Skull Mask
If you don’t want to get a whole skeleton costume, there are some fantastic skeleton masks. You can cover the rest of your body with clothes and gloves to hide your flesh. Some messy, torn clothing would fit particulalry well with the masks.
The Cryptic Cadavers Skull ‘N’ Bone Mask shown here on the left is a classic skull mask. With your top shirt button undone and the rest of your body fully covered, you will have a very frightening appearance. A black gown with a hood would look really good.
You could combine the mask with various costumes to create a spooky appearance. For example, if you have a pirate costume, you could combine it with this mask to create a pirate skeleton.
If you don’t want to wear gloves, get a pair of the realistic skeleton hands shown on the right. This will really complete your ghoulish appearance.
People have a gruesome fascination with skeletons. I suppose they remind us of our own mortality and of the impermanence of life.
The Wicked Jester Adult Mask gives a new twist to the skeleton. He’s wicked jester coming
straight from the Underworld. He likes jokes but only deadly ones! The skull with a jester’s hat is common in Goth imagery. It symbolises laughing at death or death laughing at you .
The Jester is also known as the Fool. Maybe we’re all Fools to think we can outwit Death. Death is probably one of the few certainties in life.
Whatever the interpretation, the costume has a very unsettling appearance and fits in well with the spirit of Halloween particularly.
My final selection is the Devil Skull Mask. This is a high quality latex mask with more than 20 horns and a very sinister grin. It has black mesh over the eye holes to give an impression of vacuous eyes.
This is definitely a sinister creature from Hell, spawn of the Devil. You’ll definitely create a very strong impression on people with this mask. For more skeleton ideas, check out our main skeleton costume page.
April 30th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
This skull mask looks very scary! Halloween is coming, definitely the kids would run!