Looking For Ideas To Improve a Joker Costume

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**heresy.happens**

This upcoming weekend, I am attending a Halloween party and decided to go as the Joker. So far what I have is the purple suit (found one for 15$ at Goodwill, pretty happy with that find) and all the facepaint/makeup and hair dye. However, I am looking for ways to really make this costume above and beyond your usual Joker costume. Any ideas/tips? Thanks for the help!

**gorgon**

Yellow teeth would be a nice touch.

**heresy.happens**

Perfect, thank you!

**Paradigm**

If you are going for the Dark Knight type Joker, you'll want to make sure the facepaint is really rough and smudged, and basically make yourself look as grim as possible. Other than that, you can't really do much more than the suit and paint/dye.

EDIT: also, pick which version you're trying to be, and rewatch their scenes and try and pick up some of the mannerisms and quotes. Just adds a bit more to the illusion.

**Alfndrate**

Mastering Mark Hamil's awesome joker laugh would be the way to do it.

**Manchu**

Lick your lips a lot when you talk.

**KingCracker**

*lics lips*
Im.....NOT crazy...
*lics lips*

Im not.

**Mr Nobody**

A flower in your chest pocket, preferably dead or dieing.

**-Shrike-**

If you're after the Heath Leadger style Joker, lick your lips, try and get the edge to your voice that he has, and fiddle with your hands a lot.

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Bring a pencil. That'll scare anyone who's seen the film.

**marv335**

You need to bring one of these with you.
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/05/30/seductive-harley-quinn-cosplay-by-kitty-young-pictures/

**Ouze**

Can you get a green suit vest? Maybe a pocket watch?

Watch this interview a few times, too, if you're going as TDK's Joker and you want to get the mannerisms down.

**Breotan**

Some sort of hair product to give you a greasy look to your hair like Leadger had. A bunch of joker cards to hand out to people, too.

**Easy E**

Which version of the Joker are your trying for?

**Ensis Ferrae**

Depending on the Joker you're going for, you'll want to get a blue-ish shirt/ dark tie:

**Easy E**

I think you should go for this version....

**d-usa**

Any possibility of actually cutting off your face and then attaching it again?

**Medium of Death**

Or bathing in a vat of chemicals?

If you don't have a vat lying around, try bleach!

**timetowaste85**

Bring a crowbar. Call anybody named Jason "lambchop". Should cause panic.

**Captain Fantastic**

The hair dye needs to spilling down your head and your hair needs to be clumpy and disgusting. Another thing I can suggest is to apply makeup, and wash your face, and then reapply sloppily, to get that 'serious' look.

**Ouze**

So OP, pictures?

**timetowaste85**

If you don't have my recommended crowbar, I don't wanna see any pictures. In fact, lets get one with just the crowbar!

**heresy.happens**

Unfortunately, I could not acquire a crowbar in time. That being said, here is the final result

**Cheesecat**

Looks great.

**azazel the cat**

1. Get some gloves. You absolutely need some gloves.

2. Beat the gak out of your suit. Put it on and pitch yourself down a hill if you feel up to it, or else ask someone to back over it with their car a few times and then have it dry-cleaned (to get the rubber and oil out).

3. Swap out the half-windsor necktie for a southern necktie.

4. Wear a shirt that is not white; it blends in with your facepaint too much.

**Ouze**

It does look great, but... I'd use some cotton balls to blot off some of the facepaint and smudge it up a tiny bit.

And, look into getting a green shirt?

**Grey Templar**

Way too clean but its passable.

Definitely more smudging.

**Mathieu Raymond**

Southern necktie?

**Alfndrate**

Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Southern necktie?

This type of tie:

**CoI**

find a gag store and get one of the flowers you squirt people with. Fill it with green kool-aid. or if they have the ones you can use to spray a smoke use that with a pink smoke if available.
And definitely get rid of the white shirt. Pink, green, pretend you're a Slaaneshi cultist. Lots of bright colors. Gloves are a must. And at least 1 deck of cards. If you can get a deck of jokers even better, but every so often just pulling it out and shuffling it while looking creepily at people should help

But that's me just nit-picking my favorite villain. Looks good!

**Jehan-reznor**

The Female touch