After pilates and yoga, I felt quite energised and decided to do feng shui for the Halloween party.
As I have so much stuff, ended up packing away my massive stash of summer slub t shirts and made space in my wardrobe for the Autumn and winter parties.
(I pay for my own products too, I do social media for fun and to generate ideas)
Have ordered loads of dresses and will order more, which I will wear for my social media projects, why not join in as it is great fun, and when you look through your wardrobe you will probably find clothes you can ad-lib with.
Halloween Ideas
If we look back in time to film stars like Ingrid Pitt, you can do a Halloween party whatever age you are, and go for Hammer Glamour instead of children’s Halloween parties.
I’m not against children doing Halloween parties, except trick or treating which is from America, and like begging if they go to people who don’t have children, also makes the people grumpy if they don’t do Halloween and just want a chilled-out evening after work.
As it has been this for so long I started to find Halloween irritating and stressful.
Apparently, loads of English people hate it and the trend has got the hint.
Dressing like Morticia Adams
Older women are supposed to do this look, fair enough but it is a bit freaky.
This is what the secret fashion police would tell women who are brunette, don’t do a red lip and heavy black eyebrows or you will look like Morticia Adams, the hairstyle doesn’t help your face shape either.
Really glad you can say freaky again.
For years we just watched Halloween and had some wine on Halloween after the trick-or-treaters had stopped irritating us.
Now I have found Countess Dracula glamour I have changed my mind.
She is a glamorous woman who just happens to be a vampire.
Go for something simple that is close to who you are, rather than full-on Morticia Adams
I’m just going to wear something black probably or you could do white like Countess Draculas victims and mini vampirettes.
Got an idea of how to do a red lip that works for a Halloween party where you look like a vampire but, it sort of doesn’t look like a red lip, it needs to be loreal matte red really though, you can’t purchase that at the moment though just a shiny red.
Will have to experiment with it. In fact you would want finer eyebrows to get it to not look awful.
I wouldn’t do a Halloween Makeup look either as I don’t suit loads of makeup and I’d feel stupid also.
Then whatever you purchase is value for money rather than stupid costumes blocking up your storage.
Dust
As usual I got covered in dust from some old garage shoes. Packed them in a Carvela box for a feng shui another day.
Also discovered a box that had attracted a lot of dust so I moved some of my stuff around and decided to throw it.
Hoping for some new storage when it is back in stock.
I found I have been so busy my storage wasn’t very organised so I have packed my boxes fuller.
Hand made Jewellery
Didn’t manage to find what I was looking for, some handmade jewellery. So have until the the end of October to find it.
If you love dressing up over the top and doing Halloween makeup, you are welcome to come to my Halloween party too. It is just me who hates fancy dress. I love going to fancy dress parties I just got sick of face paint and over-the-top costumes that left me feeling grumpy grouchy and uncomfortable.
Will do some party fashion as usual and the food and entertainment.
If you are British and feel like us about Halloween, maybe you are changing your mind now. This is the first time I’ve felt like doing Halloween since I was a child.
Ours was really humble ~ just some toys from Woolworths, hand made costumes, then simple Halloween food. Can’t even remember it that much as I was so little. We did a pumpkin Jack ‘o’ lantern also, but we didn’t have to go to an over the top American themed pumpkin field to get it.
Feng Shui Treasures
Found a Zandra Rhodes postcard with the model wearing a mask
Some art photos of Whitby, when it was free to visit the Abby
Some books on masks
My college notes and projects on mask and puppetry workshop
My old career folder
containing photos, curriculum vitae, and artist statement
Forgot I even had that.
Thoughts on the current trend on teenagers not going out and rubbish fashion
Have been thinking about this and have to say my look wasn’t on trend when I was a teenager, also none of the clothes fitted me then either.
One thing about being forced into having no confidence as the clothes didn’t fit me properly is it saved me from becoming a slapper, slag or whatever other slang word you would use to describe sleeping around.
When me and my friend were fretting about getting a boyfriend more popular girls who were tall and blonde were sleeping around, taking drugs, having more than one boyfriend at a time, and doing one-night stands.
Apparently, a lot of them regret it now.
I’m glad I wasn’t like that.
I had to make my own clothes as bitchy women in shops would laugh at me and say nothing would fit me.
They were actually more unusual than me as the average height of a woman in Britain is 5ft 4.
Thinking this as watching the Marc show and enjoying listening to gossip on the state of post-covid Britain and America in 2024.
I fit 70’s clothes really well as I bought loads from charity shops in South London.
I might have been different if I had the ‘in’ look, I guess.
~Never been the in one.
Was a freak in the 70’s clothes I suppose.
My love life was none existent then also,
Ended up on a drugs scene and this teenage boy chatted me up.
I’d gone to London to find myself and escape the Drugs scene in Manchester. He was really good-looking, but I didn’t want to date a teenager or do drugs.
Also attracted this sad bloke who wanted an affair but had a wife? Luckily the Deputy head got rid of him from bothering me.
Then this old bloke chatted me up. I’m not racist but I didn’t fancy him. If I was racist I wouldn’t of even talked to him. Avoided him after that like the one who had a wife.
Later made friends with a supply teacher and he’d asked her out as well, she avoided him as well.
We guessed he tried it on with anyone, not sure how much luck he had.
I only did teaching for 5 years as I wanted to learn about the expert mask, but hated teaching. I liked the children but wasn’t keen on some of the moany middle-class teachers in the staffroom or the weirdos that chatted you up, (I had my own life outside of teaching), the painstakingly boring art curriculum.
Luckily I met the nerd when I moved home who is normal.
Wonder if they made more money out of fashion in the 70’s than now as it obviously fitted the majority of women.
This is why I changed back to a business providing fun. Would rather put on fun than teach and stop fun.
We need teachers though and have to say some people are brilliant teachers and are natural at it, I’m not.
Conclusion
Post-COVID Britain is rubbish.
Sometimes I wonder if it is just me, but you look around and see what is happening on youtube and social media and it is still rubbish everywhere.
Have to say some people attend parties, but they wear hideous ballgowns that trail on the floor?
Or show off with fashion and products and when you get them they are weird, smell funny are too big or ridiculously small like a support underwear thing for a baby? or hideous colours.
I was told I was good at colour actually, so I have to say some of the lipstick and eyeshadow colours aren’t very good. Found a few at Mac and Gurlain, so hopefully the classic colours that work will come back like YSL. I don’t think their colours had changed since the 60’s so why they have been reduced to just a few muddy colours I don’t know, it is like someone didn’t wash their art brush out before mixing the next shade so they have all ended up durgy.
Hopefully they will bring back the people who used to mix the lipstick colours and bring back some best seller shades.
If you go for a night out you want to feel and look your best, so if nightclubs, pubs, restaurants and so forth want our money, we need fashion and makeup that suit all women. We are all different and what makes us interesting, so hopefully this will inspire the one-trip pony designing fashion and makeup at the moment to expand the range.
Feel confident to say this now as a really influential makeup artist said it and am just putting it in my own fed up words. I so agree.
It is ok if the trip is your style and colour, but it ain’t mine or the mass of women in Britain.
Not sure how many brunettes there are with fair skin, probably less which is fair enough, but we did have our little corner on each beauty counter and it isn’t there now.
If they want our money maybe they should listen to what women are saying.
Hope you are looking forward to Halloween, get some glamorous dresses that fit you and if you are wearing red lipstick find a red that suits your colouring.
There is a few weeks to Halloween so time to think up some outfit and party ideas.
Have a great weekend.
Saphire
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