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[belamourelysianlimerence]

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[belamourelysianlimerence]

Phantom to close February 2023!

"It's over now, the music of the night..."

😭💔🐒🥀🎆🎭💍🩰🎼🎻🕯🪞

[phantomonabudget]

How ‘come I’ve not seen this one around the POTO tumblrsphere and why are we not imagining Erik chasing Raoul with the chandelier and Raoul whining “Stoooppp it!!”

[phantomonabudget]

Celebrating Phantom on a Budget’s 10th Anniversary

You read that right...the online Phantom of the Opera makeup/costuming resource known as Phantom on a Budget officially turns 10 years old in 2016.

....Yep.  Been around a little longer than that, but the site originally launched in 2006 and that makes me feel old.  And suffice it to say, I’m not sure how to best celebrate it (the 10th anniversary, not the fact that I feel old).

And I feel like including you all somehow because partying alone on the other side of the computer screen is lame.

On a seriously note, what started out as a cheap, easy Halloween costume for a poor and time-deprived college student (me!) has turned into a lifelong passion/hobby.  Phantom on a Budget has given me a chance to share that interest with the world.  You beautiful people from all over the globe have seen the site, asked me questions, and shared your creations with me...thousands and thousands of you!  And I have cherished every single experience.  To be able to create and share with you all, all over the world, is something that I still can’t quite grasp, even today.  It’s an honor and a privilege for me, seriously. 

Twelve or so years ago, I never would have imagined it would go from this:

To this:

But what is MOST important is that the website, the tutorials, the resources, and the videos have all help YOU all out.  It humbles me to this day to receive an email or a comment from a perfect stranger that the website help them create their “dream” costume.  I don’t know what these costumes, the story, or the show mean to you personally, but I do know that if Phantom on a Budget helps you create something that puts a smile on your face, even if just for a little while, then that is worth more to me than anything else.  Seeing some of you create makeup and costumes well beyond my own ability is truly inspiring.  And I thank every single one of you for sharing that with me.

So I would like to do something fitting this year to celebrate, something worthy of a 10th anniversary, something that you all would enjoy.

I’m open to suggestions, whether it’s another question/answer video, a new tutorial, or something I haven’t thought of yet.  I’m hoping you wonderful, thoughtful followers who I appreciate SO SO much will help me figure out how to best celebrate 10 years as Phantom on a Budget.  What would you like to see this year?

[darlingdeathbird]

My mom has on the Today Show and Kathy Lee was sitting there in disbelief that those How I Met Your Mother stars broke into a perfectly memorized song from Les Misérables without ever having played the roles. Lady, you don't know about enthusiasm. Every single Phantom fan can break out into Track Down This Murderer and carry it through for ten minutes and belt the "IT'S OVER NOW, THE MUSIC OF THE NIIIIIGHT" and then just stare at you as if nothing happened.