We didn't get store-bought costumes, so we had to be creative. When I was 9 or 10, my older brother smeared brown mascara all over my face and put talcum powder in my hair. I had some plastic vampire teeth, so into my mouth they went. Then my brother Scotch-taped my ears into points, glued on cardboard claws, dabbed some lipstick "blood" on the corners of my mouth and, voila! I was a werewolf!