Its school boy error number #1 not to consider if you really want a masked costume or not. There’s both advantages and disadvantages to wearing costumes with masks. Lets explore:

Advantages:

You can get away with way more misbehaviour when you’ve a mask on.

Your always photo perfect with a mask – good for hiding those spots or blemishes and for the girls no need for make up.

Dodging an Ex girlfriend or boyfriend? Lets say no more… For this masks are a gift!

Disadvantages:

 Masks are obstacles to drinking

 Fancy a kiss, erm hang on a sec let me just get this off…

There is a half way solution, you can go with and eye mask which disguises you and still lets you comfortable slug away at your drinks. So with this in mind maybe you should choose wether you want a mask and if so which one and work on your costume decision from there.

  (18.99 Euro)

Masquerade balls started in the late middle ages and are closely nowadays associated with th venetians. Royalty found it appealing because, as noone was known, rigid protocol & court etiquette could be suspended, and they could have fun, dance and flirt with whoever they wanted, without it becoming a state scandal. They remained popular with the aristocracy, and were one of Marie Antoinettes favorite forms of entertainment. Nowdays they are more associated with a black tie events and often use ventian masks as the favourite form of disguise.

 (10.99 Euro)

In 1979 a group of young theater students decided to revive the Carnival in Venice and with Ventition masks came back into fashion and slowly spead again across Europe. In Ireland Masquerade Balls have become increasingly popular in the last few years. Turning otherwise very predictable black tie events into colour infused, exciting and fun events. Many charties and colleges spice up their events and the masks cost between 10 – 20 Euro so everyone can afford to look great without much expenditure… Ofcourse if you are sweating out cash you can have a hand made masquerade mask designed to your specifications by various artistic types around ireland.

Sasha put together this really great video on how to make a Mermaid Costume and as Mermaid theme Costumes are really popular in our store we felt we had to share this with our readers…

Oh and if you do go ahead and make one sends Sasha and us a pic of how it turns out. 

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