Outfit | Big fat pumpkin

Hiya pumpkins!

I had so many Halloween outfits planned but because SAD is kicking my butt and I'm sleeping so much I'm not seeing a whole lot of daylight to take photos.

Here's one I did manage to do.

I bought this t shirt very cheaply from eBay. It's a Fruit of the Loom shirt, which surprised me because it was so cheap. The print will wear off over time, but it'll probably look even cooler then.

The leaves in the background are the ones I mentioned my Autumn Lusts post. I gave some to my mum and my aunt as well. It came with 10 lengths, and I used 3 here. I've saved one to make a hair accessory with.

I'm wearing:

Hair flower, Off With Her Head Millinery
Earrings, present from Mookie
Pumpkin t shirt, eBay
Skirt, past season New Look Inspire
Shoes, past Everything 5 Pounds

What are you doing for Halloween? I was going to a zombie walk but I need to rest my knee. Have a great weekend.

Leah xoxo

Outfit Post || Dem Bones

Hiya pumpkins!

Happy Halloween! This is my last Halloween outfit post this year for obvious reasons. :) It's a kinda mis-matched punky look.

T-shirt, New Look Inspire £9.99 (appears to be sold out now, check stores.)
Leopard print skirt, past season New Look Inspire
Black skirt, very old Igigi
Leggings, Primark £5
Shoes, past season Very
Pumpkin hair flower, OWHH Millinery flower of the month club
Ghost necklace, Hootie McBoutique £9
Lippie, Black Heart lip velvet by Makeup Revolution

Are you doing anything for Halloween? We're going to a private firework show tonight with some friends. It should be good!

Have a great weekend and thanks for reading.
Leah xoxo

Outfit Post || Halloween Pumpkin

Hello lovelies!

I'm here with another Halloween outfit. This is my penultimate one. I'm wearing the Boohoo pumpkin dress.

The fabric is very thin, the sewing on it leaves a lot to be desired and the application of the pumpkin details is poor quality - the kind that cracks when the fabric is stretched. But all that said, I'm dressed as a frigging PUMPKIN! :)

Boohoo pumpkin dress, 
Skirt, past season Yours Clothing
Shoes & fascinator, from my Facebook friend Lauren
Pumpkin basket, Morrisons

You may notice I'm putting my watermark quite prominently on my photos now. This is because an unscrupulous arsehole has pinched one of my blog photos to use on his website which is full of other purloined photos of women. He runs Adsense on the site, and he's profiting from his thievery. There are no links to me or anyone else he's stolen photos from, just pictures of women in dresses.

Yet another weirdo is sucked into my orbit. Anonymity is looking pretty good right now! ;)

Thanks for reading!
Leah xoxo

Outfit Post || The ghost with the most

Hello lovelies!

Another week has whizzed by, and here in the UK our clocks have gone back meaning it's getting dark at 4pm now. James and I got out of the house on Friday, Saturday and yesterday to top up the Vitamin D and I feel so much better for it.

We took photos of a couple more Halloween outfits, this one being the one I was most looking forward to - the one with the ASOS Curve ghost dress. James loves me spending money like most people like having teeth pulled - not a lot! But when I showed him this dress he said 'You should buy it!' so I did. :)

Of course I wanted to take photos in a cemetery. It's rather fitting, don't you think?

Cardigan, from Mookie

Dress, ASOS Curve sold out

Skull bag, eBay

180 denier bamboo tights, Donatella's

Boots, past season New Look wide fit
Scarf (in last shot) eBay
Cadimhe star necklace, Missguided
Bracelet, Bluebirds and Daisies
Lipstick, Serpent by Makeup Revolution

I won't rave on too much about how soft and comfortable this dress is because it sold out in lightning speed and doesn't appear to be coming back. Boo. But it is very soft and comfortable and comes to just above my knee at the back, even taking into account my shelf butt, which steals inches like cute dogs steal food under the dinner table.

These tights! I've been wanting thick ribbed tights in my size for ages. And now I have them, yaaasss! Cosy, warm, totally opaque tights which are so warm I never want to take them off. You can't make me. Top tights tip - if you're wearing boots and want to wear socks, put them on under your tights. That way the socks don't yank your tights upwards and cut off the circulation to your toes. Especially important when wearing fishnets or you'll garrotte them little piggies.

Glowing ghosts. Oo-ooh-ooh-oooo!

Thanks for reading!
Leah xoxo

Outfit Post || All trick no treat

Hello love bugs,

SAD and PMS are kicking the shit out of me right now. This is as much of an outfit as I could muster today and that involves no makeup, no accessories and sod all done with my hair. I had to go out to post parcels and I couldn't do it naked...

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This t-shirt is one of last year's New Look Inspire Halloween goodies, but they have a very nice skeleton one which may or may not have already fallen into my basket. ;) This one glows in the dark, and so does the skeleton one. Earlier on I came out of the bathroom into the dark hallway and caught myself glowing (I'd forgotten) and called James out to come and have a look.

The t shirt is really thin but I don't mind it at this time of year when I can get away with a cardigan over the top of a shirt and still be warm. The skirt was a sale purchase from Very earlier in the year and has the fat girl holy grail - pockets! The skirt and top are both a size 24, which shows trying smaller sizes can sometimes work! I have everything from a size 18 to size 32 in my wardrobe. Hell, I have a coat that's a size 24 from last year and one from last year that's a size 32 and they fit identically! Try, try, try and don't take ANY notice of the size. If it fits you, then buy it. 

I'm wearing the dark purple cardi from New Look I wore previously, a skirt from South by Very and my shoes from Very also.

These early dark evenings and grey days are sucking all the joy out of me. Without being too much of an emo I'm finding life really difficult at the moment. I have no motivation. All I do is sleep and read and some days I only eat one meal and a snack a day. I've been making sure to get some fruit in mah belleh every day but other than that I'm a disaster area. I must've read about 20 books in the last month alone. Maybe I should write a post about that? Heh.

I'm dreading the clocks going back. My sleep is so screwed at the moment I don't fall asleep until about 6 am (no matter what time I go to bed) so I'm waking up halfway through the afternoon. James is really struggling to cope with work at the moment as he's so tired so I'm going to work on him buying us a SAD lamp as I know it'll benefit us both. UK peeps - how are you doing with the winter blues?

New Look Inspire dark purple cardi
T shirt, last year's New Look Inspire
Skirt, South by Very
Shoes, past Very

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend.

Leah xoxo

P.S. I'll hopefully drag myself out of bed early enough this weekend to take photos of another Halloween outfit I have planned (much nicer than this one!)

Previous Halloween dress up

Hiya lovelies.

I'm not going out this Halloween (BOOOOO!) so I thought I'd do a run down of some previous outfits.

On Halloween 2008 we went to see Slayer. Since they're such a bunch of damned-to-hell souls I though dressing up as a fat vicar would be apt. The outfit went down well and a lot of people loved it.

I miss you funky hair!

For Halloween 2009 we went to the Brighton zombie walk, which was awesome. I went as a zombie bowling enthusiast with a bowling shirt and bag.

In 2011 I didn't go anywhere but I dressed up and took photos anyway.

I put a whole can of Batiste into my hair and smothered by body and clothes in talc.

Again, last year I didn't go out but I did some witchy make up.

We also went to a Halloween themed wedding last year. Full post here, including the Mr's outfit.

I don't just dress up on Halloween. I'll dress up for any reason, especially if the theme is spooky or pirate! I have some other photos I can share from other fancy dress occasions another time.

Do you dress up for Halloween? What's been your favourite outfit, if so?

Thanks for reading.

Witchy Halloween look

Hi loves!

Here's a little late Halloween look I did tonight for fun.

You'll notice in all photos there is wig hair all over my face because the wig had a mind of its own. It was a relief to take it off, that's for sure!

What I used:

Eyes/facial shading
Barry M Cherry Red dazzle dust shade DD84
Urban Decay black shade from Naked palette 1 (also used to fill brows in.)
(I mixed the red and black to make a purplish bruise shade.)
Avon Supershock Max mascara in black

Lips
MUA Red Drama lipliner
Barry M black lipstick shade 37
No name pink gloss in centre of bottom lip

Face
elf Flawless Finish Foundation in Porcelain

Wig
ebay

What did you do for Halloween?

Creepy Halloween OOTN Mr & Mrs

Hiya lovelies.

Here are the outfits hubby and I wore on Friday night to our friends' Halloween-themed evening wedding celebrations.

 My outfit:

Wig, ebay
Devil horns, random Halloween shop
Cardi, ebay
Top, Dorothy Perkins (over 10 years old, in a size 18, natch!)
Obi belt, ASOS
Maxi skirt, Simply Be
DM shoes, Amazon

Hubby's outfit:

Scythe and grim reaper costume, ebay.

This is hubby's first ever outfit post on the blog. Say hello to the Mr!

I used Snazaroo face paints (from ebay, bought last year) in black and white to make myself look spooky. I used black in the hollows of my cheeks, under my chins, down my neck and over my collar bones. It looked quite effective. When I took it all off at the end of the night it left my face and chest really soft and it felt moisturised. Bonus!

Are you dressing up for Halloween?

I think I'm going to do scary make up on Wednesday for Halloween even though we're not going out that night. Just for the fun of it!