Dressing Up for Halloween?

Can you guys believe that there are only 2 days left in the month?  That is crazy!  And it is supposed to start snowing here this weekend too so fall is really coming to an end.

Friday is Halloween.  What are you guys doing for the holiday?  Do you still dress up?

My parents have a party every year and this year the theme was monsters.  It was surprisingly harder to find good adult monster costumes than I thought it would be.  I ended up ordering my costume on Amazon and was a pink/green/white monster:

It was fun.  I will probably use my costume again for work on Friday, just for fun.

What are some good, fashionable costumes?  There are of course your Marilyn Monroes in the white dress, Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany's (speaking of which, did you see that the brownstone from the movie is currently on the market?  only $8 million to the lucky future resident).  But what are some other good, original ideas?

You could always be Twiggy.  That's another great icon that doesn't get as much play as the above stars:

If you were more current, you could be Lady Gaga or Nicki Minaj.  Between the two of them you probably could have costume ideas for the rest of you life!

It could also be a good year to do Miley Cyrus wrecking ball but everyone and their dog (literally) already played that one out when the video premiered:

I know that for little girls it is absolutely going to be the year for Frozen princesses.  There is no doubt about that one.

For adults, it is probably going to be the year for Maleficent.  Anyone that can actually pull off the Maleficent look has my stamp of approval, but if you're going to do it, you really need to do it.  That might be the ultimate costume, that I can think of, for this year.  Overall, it is a fairly simple costume, black dress, black wings, and a horned hat, but the hat needs to be spot on, it is what totally makes the costume.  That and the cheekbones.

And hey, if you are going all out on the Maleficent thing, you will totally need the Louboutins that Angelina and Louboutin collaborated on and she wore to the premiers right? ;)



Still need ideas?

Julep posted about 7 costumes you can make from things in your closet that are pretty clever.  I am in love with the Morton's salt girl.  They did a great job with that.  I am going to have to remember that for next year.  I have a yellow dress but not close enough of a match to pull this off like I would like.  Check out their ideas: Julep.

Louboutin My Love

Those who know me, know that I love Christian Louboutin.  His shoes are one of my few designer wants.  As I said in my first post, I don't generally want designer clothes.  I don't own designer clothes.  But there are a few things that one day I would like to own.  A pair of Louboutin pumps is one of them.  I love the traditional red sole.  I love the classics and if or when I ever own a pair of his shoes, they will probably be a classic black or nude pump so they don't ever go out of style.  I do however love some of his more funky designs as well - but, he does have some pretty ridiculous designs as well.  I do admit that.  That is true of pretty much every designer though.


These Lady Peep Strass' are cute for date night or special occasions.  They run $4,195.  Waaaayyyyy out of my price range for shoes.  Very fun cute though.



These Lady Peeps' in red patent are sexy.  I would rock these.  They're much cheaper than the Strass' and are priced at $945.  Still pretty steep for shoes in my book but very sexy and a red peep toe is pretty much always in style.



I think this Daffodile pump is pretty fun from the side.  It's comic book chic (Yes, I did just use "comic book" and "chic" in the same sentence).  Very fun and whimsical.  Priced  at $1,075.



I don't like them as much from the top though.  I don't need peoples faces on my shoes, unless I put them there ;)

I think these Lady Peep Spikes in gold are very punk rock and very fun.  Definitely not an every day heel but great for those days when you are feeling edgy.  I believe these run around $1,495 (at least the black version is that much.  The gold may and probably does cost more).

I could post dozens of pictures of Louboutins that I love but I won't spend all day doing that.  I think you get the idea.  Louboutins, to me, are the essence of shoe fabulousness.  They are the top tier as far as I am concerned.  And if you're going to rock a pair, go tall or go home.  Heels and pumps are where it's at with this designer.

What got me started on thinking about posting my <3 of Louboutin today is this post that louboutinworld posted on Instagram yesterday (if you aren't following them and you love shoes, you should be).

These are Hot Mouse.  I couldn't find them on the www.ChristianLouboutin.com website so I don't know how much they are but these are fantastic.  Definitely out there but WOW!  I love the pops of color.  I love the metal, textured heel.  I love the peep toe.  These are summer rock and roll.  If I could, I would be rocking these bad boys on the weekends.  Very fun!  Thumbs up from me for sure!