halloween party or a spooky day at the lake. It's a mix of old standby's, scary sounds, and a few I felt that just fit in. Kinda like that 'Happy Fall Y'all' sign your mom has on her door.
It's mid-August, summer's almost over and the back to school stuff is making way for Halloween goodness. Well, before this year when stuff started mid-summer and I'm not complaining one bit, but work with me. The early stuff is usually odd craft things, some candy here and there, and they start stocking the make-up kits. Sure it's just a few tubes of white and green at first. Maybe black, that random eye patch that nobodies going to buy. By September it'll all be there. Various kits from .99 cents to a million dollars. You can be a devil for a dollar, a witch for a little more, or even those crazy glue on scars and stab wounds for a good twenty. However among the many, there are a few stand outs. One such was Kooky Spooks!
Let's talk about Kooky Spooks for a moment shall we? I don't know if you caught the 'when it dries it cracks' bit in the commercial, but that was indeed a selling feature. Sure all the make-up did the same and there was a good chance the bottom half of your face would of flaked off by the end of the night assuming the rest didn't sweat off. Kooky Spooks had the damn gall to sell that common costume malady as a freaking feature. I kinda admire that. Let's take a second to look over the directions.
Now before you study this too hard, don't get too excited. No matter how hard you try, you're just going to have whatever color the kit's primary color is and black around your eyes. You might have some black on your nose, maybe some on your lips if you can stand the taste. If you're really good, you'll have some of the other color around that black eye thing you've got going on. Maybe smeared somewhere else. You're parents will tell you the ones on the package were done by professionals, you look great, don't worry. It doesn't matter, half the other kids on the planet will have the same make-up job.
Now you know you'll need more than your Kooky Spooks, you're going to need a robe. The same damn robe every store has that's either a garbage bag with sleeves for 99 cents, or cloth for twenty. Chances are you might be wearing the one your older brother wore before that somehow didn't get thrown away. I think the costume of solid color face with black rings around eyes and robe is probably the official costume of Halloween. It doesn't matter who you are, you will rock that shit at least once. Chances are there's going to be some sort of reflective strip/sticker/glow stick attached to that robe as well. That's important, because there's always that random Ford Taurus just plowing through the neighborhood like it's not the one night of the year all the kids are in the street. You'd think they'd at least see the kid with the glow in the dark make-up... who am I kidding, that crap don't work.
