I can tell what you're currently thinking... Right now, your mind is awash with this thought, "The A-Team were so cool. They looked great, and I uh... don't. I wish I could look like one of the A-Team!"...
Well, the wait is over! Using the easy to follow guide on this page, you too can look like a member of the A-Team and be the envy of all your friends. By the way, if any of you decide to go through with any of these I'd like to see the pictures!
Just click on the links below to go to the relevent sections:
Look like Hannibal!
Look like B.A. Baracus!
Look like Murdock!
Look like Face!
Err...Disclaimer (it may be needed...)
The Hannibal look is easily achieved and will instantly make you look like the all-action (well, the stuntman was anyway), 50-something leader of the A-Team.
What you'll need:
- Some white hair dye. I recommend 'Just For Men'.
- Jeans and a jacket.
- Red make-up.
- A terrible disguise. Personally I'd choose a ridiculous pair of plastic glasses with a plastic moustache attached. However, this may be too sophisticated for a Hannibal type disguise.
What to do:
- Take the Just For Men and follow the instuctions on the back of the pack. Ignore the quantities, just put it all on. You want your hair to be white.
- Take the red make-up. Sprinkle it liberally onto your nose. George Peppard was an alcoholic, you probably aren't, so this is a necessary measure.
- Put on your clothes (otherwise this could turn nasty...) - straight out of the 80's. As many suede, denim items as possible and checked shirts are good as well.
- Finally, prepare the disguise. As any fan knows, Hannibal will not just walk the streets without a suitable (i.e completely useless) disguise. Remember, Colonel Lynch may be waiting just around the next corner...
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To get the correct B.A. look is difficult indeed. To truly excel you'll need to be extremely muscly and black. However, if you're skinny and white (like me) you can still make a perfect B.A. lookalike. Just read and learn...
What you'll need:
- A haidresser/barber and some money.
- A picture of Mr. T. Feel free to print one off from this site...
- Your mum's/ sister's/ your own jewellery box.
- Tight fitting army combat trousers and boots.
- A pink T-shirt.
What to do:
- Take a trip to the hairdressers with the appropriate picture of Mr. T. Ask him/her to cut the hair in that style. If they refuse start muttering, "I pity the fool who don't cut my hair in that style. I pity the foo..." and he/she will be suitably scared. Remember, be menacing.
- Go home and put on the army style boots and combat trousers, remembering to tuck the trousers into the boots - many people will claim this is unfashionable. Ignore them, crazy fools! If B.A. thinks it's cool, then, by Jove, it is cool.
- Get that pink T-shirt and rip the sleeves off it to allow those rippling muscles to be on full show (oh?... you haven't got big muscles? Do it anyway, you'll look ok. Sometimes more can be less... just not in this instance).
- Get the jewllery box and put on every ring and necklace you can find (gold, of couse). Don't worry if you feel suddenly "top heavy" - imagine how the great B.A. felt and fight the pain!
- ... And remember, all this will be for nothing if you do not act like B.A.. So, growl a lot, frown and say "Fool" in every sentence that you make. There, perfect.
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Murdock's "look" is actually quite easy. All you'll need are a few simple items that you probably own at home (I think you can probably get the look without spending a single penny!).
What you'll need:
- One razor blade / scissors.
- A cap.
- A T-Shirt with a suitably random phrase. Something like, "I love Dave Spangle".
- A leather jacket, the kind pilots used to wear.
What to do:
- Use the scissors to make it look like your hairline is receding (for some of you, this may not be a necessary step...) and use te razor to cut small random squares in your hair (remember Mexican Slayride?).
- Put on the T-shirt, leather jacket and cap. Make sure you put the cap off centre and with the peak facing up - otherwise you'll just look like a random person with a cap rather than a devout follower of the great Murdock.
- Finally, just talk gibberish with various accents and claim to be insane whenever anything goes wrong. You could try flying a 'plane, but this will probably only prove that you aren't a very good Murdock-a-like...
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Although Face's look may be the simplest, it's also the most expensive... by about £5,000...
What you'll need:
- Money and an extremely good plastic surgeon (ignore this if you happen to be very handsome anyway).
- Fashionable clothes (well, fashionable as in during the 80's).
What to do:
- Book in a major facial session with the plastic surgeon. Be specific in what you are looking for, i.e. take in a photograph of Face and say, "Make me look like this man". If the surgeon replies by saying something along the lines of, "Not possible, you are too ugly", ignore him. He's obviously a poor surgeon and a bad example to his profession. Move onto surgeon number 2... (Note: when you do finally find a surgeon willing to perform the operation he may speak largely in Spanish and his surgery may double as a dirty tatoo parlour. Ignore this fact, I'm sure he's very good at his job, and basically you have no other option.)
- Put your clothes on.
- Chat up anything in a skirt and walk around with a ridiculous smile on your face. Become a con man...
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Disclaimer
Basically I need this just in case any of you follow the directions and don't get the desired result (I'm pretty sure that his isn't possible...).
I do not take any responsibility for actions you carry out following the reading of this page. Crazy fool!
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