My Favourite Holiday.

29th October 2019

To those who are no longer with me, 

My favourite holiday? Halloween. Why? Not a clue. I have no idea why I love it so much; I don’t really have a reason to. I never got to go trick or treating as a kid. ‘We’re not American,’ my mum and dad used to say, ‘It’s not our holiday.’ The first time I went trick or treating, I was sixteen and it wasn’t the best experience in the world. You see Halloween celebrated all the time in movies and my experience at sixteen did not live up to the hype I had built in my mind. I went with a friend. A girl I am no longer friends with, she didn’t live in the best area of town and there was one so far, we could go. There weren’t many houses that were welcome to trick or treaters and when we did finally stumble upon a welcoming dwelling, they asked for a trick instead of a treat and I was completely unaware that that was even an option, let alone something people did. I remember standing there, rooted to the spot with absolutely no idea what to say or do and that was it, my night ruined. Another expectation of life that was nothing like the movies. Now, I’m a lover of make-up and Halloween is the ideal time for my okay skills to be dusted off and I can transform myself into a Disney character or a random cinematic villain and it is glorious.

 I have worked a lot of Halloweens in a night club, I’ve been a vampire, a witch, the Queen of Hell and the Greek Goddess Persephone, but since leaving that job and actually been able to go out and celebrate with friends I have been a mermaid and a cat and both outings have drawn a definitive conclusion for me. I hate a Halloween night out and in order to truly show my Halloween appreciation, I must host a party. However, that is pretty difficult in student accommodation, but I know that the day I get to finally host my long-awaited Halloween party, it will be spook-tacular.

 Getting yourself hyped up for Halloween is so much easier than a holiday like Christmas. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas, I fucking love it, but unlike Halloween you have to be hyped for a whole season. Halloween is gloriously a one-night show. The day after my dad’s birthday and an all-day event if you’re me and transforming yourself into a whole new entity. I cannot wait to finally host a Halloween party. It will be weeks in preparation but so worth it. To just spend one night under the same roof as my Halloween loving friends, scaring the scaredy cats of the clan, not one of us looking like ourselves, all of us being able to relax and let go in a safe environment. Halloween really is the best holiday, and if you don’t agree, that is fine, you’re entitled to your wrong opinion.

So, that is what you missed.

Love, always
Tiffany Jade

Xo.