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This autumn and winter, let sisterMAG be your guide to 2016s festivities! American celebrations like Thanksgiving or Black Friday are finding their way into our calendars as well as favourites like Halloween and Christmas. The first highlight of the series is our HALLOWEEN special. Inspired by our friends at Maybelline, we came up with last minute makeup looks for a perfectly spooky (mon)day and asked locals how they love to spend a truly NYC Halloween. We hope you enjoy our dramatically elegant sisterMAG take on Halloween and are already looking forward to your #spidereffect looks on social media!
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FROM EXPUNGING BAD SPIRITS TO AMERICAS NEW NATIONAL HOLIDAY
Ghosts, ghouls and princesses are on their way to fill their pockets with Candy Corn and other treats on a typical American Halloween night. Supermarkets sell accumulations of cobwebs, fake spiders and pumpkins and there’s a haunted house on every corner. But when exactly did people start thinking of costume ideas in summer and why did we choose the 31st of October to prowl the streets in search for sweets? We went on a journey to uncover the spooky history of Halloween.
HALLOWEEN The name derives from the catholic bank holiday of »All Hallows«, which has been celebrated on the first of November as early as the 9th century. The night before is called »All Hallows Eve«, abbreviated to the »Halloween« we know today.
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The tradition of dressing up on Halloween is traced back to the celtic New Year’s Samhain festivities from the 5th century. On this day, the worlds of the living and the dead were believed to collide, enabling bad spirits to possess the living. Therefore, scary masks and costumes were fashioned to frighten them off. After dark, people went outside to line the villages with bread and other food to calm the evil spirits. The romans took on this tradition, although the belief in evil spirits lessened and the celebrations were more of a gathering of dressed-up children on the hunt for sweets.
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TRICK OR TREAT! All Souls' Day on the 2nd of November is believed to be the origin of trick or treating. Christians used to walk through the village, asking for a special kind of bread baked with red
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currants. In return for the food, they promised to pray for the souls of dead relatives. Throughout time, the tradition of playing tricks on stingy people developed.
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GLOWING JACK O’LANTERNS The American Jack O’Lantern is another important Halloween tradition. According to legend, the Irishman Jack Oldfield tricked Satan into climbing up a tree, then carving a cross into its trunk and thus keeping the devil up the tree. He agreed to release him in exchange for never having to fear Satan again.
because he’d bargained with Satan and the furious Satan himself denied him entrance to hell, instead giving him a beet with a candle inside to navigate the dark world between heaven and hell. To commemorate jack, the Irish carved beets and brought this tradition to America with them, exchanging the beets for much more popular pumpkins.
When he died, poor Jack was denied entrance to heaven
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HALLOWEEN AROUND THE WORLD How did such a mix of cultural influences make Halloween to be one the most celebrated festivites in the US? When Irish migrants numerously moved to America in the 1840s, they also brought their traditions and celebrations.
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Only during the 1990s, when religious bank holidays became less popular and globalisation was in its earlier days, did Halloween find its way to Germany. The American traditions and celebrations quickly gained popularity over here. sisterMAG intern and Californian Charly filled the following pages with all things Halloween, including tutorials with the Maybelline Colossal Spider Effect Mascara and blogger stories from Halloween in New York City.
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TEXT & PHOTO: TRACY KALER
Before I moved to New York, I sat on my bungalow’s front porch and handed out candy to droves of kids in my Atlanta neighbourhood on Halloween. While that was fun, my Halloweens in NYC are drastically different. In our building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, apartment owners sign up if they intend to be home and would like to accept trick-or-treaters. I’m sure seeing dozens of costumed tykes wearing smiles as Hershey’s chocolates drop into their plastic pumpkins is an amusing way to spend Halloween, but I’ve never actually done it, and I won't be able to do it this year either. Like other years, I won't be
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home on October 31 because I’ll sport a costume myself and march up Sixth Avenue in the Village Halloween Parade. In fact, thousands of New Yorkers of all ages march in the parade every year, and it’s one of the most fantastic New York experiences anyone could ever imagine. The revelry begins at Canal Street where singles, couples, and families line up in their costumes –– some funny, some horrific, and some downright outlandish. (This is New York, after all.) Of the 100,000 or so participants, most march the route, which starts at Spring Street and
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ends at West 16th Street. Others ride on floats (large platforms pulled by vehicles) decorated in bright colours and flashing lights, blasting upbeat party music. Witches, ghouls, and goblins abound, as over 50 bands stomp the street and hundreds of ghostly puppets (some life-size) glide gracefully through the PARADE CROWD air, while nearly two million spectators look on. Yes, I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right. It’s quite the spectacle!
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but soon realized that this was no ordinary neighbourhood pageant. The Village Halloween Parade has been a New York tradition since 1974, and it’s the largest public Halloween celebration in the world. The parade was smaller at that time (it was almost a decade ago), but still incredibly innovative and entertaining. Over the years, I’ve experienced the parade both ways –– I’ve observed from the sidelines as a spectator, and I’ve
The first time I saw the parade, my husband and I were out and about in Chelsea on a Friday night, and we accidentally stumbled upon the festivities. We were new to New York and had no idea what we discovered,
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dressed up and marched. In my opinion, though, the best way to take part in that enthusiasm is to put on a costume and walk with thousands of other New Yorkers – each of us unique in our own way – and celebrate the creativity, diversity, and palpable energy that makes New York the city we love.
GHOSTS ON THE SUBWAY TEXT : MARI JOHNSON
When I think about Halloween in New York City, one of the first things that comes to mind is the subway. The subway system in NYC is an integral part of the livelihood of the city. It allows you the freedom and gives you the means to go anywhere you want, at any time of day. It’s the cheapest form of transportation and is frequented by students and businessmen alike. On any given day, at any given time, one can find a wide assortment of people
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and personalities in any single train. Halloween is no exception; though on Halloween, the wide array of faces you see are covered in paint, fur, and masks. I will never forget my last Halloween in New York City, riding the subway to my bartending job, in my normal street clothes with my face painted like a skeleton. I went about my routine as usual, listening to a podcast and mentally preparing for work, while the rest
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of the costume-covered train did the same. Little cookie monsters coming home from school, devils in pencil skirts bobbing their heads to music, ghosts reading books, and wizards taking selfies. I smiled at the sight, imagining what it would be like if everyone always looked like this, and also laughing at the realization that the norm wasn’t usually too far off. I carried on to my bar job at a German-inspired »biergarten,« where I changed into my everyday costume of a dirndl. But this time was different, this time a skeleton
got to pour beer next to a cat, next to a witch. Costumes always seem to make everything more fun, and even though I was working, I had a great night. At the end of my shift, I hopped back on the subway and the characters I encountered were even more entertaining than before, albeit still not that different from a normal night. And that’s a huge part of what makes New York City so great; it’s a place where anything and everything goes and you can be whoever or whatever you want, Halloween and every other day of the year.
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HALLOWEEN TIPS #1
AFTER THE PARADE After the Greenwich Village parade, go to the traditional after party at WEBSTER HALL Definitely put a little more effort into your attire, the winner of the annual costume competition is awarded $5.000.
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SPOOKY THRILLS Haunted houses are very popular in NYC. BLOOD MANOR might just be the scariest of the lot, opening from 6pm to 1am on Hallow’s Eve. Too lazy to walk? Join the NEW YORK HAUNTED HAYRIDE and be spooked by murderous clowns, demons and other dark creatures of the night.
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SCARY WITH BENEFITS One of many charity balls on Halloween is the famous BLOOD BALL , The proceeds of this years »Dark Glamour: Hollywood Meets Horror« night go to the DKMS.
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This is where the Maybelline Colossal Spider Effect Mascara comes into play. The coned brush only has the typical long fibres on one side so you can apply your mascara even more precisely while the length of the brush gently curves your lashes upwards. Depending on your ideal amount of layers, you’ll be left with a brightening, eye-opening swoosh or dramatic spider-effect lashes as the special formula is perfectly suited to take you from day to night. The star of our Halloween shooting, this mascara works just as well with New York streetstyles as it does with spooky, dark makeup suited for a queen of the underworld.
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This look is for all the lovers of more natural makeup look. Focussing on the eyes, we used the MAYBELLINE COLOSSAL SPIDER EFFECT MASCARA to apply several layers of smooth, lengthening mascara. To achieve the seperation we used for this look, carefully take a pair of tweezers and press your lashes into place for ultimate volume and drama. Looking for something more exciting? Head over to tutorial number two for something different.
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DRAMATIC Again focussing on the eyes, we used eyeliner for an intense, dramatic look. Our favourite is the COLOSSAL LINER FROM MAYBELLINE, which we applied before gently patting on a shiny eye shadow from our favourite MAYBELLINE THE ROCK NUDES PALETTE. Use the MAYBELLINE COLOSSAL SPIDER EFFECT MASCARA for this elegant twist on a dramatic look.
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Complete all steps from look 1. Use a berry lipstick like the MAYBELLINE COLOR SENSATIONAL THE LOADED BOLDS LIPPENSTIFT IN MIDNIGHT MERLOT, or go full out and use a black lipstick.
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The last one of our tutorials is not one for the faint hearted. To achieve maximum pizzazz, apply the MAYBELLINE THE COLOSSAL LINER IN BLACK all over the eyelid and underneath your lower lashes. Then smudge and use the MAYBELLINE COLOSSAL SPIDER EFFECT MASCARA on your lashes. THE BABYLIPS LIP BALM completes the look. SISTER-MAG.COM
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We'll be back in two weeks with more festivities and the next section of our issue sisterMAG N°27 with the topic of »Wood & Fire«. Until then we wish you a very spooky Monday and many great autumn das with sun and colourful leaves! Take a look at our Instagram Channel where you can always peak Behind the scenes of our productions.
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sisterMAG shoots with Jasmin (Madame Tamtam), Saskia (Oh Hedwig), Nadine (Shoppinator) and Julia (Des Belles Choses) for L'Oréal Paris and a new product which is very exciting: shampoos that don't produce foam!
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Workshop Time in the sisterMAG Office! We invited some hair specialists to tell us more about the huge world of great hair-dos and about washing your hair the trendy way!
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November sisterMAG invites you to dinner this issue! We want to show you many decoration ideas with our partner S.Pellegrino. On Instagram Stories you can be part of the preparations and the dinner itself!
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Imprint Publisher Carry-On Publishing GmbH, GustavMeyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin Management: Alex Sutter, Antonia Sutter & Theresa Neubauer Chief Editor Theresa Neubauer Director Operations Nadine Steinmetz Content Editorial Team Laura Glabbatz, Franziska Winterling, Olga Felker, Charlie Tanquary Design Theresa Neubauer, Marie Darme, Songie Yoon Photographers Sofie Olejnik, Peter Court, Vita Vilcina Hair & Make-up Franziska Dominick Models Charlie Tanquary, Hannah MĂźller-Hildebrandt
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