Image: Owl Gardens
As I'm the girl who decided that Lipstick Royalty Magazine, instead of choosing to do a glittery festive issue each December chose a Gothic Issue, you can all kinda guess that I LOVE everything dark and deadly... which included HALLOWEEN! Now I'm not having a Halloween party this year, which makes me really sad so I've decided to have an imaginary Halloween party instead. This is how my day went...
Ok so I got up about 11:00am, after a nice long lie in (I don't get many of those!) and after hopping in the shower decided to wriggle into my first costume of the day to head out shopping for all the ingredients and decorations needed (as well as the finishing touches to my party costume) for my Halloween dinner party later that evening...
I decided to go for sassy witch, all black with a hint of pink! That velvet Chloe skirt is to die for... First up is the decorations for the dining room table...
I decided nice and traditional would be the way forward for this year... After that I went to the grocery store to get the rest of the food (but you'll find out about that later!) and then to the department store to finish off my evening outfit (but you'll find out about that one later too!).
Just before I was ready to head home for the evening, I had to get some work done and I had a very special person to interview to get me into the holiday spirit: an interview with a REAL vampire! And I'm not even joking! (This tale is a work of fiction and I didn't really interview a vampire, but you can read an interview with a real life vampire in Time Out: New York
HERE! She drinks blood and everything!)
I got home and the first thing I did to prepare for the evenings festivities was to carve my pumpkin. As I'd just interviewed an vampire, and because vampires are "In Vogue" this season I decided my pumpkin ought to have fangs. He's called Eric, after Eric Northman in True Blood/ The Southern Vampire Mysteries, because I think he looks a bit like him. (Note to reader: Eric the pumpkin is actually real. Photos of him to come!)
After that I decorated the dining room and laid out the feast. It looked FANTASTIC! As the guests would start to arrive soon I decided I ought to get ready to slip into my final costume...
Check out those thigh boots - wicked or what? And those vamp teeth are fantastic... but the thing I think that really made my sexy vamp costume was the Lime Crime Make-up Styletto opaque black lipstick - incredible.
But I'm thinking the big question everyone wants to know is who else came to my party... and what did they where? I decided I wanted a small intimate gathering so aside from myself there were only 5 other guests...
Lipstick Royalty's Fashion Editor Amy Claire Thompson (because Amy's cool and we love her), Lime Crime Make-Up founder Doe Deere (because she's the queen of my Halloween liptick), True Blood's Eric Northman (well obviously we needed a real life vampire on the scene... AND he had to admire his pumpkin!), Karl Largerfeld (who's scarier?), and New York Couture's Cassie (so we could see what a fabulous costume she's make!)
Well I think you can guess what Karl wore, and Eric just wore leather trousers and a "Fangtasia" tee shirt, but the girls went all out...
Amy came as a small, but vaguely over the top sugar sprinkled fairy...
That Alexander McQueen clutch is to die for...
Doe Deere came as Marie Antoinette...
I LOVE those shoes! They come in pink too, and they are of the red soled variety... Doe's make-up was INCREDIBLE. All done using Lime Crime products I think and she's been kind enough to post a tutorial to it
HERE!
Finally Cassie was a show stopper in her New York Couture gown. Custom made, and we LOVE Marilyn!
Image: New York Couture
Once all the guests had arrived we all sat down at the table to our feast. Naturally we all drank pink champagne, and the table was heaped high with Hotel Chocolate Halloween chocolate shapes and pink strawberry icing sugar dusted champagne truffles. For a starter we all had clear(ish) tomato soup with lychee floating in it with food colour eyeballs drawn on them to it looked like there was the odd eye in the soup. Then we had axe-man snacks, a Halloween speciality my Mum used to make for me and my friends. All they really are is bread rolls with holes in them, filled with ketchup then with a hot dog sausage stuck into them to look like a bloody finger in a roll. Then stuck in the top is a piece of radish to look like fingernails... they were SO yummy! For desert we had little oranges hollowed out and carved like pumpkins filled with different coloured jelly and sprinkles and
rainbow cake.
After we ate we all told each other ghost stories and made fun of Karl about the "Fake Karl" blog. We told Karl he was now DEMODE.
What are you guys doing for Halloween?
Amazing posts. Each one of those costumes looks incredible. I want to wear them every day! Don't you wish we lived in a world where we COULD dress like that everyday (and people would still take us seriously in our professional lives)?