Halloween
Costumes
By the first week of October, we have all made our decisions
about what Halloween costumes we will wear for the current
year and placed our orders for them, usually from the
online store,
Costume Kingdom, because of their great selection and
service.
Experience has taught us
to order our Halloween costumes well in
advance of October 31st. This gives us time to make sure that
the costumes fit well, fill our needs and also to accessorize.
Doing this also gives
us time to exchange a costume if necessary way before the night
we'll
will be wearing it.
While
they don't sell costumes,
Halloween-Online.com and
AdultHalloweenCostumes.com have all sorts of great
Halloween costume suggestions for men, women and couples.
Halloween
Nail Art
I've always made sure that if nothing else looked good
on me, my nails were always perfect. I've been that way
my whole life, totally obsessed with my nails. So, it would figure that I also love painting my
finger and toe nails for the holidays, starting with
Halloween. I usually paint them in a black and orange French
style for the first two
weeks of October, then orange, yellow and white strips, to look like candy corn for the next two weeks and lastly,
something that goes well with my chosen Halloween costume.
This has been a tradition
with me for about 25 years. I wear acrylic and tips on
my nails, they vary in length depending on the time of
year. I always put on a long, curved set for October to
give them that extra "witchy" look. You can do
it yourself or go to a nail salon to have a set put on
and painted for Halloween. If you do it yourself, all you need are some French manicure guide strips
(curved or Chevron shaped), black,
orange, yellow, white and clear nail polishes and some
time.
It would take a whole page to give the instructions on
how to do it, so go to
the
Halloween Online Nail article, which has step by step
instructions and pictures.
About 15 years ago I suggested to my husband that he let me paint
his toe nails black for the entire month of October. It took
some heavy convincing since he's a good, old fashion traditional man, not
one of those "Metro" guys. Finally, he let me do it. Now when
October is just around the corner, he actually reminds me that
I'll need to give him a pedicure and paint his toe nails
black soon. I really look forward to doing it! No one
knows but us that he's wearing his "Goth" toenails under
those socks and Doc's.
