geisha boys

i'll let you guess which one is me

last night culminated a great week in vegas with our costume party. in what was one in a long line of over the top costume, i dressed up as a geisha with two of my work buddies, and i have to say, we stole the show. two of our lady friends at work did the make up, and they really did an amazing job. we drank beers and watched xavier beat west virginia (nice home town win) while the girls made us up with painstaking detail.

i honestly was not sure how it would turn out. i looked in the mirror after the first layer of whitener, but didn't look again until it was complete. and it was shocking. like all good costumes, the tiny details made it special. i had white thin socks with white platform flips flops and a really old country-looking wood and paper umbrella.

walking down across the mandalay bay lobby, security grabbed us as soon as we stepped off the elevators. they were really nice but firm about it, explaining that it was cool since we were with the costume party, but that we could not walk around with that kind of make up afterwards, since it disguised our appearance (i.e., throwing off the identity cameras) so much.

walking into the party, i felt like more of a celebrity than i thought possible, even more so than when we did the dodgeball cast two years ago. we didn't get five feet into the house of blues before there were ten cameras shooting pics and people coming up to get a shot with us. even more spectacularly, many of my co-workers did not recognize me. having worn a beard for the past month, and not shaving it until two hours before the party helped a lot.

i also have to say, people generally love them some geisha boys. never would have figured it, but the chicks dug it and more than a few dudes said they felt strangely attracted to me. all in good fun, i'm sure. however, i did get one serious proposition from a dude. if he wasn't joking (hard to tell, though it certainly seemed serious), i'm trying to imagine the excitement of finding your fetish walk through the door, in a threesome, no less.

more pics to come.