Wig Brunch!

As you may have read in past posts, we go back and forth about what to do for the Collins family’s Christmas on the years no one is in town. In the past we’ve done secret santa and mailed gifts to our secret santas, we’ve done thrift Christmas, aka “trash Christmas”, we’ve had “Paper” Mario Party parties, and this year we’ve come up with the idea that takes the cake. When our family gets together we like to do murder mystery parties. We go all out and dress for the occasion. On one such occasion Erin played an old gentleman with a wig and mustache. Everyone declared that we needed to have a “wig brunch” which somehow all the Collins kids interpreted as “a brunch where we all wear wigs”. (I love my family.)

There was a strong desire to do wig brunch. We ended up doing it like Secret Santa where everyone secretly drew a name to buy a wig for. Wigs could be of any type, the only requirement was that the gift giver was interested to see the gift receiver in said wig. Before New Year’s Eve, everyone clandestinely mailed their wigs to their secret wig receiver. Then a couple hours before wig brunch (technically our brunch was post dinner drinks) everyone cobbled together an outfit to go with their wigs. Will even let me do his make up, though he said several times he ”wanted it to be tasteful”. (I was more than a little offended that he thought I would do untasteful makeup!)

We then met online over Google Hangouts for an evening of wigs, drinks and board games. Everyone looked fabulous, but the wig Bailey picked for Will was the crowd favorite (and miraculously fit Will’s head – turns out wig sizes really matter!) Bottom line? Wig brunch was a blast and I can’t wait for the next one!