Dress + Up

Time to recap this year's Halloween costumes.

Halloween is, for obvious reasons, a fabulous excuse to dress up and be something you've always wanted to be but have never been able to be because cultural restrictions forbid it to be socially acceptable. Aka Lana Del Rey.

Sadly, Lana's Born To Die video is not well-known enough to have been instantly recognized by many people (I got a lot of statue of liberty and greek goddess guesses...) but if you take the time to actually compare my creation to her music video, you'll see what a genius I am (made the flowered headdress myself!)

watch it here.

Chantagold. If I can ever have an excuse to put gold leaf on my face, I will.

A generic knight of sorts. Monty Python? sure, I'll take it. 

If only there were more days in a halloweekend.

Happy + Halloween

So this Halloween I decided to go as "political incorrectness" and donned a rather fanciful headdress. But what REALLY excited me was the fact that I tried applying gold leaf to my face- and it was AWESOME! I just bought gold leaf from an art store, applied some Vaseline to my cheeks and BAM gold leaf to the face. 

The next night I was just going to go as "Chantagold" so I could do it to my whole body, but alas, I decided to go as the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (slash 80's biker chick?) so I could wear a cool dragon tattoo I had. Also please note my lip ring. I would wear that everyday if I could manage to maneuver food and water around it. 

Every weekend should be Halloweekend.