Trick or Treat?

I love Hallowe'en and I love dressing up. I usually dress as a boy, weirdly. My favourite costume ever was when I dressed as a school boy for my friend's birthday party, complete with black eye and shorts with pocket-fulls of props such as condoms, cigarettes and army men.

This Hallowe'en I'm really sad that I'm not going to be able to get dressed up and play out because I have to be up shockingly early on Sunday morning. Imagine then, my disappointment, when I stumbled across this article on the Guardian website's Life and Style section offering what they describe as "more demure" costume ideas for women.

All very well, until we get to the Pig's-Blood-Beauty, Carrie on the end there! Demure is not the word that I would use! Can you imagine spending an evening chatting to pals about the X Factor's very own horror story, Jedward, while your glass slips through your bloodied hands and your hair hardens and sticks to your face? Hot. Worst still, the Guardian went for a tomato ketchup and pomegranate juice concoction to create the look! Demure? No.