dressing up – always a blue sky girl

Do you love Halloween? I most certainly do!!!

With three young boys, my Halloween consists now of more trick and treating than wild parties but any chance to dress up is always a “yes” from me!

This year my office had a dress up day as Halloween was on the Monday, so I thought I’d show you my costume. I’m a bit of a geek so like things that are quite accurate and/or clever so…

Yes, I was Wednesday Addams!!! I loved the TV show growing up and the modern film versions are cool too.

Fashion-wise, I bought a high necked black dress a size too big in a charity shop, wore a fitted white shirt undernearth and accessorised with a vintage belt, leather ankle boots and striped tights. Oh and added a spider as we all know Wednesday’s pet is a spider called Homer! (thanks Google!!!)

Then the rest was just hair and make-up – I centre-parted my hair and plaited it and made my face ghostly pale with dark eye make-up and black lipstick. Its spooky, kinda cool but still pretty stylish I think!

Did you dress up this Halloween? I would love to know what you went as…

Dress – charity shop
Shirt – Matalan
Belt – vintage
Tights – Poundland
Boots -Next
White face powder/black lipstick – Claires Accessories

What did you get up to on New Years Eve?

We were lucky enough to be invited to two parties and split our time between family and friends and of course I took the opportunity to get dressed up!

What I wore –

I wanted a formal look that was a bit quirky and definitely sexy so went for a mix of underwear as outerwear and vintage! The skirt is an amazing vintage Frank Usher layered chiffon maxi skirt with a wired hem that makes it ‘swoosh’ out. Being vintage its fixed waistband was a tight fit on me even though the label said 14 – thats one of the things I hate about vintage…vain I know! But it certainly is a fabulous skirt. I teamed it with a black lace body with 3/4 length sleeves from the Secret Possessions range at Primark and a black satin underwear underneath.

Hair and make-up –

With it being NYE I went for a full face of make-up with Barry M smoky grey Dazzle Dust eyeshadow, highlighted with an amazing L’Oreal holographic silver shadow, black liquid eye liner and a wine coloured lip.

My hair was freshly washed in L’Oreal Paris Elvive Nutri-Gloss Crystal Sparkling Shampoo and conditioner (which gives a lovely shine) then dried while it was up in a loose bun to create full beachy waves. I pinned a few sections away from my face and finished with Ellnet hair spray.

Accessories –

As I was wearing such a dramatic skirt I went quite light on accessories wearing a pair of drop diamante earings and a novelty bag both from New Look. This chocolate bar clutch makes me smile whenever I use it!

And that was my New Years Eve look for 2015! I had a absolutely fabulous night and felt like a gothic princess which in my opinion, is not a bad thing to feel like! I hope you had fun too whatever you were doing.

Lace Body – Primark

Satin body (underwear) – Very.co.uk

Maxi skirt – Frank Usher (vintage)

Earrings – New Look

Clutch bag – New Look