How to prepare for Halloween

Preparing for the holidays troublesome and apparently time-wasting. If you plan to celebrate Halloween this year, should start preparing now. Halloween comes every year on October 31. Traditionally celebrated in English speaking countries, although the official holiday or public holiday is not. Since the end of the twentieth century in the process of Americanization and globalization of the fashion for Halloween paraphernalia has appeared in most non English-speaking Western countries, including Russia, CIS and Eastern Europe.
Traditional decoration - «jack-o'-lantern» - an empty pumpkin carved with eyes, nose and mouth, inside which is placed a lighted candle. Pumpkins (pumpkins), skeletons (skeletons), bring (ghosts), black cats, witches (witches), brownies (goblins), divination (fortune-telling) - all the attributes of Halloween, and its colors - black and orange.
People dressed in costumes, staged rallies, picking people on the road entertainment. Costumes worn and still in order to frighten and drive away witches and other evil spirits. Russian youth is trying to add a little holiday in the philosophical meaning. This is not just scare away evil forces, a struggle of good and bad qualities in a man.
One of the key attributes of the holiday is "a lamp Jack" (born jack-o'-lantern) in the form of a carved pumpkin head out with a lighted candle or electric illumination inside.
The appearance of the symbol most often associated with the Irish legend about a man named Jack, an old farmer, gamblers, and alcoholic beverages. He has twice cheated the devil, and after his death did not make it to heaven - because of his vicious life, or hell - because the devil during the life of Jack vowed to take his soul. He was doomed to wander the world with a pumpkin head with embers inside.
To make a "lamp Jack" to follow simple instructions.
1. Draw a circle on top of pumpkin. Then cut out a circle on the top. It must be cut slightly at an angle to the surface (in order to "cover" could be put back).
2. Remove the severed portion. Gently separate the seeds and pulp from. Put aside. Then clears the "insides" the most pumpkins. Once all the fibers and seeds removed, starting with a spoon skablit inside the other side of the pumpkin, where there will be a pumpkin mug - the optimum thickness of - 2-3 cm
3. On the outside of pumpkin with a pen or marker draw a face - it can be any - at your discretion.
4. Now carefully begin to cut. To use this reciprocating motion. Not so fast, as can be done to carefully adhere to the marker circuit.
5. Place a candle inside the pumpkin. Best small. Then cover with a lid.
Once you have caused your decor on the surface of the pumpkin, be sure to apply to all sections of thick petroleum jelly: this simple way to help preserve the freshness of the pumpkin for a few weeks.
Remember that the main "enemy" of the pumpkin decorations for Halloween - a high temperature. So if you plan to install a small pumpkin into a candle, think in advance about how you can make a hole at the top of this vegetable.
The more holes will be in your pumpkin, the better: it is precisely because of the warm air will not warm up your decor inside, destroying thereby its sinister appearance.
Go to the next stage of preparation for celebrating Halloween. Take a look at yourself in the mirror. How would you treat critically to their own appearance, without make-up you still can not do.
If you do not learn in a circus school, and you're on a professional make-up, will you hire the services of makeup and even gouache. Include your imagination! Choose an image that you like: Witch, Dracula, the rebels dead, the Werewolf, Reduction, Raven, The Mummy, Warlock and just a shadow of Hamlet's father - is not important to be yourself.
If you are not going to get out of the house, and bring in their friends (an ideal place for Halloween is a dormitory), try yourself in body art. With the help of ordinary gouache on a human body can capture it all:
1. bat, membranous wings rustling in the black sky,
2. tiger skin (you killed on a hunt), resting on your shoulder
3. traces of rot and decay, if you chose to assume the role of a restless corpse
4. web, with lots of hairy spiders lie in wait for their prey, etc. etc.
But remember! After 3-4 hours start to dry gouache, crack and crumble, and the next morning when trying to wash off the makeup yesterday you will have to thoroughly work hard to not go to school or work with the face of even more terrible than the day before.
Consider the scenario in advance of the holiday, so no party has grown into the world popoische. Is there a script - there is then to remember. Beat in the scenario fun of your company, make fun of teaching and neighbors, experiment and have fun!