They made us dress up as Antelope and we totally nailed it

Sorry about the brief hiatus in blogging, I have been out of the country on my elective for two months in the "depths" of the Caribbean and Central America, but that's another self-indulgent/bragging post for another time.


Once I had returned from my travels it was time to go on my last ever university hockey team tour. Taking place every June, around 30-40 of the hockey club depart for a hockey tournament somewhere in Holland, for a weekend of "playing hockey" drinking, and this year was no different.

The Dutch tournament organisers had taken it upon themselves to theme the weekend "Africa," a somewhat problematic theme considering pretty much everyone in Holland is white. (Literally, our East London hockey team were the only ones with any non-white people).

Anyway, our team tour organisers gave us the job of dressing as African animals on the second night at the tournament putting everyone into pairs, each with a different animal. You know, easy ones to dress up as, such as Lion, Elephant, Cheetah, Crocodile etc....


Do you know what I got???



ANTELOPE.



A bloody antelope.



And do you know why they gave me that? "Cos you're really good at fancy dress Vix and we need you'd be able to do it."



Victim of my own success, I tell ya.


Nevertheless, my partner and I rose to the challenge admirably. And all credit to her, she came up with how to make the antlers.
So here we are, as antelope.

Clothes are easy: anything brown. Literally.
Antlers: we used two insides of toilet rolls (why does that not have its own word yet??) and stuck them to hairbands with tape and hairclips. Then rolled up tin foil and put them inside the rolls and bent them into the required shape.
After this we wrapped the whole lot in brown masking tape.

I then painted our faces using trusty Snazaroo facepaint, using just three colours. A white undercoat on the top halves of our faces. Black under our noses, and then almost used as eyeliner for the upper lid (complete with massive flick), then a light brown for over our eyebrows, down the sides of our noses and under our eyes, as a border along our cheekbones and a small V shape at the top of our foreheads. Simple, but really effective!