What We Wore: Halloween Edition

As Cleopatra: 

Dress: thrifted

Wig: costume shop

Headpiece: thrifted

Gold belt: thrifted

Snake belt: from my grandma's jewelry collection

Earrings: from my grandma's jewelry collection
Necklace: from some sort of door prize my mom won ages ago
Boots: Nine West, Hebron Gap Outlet

When I saw this gold dress on the rack at the thrift store a few weeks ago, I knew it was fate: I had to go as Cleopatra for Halloween.  Seriously, how perfect is it?  I found the headpiece and gold belt on the same trip, and took them all home for less than $5 total.  All that was left was to wait for a massive sale at the costume shop and buy the wig (for another $5), then put it all together with a few pieces that I had at home.  The makeup was the hardest part - I'm sooo not a makeup person, so heavy eyeliner and shadow was a challenge.  I had to re-do it three times (good thing I started early)!

Of course it was FREEZING on Saturday night, so I traded out the greek sandals I was originally planning on wearing for boots and thick socks, and finished off the costume with a short sleeved brown sweater and long-johns underneath.  Toasty!


      

I'm kind of in love with this costume.  It's probably the most elaborate that I've ever done as an adult.  Dressing up is so much fun, especially on the cheap!

Obviously, Nate and I didn't do a couple's costume this year.  He went as Jimmy, the bartender at our favorite local pizza place.  In retrospect, it would have been awesome if he had gone as ex Mr. J-Lo, Marc Anthony.  We would have spent the whole night explaining it, and it would have been funny to me every time (or maybe I'm just weird in finding semi-lame couples' costume ideas hilarious?).  This costume is pretty great too, though - neighborhood pride! 

We dressed up for wine tasting, dinner, and a late night out at a bar on Saturday, and are putting together a re-do for dinner and drinks with friends tonight.  Yay for costumes! 

Happy Halloween, everyone!  Did you dress up to celebrate?