What IS this? A rare species of face-eating nudibranch? A faded map of the 18th hole at Pebble Beach? No! It’s a fake five o’clock shadow!
This is an especially spectacular career-inhibitor if the costume-wearing prankster is a woman! Long, long after you reach what would have been retirement age if you’d ever been able to land a job, photographs of you on the interwebs wearing this gender-bender fake facial stubble will be raising the question that just won’t go away: when she filled out that application, did she check the little box labeled F, or…?
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Jonelle Patrick writes novels set in Japan, produces the monthly e-magazine Japanagram, and blogs at Only In Japan and The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had
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It’s the “I wanna be a drag queen” costume.
Doesn’t that remind you of cartoon drag queens?
Now that you mention it…!