I love Halloween. Scrap that. I love fancy dress. But since uni ended fancy dress isn't cool, therefore I have to wait around for Halloween to arrive. This year I have no Halloween plans, which led to my friend telling me "But you're the queen of Halloween, you have to". 

I basically missed the part where Halloween got sexy. Dressing up in nothing but a pair of ears and the shortest shorts just doesn't work for me. I am the least sexy person, it would be so embarrassing for me. SO, here are a collection of costumes which I used over the last couple of years.

2011: The Alien. Here we have my Cady Heron moment. This was my first Halloween party in 2011. I'd be in college for 2 months and I was expecting everyone to be dressed up as Halloween things, so you can imagine when I rocked up and was greeted with bunnies, catsuits and zombie brides. But 6 years later and this costume is still being spoken about, so who is the real winner here?

2012: Dead Footballer: Alright, so this one totally lacked originality, but I did go out and buy a whole lot of stuff for it, so I did make the effort..slightly.. I was 18 I was trying to be cool..

2013: Creepy Doll. To be honest, I'm quite proud of this achievement. Even though it's quite common to do the creepy doll thing now, I remember putting so much time into the face paint, we did a whole evening of trials. Even though it's quite generic, I think this is pretty cool.

2014: The Pumpkin. This is my favourite Halloween costume to date. I was so over trying to be cool on Halloween. I took it to the extreme. I loved it. This costume actually deflated before I was able to enter the costume competition. BUT it is my favourite costume ever.

2015: The Flamingo: I have no idea why this happened because flamingos have nothing to do with Halloween, but I embraced it. What can I say? Looking like a twat is my specialty. 

2016: Zom-bee: The fact this costume was pretty good makes me quite happy to conclude the post, here. I love it. 

I hope everyone has the best Halloween may your costumes be outrageous and fangs be sharp. 

xxx

As the Summer draws to a close, I'm left feeling a bit sad. I always ramble on about how the Summer of 2013 was my favourite and nothing else will ever possibly top it. But here we are. 

I can safely say that thanks to my friends and family this has probably been the best summer of my life so far. I've been such a busy bee. 

I did think about doing all the days and events in separate blog posts, but I've been too busy to have time and thought this would be something a little different. 

MAY 2017: GRAN CANARIA

What a way to kick off the Summer. We spent the majority of our time in the LGBT Yumbo Centre - there I am below with a Swedish Porn Star. I couldn't think of a better place to go with the best of people. 

  

JUNE 2017: PARKLIFE FESTIVAL 

Parklife Festival is soooo different to anything I've ever been to before, but I would 100% go again. I finally George Ezra who I am completely infatuated with.

JUNE 2017: SAM AND TOM'S WEDDING

I for one cannot believe I am at the age where my friends are getting married! Crazy stuff, here are some photos from my beautiful friends wedding, in June. So lovely.

 JUNE 2017: ROYAL ASCOT

I love nothing more than dressing up nicely and losing all my money...

JULY 2017: GREEN DAY AT HYDE PARK

AUGUST 2017: V FESTIVAL

AUGUST 2017: BOYZONE AT WINDSOR RACES

AUGUST 2017: READING FESTIVAL
Well, it wouldn't be the end of a Beth Willoughby summer without Reading would it?

 

Ah, 2007, what a grand old year that was. I refuse with the life of me want to believe that it was 10 years ago.. madness. 

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I had recently turned 23 (yikes!), this means that 10 years ago I was in my first year of a teenager, which seems absolutely mental.

I thought as a tribute to my 13 year old self I'd write what was cool (or at least what I thought was cool) when I was thirteen.

Enjoy!

Bebo - Oh yes, before the days of Twitter and Facebook we had Bebo. I used to make 'skins' for people and even used to make people rent out my love. - cringe!

High School Musical - This was everything I could ever have dreamed of. I was honestly obsessed. It was probably the thing at the time that most people had in common and sort of felt like I was apart of - not to mention Zac Efron - the man that every girl on the planet swooned over.

Jane Norman Bags - Is Jane Norman even a thing anymore? Everyone would carry their P.E Kits in the florescent bags, which probably had the strongest handles in history. If you were cool enough you'd definitely have a material Jane Norman bag for all your books/lunch and then a separate plastic one for your P.E Kit.

MSN: This was basically the WhatsApp of our generation. You'd add people on your Hotmail, usually with the tackiest, most distasteful email address you could possibly have (xx-xbethwilloughbyxx-x for reference) and you'd spend all your evenings chatting away to your friends about everything that happened in that day or just aimlessly nudging them for hours on end. If your crush accepted your add request that was it you were pretty much in there.

Foundation Lips - I don't know how this trend even came about or why it stayed for as long as it did. Apart from trying this look in my bedroom once, I never took to it. But nobody can say they didn't try it, just once.

Skins - This, I definitely shouldn't have been watching at 13. I've just started re-watching the series and surely my parents should have been a bit more concerned that this was everything that I aspired to be at the time. I remember staying up until 11pm to watch it on Channel 4 because it was shown later than E4 which I didn't have (pre-freeview) in my room. I do remember this playing quite a significant role in my life, it taught me things I never thought I needed to know and showed me things I never thought I'd see.

Slider Phones: Literally all the rage. I don't really know why they were ever a thing. Some even had cameras on the front, which as you could probably imagine was really thrilling.

Over plucking your eyebrows: You were only cool if there was nothing there.. Don't even ask me about this one..

Putting your thumb and index finger across your chin in the shape of the Nike tick and gazing to your upper right: This was THE pose of 2007, you weren't a rudegyal unless you had it as your profile pic' on Bebo. If you wanted to look extra gormless you could also pout your lips.

Glitter Eyeliner: Was it really 2007 if you and your friends weren't running to the nearest Superdrug to by the £1 2True glitter eyeliner in every colour. It was definitely more clear eyeliner than it was glitter and definitely never as sparkly as it was advertised. I'm 100% sure that everyone tried to have the most glittery cat flick that ever existed, this brought nothing but disappointment, I'm glad it stopped selling.

Quiffs: I was never cool enough for this trend because my baby hairs covered half my forehead and wouldn't ever clip up no matter how much hair spray. I don't even know why quiffs were even popular, everyone literally looked like the sun from tellitubbies.