Kami-no-aisuru

Japanese urban legend has it that if you’re walking alone at night you might be approached by a woman wearing a surgical mask. She will ask you if she is beautiful, and then reveal her face with her mouth cut all the way open on both sides. Some say she will follow you back to your home and kill you! Well, like all good urban legends, this one has a few variations, and a supposed basis of fact, about a jealous Samurai and his unfaithful wife.

I chose to try to create this look for a Halloween party, as something different than the usual ghosts and zombies of traditional Western horror.

My version makes her more representative of death itself, with her bone-accented hairdo and bone fan.

This is what I wore to the annual Illusions Halloween ball, the Masque of the Dead. It was a wonderful evening, one of the highlights of the Autumn season, as far as I’m concerned.

Skin: LF Chai, Buki, old (Launa Fauna)
Hair: Philotic Energy, Ishiko, jet black* (Aemelia Case)
Eyes: Beloved, platinum eyes large (me)
Kimono: Discord, En-Sou Unryu (Orange Meili)
Shoes: [Gauze] Ouka Saki*  (Yukio Ida)
Blindfold: Illusions blindfold* (Siyu Suen)
Stitches: Defiant Designs, stitched shut lips* (brittainy Beeper)
Fan: Falln, Skeleton hand, Raw* (Azriel Demain)
* modded for this ensemble only