Time for a cringefest thread.

Now, I know there are a lot of fans on here that have been fans for a long long time....have you ever seen Prince wear something and thought "damn! thats the look for me!" and legit tried it out on yourself?

I'm gonna own up right away, I have. I tried to do the Elephants and Flowers makeup once:

https://twitter.com/Spoookyelectric/status/464082413254365184

Sorry for the derpy photo, I'm a bit loopy at times lol.

I also tried to do the hair he had round abouts the Rave era where he put his hair into lots of little pigtails. Didn't work out though, my hair is too long.

Spill guys! I'm anticipating!

Only on Halloween.

Angelsoncrack said:

Time for a cringefest thread.

Now, I know there are a lot of fans on here that have been fans for a long long time....have you ever seen Prince wear something and thought "damn! thats the look for me!" and legit tried it out on yourself?

I'm gonna own up right away, I have. I tried to do the Elephants and Flowers makeup once:

https://twitter.com/Spoookyelectric/status/464082413254365184

Sorry for the derpy photo, I'm a bit loopy at times lol.

I also tried to do the hair he had round abouts the Rave era where he put his hair into lots of little pigtails. Didn't work out though, my hair is too long.

Spill guys! I'm anticipating!

come on, now.

After I saw PR, I was dying to get a jacket with the buttons and silver chains attached to the shoulder(the Beautiful Ones jacket). I think that I ended up taking some of my mom's necklaces and pinning them to my Members Only windbreaker. Ha ha, wow, now I'm remembering a lip sync that my friends and I performed in high school. We did America and I had my gf's black trench on as I was "playing" Brown Mark. To this day, my mom tells everybody that she couldn't believe I went to high school in my "bathrobe"! I keep telling her, "Mom, that wasn't a bathrobe, it was a TRENCHCOAT!!" Ah memories..GREAT THREAD!

The closest I ever came to that perilous aesthetic enterprise was getting a perm back in 84, 85 and sort of letting some of it fall on one side over the eye -- not full Revolution mind you, sort of a timid evocation of the look. Then I came back to my senses and spent the rest of my life wearing buzz cuts.

Angelsoncrack said:

Time for a cringefest thread.

Now, I know there are a lot of fans on here that have been fans for a long long time....have you ever seen Prince wear something and thought "damn! thats the look for me!" and legit tried it out on yourself?

I'm gonna own up right away, I have. I tried to do the Elephants and Flowers makeup once:

https://twitter.com/Spoookyelectric/status/464082413254365184

Sorry for the derpy photo, I'm a bit loopy at times lol.

I also tried to do the hair he had round abouts the Rave era where he put his hair into lots of little pigtails. Didn't work out though, my hair is too long.

Spill guys! I'm anticipating!

At least you did not get the Rave tight jumpsuit. There is still hope for you after all.

Yes, I have. I've worn the fingerless gloves, lace tights, long hair curled, high heels, and I've dressed like his proteges, too. This was back in the day.

BobGeorge909 said:

I put in make-up and high heels once as a child. My dad slapped me and called me Susan.

...and do you mean Susan from Vanity 6 or that name just slipped out?

Beautifulstarr123 said:

On one of the first occasions when I had gotten drunk, I was 16 at the time, I woke up from the floor in the morning and when I looked in the mirror I discovered I had written "SLAVE" and drawn the moustache he had in the mid-90s on my face with marker. It took ages to scrub that shit off.

novabrkr said:

On one of the first occasions when I had gotten drunk, I was 16 at the time, I woke up from the floor in the morning and when I looked in the mirror I discovered I had written "SLAVE" and drawn the moustache he had in the mid-90s on my face with marker. It took ages to scrub that shit off.

Haha that sounds like something I would do drunk!

Aerogram said:

At least you did not get the Rave tight jumpsuit. There is still hope for you after all.

I love his jump suit from the Rave era!

Pictures people - come on - don't be shy

I dressed up like Partyman for carnival once I have no picture here at work but I looked sooooooooooooooooo silly!!!

calciumpaul said:

Pictures people - come on - don't be shy

Just like Coffeebreak said above:


I was dressed as "Partyman" at the Nude tour concert in Gentofte/ Copenhagen... in june 1990.



The pic will follow -- in a moment...

thedance said:

calciumpaul said:

Pictures people - come on - don't be shy

Just like Coffeebreak said above:


I was dressed as "Partyman" at the Nude tour concert in Gentofte/ Copenhagen... in june 1990.



The pic will follow -- in a moment...

omg i cant wait to see!

No, srsly, post it please omg hah

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Ok. Here, my little brother (in the black top, left) and myself (orange top, right),

in a "Parade-meets-Partyman" outfit: Green hair and make-up, purple jacket like the joker/ Gemini...



[img:$uid]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/ecnirp2004/Partyman1990_zpscaf73878.jpg[/img:$uid]

^ the "japanese" signs on the sleeves were hard to "copy", those we watched and "took" from the "Partyman" music video, I had the long music-video-version on VHS tape,

and I had to put this on "hold" (pause?) to actually see those japanese "signs".... writing them down.. I was scared the video tape would brake during this.... haha, memories...

[Edited 6/10/14 8:35am]

thedance said:

Ok. Here, my little brother (in the black top, left) and myself (orange top, right),

in a "Parade-meets-Partyman" outfit: Green hair and make-up, purple jacket like the joker/ Gemini...



[img:$uid]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/ecnirp2004/Partyman1990_zpscaf73878.jpg[/img:$uid]

^ the "japanese" signs on the sleeves were hard to "copy", those we watched and "took" from the "Partyman" music video, I had the long music-video-version on VHS tape,

and I had to put this on "hold" (pause?) to actually see those japanese "signs".... writing them down.. I was scared the video tape would brake during this.... haha, memories...

[Edited 6/10/14 8:35am]

Ahh thats so cool! I love the mash up between parade and partyman

Yeah, Hiragana can be a bit confusing to copy. Prince seemed to really like having Japanese on his clothes during that time era. He had stuff like 'love' etc written in Katakana on his clothes during the nude tour.

My inner weeaboo is showing. I'll stop now.

I often do my beard as on The Hits/The B-Sides cover

Nope, never dressed like him but I do own a helluva lot of purple.

databank said:

4chonz?

If I could grow facial hair I could have that mustache he had in the Love 2 the 9's video that he sported for like a total of 3 appearances.

LayzieKiddZ said:

EyeHatechu said:

databank said:

I often do my beard as on The Hits/The B-Sides cover

Your beard must be sexy then..

lol^^
I've tried to get almost all of my boyfriends and my hubby to shave their beard like that. None of them would. Assholes.

PURplEMaPLeSyrup said:

thanks 4 the mental images every1, lol. in highschool i wore some symbol jewelry, and would try to imitate princes and maytes facial expressions in the mirror. speaking of cringe, once i invited some relatives over to witness a dance routine i had worked on for p control -- i was singin it too, tsk. i also thought it would be cool to do the elephants and flowers makeup. mainly wanted to sound as cool as him though, though his clothing is inspiring too.

oh my god

I once did my makeup like Maytes and had my fringe cut like hers. (You know the weird V fringe?).

Also, the dance thing. I know like half of the tick tick bang dance.

EyeHatechu said:

LayzieKiddZ said:

4chonz?

If I could grow facial hair I could have that mustache he had in the Love 2 the 9's video that he sported for like a total of 3 appearances.

Thats something I wouldnt mind seeing on someone else other than him. I just liked his hair in that video though.

Yeah its one of the few things I think someone could pull off if their style is right.

His whole look at that time thought was pretty awesome, even the clothes. That heliconia floral outfit was pretty cool.