#HalloweenOStyle - Dreadfully drastic Disney

Hola Stylistas

Hope your Halloween preparations are going swell. Here is our second Halloween Heroine: Minnie Mouse. Hopefully in a less cliche way than her typical appearance- or a more grown up approach. Minnie grew up and grew stylish. She also got a job to manage her shopping addiction and sparkly, blood red nails seemed appropriate to torment the humblings of Halloween. After all, her red could symbolise love when with Mickey. But without him, is she a monstrous wreck? 

#HalloweenOStyle - Minnie Mouse by siennaa-jones featuring screen print tees

Screen print tee
£19 - modcloth.com

Lantomall Women's Polka Dot Pattern Comfort Short Skirt Stretch Mini...
£6.85 - amazon.com

Disney headband
truffleshuffle.co.uk

Marc Jacobs fragrance
selfridges.com

OPI glitter nail polish
thehut.com

#HalloweenOStyle - Inspired by TeenVogue

#HalloweenOStyle

Here is the first Halloween Heroine for the week's trio of devilish, delights. (I can't promise they will all be heroines sadly!). Today, I admit... I saw the Dorothy idea on a Teen Vogue article on hipster Halloween ideas. However, Dorothy is such a classic, stereotypical look which is more gorgeous than ghoulish- making it perfect for those of us who just don't suit vampire attire (sorry Bella and co).

Fitted with devinely deceiving 'ruby red slippers', baby blue gingham and a woven basket- all you need is your pet pooch to follow the yellow brick road towards the party season! 

During the week remember to vote for your fave costume. Via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Polyvore or Pinterest! The more likes each character receives, the more popular they are. Who knows; I might dress up in the costume with the most votes at the end of the week! 

Dorothy - #HalloweenOStyle by siennaa-jones featuring halloween home decor

Forever 21 collared shirt
£14 - forever21.com

H M white bow top
hm.com

Kate Spade slip on shoes
£205 - piperlime.gap.com

Lips makeup
newlook.com

Chanel perfume fragrance
£75 - nordstrom.com

Outside home decor
1stdibs.com

Dinnerware
£1.30 - orientaltrading.com

Halloween home decor
£6.95 - partybell.com

Halloween home decor
£7.44 - partybell.com

All Hallows' Eve- #Halloween 2014

All Hallow's Eve

As Halloween creeps in, in such a sinister manner- onto us, the fashion world responds. Big time. 

This year, as part of a qualification I am collaborating on an exciting Halloween project (did someone say zombie apocalypse?). Of which you will be the first to see its debut. But, in order to celebrate Halloween in plenty of time- I've attached hyperlinks to our blog's most popular Halloween DIY's and tutorials over the years. 

Trial them out and use the hashtag #HalloweenOStyle to get involved. My favourite ones will be featured on here and in a Halloween slideshow for Youtube. 

1. http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/halloween-recipe_31.html

2. http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/halloween-nail-art.html

3. http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/pimp-my-pumpkin.html

4. http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/halloween-crafts.html

5. http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/halloween-craft.html

6. http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/halloween-freaky-makeup-tutorial.html

Have fun.

Next week I will be releasing 3 more devastatingly, scary ideas from Monday-Wednesday at 6pm in time for the big day on Friday.

Hasta La Vista Stylistas,

xoxo

Halloween Recipe!

Heya Stylistas!

Happy Halloween. This is another recipe and frankly, everyone loves food so who cares if you make it after Halloween? My last strawberry recipe was really, REALLY popular :) So this is another variation on what you can do with strawberries. As strawberries are yummy! And chocolate is yummy! So it's a win, win situation when there's chocolate covered strawberries involved. Before we begin, this recipe is for the novice chef in everyone. If you can handle a microwave, you can cook these!

Ingredients/Equipment

• Baking white chocolate (can use chips as long as they melt like a witch)
• Fresh strawberries
• Baking milk chocolate (to be piped, or you could use frosting)
• Heatproof bowl
• Microwave
• Spatula or wooden spoon
• Piping bag

Yes just 3 ingredients

Method:

1. Firstly, crumble up your white chocolate bar and place into a heatproof bowl. Then put the bowl into your microwave for around 2 minutes. Stop the microwave every 30 seconds to mix the chocolate up, using a spatula or wooden spoon. 
2. While you're waiting for the chocolate to melt (like the wicked witch) wash and dry your strawberries, using a sieve. Once the chocolate is ready move onto the next step. 
3. Now the best part, dunking the chocolate! Hold the stalk and dip it into the white chocolate. Make you coat one side of the chocolate. Carry this on for all of your strawberries, then let the chocolate set in the fridge.
4. While you're waiting for the chocolate to set, melt the milk chocolate via the microwave. Let this cool before you fill a piping bag with this. 
5. Next, once the chocolate has set, coat the other half of the strawberry in white chocolate. Let this set again.
6. Lastly, use the piping bag to draw on two eyes and a mouth to the strawberry.
7. Enjoy :)

Halloween Nail Art!

Ghost Nails!

Are you afraid of ghosts? Well I don't think you'll be scared of these ghosts! Some people may be scared by the concept of ghosts following you around all day... but with these scarily accurate ghost nails, will it be a trick or a treat?

Materials:

• White nail varnish
• Black nail varnish
• Toothpick (or a bobby pin)
• Matte top coat
• Clear base coat

Method:

1. Firstly, apply a base coat to your nails then paint your nails with your black nail varnish.
2. Make ordinary black nails, black matte nails with a layer of your matte top coat.
3. Next, paint a dot of white nail varnish on the tip of your nail. Keep developing the shape until you have a good ghost shape on your fingertips. Or you may find it easier to make a ghost by tipping your toothpick in white nail varnish.
4. Time to add the eyes and the mouth to your little monster! Once your nails have dried, dip your toothpick (or bobbypin) into black nail varnish and dot on its facial features.
5. Let your fingers dry before tearing into those Halloween treats!

Products used in this tutorial:

Pimp my Pumpkin!

Pimp my Pumpkin!

I saw this show last night about how they farm pumpkins and let's be honest, the plain, orange pumpkin is a bit last year. Am I right? So how about this year we make a pumpkin that even Dracula would applaud? This one is black and silver themed, but I think a pink one would be awesome! As always my tutorials are only a guide and you can go wild with how you want yours to look like. Feel free to paint yours in different ways, Halloween doesn't always have to be creepy :)

Materials:

• A pumpkin (bit obvious)
• Black spray paint
• PVA glue
• Paintbrush
• Gems/Jewels (or sequins or maybe stick on bats would be cool)
• Newspaper (to put around your surface to avoid mess!)
• Silver paint

Method:

1. Firstly, put some newspaper down around your work surface. It always gets messy when you've got paint out!
2. Get that pumpkin out and it's time to pimp it out! With this tutorial you use black spray paint to cover the whole pumpkin- you could always use paint but spray paint takes less time. You may want to paint it to a minimum of 2/3 layers, make sure it's all covered and evenly done.
3. For the stalk of the pumpkin (the top part) use your paintbrush to paint it all silver. You could spray paint this, but make sure it doesn't overlap onto your whole pumpkin.
4. Time to start sticking your jewels onto your masterpiece! I recommend having a lot around the top and having the jewels 'drip' down the side of the pumpkin, like a necklace would drape around someone's neck.

P.s: I understand my picture looks messy, but who cares :)

Products you need to complete this tutorial:

Happy Halloween 2013!

Hiya Stylistas!

Okay so I know that I have barely blogged the amount as I would want to blog these last few months; especially with Halloween. The few Halloween posts I have released have been popular. As I should be studying at the moment... I figured I could post some Halloween ideas for you this evening when you get all dressed up! Plus most of my readers are from abroad, so by the time they wake up they'll see my posts and to the crafts :) If not, well Halloween rarely lasts one day and no-one says no to yummy food!

Here are the links to this years tutorials (note there may be a delay on when the links are up):

Hell-raising Hair = http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/halloween-crafts.html
Boo-tastic Decor = http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/halloween-craft.html
Ghost Nails = http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/halloween-nail-art.html
Pimped out Pumpkin = http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/pimp-my-pumpkin.html

And if you create something Halloween ish do email it in to arrayostyle@hotmail.co.uk or tweet @ArrayOStyle or just tag us in your photo on Facebook :)

Halloween Crafts!

Halloween Paper Wigs!

Okay so in case anyone has a bat hair day (see what I did there?), create some hair-raising masterpieces to cover up that mess. What's awesome about this tutorial is that- the wigs are made from everyday objects around the house. So part of your costume is made for free!

Materials:

• Plastic carrier/grocery bag
• Newspaper
• Masking tape
• Round object to use as a head form (maybe a cabbage or pumpkin)
• Newspaper (or if you don't have any thin coloured paper can work)
• Double sided tape

Method:

1. Firstly, cut up the grocery bag to create a single sheet of plastic. Place this plastic sheet over the cabbage.
2. Secondly, take the masking tape and apply strips of it to the plastic sheet, overlapping each slightly. Till you have created the shape of the skull cap. Carry on adding masking tape to the cabbage for 2-3 layers, so you end up with a sturdy wig base.
3. Next, remove the cap from the cabbage, use the scissors to trim the excess plastic around the cap. To fully support the cap, you can add more strips of masking tape around the edge and inside the skull cap.
4. Now, place the cap back onto the cabbage model and start styling your wig. Cut up coloured paper and newspaper to 1/2 inch strips. Curl your hair by dragging the strip against the closed blade of the scissors (like you used to do in school!).
5. Finally, add 4 to 6-inch strips of double sided tape to the bottom rim of the cap and start to add hair to the cap. Continue this process until the crown of the cap and the wig is full up. 

Halloween craft!

Boo-tastic decor!

This next tutorial is really cute and the technique could be used for bedroom decoration or Christmas decoration- not just Halloween :)
Materials:

• Cardboard or wooden letters
• Fabric scraps (or you could print off Halloween pictures and use them instead)
• Paintbrush
• Scissors
• Strong glue (Not a glue stick)

Method:

1. Cut up your pictures/fabric strips into strips. If you are using fabric strips, you will need to wrap each strip around the letter using the glue. If using paper/printed off pictures you will need to cover the letters in the papers by gluing them on normally.
2. Using the paintbrush, slather on some glue over your letters. Leave this to dry overnight over a radiator.
3. Proudly display once the glue has dried up :)

Plus you don't always have to use the word 'BOO' you could have 'Trick or Treat' written, so it decorates the entrance to your house. Or the word 'Wicked' if you like the musical :) 

Here are some links to Halloween scrapbook papers for this tutorial:

http://stampindamour.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/free-digital-scrapbook-paper-halloween.html

http://tadcarpenter.com/work/design/halloween-scrap-book-line/

Products used in this tutorial:

Michael Jackson R.I.P

R.I.P To the King of Pop!

To celebrate, I have created a little set based on Michael's iconic style.
Course I may have made mine girly and I did kinda modernize it a bit with the studs.

R.I.P Michael Jackson by siennaa-jones featuring sole society

Dondup sleeveless shirt
£155 - farfetch.com

Bardot leather jacket
£72 - bardot.com.au

River Island ankle boots
riverisland.com

Alexander McQueen leather handbag
£1,345 - cultstatus.com.au

Sole society
£16 - solesociety.com

River island
riverisland.com

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