Animation and all its glory!

alright so for my 3-d logo I am "attempting" to make create a ghost. However all I am doing is giving myself a headache.  I'm trying to get the end or "tail" of the ghost to flare out or if I can't do that I just want the tail to thin out in the very end.  Right now I have an oval that's wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. I can't think of how I am going to do the eyes or the arms. Also need to figure out what I am going to do for the mouth and make it move for the logo.  The eye sockets are done. I used the extrude tool and pushed a few selected polygons inside (indented) so they look like sockets. Now the question is how to make them look like eyes and not just depressions  in the guys head... *Sigh* I guess now it is all trial and error. I received inspiration for the logo from my family.  At my house I am called "Boo"; hence my logo.  Anyway if anyone has any idea or helpful tip that they can give me I would really appreciate it! I am going to die If I do not get the ghost the way I want it to without it looking like a large oval shaped blob with indents for the eyes, nose and, mouth.
P.S. Here is Casper the friendly ghost. Trying to get his basic shape in cheetah.