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Commonly used in celebrations of Día de los Muertos, or "Day of the Dead", sugar skulls are often ornately decorated, as this one attests.The rituals of the "Day of the Dead" also stress the celebration of life, and accounts for this slightly unearthly selection for a birthday.It would be even more appropriate if the birthday falls on October 30^th.Detailed artwork on the face is framed by icing "curls" of hair.The stark black-and-white color scheme is accented by the blood-red lips, and the eerily cheerful purple peony.