Carbon Costume

…They take a selfie in front of a literal dumpster fire and then watch the world end under the romantic flaming light of an apocalyptic meteor shower. It’s pure chaos. And it is pure 2020. This commercial gives us a great couple’s costume for 2021 – provided things improve before then. And it makes for a great way to take a darkly humorous approach to dealing with the stress of the year. Satan’s look is really similar to Tim Curry’s Satan in the 1…

People all over the world have fallen in love with Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, the elves of Lothlorien and Rivendell, and the fierce Dwarves of Middle Earth. And if it weren’t for J.R.R. Tolkien, none of those beings would exist at all. Born January 03, 1892 Tolkien lived through the most tumultuous times of the 20th century. It was not an easy period and Tolkien used every bit of it to inspire his books. They, in turn, have gone on to inspire milli…

…In the “Wuthering Heights” music video, English singer-songwriter Kate Bush is seen dancing out in the wild windy moors, adorned with flowers and a flowy red dress. This look has been recreated countless times for pop culture and holidays, including Halloween and The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, held annually around the world….

…On The Strain, New York City has fallen to an ancient strain of vampires, the strigoi. Vaun (Stephen McHattie) is the leader of a band of undead hunters who were summoned by the Ancient Ones to stop the spread of the strigoi plague. Vaun resembles the other strigoi, though his distinctive feature is his Glasgow smile. With the proper prosthetics, makeup colors, and blackout contact lenses, Vaun’s look can be easily achieved….

…On The Strain, Charlotte (Rhona Mitra) is a mid-western farmer and Fet’s lover. Following the nuclear bomb in New York City, Fet and Quinlan move west to find a solution to the strigoi outbreak in the city, and Charlotte comes to their aid. As a beautiful but rugged farm girl, Charlotte’s clothing is all about utility, and she’s very comfortable with hunting and the outdoors….

If you need someone assassinated in New York — and you’re in good with Kingpin — then you want Tombstone. Anyone who remembers him as Lonnie Thompson Lincoln knows better than to call him by his real name. He’s spent his life becoming one of the most feared men in the city and it’s a reputation he’s all too happy to reinforce over and over again. Tombstone’s look is, thankfully, easy to achieve than his reputation. Because Tombstone’s pale skin a…

…Dash (Austin Abrams) is a main character in the 2020 Netflix show Dash & Lily In this holiday romantic comedy, Dash harbors cynicism about Christmas. After finding a notebook at Strand Books in New York City, he writes in response to the optimistic Lily, who adores the holidays and romance. Dash and Lily continue passing the notebook to each other, communicating through the pages. Eventually they plan to meet, which both scares and excites them….

…ly and is played by Meg Ryan. When Harry Met Sally is a rom-com set in New York about Harry Burns and Sally Albright, who keep running into each other throughout their lives until they meet again in a bookshop. They attempt to stay platonic friends and eventually end up together. Sally is one of the two protagonists in the story. She is someone who knows what she wants and makes that clear when speaking to Harry. Her wardrobe is one that looks coz…

…the movies. If an official one can’t be found, consider a fun “Night at the Museum” version as a fun nod to the franchise….

…ilding on Hulu. When Mable arrives at the Arconia apartment complex in New York City, she’s a bit of an anomaly. An artist, it turns out Mabel is staying at her aunt’s for free in exchange for fixing it up, but she has a complicated past with the Arconia, which is revealed over the course of the first season of the true-crime podcast she hosts with Charles and Oliver. Season two sees her past further revealed after a bloody discovery in her apartm…