Hey all! I hope you had a spooky and fun Halloween. This Halloween was perfect because it was on a Saturday and a full moon! What a rare Halloween! This Halloween was also perfect because my friends and I got together and dressed up as Disney Villains. Every Halloween is unique for my friends and me because we get together and do a new costume theme every year. We have been keeping up with our costume theme tradition for six Halloween’s now.
2015 was the first year of our tradition. For our very first year, we dressed up as the band “Kiss.” My friends became inspired to dress up as Kiss when they had been working on a project for school earlier in the year. For their project, they had to create a video. They dressed up as members from Kiss in their video. We decided that when Halloween came, we would all dress up like Kiss and go full out with the makeup and hair. The friends who participated in the Kiss costume was my now husband, Rex, my friends Cindy, Harrison, and myself. Our first group costume inspired us to keep trying a new costume theme every year.
In 2016 Rex and I decided to do a couples costume. We dressed as Jack and Sally from our favorite Halloween movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Although we didn’t do a group costume in 2016, this was the first year of our annual Halloween party. As you can see, we did full face makeup for Jack and Sally. 2016 was also the first year that we discovered Spirit Halloween and bought full costumes. Now we visit the store multiple times a year during Halloween time!
The next year in 2017, we did our first large group costume. For our group costume, we dressed up as the Addams Family, my favorite theme that we have tried. I was so excited about this theme because The Addams Family is one of my favorite shows. I dressed up as “Morticia Addams,” while Rex dressed up as “Gomez Addams.” The rest of the group featured my sister Ally as “Wednesday Addams,” our friend Levi as “Pugsley Addams,” our friend Taylor as “Grandmama,” our friend Brayden as “Uncle Fester,” My brother in law Ethan as “Lurch.” and lastly, our friend Cindy as “Cousin It.” Cindy even made her costume herself! We all had full costumes and makeup for the Addams Family, you can see in the photos.
Halloween of 2018, Rex and I were back to doing another couples costume. This year we went as Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask from the anime Sailor Moon. This costume theme was mostly my idea because Sailor Moon was my favorite show as a child; I always wanted to dress up as Sailor Moon at least once. We bought full costumes for this theme; I did makeup to go with my look.
Last year in 2019, we were back in a big group for our costume theme again. This theme is my second favorite after the Addams Family. We all dressed up as characters from the TV series Stranger Things. This theme was so fun to try out; we had a blast posing for pictures in these costumes. This group featured Rex and I as Robin and Steve, Ethan as Alexei, Levi as Murray, Trisha, Salena, and Taylor as three different Eleven’s, Marcus and Sofia as Hopper and Joyce, Ally as Max, and Cindy as the Demogorgon. Every one of us tried to get full costumes; some of us even brought props.
Now for 2020, Some of you may have seen my Instagram photos from October that our theme this year was Disney Villains. Dressing as Disney Villains is something I have always wanted to try, as did everyone else in the group. I dressed as Maleficent, then Rex as a male version of Ursula. In the group picture above, you can see all of the other villains that our friends dressed up as. This year everyone tried to get a full costume again while some of us did makeup as well. We felt like real Disney Villains that day while we had a blast doing our photoshoot. If anyone noticed, I tried to look like the live-action Maleficent rather than the cartoon version.
I’m very excited to see what next year’s theme could be. It’s crazy to think of all the different costume themes we could try in the future. Of course, we will keep doing the costume tradition for a long time. Happy Holidays! Thanks for reading, until next post.
Love, Abby
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