A long long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a friend in high school got me turned on to Rocky Horror.

I probably would've run across it eventually--you can't be in any subculture fandom and not brush up against it in some way, shape or form. And I probably would've fallen in love with it regardless. But this friend promised to take me to a live showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show for my 16th birthday. Logistics conspired against us, and we never got around to it. By the time I was turning 27, I figured I had waited long enough.

With my hair, I really had no choice but to be Magenta--and wasn't it nice that Louis already looks so much like Riff Raff? The costume is the official licensed product, which is of...dubious quality, but will suffice considering I'll be wearing this once a year at most. I didn't have accurate boots, but I have cute boots, so I won't complain. In retrospect, I could probably afford to be a little paler, but all in all, I'm pretty pleased with the way the costume turned out.