Halloween-e-ness

I love dressing up. I seriously use any excuse I can to put on a costume and be an idiot for a few hours. Although not widely celebrated in Australia, there is often a Halloween party or two happening around and in the pubs in the city. Here is a collection of some of my favoiurite costumes at the moment!

Buy Costumes is one of my favourite places to pick up cute costumes. I've bought off them several times and they always fit really true to size. My fav is the little sailor babydoll dress- divine! And of course nothing can beat a zombie or a vampire costume!

Costume Box is the Aussie costume shop I like best. They have a super fast turnaround and a really good collection of Plus size outfits. I'm totally digging the pirate costume; the details on the buckles and bodice are fantastic and really make an outfit pop. Evil Queen black costume is so rad!!! I adore the long cape and puff shoulders. What I wouldn't give to get my hands on it!
 

Torrid always have a rocking Halloween collection and I'm very guilty of buying some just because I like them (in fact, I 'may' have picked up these last two costumes in the 75% off sale ;). I'm a huge zombie fan and this Miss Living Dead costume is so cool! The Minnie Mouse and Pussycat outfit are too cute an I can't wait to wear them out!

These are my two favourite costumes from the last 12 months:

The first one is from my Zombie Prom 25th birthday this year and the one above was from Halloween last year- there is nothing quite like a murderess referee on a rampage! :)

OOTD: Joce and Joel's UV, rainbow, luau engagment party!

Ever been to a 'super-sparkle-outer-space-rainbow-jungle-fever-disco-luau' party? WE HAVE!!! This was the theme straight off the invite- I can't even make that stuff up! ;)

At Joce and Joel's rocking engagement party, we attended in shiny UV, rainbow best and got messy! :)

A few shots of glowy UV goodness! :)

These three photos were stolen from Drew Triebe

The venue was decorated in a very funky Hawaiian laua theme with glow in the dark stools and neon spray paint. There was also an abundance of crazy glowing things, disco lights, and generalised awesomeness. And of course- the whole place was lit with UV lights! Ohhh yeah :)

This is the gorgeous bride-to-be Joce in her extremely funky hand spray painted rainbow wig (which I stole as soon as I could); and me in my Leprechaun outfit- complete with glow sticks, mirrorballs and leis!

Dress: Costume Box

I wore this super cute leprechaun outfit from Costume Box, pretty close I think to my planned outfit. I loved it! But the sleeves kept falling down all night- see picture one. I hate it when that happens. I had never bought from Costume Box before but was very happy with their easy to use website and quick postage. Also a bonus, this costume will transition perfectly to a Oktoberfest outfit!

 One of the coolest parts of the night was the neon spray paint area. This was litteraly an open space with canvases and paints to make your own glowing UV masterpiece. Soooo rad!

Check out this one in the making here and the finished product in those photos above!