Halloween Ideas... Crafts, Parties and Costumes
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Make Up Tutorials
Halloween Zombie Makeup Tutorial for Infected Girls and Boys
Guess what? You're infected. Learn how to apply full unisex zombie makeup SFX (pale skin, veins, rotting flesh and blood effects) to look your best while hunting for brainsss (or, if you're veggie, grainsss) with our zombie makeup tutorial this Halloween.
DIY Indie Arts and Craft Ideas
Halloween pumpkin carving ideas
Decorating pumpkins is a craft movement in its own right, even outside America. We pick some of our very favourite pumpkin carving ideas, so have a look now and see what you think.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
Halloween hairstyles
Halloween hairstyles: Halloween is a great time to dye your hair and have some fun with it, whether it's Halloween wigs, spray colour, clip-ins extensions, hair falls or hair dyes...
DIY Arts and Crafts Ideas
Halloween Costume Ideas - How to make a binbag dress
DIY Halloween costume ideas: A binbag dress has an enticing aura of punk promise, it's more tacky than all the eighties put together and it's almost free!
Wicca, Paganism, Magick & Spirit
Guide to ghost hunting
Whether it be at a spooky old hotel, a hotel bathroom, or an ancient cemetery, Wendy Withers shows you some tips and tricks to survive your first haunted adventure.
Wicca, Paganism, Magick & Spirit
Halloween Games and Rituals - Make your own Ouija board
The pumpkins are ripe. A group have gathered on All Hallow's Eve. The clock chimes twelve, the candles flicker and the glass begins to move. Out come the Ouija boards... Find out how to make your own ouija board this Halloween.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
How to get Halloween hairstyles
OSiS Ambassador Adrian Allen gives you tips on how to experiment with exaggerated and unruly hair for louche Halloween hairstyles - Gothic hair and Zombie hair.
How-To Guides
Halloween - a goth survival guide
How to tips: Halloween - the best night of the year for ninety-nine point nine per cent of the goth population. But, like anything else, it has its pitfalls. Here are the pros and cons of Halloween - and how to make the most of your fave event.
DIY Arts and Crafts Ideas
How to make an octopus hoodie
Halloween costumes: Forget about the sexy bunny and kitten outfits! Forget any other advice we've ever given! The only thing you should even consider wearing this Halloween is a home-made octopus hoodie.
DIY Arts and Crafts Ideas
How to decorate your room for a black light party
Throwing a black light party to turn your abode into an unearthly glowing dream? Check out these party decor tips on decorating your room so it glows under a UV black light. And you'll be needing some black light party outfits, too.
Cheap Halloween Costume Ideas
Alice in Wonderland make up tutorials
This Halloween, why not costume yourself as a character from Alice in Wonderland? We bring you Youtube makeup tutorials inspired by your favourite characters in Tim Burton's Alice. Off with their heads!
Halloween Costume Ideas
DIY Halloween costume ideas
If you don't have the cash to splash out on a cliché Halloween costume this year, why not dive in and make your own? From medieval maiden to burlesque tease queen, here are just a few ideas to get the ball rolling... the rest is up to you!
Alternative clothing ideas
Rave Style Guide
How to dress like a modern raver - fluoro costume perfect for attending a black light party as well as an underground rave. If you're partial to hopping along to those fun little events known as raves, or thinking of giving it a go, here's a breezy little rave style guide. Plan ahead, tweak your current rave style or nurture fond memories!
Pagan Samhain
Samhain rituals for the urban jungle
Pagan: Samhain (Halloween) can be celebrated by pagans anywhere, but we come up with Samhain ideas for rituals that can take place in the urban jungle, not the lovely old forest one would prefer...
Feminist Icons
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Icon of the week: Elvira... you may be known as the Mistress of the Dark but you have brought a little sunshine into our lives. Whether it be the years spent bringing us horror flicks so bad they're good, your spooky records or the unique and special variety of dolls, Halloween costumes and other merchandise you have sold us, you've always given us glorious kitsch. We salute you!
Gothic, Industrial & Alt Music
Creature Feature - The Greatest Show Unearthed
Creature Feature: Formed straight after a Halloween party, Curtis RX and Erik X produce music that is a combination of rock, Goth and horror movies. Sound interesting? Enter... if you dare.
Interviews with feminist icons
Zombina and the Skeletones: Interview!
Band interviews: Female-fronted bands are often still given a rough ride, but fresh out of the graveyard, the fiendish B-Movie obsessed Zombina and the Skeletones give us the lowdown on music, touring and of course, all things horror...
Pagan Samhain
History of Samhain/Halloween
Whether you're a witchy-witch, or learned and morbid, or just curious, find out more about Samhain - the pagan blood 'n' death festival that the Xtians cleaned up and turned into Halloween...
Halloween
I Love Halloween...
Never mind a letter to Father Christmas, Manda Jane writes a little love letter to Halloween. Because it's nice to get a love letter, isn't it? Normally, Halloween just gets eyeballs.
Halloween vampires
National Vampire Blood Service
The National Vampire Blood Service aims to support those members of the vampire community who are unable to feed themselves properly. Give generously. Donate blood to a vampire today.
Movie Reviews
What makes a perfect slasher movie - and how to survive one
Film reviews: Some people just don't get slashers. Some people are looking for an intellectual, thought-provoking, abstract piece of cinematic entertainment that supplies more than a predictable bloodbath. These people are missing the point entirely...
Craft ideas for Halloween / Samhain
Samhain and Halloween
Celebrate Samhain (if you are a pagan or wiccan) or Halloween with fire, food, colour and craft ideas - Mookychick
