Seal of Approval: Alexandra Recommends #004
Seal of Approval: Alexandra Recommends #004
HALLOWEEN
Boo and beware! AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
To hold your disintegrating bat wings, crumbled cobwebs, rotting “grape” eyeballs, and other scaaary supplies: this bag by The Row (pictured) is hauntingly evocative of a pumpkin and the color is just something else. I love this Hermes bag charm—just big enough to hold, say, a single sharp fingernail or a spider. This, by Prada, is chillingly good. Here is a dry ice-y handmade crystal pumpkin clutch.
Salty, squishy, eerie, and gruesome: caviar & roe! Orange and black. While we’re on the Petrossian website, this dried cured ham is also horrifying in appearance and these and these? Frightful! Their classic lox go with The Row bag and are sooooo delish.
Ashen candles by Loewe (licorice), L’Object, and Mad et Len: each scream-worthy and chic enough to illuminate your haunted house year-round.
Claws are the new fangs. Nail polish in gruesome and delightful colorways for him and her by Gucci, Hermes, Orly, and J.Hannah. For an extra dose of gore, slick some nail stickers (like these) onto your thirty-one fingers. These slimy stickers glow in the dark.
Sleeper Party Pajamas in black, for the dark and mysterious moonlit hours.
Too frightened to sleep? Slink around in these. This emerald set—in a sort of luxurious goo tone—is horrifyingly delightful, too.
Tricks belong in the grave. My favorite sugar free chocolate is Lily’s (I love the milk chocolate caramel, don’t come at me), Lakanto is good too, and Hu Kitchen makes chocolate sans the horror of refined sugar. And speaking of tricks, Miracle Berries are like halloween costumes for the tongue. They transform anything, even a lemon, into a sweet experience. Mysterious, peculiar, supernatural, no? Get ready to get creeped out.
Fang-tastic, semi-scary jewelry that you’ll want to wear every day: this drippy ring by Marni, this Loewe Crab Charm, this Fabergé Lacquer Pumpkin Surprise Locket, this Alexander McQueen diamond and pearl skull ring, this single Scarab hoop earring, these vintage Beetle Drop Earrings. I could clearly go on about this for literally ever but you get the idea.
I don’t know what you’re being for Halloween, but be something! These are organic, non-toxic, hypoallergenic face paints. I have this boo-tiful Chanel glitter and it feels like wearing a cooling, slimy gel, and these face glitters are aluminum free.
BLK Water is shadowy, startling, and black because it contains fulvic minerals (and antioxidants, amino acids, and electrolytes). To be honest, I never feel any health benefits from drinking this water, but the pungent flavors are spook-takular and the liquid is cool looking. Fendi just celebrated the 25th anniversary of their perfect Baguette bag, and in this same bloody vein, espresso martinis are still having a moment. Great news for Halloween because they’re so ominous—make them at your All Hallows’ cocktail party with this brooding spirit.
The show YOU on Netflix—I was late to this party but then I watched the entire thing within a week, and I’m not really a TV person. Lots of frightful and delightful twists and turns.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
XboOXbooO,
Alexandraaaaaaah!!