All hail the Lizard King

The company I work for at the minute is really big into their Christmas parties.  They tend to hold them in aircraft hangers, specially decked out for the occasion; they're fancy dress and themed.  The themes are always stupid.  Last year it was "Metropolis" this year it was "Regeneration".  The guys in RDD stop working for a month and just focus on building costumes instead, it's very competitive.

We never win anything, mainly because our costumes are always a bit shit.  This year we opted to go in black tie and to just use make up to create a lizard effect.  Tenuously themed.

This is a terrible picture of me, it looks like I have no neck or something, but the makeup shows up well in it.

The make up was actually really easy to do.  I started by popping in some black coloured contacts to create a beady eye effect.  I then took a black eyeliner and drew in the shape that I wanted to scale across my face.

I filled this in with the base colour (pale blue on me, green on Paul) and then, once this had dried I pulled some fishnet tights over my head and sponged black over the top to create the scale effect.  The only difficult bit about this was getting the tights off without smudging the paint.

I finished it off with a dab of glitter across my cheekbone.