Saint Nicholas in CSS

Happy Saint Nicholas Day ! And special present for all CSS geecks: CSS SantaHappy Saint Nicholas Day ! And special present for all CSS geecks: CSS Santa

Happy Saint Nicholas Day ! And special present for all CSS geeks: CSS Santa Example on jsfiddle can be found here (thanks to Piotr Przybylski)

html {
    height: 100%;
}
body {
    background-image: url('background.png');
    display: table;
    margin: 0;
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    background-color: #eee;
}
.panelWrapper {
    display: table-cell;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

.face {
    background-color: #FFC4A7;
    border-radius: 60px 60px 60px 60px;
    height: 102px;
    left: 50px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 105px;
    width: 100px;
}

.santa {
    height: 300px;
    width: 200px;
    position: relative;
    margin: 50px auto 0;
    cursor: pointer;
}

.santa .hat {
    position: absolute;
    left: 50%;
    margin: 0 0 0 -50px;
    width: 0px;
    height: 0px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 0 50px 110px 50px;
    border-color: transparent transparent #a40000 transparent;
    line-height: 0px;
    _border-color: #000000 #000000 #a40000 #000000;
    _filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Chroma(color='#000000'); 
}

.santa .hat:after {
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    width: 0px;
    height: 0px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 40px 0 0 100px;
    border-color: transparent transparent transparent #a40000;

    -webkit-transform: rotate(15deg);
    -webkit-transform-origin: top left;

    -moz-transform: rotate(15deg);
    -moz-transform-origin: top left;

    -ms-transform: rotate(15deg);
    -ms-transform-origin: top left;

    -o-transform: rotate(15deg);
    -o-transform-origin: top left;

    transform: rotate(15deg);
    transform-origin: top left;
}

.santa .hat:before {
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    width: 16px;
    height: 16px;
    background: #fff;
    left: 75px;
    top: 55px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 50%;
    -moz-border-radius: 50%;
    border-radius: 50%;
    z-index: 1;
}

.santa .hatFur {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;
    border-radius: 50px 50px 50px 50px;
    box-shadow: 0 6px 2px -6px #000000;
    height: 24px;
    left: 50%;
    margin: 0 0 0 -55px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 100px;
    width: 110px;
}

.santa .eyeLeft {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;
    border-radius: 50% 50% 50% 50%;
    content: "";
    height: 16px;
    left: 65px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 135px;
    width: 20px;
}

.santa .eyeRight {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;
    border-radius: 50% 50% 50% 50%;
    content: "";
    height: 16px;
    position: absolute;
    right: 65px;
    top: 135px;
    width: 20px;
}

.eyeLeft:after, .eyeRight:after {
    background-color: #000099;
    border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
    content: "";
    height: 10px;
    left: 6px;
    opacity: 0.75;
    position: absolute;
    top: 4px;
    width: 10px;
}

.santa:hover .eyeLeft:after, .santa:hover .eyeRight:after {
    opacity: 0.05;
}

.santa:hover .eyeLeft, .santa:hover .eyeRight {
    background-color: #FFB391;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #FF7D55;
    height: 14px;
}

.santa .beard_left, .santa .beard_right {
    position: absolute;
    height: 120px;
    width: 60px;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 50%;
    margin: 0 0 0 -60px;
    overflow: hidden;
}

.santa .beard_right {
    margin: 0;
}

.santa .beard_left:after {
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    background: white;
    width: 150px;
    height: 150px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 50%;
    -moz-border-radius: 50%;
    border-radius: 50%;
    bottom: 0px;
    left: 0;
}

.santa .beard_left:before {
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    background-color: #FFC4A7;
    width: 73px;
    height: 50px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    top: -45px;
    left: 2px;
    z-index: 5;
}

.santa .beard_right:after {
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    background-color: #FFC4A7;
    width: 73px;
    height: 50px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    top: -45px;
    right: 2px;
    z-index: 5;
}

.santa .beard_right:before {
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    background: white;
    width: 150px;
    height: 150px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 50%;
    -moz-border-radius: 50%;
    border-radius: 50%;
    bottom: 0px;
    right: 0
}
.nose {
    background-color: #FFB391;
    border: 1px solid #FFB391;
    border-radius: 10px 10px 5px 5px;
    box-shadow: 0 3px 2px #666666;
    height: 20px;
    left: 93px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 162px;
    width: 15px;
    z-index: 100;
}

.mouth {
    background-color: #FFB391;
    border-radius: 0 0 15px 15px;
    height: 10px;
    left: 87px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 200px;
    width: 30px;
}
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