DIY Halloween

I don't know about you, but as much as I love having a laugh, I hate spending huge amounts of money on dressing up costumes that I will only wear once when I could be spending that money on a nice going out dress that I could wear again. Therefore, when my Sixth Form had a "horror" themed dress up day, I wasn't too impressed. The year 13s had 'decided as a group' (I put that in quotation marks as most of the year 13s don't even get on) to go as "zombie school girls" and I thought that seemed like quite a fun idea - a simple shirt and tie with a bit of fake blood.

I decided to customise an old shirt, however as I got more and more into it I shifted from "zombie school girl" to simply "girl in shirt."

 

 



I went fairly crazy with Sharpie pens (I did this the night before and it was late and I was too lazy to get the paints out) and drew some pretty random stuff including; worms coming out of my pockets, skeleton lovers, a snake wrapped around my arm and a skull necklace (hence why I did not wear a tie).

 

 

Around the arm holes and the bottom of the sleeves I attached safety pins and wore a spiked bracelet to match. To go with it I just applied some dark eye shadow and pretended to be cool.

 

 

I also added detail at the back by cutting a skulls head which everyone thought was totes orig(inal).

 

 

- Please ignore my hunched appearance. -

 

 

So if you're also being forced to dress up this Halloween and you're not really into it - customise something you already have a make it work for you. Just do a better job than me.

 

 

BYE



 



Originality?

Today myself and a friend from my textiles class went to UCA Epsom open day. We both really loved the place and spent the whole car journey home feeling inspired and talking about ideas we had gained from the day. The place itself was very clean and modern and the town seemed quaint yet there were many artistic looking students strutting around.

One thing I did notice was that there seemed to be so many students with septum piercings! I find it strange that different parts of the country have their own mini-trends.

Septum piercing. Image cropped from Google

Another thing I noticed about the day is that - although us artistic types like to think of ourselves as individuals - all the girls seemed to look the same. Everyone seemed to either have 1) ombre hair 2) a military jacket 3) a messy top bun. Some girls even had a combination of all three. This made me wonder, if everyone is dressing the same, how can anyone ever class themselves as unique? The popular trend at the moment is 90s grunge (which I do love). This trend is seen as fairly 'out there' and 'original' - however if we're all dressing the same is this really true? WHO KNOWS... Who cares? Its cool. (But not original.)