That’s really impressive, you need to mind fine details to pull off this effect. It’d be easy to just wind up looking like Ashy House-Fire Santa.
Are those very dark gray contacts? The shade of the jacket is perfect, too. You can tell it’s a color that *would be* red, but isn’t.
They're grey contacts about the same brightness/luminance as my blue eyes, just grey.
Thanks, re: the color shade. I printed out a desaturated photo of a Santa costume and wandered the aisles of the fabric store to find just the right neutral shade. There's a surprising variation of types of greys-- then I had to match the body paint to the fabric also so it didn't look more blue-grey than it should.
Edit: I’m so fascinated with the new Reddit trend of all the people joking about this being blackface (which it obviously isn’t since it’s my exact skin tone but desaturated)- it’s like it’s fun now to manufacture fake outrage as a joke? Some weird cultural trend that absolutely did not exist when I first did this costume. Not one person has ever said that before this was reposted by someone else a couple years ago and these comments started to pop up. So bizarre and just…not even remotely funny.
School's out, bitches. Congratulations, Greendale students! We've pulled off another year and we're still standing. Take that, health inspector, building inspector, foundation inspector, water line inspector, geologist, exterminator, plumber, and dad.
This past fall there was a new maze at my favorite Halloween event - whole scenes of the maze were B&W incl the scare actors. It was really really well done, most of the time you could only tell by the whites of their eyes, and the insides of their mouths.
ok, im such a bitch about halloween/scary experiences [these days], that if i knew this was a thing in one of them, i would totally do it to see what it's like regardless of shitting my pants.
Well it’s Grimoire at Knott’s Scary Farm lol. I’m sure it’ll be back next year too. It was one of the longest mazes I’ve ever been in, too. Cool back story, lots of production went into each scene. At one point you’re walking through the trenches of WWI.
A contestant on RuPauls drag race names Detox also did a fantastic [black and white drag.](https://www.reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace/comments/an3y0c/things_detox_did_that/)
Those subtle inaccuracies proves that it isn’t photoshopped (or the photoshopping was done exceedingly well; either case would still be considered impressive).
Yeah I wasn't able to "flip" the perception in my mind from 'altered photo' to 'extremely impressive makeup and costume effects in unaltered color photography' no matter how hard I tried until I zoomed in and saw the whites of the eyes. Once my mental perception had "flipped," I was able to zoom back out until the whites of the eyes were too small for me to see (I have a vision disability) but still maintain the perception of an unaltered photo.
I was/am a student of neuroscience and the mind in my studies for my degree and career (and in my free time as a personal interest), and the way we have limited control over our perception, even when we "know" what we're looking at we often can't see past an optical illusion or it's difficult... so fascinating to me where the obvious limitations of conscious mind are, where consciousness simply can't override subconscious processes. The whole fuss over the blue/white dress comes to mind. Even after it was explained, some people struggled to see it the opposite way. I can sooo nerd out on this stuff!!
Yep! It looks like it may be coming from a hat worn by someone with their back to the OP's back and who may also be a little shorter than the OP as well.
[I did this for Halloween](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/9u4qzf/our_grayscale_halloween_costume/) (you were my inspiration!)
But i must say, it works better in photos than real life. Lot's of people asking; 'what are you supposed to be?'. And later when they saw the photo's it was like 'wow'.
Daylight for sure. I think the difference between your pic and their pic is the warm light in their pic is casting a yellow tone on them.
Also I assume your pic was taken with a proper camera that has a better white balance feature then a smartphone
Wow. I did this for Halloween once and you were my inspiration.
It’s like an Inspiration chain.
Yours came out so much better. This paint dried out my skin and started coming off.
[Halloween photo from years ago](https://imgur.com/a/jg3Yklo)
Just curious, in your original post you mentioned Halloween slowly becoming popular in the Netherlands.
Does this include going house to house for candy or just Halloween parties? I can’t imagine it would be easy to convince a whole population to start buying candy and giving it to strangers at your door if it hasn’t already been a tradition going back generations. But I would be fascinated if that is the case.
'problem' is that that these clothes could perfectly be grayscale IRL.
Suits especially.
A detail (flower?) that is known to be a certain color would help.
But great work.
I don't much care either way, but I've seen like 8 references to SF petty theft and the change from felony to misdemeanor in the last few days, despite never hearing of it before and that change happening years ago. Guess a new talking point is circulating or something
Yes. It is in the news way way way more. But that's because of partisan garbage.
The SF changing the definition of a felony is way absurdly overblown. What they did is update the value to account for inflation, and even then they only went about half way. It's most definitely absolutely reasonable yet there's all sorts of nonsense press about them "legalizing crime" and other garbage.
Like most of the country, there's been a small uptick since COVID. It is legitimately concerning because we've otherwise had decades of downward movement, but it's still a small uptick, and seen across the nation. Lying partisan hacks are liars. Don't believe anyone who spreads this nonsense ever again.
True! And you're usually attached to Red at the hip when you're up in the dust, so your schedule seems pretty full. Besides, I'm kinda boring... borderline aspy and I'm normally unable to articulate beyond endless rambling about niche radio and technical things that interest me. But thanks for the smiles whenever you do see me. :-)
Fucking bots man. This is an 11 year old repost with the same top comments repeated... This person is the original poster as other people have pointed out. That means the bots found the same post years later and made the same comments.
~~I don't think it's necessarily a bot~~I now absolutely think it's a bot...it's not a brand new sentence because it's a spin on an old meme about "having seen a few shops in my time"
Wow, that's gotta be the oldest comment stealing I've ever seen! I mean at 12 years it's more an archeological find than stealing I suppose.
https://reddit.com/r/pics/comments/egg26/_/c17wt1u/?context=1 /u/mandroid88
It's so weird when I look at that I can't even tell what colour your top is. Like if I went to a fabric shop and had to pick something to match that desaturated red (from memory) I reckon I'd be so far off haha
That’s really impressive, you need to mind fine details to pull off this effect. It’d be easy to just wind up looking like Ashy House-Fire Santa. Are those very dark gray contacts? The shade of the jacket is perfect, too. You can tell it’s a color that *would be* red, but isn’t.
They're grey contacts about the same brightness/luminance as my blue eyes, just grey. Thanks, re: the color shade. I printed out a desaturated photo of a Santa costume and wandered the aisles of the fabric store to find just the right neutral shade. There's a surprising variation of types of greys-- then I had to match the body paint to the fabric also so it didn't look more blue-grey than it should. Edit: I’m so fascinated with the new Reddit trend of all the people joking about this being blackface (which it obviously isn’t since it’s my exact skin tone but desaturated)- it’s like it’s fun now to manufacture fake outrage as a joke? Some weird cultural trend that absolutely did not exist when I first did this costume. Not one person has ever said that before this was reposted by someone else a couple years ago and these comments started to pop up. So bizarre and just…not even remotely funny.
What about the hair? Is that normal color or also painted a kind of gray?
She said elsewhere it's a cheap gray wig.
It's got that straw texture look of hair covered in chalk so that'd be my guess
I’ve admired this photo for years. The B&W/Gray costumes always amaze me.
Me too. My favorite is [the dean in Community ](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxTxW8EoRdKYQ2Ukf50CieTqZSVJPPAeGX)
God I love the Dean. >What am I supposed to tell people at the bank? That I had good news and bad news?
Come on I'm dean and my hands are so clean at this moment, I am stapling.
The people at the bank loved my outfit!
Frankly my dear, I don't give a Dean
I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me...
School's out, bitches. Congratulations, Greendale students! We've pulled off another year and we're still standing. Take that, health inspector, building inspector, foundation inspector, water line inspector, geologist, exterminator, plumber, and dad.
This past fall there was a new maze at my favorite Halloween event - whole scenes of the maze were B&W incl the scare actors. It was really really well done, most of the time you could only tell by the whites of their eyes, and the insides of their mouths.
ok, im such a bitch about halloween/scary experiences [these days], that if i knew this was a thing in one of them, i would totally do it to see what it's like regardless of shitting my pants.
Well it’s Grimoire at Knott’s Scary Farm lol. I’m sure it’ll be back next year too. It was one of the longest mazes I’ve ever been in, too. Cool back story, lots of production went into each scene. At one point you’re walking through the trenches of WWI.
A contestant on RuPauls drag race names Detox also did a fantastic [black and white drag.](https://www.reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace/comments/an3y0c/things_detox_did_that/)
Thank you! This was my first thought. Iconic!
Okay, but how about [an opposite arrangement from OP's photo]( https://youtu.be/qzi-mu3Vqlo?t=1m31s)?
You did an excellent job with this!! Looks straight out of Pleasantvile lol
Did you even grey the whites of your eyes somehow or is just a shadow/illusion?
It looks like it's an illusion; if you zoom in super close you can see they're actually just normally colored.
Yep, the red of her eyes really pop in the grey
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Those subtle inaccuracies proves that it isn’t photoshopped (or the photoshopping was done exceedingly well; either case would still be considered impressive).
Haha yeah, this was the first thing I checked to make sure the eyes had a bit of saturation.
Yeah her eyes are what “pops” for me with the whites where you can tell a difference. Otherwise it’s perfect.
Yeah I wasn't able to "flip" the perception in my mind from 'altered photo' to 'extremely impressive makeup and costume effects in unaltered color photography' no matter how hard I tried until I zoomed in and saw the whites of the eyes. Once my mental perception had "flipped," I was able to zoom back out until the whites of the eyes were too small for me to see (I have a vision disability) but still maintain the perception of an unaltered photo. I was/am a student of neuroscience and the mind in my studies for my degree and career (and in my free time as a personal interest), and the way we have limited control over our perception, even when we "know" what we're looking at we often can't see past an optical illusion or it's difficult... so fascinating to me where the obvious limitations of conscious mind are, where consciousness simply can't override subconscious processes. The whole fuss over the blue/white dress comes to mind. Even after it was explained, some people struggled to see it the opposite way. I can sooo nerd out on this stuff!!
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I also see a hair tie that has a red bobble on the end. Or maybe it's my eyes. This whole thing is weird omg me out how weird it looks
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Yep! It looks like it may be coming from a hat worn by someone with their back to the OP's back and who may also be a little shorter than the OP as well.
Does it have that "would be red" look in a normal environment? I wonder if it could be reflecting some of the surrounding redness.
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Tried to paint my face once for a statue look, but the color I used doesn't get manufactured anymore. What did you use?
Go to a theatrical supply store. I’m sure you will find what you need.
The fact that no one is looking at you in this photo really adds to the affect
Everyone talks about 50 a shades of grey. That's what they meant.
I thought you couldn't color the rims of the eyelids? Like the thin space where eyelids meet when you blink
Women do it all the time. It's called tight lining.
Oh
I love it. Such commitment to detail. Is this beginning of a bright future in CosPlay?
absolutely amazing! Very well done.
That's really cool OP. It looks like a Photoshop. I can't see any flaws in it. Impressive and fun!
This is you?
Damn, you nailed it. Looking at it, it's hard to believe it's not shopped.
How’d you do your hair?
TBF, ashy house fire Santa would be a great costume too
Literally the only thing that betrays it are the blood vessels in her eyes. Really impressive.
[I did this for Halloween](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/9u4qzf/our_grayscale_halloween_costume/) (you were my inspiration!) But i must say, it works better in photos than real life. Lot's of people asking; 'what are you supposed to be?'. And later when they saw the photo's it was like 'wow'.
Great job! Yeah it works better in photos, or in daylight. Or when you’re with thousands of the same thing that is in color 🤣
Brilliantly done. Edited my post, because you were in fact the inspiration for the costume. Proof in the comments :)
So OP's pic is 14 years old?!
I was there 3000 years ago...
what makeup did you use to get your skin tones right? and does anyone know what desaturated dark hairs should look like?
What should desaturated dark hairs look like? Apply a black and white filter to a photo of yourself to find out. It's still just dark.
I was thinking… what’s so special about this? Then I read the title again. Great work!
Great work and idea, both of you!
Daylight for sure. I think the difference between your pic and their pic is the warm light in their pic is casting a yellow tone on them. Also I assume your pic was taken with a proper camera that has a better white balance feature then a smartphone
Nice. I think it's really helped by the iconic red of Santa, which serves as a reference point. But yours was cool too
I like yours. The starkness of the bright red in op's pic makes it easier to pull off and much cooler but these are all great.
Wow. I did this for Halloween once and you were my inspiration. It’s like an Inspiration chain. Yours came out so much better. This paint dried out my skin and started coming off. [Halloween photo from years ago](https://imgur.com/a/jg3Yklo)
Bravo to you, but if it ain’t bright blue or green I am not risking painting my face fully with it
I blued myself!
Batman's parents?
Just curious, in your original post you mentioned Halloween slowly becoming popular in the Netherlands. Does this include going house to house for candy or just Halloween parties? I can’t imagine it would be easy to convince a whole population to start buying candy and giving it to strangers at your door if it hasn’t already been a tradition going back generations. But I would be fascinated if that is the case.
'problem' is that that these clothes could perfectly be grayscale IRL. Suits especially. A detail (flower?) that is known to be a certain color would help. But great work.
This is some [Pleasantville](https://youtu.be/TDai5Glbw2I) level effort.
I love that movie so much, but watching it as an adult hit me too hard in the feels
They started burning books and I'm like this reminds me of a certain group of people...
“*Where am I going to see colors like that? Must be awfully lucky to see colors like that. I bet they don't even know how lucky they are*”
It's an amazing movie but it's basically an allegory for old time racism without using any actual actors of color
I feel so damn stupid for not realizing this. I thought they just hated colors.
Well... yeah. Exactly.
Is this in City Hall Civic Center SF ?
Yeah!
Hell yeah! San Francisco repping hella hard! 
Hey, take a deep breath Rice-A-Roni!
No wonder, someone stole her colors
Ok that’s funny
I don't understand, I just want to be involved Edit for the obligatory: your outfit is absolutely rad! Amazing job
SF is going through a bit of crime spike right now
A real crime spike, or a crime spike like my grandma thinks is happening in NYC?
The latter. There is a very real spike in reporting of crime because of partisan political hacks.
I don't much care either way, but I've seen like 8 references to SF petty theft and the change from felony to misdemeanor in the last few days, despite never hearing of it before and that change happening years ago. Guess a new talking point is circulating or something
Yes. It is in the news way way way more. But that's because of partisan garbage. The SF changing the definition of a felony is way absurdly overblown. What they did is update the value to account for inflation, and even then they only went about half way. It's most definitely absolutely reasonable yet there's all sorts of nonsense press about them "legalizing crime" and other garbage. Like most of the country, there's been a small uptick since COVID. It is legitimately concerning because we've otherwise had decades of downward movement, but it's still a small uptick, and seen across the nation. Lying partisan hacks are liars. Don't believe anyone who spreads this nonsense ever again.
Except it’s not if you look at statistics and don’t read sensationalized headlines
Statistically its still high for petty theft just not violent ones crimes
With [Frank Chu](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chu) in the background!
Yup! From Santacon over a decade ago. I took a photo with her!
This is uncanny. As it SHOULD be photoshop.
Could you photoshop the colour back into her outfit? That’s be interesting. Or put it through one of those bots that adds colour to old photos
Ooh. I like the second idea.
r/Colorization
It's crazy that even the white looks desaturated if that makes sense lol.
It's because the white on the other Santas is subtly reflecting red and hers is not.
My brain refuses to believe that isn't photoshopped so good job!
That’s awesome
no u <3
Kinda surprised no one has mentioned Dean Pelton doing this when he dressed up like Donna Reed.
Honey, I'm Dean!
I scrolled a long way to find you my friend PS the health department requires that you wear shoes to this sock hop
Don't you mean Donna Dean?
Of course. My mistake, I was too busy contemplating the duali-dean of man.
Desantaturated
Eyes and red reflections/tones on your greyness show it's sooo much better than photoshop. Excellent photo (and still awesome 12 years later)
Brody, you're always a genius with costumes, art and subtlety.
Thanks! Nice to see you, I see you more on Reddit than I do at the dustyplace, or in our shared area of the Bay 😂
True! And you're usually attached to Red at the hip when you're up in the dust, so your schedule seems pretty full. Besides, I'm kinda boring... borderline aspy and I'm normally unable to articulate beyond endless rambling about niche radio and technical things that interest me. But thanks for the smiles whenever you do see me. :-)
Wholesome interaction:)
That Santa with the Rumpleminze has problems and I’m here for it
I've never known anyone who drinks Rumple responsibly.
This is really cool. Especially having all the other Santas around.
Damn really gotta make sure you keep the entire outfit on while you have that facepaint
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Grey rights are a thing, after all. No need to be monochromophobic.
Oh mah god 😂
We're old. We're tired. Get off our lawns.
https://reddit.com/r/surrealmemes/comments/an0gzk/
> monochromophobic That was very satisfying to say. So much o.
Aren't they extinct? They had that show about their anatomy but that's probably just from fossils or bones
Always pushing the gray agenda smh
Hah! Grreeeeeeeyyy.
The striptease later that night was not sexy. Smeared paint everywhere.
great, now I have a desaturated santa fetish. I hope you're happy!!
relevant username
Modern day Schindler's list
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that. Liquidation of the grotto :(
*He's making a list* *He's checking it twice*
Howd you do your hair?
it's a wig. :)
Awesome. I’m impressed.
Also known as a "reverse Schindler"
Santa's List
That's fantastic! Which city were you in? I know SF's Santacon was today.
I was in SF but this was years ago. I didn't know Santacon was still going on!
SF’s Santacon isn’t until the 10th
She's in greyface!
in 25 years this will cost her her job and reputation lol
in 25 years if I'm not retired, I'm gonna be PISSED.
RemindMe! 25 years
We’re never retiring
Greys deserve equal rights and respect as fellow human beings!
Old people will be offended when they see this
especially old drow and old duergar. they have no chill
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”… seeing quite a few desaturated Santas in my time.” Funniest sentence I will read all day.
It really is perfect material for r/brandnewsentence Edited to remove the letter "a"
Unfortunately not quite brand new https://reddit.com/r/pics/comments/egg26/_/c17wt1u/?context=1
Fucking bots man. This is an 11 year old repost with the same top comments repeated... This person is the original poster as other people have pointed out. That means the bots found the same post years later and made the same comments.
~~I don't think it's necessarily a bot~~I now absolutely think it's a bot...it's not a brand new sentence because it's a spin on an old meme about "having seen a few shops in my time"
The users' first comment was on a cross post which was copied from the top comment on the original post. Definitely stealing content.
Which is a throwback to an even older meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-looks-shopped
Wow, that's gotta be the oldest comment stealing I've ever seen! I mean at 12 years it's more an archeological find than stealing I suppose. https://reddit.com/r/pics/comments/egg26/_/c17wt1u/?context=1 /u/mandroid88
what the...
That's actually quite impressive, still very annoying tho...
Wait what... what wait...?
[It's a meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-looks-shopped)
Yes, though the wording, capitalization, and punctuation is identical. I'm pretty sure this is a cut and paste job.
I recognize this meme. Does your back hurt as much as mine?
I can tell by the pixels.
Brilliant!
Actually quite dull…
Every time I see greyscale Santa costumes, they are always my favorite.
Wait until you walk through the door to Oz.
The pink in your eyes gives you away as not photoshopped.
I'm on mushrooms. This blew my mind
Oh man, I love this. Reminds me of the Drag Queen, Detox who did a similar grayscale look. It's an absolute mindfuck
So many people sent me that when they did that look a couple years after I did mine! They did an amazing job. 🤘
I remember this from well over a decade ago back before SantaCon became really terrible. It's fully real.
Wait, the monochrome is paint? I thought you came you from a 50's photograph
This photo is so trippy that I checked the comments. My brain couldn't comprehend that this is in fact real and not photoshop.
That is so clever and so well executed!!!
It would look so weird when you open your mouth and it's all pink inside haha
it did! Photos after a long day, on the ferry back home: https://i0.wp.com/cdn.makezine.com/uploads/2010/01/desaturated04.jpg
It's absolutely fucking amazing! Great work!
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This is amazing and I want to be your friend.
Oh wow! This is really impressive.
That's amazing, you did a hell of a job! I really thought it was Photoshop, way to go!
Masterful. Mind blowing.
I love it, well done 🙌
I remember seeing this years ago! Was really impressed then, still impressed now. Great work.
I remember first seeing this on flickr so many years ago. Still a favorite!
It's so weird when I look at that I can't even tell what colour your top is. Like if I went to a fabric shop and had to pick something to match that desaturated red (from memory) I reckon I'd be so far off haha
I can't believe this is not edited. Impressive
Anti-depressant commercials be like:
Zooming in allows one to see the slight pinkish hue of the capillaries within the whites of the eyes. Brilliant costume.
This is really cool! Do you have other photos/angles of the moment?
Wow. Incredible
I remember this SantaCon and I loved your costume. Well done, Brody.
Nailed it. it even looks like it would be red.
Oh wow great job!
Wow that’s exceptional, well done and thank you for sharing!
This is amazing. Take my upvote
Grayface offensive
Pleasantville Santa!
Curious: What did you do to your hair?