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Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Frightful and Delightful - Halloween Wish List 2013

Halloween, oh how I love Halloween!

In the lead up to Halloween, I am currently lusting after many items that I have seen online. I have compiled a list of my favourites! I am very tempted to buy all of these...
Click the photo to enlarge.
(Photos from store websites)

Skeleton Dress - Missguided
Skull T-shirt - River Island
Lime Crime 'Poisonberry' Opaque Lipstick - Love Make Up (UK stockist)
Halloween Nail Wraps - Topshop
Pumpkin Face Jumper - Topshop

I am also looking to buy a long black wig. I would really like to try black hair, but without making the permanent commitment. I made that mistake back in 2007...
A black wig would be ideal for Halloween, but also for after Halloween.
Any recommendations of reasonably priced, good quality wigs would be very welcome!

Do you have a Halloween wish list?
Are you as excited as I am?

xXx

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Life's Little Updates

Hello, Hi, Howdy :)

It's been some time...

Lots going on in my life of recent times; holiday, my grandad's passing, funeral and wake, redundancy risk at work (ok now), money problems, good times, bad times, drunk times, life.
(and too much thinking about tattoos...)

Blogging has been at the back of my mind, though not forgotten, as I'm always thinking 'I must blog/I need to blog about this and that'.

This post is just a little update, sharing some things and all that.

Firstly, Halloween has been and gone. We spent 6 hours travelling home from our holiday in Great Yarmouth and after a nap, I really wasn't feeling up for going out but didn't want to miss Halloween.

I went as Beetlejuice (or Beetlejuicy, maybe...)

The following day was Day of the Dead. I had the day off, a lazy day. So I woke up and painted my face, as you do...
 
I was then gutted to find out this week, that I had been invited to Schwarzkopf's Ultra Brights event, which was on that Thursday and I could have gone, as I was off work but didn't see the email until this week, so gutted about that!

On to the hair...
The Raspberry Rebel has faded out a lot now, after about 10+ washes.
I am once again rocking multi-coloured hair but am still getting compliments, strange.

Just a holiday snap:
I felt like Ariel for a moment :)

Download Festival
More announcements came this week...
I was already extremely happy with the headline acts: Slipknot, Iron Maiden and Rammstein.
Then they announced:
Queens of the Stone Age, Thirty Seconds To Mars, THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, Motorhead, HIM and Alice in Chains
and one extra on Scuzz TV...
A Day To Remember!!! This made me (and a lot of people, judging on comments and the UK Twitter Trending!) very very happy. I love ADTR.
Some good acts announced, I did a sad little scream and got all 2007 me excited when they said 30 Seconds to Mars. I've seen them 8(?) times in the past, 5 in 2007 when I first discovered them. I've met the band (Hello, Jared Leto!!) a few times, one of my best memories. and I've been impatiently awaiting them to return with tour and new material. I CAN NOT WAIT.


So, tonight I fell asleep on my bed, then came online to discover a few exciting things...

1. Disney have a new Wizard of Oz movie out, Oz The Great and Powerful. March 8th 2013 UK people :)


2. Disney have a Little Mermaid Hotel...yes, A LITTLE MERMAID HOTEL...WITH LITTLE MERMAID ROOMS AND GIANT CHARACTERS OUTSIDE!!!!! OH MY.

So, I've planned my trip online, haha! £1672.35 each for 2 people, 2 weeks in July (my birthday included!!), including flights, Little Mermaid room and 14 day Disney Ultimate Park Pass. I NEED TO GO.

3. Talia Castellano, YouTube.
I've just watched a couple of videos but plan to watch more when I have some time.
Talia is 13 years young and fighting 2 types of cancer; MDS and Nueroblastoma. She describes makeup as her 'wig', a way of making her happy and inspiring others.
Truly inspirational and a beautiful girl, check out her YouTube channel.

That's all for now, hope you are all well.

I've got some Batiste reviews to get up, so I'll try get those on this week :) YAY for new Batiste!

xXx

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Halloween Outfits

It's almost Halloween!

One of my favourite times of the year, I love Halloween.

As a big fan of dressing up, I did a post last year on my previous Halloween costumes, you can check them out here.

and here's last year's costume, the Queen of Broken Hearts.

Very basic, last minute and pretty quick.

Costume owned for years and worn a few times before, hair just scrunched up when wet and makeup just OTT evil looking with some serious brows.



Do you love Halloween as much as I do?

This year's costume is still undecided. I originally planned to buy a Grotesque Burlesque costume but have now decided I need the money and have so much I can use at home already! I'll do a post after Halloween, no doubt.

I'm away on holiday from 6am tomorrow, returning on Halloween, when I'll be in a mad rush to sort a costume and go out. So I won't have access to my blog until after then.

I hope you all have a lovely Halloween. Leave comments below, I'd love to know what you are dressing as, if you have any exciting plans or links to your Halloween blogposts :)

Happy Halloween!!!!

xXx

I now need to stop procrastinating and go pack my suitcase, gah! Help.

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

The Halloween Post *Pic Heavy*

Hey girlies :)

So, my final post on Halloween...as promised!

I went out on Monday night (Halloween) to C:21 nightclub, for Miss Roxy's Halloween Extravaganza (gay night!).  Lloyd Daniels was there performing, and Marlon(?) from X Factor was also there watching.  I don't really remember what Lloyd Daniels was like on X Factor, I only remember the voice man saying 'LLOYD DANIELS!' in the over dramatic voice (you know what I mean!), haha.

I went with my 2 'Fellow Jeggers', Aimee and Sally and boy, we had a good laugh!
Despite having work at 9am the next day, I managed to stay til close at 3:30am, eventually got home some time after 4:15am! I managed to get just 2 hours sleep before work, but felt fine!
However, I would like to add, never try Kamikaze shots!! I don't know what is in them, but they are WRONG!! Thanks Sal!

Anyway, on to the photos, apologies for the pic heavy post!

Queen of Broken Hearts


Queen of Broken Hearts and Aimee 'Corpse Bride'

Queen of Broken Hearts & Sally 'Chucky' (haha!) 


Bumped into my old friend Craig in C:21 so decided to have a Piggy Back ride, for old time sake :) We used to always do these when we hung out back last year, oh, those were the days!
In case you are wondering, it all started on Valentines Day 2010, when we were at the seaside and saw a kid laughing, having a Piggy Back ride, to which I said 'Oh, I miss Piggy Back rides!!'...and Craig told me to get on his back! The rest is history! Haha. He's a lot stronger than he looks! 

End of night shot

Aimee kindly gave us Trick or Treat goody bags, yay!

Accessories :) 

Stockings and shoes :)

My good old Leg Avenue Queen of Hearts costume :)

A closer look at my make-up (and another towel turban shot, haha!)
Basically, I planned the eyebrows and had the idea of the lips, but had no idea what else, so this was all a bit last minute.
The black on my cheeks started with fallout from the Barry M Dazzle Dust on my eyelids, I tried to wipe it off and it created the bruised look, so I dabbed bits of the DD over my face, smudging as I went along.
The black brows and mole were done using Barry M Waterproof eyeliner pencil.
Some old concealer on my lips, with a bit of Collection 2000 red lippie in the centre.
I also sprayed my face with hairspray to reduce the risk of melting brows/make-up!
This look is pretty simple really and took about 10 minutes!

 That was Halloween, and as an added extra, below are some photos from the night before Halloween.

After coming home from a day in town I decided to try out a witchy look. 

Products used to create my 10-Minute Witch look (plus my usual foundation, powder and mascara) 

Nails:
Barry M Spring Green with Purple Rain Nail Effects

The only topcoat I have is a glitter one, I thought this looked pretty :)
Difficult to photograph though!


Found these Mr Kipling Demon Cakes for £1 in Sainsburys...
Raspberry flavoured, YUM!!

In the evening I went for a non-alcoholic beverage at Source Vodka Bar with 2 of my lad mates and one of their female friends.
I decided, as it was the night before Halloween, to do a Halloween/witchy-inspired look :)
Again using the products mentioned higher up this post (but without the scariness and brows!)


I also tried to dress appropriate to the look :)
The top is about 10 years old, from Pilot (remember that shop??)
Maxi skirt: Select. One of my most worn items of clothing! Love it!
Bag: Primark


and that is the end :)
I hope you like and that this post wasn't too annoying, being so pic heavy!

Hope you all had a great Halloween and are having a nice week!
Mine has been a bit up and down really, but hey ho! One week tonight I shall be going to see Lee Evans with my mum, dad and sister for Dad and Donna's birthdays, YAY! I'm sure Lee Evans will cheer me up a treat :)

xXx

Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Halloween Nails: Eyeko Vampira

Hey girlies

So my Halloween outfit post will be uploaded tomorrow, as I haven't had chance to sort through the photos yet.

But for now I decided to share with you all, my Halloween nails.
I used Eyeko 'Vampira' Polish, which I bought MONTHS ago, before Eyeko's revamp and it has been in my 'Box of Unused Products' since, along with a few more Eyeko products!

Unfortunately (as always) I was running late to go out last night and in a rush I only had time to do one coat of polish, which didn't come out too great.

However, when I returned home at 4:30am, I decided to paint another coat on to see how it looks and get some photos to share with you all. Yes, I was painting my nails at 4:30am, I had work at 9am and did not get to bed until about 5:30/6am!! You could say I was pretty shattered at work today.
Much better with 2 coats! 

Unfortunately, with their revamp, Eyeko have stopped selling their nail polishes :(

I hope you all had a fab Halloween :)

Queen of Broken Hearts post to follow tomorrow.

xXx

Monday, 31 October 2011

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween :)

I LOVE fancy dress and Halloween is always great!

I tend to go more gory than cutesie at Halloween, it's all about the gore ;-)

I thought I'd share with you all some of my Halloween costumes from recent years...

2006 - Witch


2007 - Pumpkin

2008 - Dead Barbie 


I took Ken with me ^

The end of the night ^ I took my fake blood out, that's never good when drinking, I ended up covered in it, lol!

2009 - Vampiress

Eyes and photo colour edited ^




2010 - Dead Bride



and 2011...

Tonight 'Matthew' I am going to be...

THE QUEEN OF BROKEN HEARTS!!!

Photo to follow later on ;-)

Did you go out over the weekend/Are you going out tonight?
What have you dressed as this Halloween??

If you are going out tonight, have a great Halloween!
If you are staying in, have a nice night in!

xXx