This Is Halloween.

In the spirit of Halloween weekend, I've been recollecting memories of past Halloweens in my life, and thought I would make a post about it.

It is so humorous looking back at past Halloween costumes, just because of how I remember feeling very cool at the time, and feeling very stupid now. What was I thinking?!? But they are in the past, and there's nothing better than reliving the embarrassments of your past, right? Right.

Don't even ask me what this was. We actually had a piece of paper attached to our backs explaining, in full detail, what this was.

Can anyone guess who I am in this one? (Keep in mind, this one is a couple of years after the previous picture. I couldn't find any pictures in between - nor do I remember what I was for those years, actually...)

This year, for Halloween, I decided to go all out. Face-wise. It is important to note here that, in the past year, I have become increasingly passionate about makeup artistry after accidentally stumbling upon an AMAZING makeup artist, Kandee Johnson, who besides having a great personality, is a professional artist who really knows her way around a face. She's taught me so much about working with your own face, contouring, shading, color theory, tricks, etc. Among her more regular looks, she also has a great selection of character looks (which by the way, ACTUALLY look like the characters rather than "inspired by" looks). This year, after many months of watching and re-watching her videos, and adding to my collection of makeup and brushes, I decided to recreate her "Cheshire Cat" look. And here it is, my 2010 Halloween getup:

I hope y'all like it. The mouth area doesn't look at good as it can, because my mouth started getting dry throughout the night and I had to inevitably lick my lips. Otherwise, that part should've been completely covered, so as to look more like an actual wide grin.

Doing this look has re-fueled my love for Halloween. I've started creating a list of looks I want to do for future Halloweens to come. I think next year, I'm going to go as Scar, from "The Lion King". I really think I could do a great face, and I've got the black hair to tease and poof up into an actual mane. I'm so excited!

I think part of the reason I love Halloween so much is because I can unleash my creativity, and it is the one day/night of the year that I can go all out and become a completely different character. I personally love dressing up as non-human things, it's makes the costume so much more challenging and rewarding in the end. It saddens me when people stop dressing up for Halloween, because I suppose they reach a certain age when it is no longer exciting. I hope I don't reach that age, ever. There are too many more characters I want to become before that happens.

Happy Halloween to everyone!

Disney Disney Disney

Disney movies make me want to...

1. Find my own Prince Charming/Philip/Eric/Tarzan/Aladdin/Shang/Hercules/John Smith/Captain Phoebus/Dmitri/Adam (10 points if you can figure out where the last guy is from - it is a Disney movie).

2. Wear long A-line skirts that start at my waist and go down past my knees.

3. Grow my hair out long and thick.

4. Be selfless and caring to everyone.

5. Study anthropology.

I found the funniest picture the other day, whilst surfing the 'net for Disney pictures to satisfy my sudden obsession.
Do you see it?!? Do you see the humor?!? They're dressed up...as their own VILLAINS! Take a moment to try to figure out who each princess is supposed to be.

I've also been trying to make a single Disney movie my official favorite Disney movie, because that's how I make myself happy, but it's very difficult. Hercules was my favorite for the longest time, because I love Greek mythology so much. Then recently, it changed to Pocahontas, because I watched it after so many years, and it's has nostalgic memories attached to it.

Also can I just take a moment and say - there's this thing that happens when I watch movies after a VERY long time...like, I actually have not seen them in years. I'm watching the movie, and I remember the way the voices sound. The way the characters sound. When someone's voice goes up, and the way it goes up. The dialogue during the weird, forgotten parts. The way the characters move and react. As if when I watched it many years ago, I never payed attention to the words, but simply the pictures on the screen - that would make sense, because I was pretty young when I first started watching Disney movies.

Pocahontas will always be in my heart, because I remember my entire family liking it. I also remember my dad liking the one part in Cinderella when the king attacks the duke for letting Cinderella slip away, and he says "SABOTAAAAGE!"

Yeah. That's what he remembers about Cinderella.

Anyway, now I've decided that my temporary "favorite" Disney movie is Tarzan. There's something about a boy raised by gorillas that fascinates me. It just makes me realizes how quickly people and animals and living things adapt to their surroundings - Tarzan was completely normal human baby, but once Kala takes him under her care, he learns the ways of the gorilla. It's funny because you don't realize how much of a gorilla he's become until Jane comes along. Because the dialogue is all in English for the first part of the movie, everything seems normal. But then, Tarzan is suddenly put in front of "real" humans, and you get this shock because - he's not like them at all! You suddenly notice the little things that sets Tarzan apart from Jane; the licking of the fallen bullet casing, the slow retreat to a crouched position when he is confused, the sounds he makes, the movements. If you didn't understand before, you'll understand now why I want to study anthropology.

I could go on about Disney movies. I'm currently going through a phase where I'm watching 1 to 2 Disney movies per night. And there are only SO MANY, so dark will be the day when I finish.

Let's not think about that right now.