TRICK OR TREAT..?

TRICK OR TREAT!: Chara's Halloween Upbringing
Ever since I was a kid, Halloween has been my absolute favorite holiday! I can remember the happiness I felt every time the local Spirit Halloween would open, when Party City started holding the cheap Halloween stuff I would constantly beg my mother to buy me. Ever since I was old enough to remember, I would plan my Halloween outfits in great detail, even if it was only a costume I got from the kids' section in the stores. My collection of favorite Halloween movies grew as I did and as time went on, Halloween became more and more nostalgic for me.

Sometime around 2012 while I was in first grade, my family and I went on a trip to Disney World in Orlando during Halloween time. We attended Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party. This is one of my most treasured memories of Halloween time, even as hard as it is to remember from how long ago it was. That was one of my first experiences of a big Halloween party and it only further surged my obsession with the holiday.

From a young age, I would attend the Asbury Park Zombie Walk and although I haven't gone for many years, it's an important part of my memories of Halloween. Alongside this, my obsession with the cult-classic Rocky Horror Picture Show plays a huge role in my Halloween experiences. My schools' Halloween dances and the many activities I experienced during the time would always hold a special place in my heart, even those as recent as of last year. The yearly Halloween specials and the more recent creepy YouTubers I became interested in are just some of the media I love to watch during that time of year. Halloween songs, horror movies, pumpkin picking, dressing up, and of course, Pumpkin Spice Lattes; so many personal stories and experiences create the best sort of feeling I have around the time of year in which Halloween comes.

I love Halloween even now, not just for the nostalgia or importance it holds in my memory from being a kid, but for the timeless fun that comes from it. Even at 16, I can still attend Halloween parties and dress up, expressing myself and my favorite characters/creativity in a multitude of ways. Although this may sound all cheesy, Halloween truly is just such an important part of my life and my favorite holiday! With this page I hold my collection of some of my favorite Halloween goodies and everything that makes me happy about the holiday itself.

Tons of inspiration for this page is from FairyTrash! Check her Halloween page out there!

MONSTER MASH: Halloween Over the Years
These are some images of my costumes/outfits over the years. To keep some privacy, I don't upload any other images of me for this Halloween page aside from these. All people who I do not know are allowing me to put their faces on her I have blurred out! This will be updated to have more pics of me as a younger child/toddler when I get a hold of the images. Hover for some commentary! [THIS IS A WIP!]

2012
Hey this is me in WDW! It was raining that day but my mom still managed to get an image of me looking cute in my Halloween outfit Trying on some costumes with my little sister...I think this was a Draculaura costume? My sisters so cute in her Hello Kitty outfit Pumpkin Patch with my siblings! I haven't been to this Pumpkin Patch in years, but it was always a long drive More of that Pumpkin Patch. I always loved the decorations they had, but the hay was never comfortable to sit on LMAO This was during a school event that year. I was a fairy and I tried to convince all my friends I was actually a secret fairy and those were my wings. More of that fairy costume...but this time with my mom! She was Alice, it was an older costume of hers.
2013
Halloween outfits for school! Probably was for the first day of October Halloween outfits for school Part 2: Electric Boogaloo. There I am wearing my WDW shirt again! Trying on some Halloween stuff at the store for funsies Honestly one of the most nostalgic Halloween images I have. It just captures the essence of fall...look at how cute my bat earrings are!! This was my costume for the year, Emily from The Corpse Bride. I think my tooth gap at the time really fit the costume LOL My mom went to college for photography, not makeup so at least that explains the um..unsettling makeup at least. But it also explains how good she was at taking my picture Me and one of my friends. Monster High costumes for Halloween were RAMPANT since it had first came out We're hugging in this one. I love this image so much honestly, it's super cute Playing dress-up for Halloween with one of my friends. Honestly I'm an artist with that amazing realistic mermaid tail The school version of my makeup was much more toned down. My same friend had her mom always make such cool DIY costumes More Monster High costumes. Like I said, it was crazy! Trick or treat images! My little sister is so tiny here it's insane More of my cute stupid little sister. Such a chubby face Here's us actual trick or treating with my other friends. I decided against the wig since I hated the feelings of them My pose here is so stupid...I was such a weird eccentric kid
2014
Halloween fit for October at school...so 2010score tbh Zombie Walk 2014 with almost my entire family (grandparents + uncle included!) I was reaaaal into grimdark MLP at the time and I wanted to do a sort of like Cupcakes Pinkie Pie thing. The costume was from when I was in Pre-School, I didn't grow much so it still fit me These were the best fucking cake pops I had ever had. They were zombie cake pops of course This pic goes hard tbh. It makes me miss Zombie Walk so fucking much When I was younger and could still actually fit my dance costumes I used some old dance costumes for some Halloween events so that my main outfit would still be a surprise. That's why this is what I'm wearing here