Remember how I said I would post my DC pictures today? Well that will just have to wait until next week because this week’s FBFF questions are so fun- they’re all about Halloween! In the past few years, Halloween has easily become one of my favorite holidays. During my childhood, I wasn’t allowed to dress up or go trick-or-treating, which took a lot of the fun out of the day. Needless to say, when I celebrated my first real Halloween in college, I partied hard ;) Also, Halloween in college was a multiple-day celebration, so for most years I had two costumes!
2007- Pirate
2007- Robin Hood
2008- Beekeeper
2009- Fashion Police (jk, I was a detective)
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2010- Tightrope Walker
1. Do you have plans for Halloween? What will you dress up as this year? Yes, I think I do now! This is my first Halloween out of college, so I wasn’t sure how/if any of my friends were celebrating. Thankfully, one of my friends decided to organize a Halloween party for us all! However, finding that out last week means I am so behind on my costume planning! I really like to be creative with my costumes, which means they take a while to make. However, I don’t think I’ll have enough time this year to pull something really amazing together. As far as costume ideas, my roomie suggested Daenerys from Game of Thrones and since I am currently obsessed with that series, it might just be a great costume for me…
2. Where do you go for costume and makeup inspiration? This is going to sound obvious, but I just turn to google and literally search “halloween costume ideas!” Sometimes my friends and I bounce ideas off each other, or in the case of the beekeeper costume above, I was reading The Secret Life of Bees at the time which definitely served as my inspiration for the costume. Also, youtube is a great place for makeup tutorials! My friend was a mermaid last year and we used a trick we saw in a youtube video to create the lovely effect of scales all over here face (see an example here).
3. What was the best costume you’ve ever donned? I think my favorite costume so far was the tightrope walker costume. It took a lot of effort to put together, including making the skirt and adding various embellishments to the top and pole, but all that hard work makes me especially proud of how it turned out!
4. What’s the most creative costume you’ve ever seen? Gosh, I don’t know! I think the most creative costumes are the ones where you take what you have and make it into something completely new. For example, my friend went as a battery (see above) and she took pieces she already owned and whipped up a great costume in a matter of hours!
5. No holds barred if you could dress up as anything, what would it be? I would love to dress up as Blair or Serena from Gossip Girl- designer clothes included please! ;)
Tell me: What’s your all-time favorite Halloween costume?
As usual, I’d love to hear your answers to any and all of these questions in the comments! :)
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![It's a very belated book haul! These are the four books I picked up on my trip to Australia back in May. Of course I had to check out some bookstores on my first trip to Sydney and I think I ended up visiting 9 in total (check out my stories to see the mini bookstore vlog I made)!
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It was so fun book shopping over there since majority of the covers are different from our US covers. I couldn't resist this pretty edition of PACHINKO, which I've already read. And when I picked up this copy of PEOPLE PERSON, I was so excited to see it because it wasn't out yet in the US at that time. I also bought two books that I hadn't heard of before I discovered them in the bookstore: IDOL and LOVE AND OTHER PUZZLES.
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Do you tend to prefer US or UK book covers?
[P.S. This is an old photo that includes a HarperCollins UK title, but please note that I support the HarperCollins Union.]
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[ID: A stack of the following books sits on top of white bedding in front of a white wall (from top to bottom): PACHINKO, IDOL, LOVE AND OTHER PUZZLES, PEOPLE PERSON.]
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Oh, coming up with costumes is HARD. I love your detective look!
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I love the beekeeper costume – and that’s great that you are celebrating this year, Halloween should never pass uncelebrated in my book.
xoxo ~ Courtney
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I looooove your beekeper costume! And yeah, I don’t think we’ll ever have Halloween parties like in college again… but that might be a good thing!
I am getting so excited for Halloween. I cant decide what to be so I have three costumes planned :) If you end up dressing up as Daenerys (and I hope you do) please please post pics!!
No way – my boyfriend and I are going as a bee and bee keeper this year! I’m sure his costume won’t be nearly as adorable as yours, though.
There were a couple kids I knew growing up who also weren’t allowed to dress up for Halloween (I forget what branch of Christianity they practiced…). I’m glad you’re getting to enjoy it now, though, because it’s always been my favorite holiday!
Ah Blair would have the BEST wardrobe! She’s so gorgeous too, love your photos. So much fun, love the white dress :)
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I love your tightrope walker costume! I don’t think I’ve seen that one before. I also wasn’t allowed to celebrate Halloween growing up either, so during college, it started becoming my favorite holiday.
I love all of these costumes! I have no idea what I’m going to be this year, but my 2-year-old niece is going to be a bumblebee and she is SOCUTE in her costume! :)
I love all of your costumes! They are so much fun. Halloween is most definitely my favorite out of all of the holidays. It’s just way too much fun.
The tightrope walker is super creative, I have not spotted that around. This year, I’m curious as to how many Pan Am flight attendants I’ll see. Happy Halloween!
omg– your houndstooth detective outfit is soooo cute!
that beekeeper idea is really cute! I don’t know if I’ll put anything together this year, last year wasn’t the most fun for me, and I’d rather shop for things I’ll wear a lot ;)
Happy weekend!
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Nnenna, you are so so creative! I love all your costumes, and I will definitely take inspiration from you! Thanks for sharing!
xoxo, Veena
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the beekeeper was really creative. heck, all of them are.
I only ever remember dressing for halloween once and my mom made me a cat costume ha! It was cool. I love your detective outfit!
Ohhhh, how fun!!! You look gorgeous. I love the outfits!
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nice!! i love your costumes!
YAY! Fave holiday! Stay tuned @ my blog! We are going to the PLAYBOY MANSION HALLOWEEN PARTY!
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Your beekeeper costume was really cute! I like how your friend was a bee too. :) Also, I definitely know how you feel about wanting to dress up as Blair or Serena for Halloween. I’d love to dress like them too…but for every day!
I am going with a look very similar to the bee above!
He he he! I love Halloween, you have a lot of imagination with your costumes!
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I love all your costumes throughout the years. Tightrope walker is a really cute idea! I think my all time favorite costume that I’ve worn was when I went as a Genie as a little girl, I don’t have the body to wear a two piece costume anymore but it certainly was cute at the time. Sadly I don’t have a single picture of it. Happy Halloween even if it is belated.
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