Dragon Tails by Tired Bear - A review by Bex

I recently came across a local company called Tired Bear who make absolutely gorgeous costumes for little ones.  They caught my eye at a Christmas Fair, I loved all the bright colours and had a look on their website that evening.  I absolutely love the designs and completely agree with Anna's philosophy about bright colours being for all children.  "Most of my costumes are a bright mix of colours that aren't gender specific because boys shouldn't always be blue and girls definitely shouldn't always be pink!"

The next day we went back and had a chat with Anna who is just lovely and the twins each chose a dragon tail.  As if to prove our point, Kalyan chose Pink with yellow (pink and orange seem to be his favourite colours) and Priya went for purple with green.

On Tuesday we went for one of our favourite walks to take a few photos of the tails to really show them off.  I adore them!  They'd make fantastic Christmas presents and would last such a long time as part of a dressing up box.  The dragon tails cost £20 and with wings are £35.  They come in red, blue, yellow and green as well, each with a contrasting colour for the spines.

The twins absolutely adore their tails!  They love to wear them and they look pretty comfy too.  I am very impressed with the quality.  They're made from lovely soft fleece and have a nice thick waist band with velcro most of the way around so they'll fit for years.  They can also be machine washed at 30!  They are all hand made by Anna and you can tell a lot of time goes in to the making of each one.

My brave little pink dragon was quite happy wandering off down the path which leads to cake!  (Oast Farm Cafe is this way!)

And into mystical dragon caves...

Until we realised it was Tuesday and Oast Farm Cafe is closed on Tuesdays - eeep!  

What do you mean there's no cake?!

And Anna doesn't just make dragon tails.  She has wings to match, as well as butterfly wings, shark and killer whale costumes complete with fin and tail, angel wings, dinosaur tails and even a unicorn with a rainbow tail, wings and pink horn.  She's even made an awesome Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon!  The dragon tails do make good shadows though!

They've worn them loads already.  I love the fun they add to our walks, pretending to be dragons exploring.

We received two dragon tails from Tired Bear in return for writing an honest review.

ODP2 The Report - Halloween Party!

by Bex

Everyone made a fantastic effort with the fancy dress!

Batgirl & Care Bear

Black Swan 

Witch & Marionette

Firework & Hit Girl

50 shades of grave and a unicorn

 Pocahontas and the firework!

Scary Marionette apple bobbing

 

 The Ring Master!

 Vikki wasn't a fan of the spawn!

 

 

Mahj playing Ghost Hunt!

Before we presented the best costume and sexiest costume awards!

 

"Blue Cheese Buttarrr!"

 

Enjoying the gin jelly brain!

It was an awesome night, thanks SO much to everyone for coming!  ODP3 anyone?!

My Halloween Costume - Pin It Do It

by Bex

I found plenty of inspiration for my outfit on Pinterest.  I wanted to wear my fangs but didn't want to be a vampire again.  Initially I was just going to be the 'Halloween Queen' as I saw so many Halloweeny ideas but not one specific outfit I liked.  I was a bit worried about it looking just a bit random so ended up focussing on the spider aspect as I thought my fangs would work with that and I saw loads of great make-up ideas.

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In the end, with all of my frantic last minute decorating and making food, I didn't have much time to spend on my make-up so had to do it from memory.  I had planned to copy the eyeliner from the page of ideas above with more green underneath like the full on web effect with a spider dangling.  I even tried to book my wedding make-up artist but she wasn't available unfortunately.  In the end, I think I did an OK job and I was REALLY pleased with the creepy contacts I got for £4.99 from Play.com!  It was all done in a bit of a rush so I just put on black lipstick rather than try the green effect above.

Other ideas I liked included this web crown but again I ran out of time.  I did take my spiky diamante collar necklace and strung up some spider charms to dangle from it like a web.

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I wanted to do a mix of nails like this idea below but with a spider theme.

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I wore my old Halloween skirt which I bought on eBay a few years ago with an old lace web top tucked in.  I also got some great green web tights on eBay and wore my buckle boots from Office.

So here is the final result:

My earrings were made using the same spider charms from eBay and beads and jewellery findings I already had.

I made the gloves about 10 years ago out of a pair of childrens' tights.

The webs and spider were drawn on with liquid eyeliner and I stuck the gems on with eyelash glue.  My eyelashes were from The Art Store.

For my nails, I got some spider stickers on eBay (they turned out to be MUCH larger than the picture so I only put them on my thumbs) and borrowed a tiny nail brush from Lauren (thanks Lauren!) to paint a web (thanks Lara for copying my design onto my right hand for me!).  I also got some green gems on eBay for sticking on my face webs and added one to the nail web too.  I also made one nail glittery (would have done more but it's a nightmare to get off!).

Thanks to Rebecca, Roz and Nik for taking the photos of me and my outfit and to Bella for the ones of my nails :)

I'm linking up with Transatlantic Blonde's What I wore Wednesday again today, go and see what she made for her son and her fab Dia de Los Muertos make-up!