A Very Buffy Halloween

Tips to those who want to dress up as Spike for future Halloweens: if you are at the costume store and you are faced with the choice of yellow hair spray or white, go with the yellow. Spike has Billy Idol-style bleach blond hair (Spike claims that Billy Idol stole that look from him) and I thought that white might approximate that color a little bit better, but instead it just made me look old. And I couldn't say I was Spike as an old man because vampires don't age - Spike himself is pushing 150 years old.

Other than that, I felt like my costume was a success and I had fun in my costume. I even had about a dozen people correctly identify me without any help. That showed me that maybe there is hope for America after all.

I had made it known that I was going to dress as Spike a few weeks in advance, and a few friends expressed interest in forming a Buffy group with me, namely Kristen Bates (as Buffy) and Brian Starr (as Angel):

I think Kristen has a nice season 1 Buffy vibe going (Buffy was a brunette early on before making the switch to her iconic blond hair), and Brian Starr is always drawing Angel comparisons in real life, but he really nailed the Angel brooding face for this picture.

P.S. - If you look closely, you can see that I even replicated the scar on Spike's left eyebrow, incurred while he battled a Chinese slayer during the Boxer Rebellion (as seen in "Fool For Love," season 5, episode 7). Yes, I am that nerdy when it comes to Buffy.