If you wanna be the Spice Girls

Last night me, Hannah and three of our friends went to the sixth form Halloween party dressed up as the Spice Girls. You may have read about our plans for this venture in Halloween #3 and Leopard Print Loathing, but I think that it's nice for you to see the finished product.

We all got ready at Baby Spice's house, to a soundtrack of the Spice Girls Greatest Hits album, and had great fun creating a faux bob for Posh, drawing on liquid eyeliner tattoos for Sporty and applying layers of bronzer to Scary.

The party had a lax fancy dress code, so when we arrived we were concerned that no-one else had dressed up, however as the night progressed plenty of people showed up in costume: a kilted Scotsmen, a group of surgeons, Cupid and Snow White, amongst others. The winner of the fancy dress costume was a guy dressed up in a giant inflatable willy costume, which probably tells you all you need to know about the class and tone of the party.

The guy at the bar knew exactly who I was dressed up as, which is the most important thing for me when it comes to fancy dress - there is nothing more awkward than talking to someone at a fancy dress party and having them ask you who you're supposed to be. I was also happy because my costume wasn't very slutty - it may have been short, but it wasn't up my arse and my boobs were nowhere near out.

With my first Halloween party of 2012 over, I can now really look forward to the second one on Tuesday.

Oh, and Spookbook is back! You can check out the entries so far and submit your own here.
Happy Halloween!

Costumes

I adore dressing up, I always have done. When I was little I'd always go to my auntie's house dressed up as something (usually a fairy) and I was a witch every single Halloween without fail.
I still love Halloween now, last year my friend had a party and I went as a bumble bee. Admittedly, a bumble bee doesn't sound too Halloween-y, but type in "Halloween costumes" on Google images and it's up there. I don't like buying costumes, mostly because the majority of them are a bit low, a bit short and a bit tight for my liking, and they cost about £30 which would make me feel obliged to wear it again - but I want to be something different at every fancy dress party! So, my bumble bee was a cheap DIY effort - I bought wings and a child's tutu from Poundland. I was very impressed that I fit into an age 3-5 tutu! I then bought some black and yellow netting to fill out the tutu a little more. I wore black tights and bought yellow and black legwarmers from a market hall, along with some neon yellow eyeshadow. I made a mini top hat and attached two pipe cleaner antennae, then wore a black vest top. All together it came in at about a tenner! Bargain!  
Sadly, there's no decent pictures of me in my outfit, because I prefer to hide away from the camera!


Lookbook had a competition back around Halloween time, where people were asked to take pictures of themselves in their Halloween costumes, you can look through all the entries here.
Here's a sample - they're amazing!

Hmm... D tomorrow... I'll see what I can DO!