Sock Bun

I've seen so many women wearing their hair in these big, chic buns lately and for the life of me I cannot get my hair to cooperate and look like that.  I never understood how even though my hair is fairly long, I couldn't get my bun to look as full as these other girls.  Then I came across this "sock bun" tutorial and had one of those "ah ha!" moments.  Not all of these woman have more hair than me, or are more talented than me when it comes to hair styling...some of them are cheating and putting a sock inside of their bun! Genius! I must try this immediately!

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New H&M Collection

Have you read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books yet?? I highly recommend them if you haven't.  Incredibly exciting and suspenseful- I flew right through all three!  (The Swedish versions of the movies are amazing too!) With the release of the American version of the first movie just around the corner, H&M has announced they are coming out with an exclusive fashion line inspired by the quirky yet cool Lisbeth Salander from the books.  It definitely has her dark, edgy feel about it -I'm not sure if I'm cool enough to pull this look off, but I'm excited to check it out!

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Happy Halloween!

I hope your day is filled with more treats than tricks!

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A Few of My Favorite Things - Halloween Edition!

Skulls, Haunted Houses and Festive Tights.

 

 

 

DIY Costume Ideas

My favorite part of Halloween is the costume-watching. Each year I am always amazed at the creativity.  Personally, I always feel so much pressure to think of something good for myself and it ends up being a total last minute thing.  I try not to spend much money on something I'm only going to wear one night.  So I'm always on the lookout for something cheap and easy to throw together.  These two great options would be easy to throw together!  They are cost-efficient, and each one includes at least one piece that you would actually get a lot of wear out of!

I love this Hamburgler costume from What I Wore.  I think it would be so much fun to slink along the streets of Chicago in this!  And it seems to be pretty simple.  Just red gloves and black boots.  The tie would be so easy - just glue hamburgers to a red thrift store tie.  The mask you can buy anywhere this time of year, or just make out out of a scrap of black fabric!  Just the hat and cape would take a bit of thought to find cheap versions - but I'm sure it can be done! (she used a cheap black bath towel for the cape!)  Especially with this Forever 21 striped dress that you would absolutely wear again and again!

A few years ago, me and my red-haired friend dressed up as the 2 girls from Scooby Doo.  I was Velma, and it was one of the easiest and most fun costumes ever!  It is a bunch of items that you would definitely wear again, so you don't feel like you are wasting money on silly things.  Just a red skirt, orange tights, black flats and and orange turtleneck.  I think this one from American Apparel looks perfect!  And with fake glasses being so "in" this year - you'd look more chic than geek!

What are you going to be this year?

Crazy Comic Makeup!

If this isn't great Halloween inspiration, I don't know what is!  A MAC Makeup artist did this model's hair and makeup to look like Roy Lichtenstein's famous comic book painting.  I believe this is several years old now, but it is still just as amazing as it was back then!  Can you imagine how long it must have taken?

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Designer Pumpkins

Over at Refinery 29, they did a roundup of designer pumpkins.  Lots of sparkle and glam in these gourds!  It's such a fun "adult" way to carve and decorate pumpkins for Halloween!  Here's a few of my favorites!

Louis Vuitton Pumpkin

Miu Miu Pumpkin

Black Champagne

Back when Ugly Betty was still on the air (Does anyone else miss that show but me?!) there were a few episodes that gave us a glimpse inside Wilhelmina's fabulous NYC home and she had a set of these gorgeous black champagne flutes.  For some reason those have always stuck in my mind as something I want to own.  They look so elegant but a little spooky and mysterious at the same time.  I just love the opaque look of them.  I've never been able to find the exact ones, but just recently I discovered that Target of all places sells something just like them!  I can't believe how long I've been lusting over them and they have been at Target this whole time! 

Midnight Black Champagne Flutes

Target actually sells a whole line of glasses in Midnight Black!

Perfect for a Halloween dinner party, don't you think?!

Spooky Shoes!

In the spirit of Halloween which is coming up this weekend, I thought I'd continue with the Halloween posts! 

I know some offices are into dressing up at work for Halloween, but my office isn't one of them.  I'm not sure I'd be okay with coming into work in full costume, but I would totally be okay with rocking some of these spooky Halloween shoes at work instead! 

Glitter 'N Glue created these amazing and quirky googly eye shoes (inspired by the Christian Louboutin version).  Wouldn't they be so much fun to wear?! I can only image the rattling sounds they make when she walks!

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These Rockabilly Halloween Witches Zombie Flesh heels from NixxiRose are down right scary!

Image via NixxiRose's Etsy Shop

And these Sam Edelman Roza Pumps are just the right amount of eerie for daytime Halloween attire, and you might actually find a time to wear these again!

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More Celebrities and Pumpkins

For the first time in years, I've actually got the urge to carve pumpkins for Halloween.  But of course, this is the first Halloween that I live in a huge condo building with no front stoop to display them on.  Sad!  However, if I did have a stoop, I would most definitely be using these celebrity pumpkin templates from TMZ.  Can you imagine seeing Susan Boyle's face lit up on a pumpkin on someone's front porch? So funny!

Susan Boyle

Pee Wee Herman

Audrina Patridge