This is Halloween

Yayy! It's officially my favourite day of the year! And so, I thought that I'd share a post with you all in celebration of this wonderful occassion. I usually go to a Halloween party either on the day or the weekend before, however this year I stayed at home which to be honest, suits little introverted me just fine. Being able to dance around the house listening to my Halloween playlist in my comfy PJ's, all toasty warm and not having to deal with the anxiety of having to go out has been perfect! I've had a lot of fun creating another spooky makeup look and pumpkin carving and watching a scary movie (there will be quite a few more watched before it's bedtime too!). This post will just be one of the rambling kinds, but I hope you all enjoy reading nonetheless :) 

The first Halloweeny activity that I did today was to finish putting up my decorations. I had planned on getting my bedroom decorated earlier in the month, however lots of things in life like to get in the way of my productivity and motivation, so I ended finally doing that today. I am going to be leaving my spooky decor up until it's Christmas time so it's gonna be on display for at least a month, if not a little longer. When I set up my decorations in my bedroom, I usually create a combination of a Halloween display and a traditional pagan Samhain alter. Samhain is basically the original Halloween, the festival marking the coming of the darker, cold months and the end of the harvest. However, this year my decor is mostly Halloween-based since almost all of my stones and willow wand are stored away ready for starting the decorating of my new bedroom. So, anyhow here are some lots of photographs of my Halloween display!

On top of my chest of drawers, I have added LOTS of spoopy decorative pieces, including quite a few things from Wilkos: the bat garland that I've attached to my wall underneath my art print display, an array of different halloween tinsels, and some spooky character sequins/confetti. I have collected most of the other decorations, such as the little jack-o-lantern lights, the skull mason jar (a gift from my dad), the pumpkin 'fairy' lights and the frosted glass jar that has a face reminiscent of Jack Skellington's (a gift from my mom), over the last month or so from either local Poundshops or my hometown's Quality Save store (a store owned by the same company as B&M). 

For the rest of the decor, I used various horror and halloweeny themed collectable vinyl figures from my ever-growing collection. Oh, and my Jack & Sally tsum tsums from the Disney store, both displayed sitting on top of a pumpkin and nearby an ugly green seasonal squash, both from Lidl. The adorable Halloween hello kitty plushie was a birthday present I got a few years ago from my best friend ♥ The Wednesday Addams art print is from a previous Spooky Box Club subscription, which you can read all about here if you're interested :) So, what do you guys think of my halloween display?

Before I show you guys my Halloween look, here is the Jack-O-Lantern face that I carved this evening. It's supposed to be a Cheshire Cat, but his mouth didn't quite go to plan. Can you tell what he's supposed to be though? Probably not, hahaha! I think he's very cute either way. Next to him, you can see my sister's very skillful work on her pumpkin. Can you believe this is the first one she's ever carved as well? She's super good at art unlike me but I think that's clear to see *insert embarrassed monkey emoji here*. My pumpkin looks great though with a tealight inside, on top of my drawers amongst my other Halloween decorations all lit up! I find  the soft orange flow very relaxing too so it will be nice to have them turned on whilst I'm laying in bed at night. Did you carve a pumpkin this year? If so, what pattern did you choose to carve? Carving a pumpkin is definitely one of my favourite things to do this time of year. I love the smell of fresh pumpkin too, not so much the taste though!

So finally, here's is my makeup look of the day! If you follow me on social media, you'll may have already seen it, but if not, ta-da!

 I am now a vampire! It's official. I have red eyes and pearly-white fangs and everything! ;) I actually did a vampire look last year for Blogtober, but I wanted to up my game this year and try something that I've been wanting to for years and years... contact lenses! LOOK AT MY EYES GUYS (I love random ryhmes)!! One of the only things that was really holding me back from experimenting with contact lenses was my fear of damaging my eyes. You hear all these horror stories about people stratching the surface of their eyes or having a lens get lost somewhere which means a trip of the hospital. However, I decided to brave my nerves as I have lots of friends who wear fashion lenses and they've never had a problem, plus they look so flippin' cool! 

After watching a massive amount of contact lens related videos over on Youtube, I came to the conclusion that it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be; all the youtubers made it look easy and so I decided to buy some red contacts from the Terror Eyes range at Wildcat, because I'd heard it was a good brand. I was very happy with how bright they were! The fangs are from the same brand that I used for my previous vampire look, 'small sexy fangs' by Scarecrow. I wrote a review all about them last year, I love them! 

As for the makeup that I used:

- My usual base makeup, Rimmel London Wake Me Up Foundation & Concealer (in Ivory)
- My new Makeup Revolution Ghost Powder, applied on top of my base
- Another new Makeup Revolution product, Ghost Highlight (this was actually the first highlight I've ever used!)
- For my eyes: white eyeshadow from my Makeup Revolution Redemption Eyeshadow 'Acid Brights' palette, Rimmel London black kohl pencil liner, Collection Extreme 24hr felt tip liner and Rimmel London Volume Flash mascara
- From my lips: Maybelline Color Sensational Mattes 'Divine Wine' Lipstick, and a tube of fake blood (applied using a cotton bud). 

Other than the vampire-esque accessories that I bought, I decided to keep the makeup look very simple. Partly because I didn't want to add too much eye makeup that might irritate my eyes since this was my first time wearing the lenses, and also because I wanted the attention to be on my red eyes and the blood effect around my mouth. I am really really happy with how my completed vampire makeup looked! I actually felt good about myself, confident and in the mood to take selfies, which doesn't happen very often :) Let me know what you all think in the comments. 

Now that my post is all done, it's time to go watch some horror movies. I'm thinking a classic one from the 80's, when most of my favourite horrors were released or maybe a Rob Zombie one because I absolutely adore his work! Horror fans, what's your favourite movie? If you don't like horrors, I'd still love to hear what your favourite non-scary movie to watch at Halloween time. Next time I blog it will be November... how is the year going by this quickly!! I hope you all had a lovely day, whether you celebrate Halloween or not :)

Thankyou for reading!

 ♥

How did you spend this Halloween? 

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