Halloween Weekend

All credit and I mean all credit goes to this lady right here.  Jillian Valentin's vision is second to none.  Her amazing creativity and insights took over each and every venue she attended on Halloween weekend.  From custom made costumes to face and body paint, nothing is out of each.  Here is some of her work from this past weekend.

This paint job was done just with white and black eyeliner.

Her vision of "The Goddess" rolled with Kratos that you will see coming up.  

Kratos with The Goddess.

At this point I was a little peeved at the venues I attended.  I wasn't able to rock this costume without the jacket.  I guess since I didn't have a vag to go with my man chest, I was told to cover up.  I did give it another shot and managed to pull of a full body pic eventually. 

This face paint was also done with eye liner. Reminds me of lead character from "The Nightmare Before Christmas."

Alice In Wonderland with The Red Queen with the Mad Hatter in the distance

Alice along with the rest of the ladies at Play Lounge

The best costume of the night, which was deemed by the Coors Light Models , Pinocchio that was hand made by Jillian.  

So I was finally able to show off Jillian's work.  Full body paint took about 90 minutes.  Everything again was handmade and stressed Jillian the hell out.  Since I'm a bodybuilder, my physique is consistently changing for the better, but not in this case.  When the costume was finished after being measure 2 weeks prior, I grew close to 3 inches on my calves and thighs.  I was a happy man, but Jillian almost hit me with a chair.

Mad Hatter, Alice and The Red Queen

The past 72 hours have been great.  Jillian's vision took everyone by storm, but the passion she puts into it is even more impressive.  

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Til Next Time,

Alex Viruet

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"What you waiting for???"

I have been trying my best to come to a happy medium with my career and everyday! It gets harder by the min, and more emotional the longer it takes. Besides outlets, inspiration has be my main down fall, creatively it has been harder and harder for me to be inspired by anything...
Procrastination, exhaustion, and realization settles in to a point where it becomes harder for me to be motivated or happy about something, I'd normally be ex-tactic for...
With Halloween coming up my creativity came in a diff form with clothing... this idea of doing a Disney theme came from a co worker, while we were figuring out costume ideas for work, she decided on "The red queen" so I decided to be "Alice" of Alice in wonderland... The cartoon..
I have always had a slight obsession with it but for some reason never put it toward Halloween.. I did however have it as one of my birthday themes years ago..
I decided to make the costume myself since I didn't like the generic ones I've seen out...

                              although its not fully done yet, I made this from scratch and am proud :)

with that said, back on the career front, my sister and I spoke of our aspirations and people we admire and I stated Gwen Stefani being one of the few I admire the most, due to style, creativity and reputation.. I started to think of the rut I've been stuck in and the focus Ive had with my group Male VS Female and remembered one of her debut solo tracks that I loved and felt was something I related too, now more then ever... ironically the video is themed with Alice in wonderland, besides describing my feelings.
What gets me is that I can relate so well lately and am for the 1st time dressing as Alice.. I thought this is be a funny twist in my story...

See it for yourself:

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