There may not be a big selection of womens bug costumes, however this lady bug outfit is one of the most adorable and yet sexy Halloween costumes available. The look is very feminine, depicting one of the most well known spotted insects. Forget about scary Halloween costumes this year because cute is in! The look is easily recognizable as well.

The design of this bug costume focuses on black spots. A pair of red stockings complete with round, black spots rise well over the knee, and include a single white and yellow flower shape on the top of each cuff. Find your favorite black heels to go along with the color scheme. The short costume dress includes a layered black skirt, with plenty of frills and volume. The shiny, red bodice features additional black spots and a strip of black across the bra area. Thin spaghetti style straps run over each shoulder and a third flower comes attached to the bust line. The adorable black antennae are bent playfully and end in big red pom poms. No insect costume is complete without a set of fluttery wings, and this one features uniquely shaped red costume wings with similar black spots!

Good Queens are a dime a dozen. This year, outdo the usual royal variations that make appearances at Halloween parties worldwide.

Who says being a queen means you cannot be a little devious? Let this year’s holiday outfit tell a different tale and prove that even the most beautiful queen costume can be dark and naughty. Relish the power of demanding common peasants to accommodate your every whim and desire, if only for a single evening. The comfortably designed Wicked Queen costume is the perfect look for this year’s Halloween costume party!

The entire garment features a theme that is all brooding black. The long costume gown flows to the floor with a velvety accent in the front and smoky grey silk fabric draped over each hip. The bodice offers a low bust line to almost place this one in with the other sexy Halloween costumes. The sleeves are long and flowing, with excess fabric that drapes over the elbow and bunches at the shoulders to create an appearance of nobility. A choker clings to the neck and wraps around with a short collar, rising up towards the silver crown. No wicked queen would go for a bright golden crown. This wicked queen prefers the color of cold steel, complete with a basic filigree design and a red gem, accentuating the center. This costume is also available in plus sizes.

Add some sexy cabaret style to your next Halloween celebration! Practice your most glamorous dance moves to really show off this sexy little number. You’d be just like the ladies in Moulin Rouge!

Looking for a dark, sexy Halloween costume with some class? Try on this hot little number! You will look as though you just stepped off the stage of the most famous cabaret club in Paris, without the expensive plane ticket and dance lessons.

This womens Halloween costume features a two tiered skirt, short in the front, and long in the back, in velvety ebony. The waist line features a delicate black ruffle, lining the form fitted bodice. The center features a classically styled grey and black print design, which matches the overly wide hat band. The sides are solid black, perfect for a slimming and curvy affect on just about any body shape. The low cut bust line is highlighted with a single row of see through black lace ruffles that run to each halter top style strap. A pair of forearm cuffs in lacy black is included.

Black platform heals or any glitzy dancer shoes, combined with black or fishnet style stockings work perfectly with this look. A cabaret style costume hat and straight black cane finish the look. Add a sexy hair wig for a lengthy effect. Find your best costume makeup and give them a performance to remember this Halloween!

Jelly Belly Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans

What’s the big deal, they are just jelly beans? Well, if they were just jelly beans they wouldn’t have a huge price tag attached to them and they certainly wouldn’t still be in production. Sure, the 3.5 ounce ‘wizard bag’ isn’t as popular as it once was but it is still an incredible seller. The biggest thing to know about this is that you are only getting twenty select flavors with the pouch version. The last time I counted them up there were over 150 different flavors and when you get into combining them, well, the potential for flavor mixes is endless. The wizards pouch is nice but it isn’t anything that you are going to hang on to unless you are a huge Potter fan.

The 3.5 ounce wizard bags contain twenty flavors but you are not guaranteed to get each and every flavor in the bag; is that clever marketing or what? There is a small fold out on the flavors and it shows a photo of the Every Flavor Bean along with the name. Some of the colors of them are enough to turn your stomach but if you are brave enough to try them, well, I tip my wizards hat to you. The flavors are: Grape, Rotten Egg, Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Booger, Ear Wax, Buttered Popcorn, Earthworm, Grass, Lemon, Sardine, Soap, Bacon, Toasted Marshmallow, Green Apple, Tutti-Fruitti, Very Cherry, Vomit, Blueberry and Dirt.

What are the best and worst flavors? Sometimes you can’t go by just the name of something, the Butter Popcorn wasn’t any real shock since that is one of the old school Jelly Belly flavors. The Lemon, Cinnamon, Blueberry, Tutti-Fruitti and Toasted Marshmallow are the normal run of the mill jelly bean flavors; the true taste is there but they are all a little overly sweet. Green Apple is tart but with a pleasant aftertaste to it, Grass tastes like a mix between lime and some type of industrial hand soap you wash your hands with in a public bathroom and Earthworm tastes like cocoa but very gritty. The brood said it tasted completely different to them so every person is going to have a different “taste interpretation” of them.

If the myriad of flavors in the 3.5 ounce bag is too much for you, you can get this in dedicated flavor selections like the ten flavor pack that includes Boogers, Rotten Egg, Earwax, Dirt and Sardine. Getting them in this format allows you to know what flavors you are actually consuming thanks to the little flavor guide that comes with it. If you want to experience every single flavor, well you are going to have to spend about $49.99 and get the massive four pound container of Bertie Bott’s but the upside is you do get a complete color guide to all the flavors. Some of those include Salmon, Brussel Sprouts, Centipede, Sushi, Worcestershire Sauce, Paprika, Baked Beans, Curry, Frog Legs, Sand, Onion, Toe Nails and Squid. If you want to get the newest flavors you will have to settle for the smaller 1.6 ounce boxes since they are the newest off the production line.

The Bottom Line

So the Bertie Bott’s are too tame for you? Then perhaps you need to check out some of the other gross Potter offerings. Here are some of the Harry Potter candies that are still in production; “Chocolate Frogs”, “Blood Pops”, “Cockroach Clusters’, ‘Acid Pops”, “Jelly Slugs”, “Fizzing Whizbees”, “Cotton Candy Bubble Gum”. The real appeal to the Bertie Bott’s is that there is an unending combination of flavors that you can make with them. If you can get past the flavors on a solo level then you should be able to handle any combination. I was the human guinea pig for several of the broods taste experiments and suffered through it for the sake of science, well, at least that is what they conned in into thinking.

If done properly a witch can be both sexy and scary. This costume is the epitome of just that; a tattered dress with overlay and drop sleeves in a beautiful purple velvet fabric, v-neck front and bottom, a matching hat with an all seeing eyeball medallion necklace as well as matching eye hand piece.

This costume can easily be transformed into a hideous hag with the help of a witch prosthetics kit or you can add some softer makeup to keep it glamerous. Don’t forget to add a long wig and witch shoes to complete the outfit.

Here’s a great video that you can use to apply your witch makeup. It’s a step-by-step instructional video that is easy to follow, just make sure you have all the items you’ll need. I’d suggest watching the video once, then buying the makeup needed or buy a witch makeup kit and try to replicate it with what’s provided.

And now an interesting fact about witches that you probably didn’t know: The Salem Witch trials of 1692 are known for burning so-called witching at the stake. But actually, not one witch died by burning; most were put to death by hanging. One unfortunate witch was “pressed” to death and several died in prison of natural causes.

Firstly, can cats sense ghost and spirits? It’s been said that cats are sensitive to the proximity of spirits. Here’s an account of a stray black-and-white cat that was adopted in the Queens section of New York City. They lived in an old attached house that had no history of strange activity, as far as they knew, but this high-strung kitten seemed to be able to see things humans could not:

“She would look at the stairs, her gaze slowly moving from the bottom to the top, as if she was observing someone walking up the steps. At other times, her green eyes would be transfixed upon a certain spot on the ceiling above me. While I couldn’t see anything, the cat was definitely watching something. After my son went away to college, I decided to put the house up for sale. One evening, shortly after the real estate agent that I contacted had looked at the house; I sat in my favorite chair with my little cat nearby excitedly looking at the ceiling above me. I heard people run down the stairs in the house next door. Maybe the noise triggered what happened next, which was truly horrible. What I heard sounded like the heavy, thumping steps of a big man with real heavy boots walking on my living room ceiling upside down. The cat was absolutely frantic. She looked at the ceiling, hissing and spitting. After about ten seconds of deafening noise, there was silence. The cat stopped looking at the ceiling. I checked the upstairs rooms, but, of course, there was no one else in the house.”

As for whether or not they have any magical powers, no one will ever know, but people seem to have thought so throughout history. Dating back to the Middle Ages, life was no picnic for cats; in the religious fervor of the time, cats, especially black cats, were considered mystical spirits of evil. Witches were said to be aided by cats in their mischief-making. Sometimes a witch took on the shape of a cat to slink around unnoticed. Witch’s cats were also said to have the power of speech and were able predict the future.

Anti-feline hysteria reached a fever pitch and cats were deliberately hunted down and killed. Sometimes cats were formally executed for simply being a cat. The cat was blamed for a multitude of sins, including the encouragement of humans to do wrong. And if the cat’s owner was convicted of witchcraft and condemned to die, there was a good chance that they would be accompanied to the gallows by the cat.

And lastly, do cats bring good or bad luck? Well that would depend on where you are located in the world and what superstitions you believe to be true, here are some of the superstitions about cats found all around the world:

1-     In England, if a black cat crosses your path, evil will soon befall you, however, the evil can be cancelled if you spit right away.

2-     If a cat leaves home while a person is sick and cannot be coaxed back, the person will die.

3-     In the days of the great sailing ships, sailors would always bring a cat on board the boat. On very calm days when no wind filled the sails, they would lock the cat in a cupboard. They believed that this would bring a breeze.

4-     Never leave a cat alone with an infant. The cat will suck the breath right out of the child.

5-     In Great Britain, Tortoiseshell cats are considered lucky.

6-     If a cat sneezes near a bride-to-be on the morning of her wedding, she will have a happy life.

7-     Stroking the tail of a black cat will cure a sty in the eye.

As you can see from this list, cats are considered to be both good luck and bad luck. Which do you believe?