Halloween is truly one of my favorite holidays of the year. It's up there with my birthday (yes it's a holiday to me) and Christmas. It's a great time to dress up and pretend to be someone else. A time to just be a kid again. I'm sure you can dress up and pretend when you are older, but then you just get strange looks and people don't talk to you lol.
Though this year was a bit high strung and stressed, thanks to J. But I think with me spilling so much of my personal life lately I will be keeping some things to be self for a while. In the end of it all we had a great time.
We carved two pumpkins, Autobots and Decepticons. That was an adventure, usually I have Preston helping me, but he couldn't take off from work early so it was just me and the kiddo. I'd have to say we did a damn good job.
The only festivity we didn't partake in was decorating the home. With us trying to clean out our storage units, unpack boxes, and sort things for a garage sale we had no room for decorations. It was ok though Nyx didn't seem too bothered by that. It was the pumpkins he really wanted.
After carving the pumpkins we decided to check out the festivities happening in the mall. They had arts and crafts tables set up, a pirate (fish pond)game, a haunted house and a performance of Thriller in the food court. We did them all. With Nyx's favorite being the Thriller performance, we sat through two shows of it. Mine was the haunted house. The set up was ok I guess it was better than previous years, but it being Nyx's first time was what I loved about it. He started off excited, then as we went through he got a little scared, and then once we were out he was Joe Cool "It wasn't that scary." But when asked if he wanted to do it again he quickly replied "No." lol.
The most awkward part of our trick or treating? Have to be the fact that Preston, Nyx, and I also had J. with us. No fighting or bickering happened, but I swear J. always amazes me on how he survives everyday. Yet alone the fact that I have to leave my son in his hands every weekend. :|
Nyx dressed up as Bakugan Dan. It was really cute and his favorite part of his costume was the gloves. I think it's the whole Micheal Jackson thing. I'm quite surprised he didn't choose to be M.J. in the first place. Amazingly, this is the first time his costume actually fit him perfectly too. Since he is on the small size his costumes are usually hanging off of him. :)
I dressed up as Chun Li from, yes, Street Fighter. Initially I wanted to be her, but the moment I put in my order I was second guessing myself. I really wanted to be the Baroness from G.I. Joe, but for the life of me couldn't find her costume. Then I wanted to be the Mad Hatter, but Hope and Monique already had claims to her. Then I fell in love with The Queen of Hearts expect her costume was $164. I then ordered Ms. Krueger outfit. When that outfit came in and Nyx saw it, jealousy overcame him. He's starting to get into the whole Horror movie genre and loves Freddy and Jason. I was literally ordered to be Chun Li and that next year we will dress up as the Krueger family.
So Chun Li it was. I actually ended up loving it. Since this makeup addiction is taking over me I actually went with Jen @ FrmHeadtoToe's Snowy Ice Princess tutorial to complete Chun Li's look. But I made a few changes to it. I used much less sparkle and didn't add NYX's (the cosmetics not to be confused with my son lol) purple I stuck with mainly The Body Shop's 01 palette. I have to say I loved the end result.
So that sums up our Halloweeen, now I shall drown you in pictures. :D
Makeup tutorial courtesy of Jen FrmHeadtoToe.com Snowy Ice Princess Tutorial.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 18:28 