VAMPIRE HORROR BEAUTY

Whether you love it or hate it, no one can escape the fact it's nearing Halloween. Once upon a time, not so long ago, it was deemed more a celebration aimed for children. Now days, adults anticipate its arrival, too, and greet the chance to dress up and have fun. Believe it when I say that I still have all my Halloween masks from when I was a child (four in total). Actually, they appear quite primitive compared to todays counterparts, but I'm still very fond of them.

On the brink of adulthood I engaged into a new kind of phase for Halloween, one that felt more creative and exciting. Halloween fashion felt wonderful because it gave me the greatest opportunity to explore unusual ideas, watch old horror movies for inspiration and assemble a look that was entirely my own.

My signature beauty look for Halloween, that defines me, is porcelain skin, smoky eyes and blood-red lips. I always look the part for Halloween and I love it.

Since the beauty industry is so obsessed with the secret of eternal youth, it seems kind of fitting that there exists a vampire facial. Kim Kardashian subscribed to this treatment, her face stabbed with tiny needles full of her own blood. I wonder what Countess Elizabeth Bathory would've thought of this. She allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins to retain her youth and Countess Dracula is partly based on her. Then of course, we have literature's infamous man created by Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray. He retained his youth while the rest of humanity decayed with age.

Today, Halloween is a big profit-making business and comes second to Christmas for being a big money earner.

The great thing about Halloween is that there's so much scope around for the imagination. With just a small budget you can create a Halloween costume yourself. I used to transform a simple bin liner into a dress, cinched at the waist a silver cord and worn with net tights and Doc Martin boots.

Whatever you are doing, I wish you a Happy Halloween.