This outfit screams November to me.

I’m wearing a white and navy striped zip back top from H&M, a black and white tweed skirt from The Limited, Sequin Scarf from the now defunct Colourme.com, Pea Coat from Aeropostale, Black Tights from Hue, and Wine boots from Old Navy.

On My Face: Rimmel Stay Matte Liquid Mousse Foundation in Light Ivory, Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer in Vanilla, Nars Blush in Deep Throat, Benefit Girl Meets Pearl, Makeup Forever HD Setting Powder, Lancome Color Design Shadows in Off The Rack, Delicate Lace, Smouldering Cocoa,  and Metallic Taupe, Bath and Body Works Pomme Cider Lipgloss,  Rimmel Scandel Eyes Glam Retro Mascara in Black.

I love the pop of color that these boots give this outfit. They’re probably one of my favorite pairs of shoes right now. And as long as I’m not walking in snow I see them getting a lot of use until spring.

Howl was very serious about wanting to eat all of the leaves. He said they’re for snack time.

It’s only the beginning of the month, but I think this might be my favorite thing I’ve worn in a long time. What’s your favorite, or go to, Fall outfit?

This book follows 8 boys in a small fictional town on Halloween night as they try to save their friend Pip and discover the meaning of Halloween. Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud takes the boys on an adventure to find out why they’re dressed as witches, monsters, mummies and skeletons. He shows the boys not only the why and the how’s of Halloween, but how far they’ll go to save the greatest boy that ever lived Joe Pipkin.

This book has absolutely no flaws for me, being both written by Ray Bradbury, and a huge part of my childhood. I’d even say that this book has a lot to do with where I live, which is a small town very much like the book where “there wasn’t so much wilderness you couldn’t see the town. But on the other hand there wasn’t so much town you couldn’t see and feel and touch and smell the wilderness.”* Mr. Moundshroud was the first character to show me that sometimes you couldn’t be sure if someone was your friend or a villain until the end. And Pip, oh pip. I hope that by the time he’s 12 my son is just like and has friends as loyal as Joe Pipkin,’ the greatest boy who ever lived, and on the day he was born all the Orange Crush and Nehi soda bottles in the world fizzed over.”*

Final Verdict: I wholeheartedly, full stop, recommend this book. It doesn’t matter how old you are, if you love Halloween, you’ll love this book. Ray Bradbury’s words take you into the world of that Halloween Tree and you find yourself racing with all the boys, and willing to do anything to save Joe Pipkin.

I thought of dressing up in costume this week, but I honestly haven’t worn a costume for Halloween since I was 21. It’s just not my thing anymore. So I decided to wear some of my favorite cozy clothing.

I’m wearing a gray stripey sweater from Gap, Glasses from Kate Spade. Victoria’s Secret Most Loved Yoga Leggings and Pink and Pepper boots. I love this sweater because it’s long enough to cover my butt and make these yoga leggings acceptable for public wear.

Bonus: Pinterest Told Me To  blogger Sheaffer recently did a post about Mixing Black Brown and Gray and I totally agree with her. It’s an amazing combination.

There’s howl being adorable with his Owl toy from Martha Stewart’s Petsmart Line. I really love that line for dog clothes and toys.

My makeup is super simple, just Rimmel’s new Stay Matte Liquid Mousse foundation that I received from Influenster, Nars Deep Throat Blush, Rosebud Salve Strawberry Lipbalm, Nyx Skinny Eye Marker, and YSL Baby Doll Mascara.

My Necklace is a Tiny Owl that I have no clue where I got, and not pictured are my Kate Spade Gumdrop Studs in Clear Silver.

Howl decided to get into the Halloween Spirit:

He says he should totally play a Hell Hound on Supernatural. I keep trying tell him he’s too adorable and Hell Hounds are invisible.

He then said he’s not adorable, he has Fangs and is Majestic and Ferocious, and the resemblance is striking.

What are your Halloween Plans? I plan to take my son trick or treating and then come home to curl up with Bitter River which I’ll be reviewing next week. Happy Halloween.

 I got the color Joyride which was sort of a purply fushica color. I really like this color, though I don’t wear anything like it very often. The nails were easily to apply on the first hand because you just peel little stickers off the back. Because of this they were terrible to apply on the other hand and I had to get my Husband to help me peel the stickers. It was a bit hard finding the proper nail for each finger, and even thought they recommend to go smaller if need be, I ended up having to size up one to find anything remotely close to my middle fingers nail size. A mistake I may have made was trimming my nails since the glue on the back of the nail goes all the way up to the top of the nails. I ended up with crumbs stuck to them.

Now for the bad bit, I don’t know if I didn’t prep my nails properly, or what went wrong, maybe it was the trimming, but these nails didn’t last on my own nails even over night. I lost 6 out of 10 nails when I went to sleep. Okay, I’ll admit that I wasn’t overly heartbroken about that, because while I had them on I hated them. Fake nails are just not my thing. I’ve only had acrylics twice in my life. Once I went with my friends sister, and the other time was when I got married and couldn’t be fussed with my nails, so I needed something I knew would last. Since this was before Gel was really popular, it had to be acrylics. Both times it took me ages to relearn to do anything with them on, and even after I did, I just felt awkward. These gave me the same feeling.

The good news is the only real bad bit is that they didn’t stay on my nails, but like I said, since this isn’t usually my bag, I probably missed a step when I applied them. Either that or it’s just my nails. If you’ll look back to my Gel Nails Review you’d see that those didn’t last on me as long as they should have either. They also definitely feel like fake nails, unlike the nail polish strips (review on those soon), but they give the same effect.

 Here’s what they look like on my nails:

I’m holding my favorite candle from Anthropologie, Citrus Basil. It’s divine and I completely recommend it.

Final verdict? I wouldn’t buy them, but if I were given another pack of them I would try them again.

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 Here’s the overview of the box and I’ll talk a bit about each item individually below.

 First is Secret Outlast Deodorant in the scent Completely Clean, which may seem sort of odd, but we all use deodorant, or we all should and I always have several bottles around the house. Secret is generally my brand of choice, but I usually go for the overnight clinical protection ones.

Next are the Broadway Impress nails in Joyride, which I have already tried out and will have a post up about very soon, so I won’t mention more about these than the fact that they’re like those press on nails you used as a kid only more grown up.

Another slightly weird, but interesting one is Tastykake Kandy Bar Kakes in the Reese’s flavor. First that name makes me feel very Kardashian-y, all those K’s. But moving on from that note, I think it’s kinda nice to toss in a snack, especially since I already love Tastykake thanks to the Stephanie Plum book series, and I hadn’t tried the Reese’s flavor yet. I’ve already demolished this so I’ll just go ahead and say it was delicious.

 Next I received the Osis+ Dust IT Texture Mattifying Powder which I’m really excited about because I love powder’s like this because while I have a lot of hair, the hair itself is very fine. I plan on doing a complete review on this very soon though so be on the look out for that.

   I also plan on doing a review on this product soon, which is the NYC New York Color Big Applelicious in Big Apple Red.It’s a really pretty color and I’m really excited about it, because I had completely forgotten about NYC makeup since it’s kinda tucked away in my local store that sells it.

 I know I’m doing a review on this soon, but I had to include this picture now, because how cute is that apple? I absolutely love apples so I was very excited when I saw that little detail.

I’m absolutely excited to try everything in this box and will be letting you know my honest opinions of everything inside very soon.



I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes.