Halloween and my birthday in one day? Definitely no better combination.
Having my birthday on Halloween every year meant that growing up I had candy and cash in my basket, and I wouldn’t want it any other way.
Being a Halloween baby is easily one of my biggest flexes other than being a fun, mysterious and flirty Scorpio.
When I was in elementary school I loved to go trick-or-treating in my neighborhood because I really was the neighbors favorite kid. I’d stop by the houses of my close family friends and they would always slip in an extra dollar or $5.
Almost no one forgets that it's my birthday either, I’ve never had a friend hesitate to reiterate the day I graced this world with my presence.
As I’ve gotten older I’ve been able to use the excuse to dress up as a Birthday Girl for my Halloween costume if I didn’t have anything that year.
This outfit was usually a black body con dress, with a sparkly, pink birthday girl sash, shiny tiara and three-inch heels.
As someone who’s always adored dressing up and feeling cute, I love the dramatics of Halloween and dressing up for it. While I got to be cute, glittery and the center of the attention, I loved watching other people dress up feeling confident and cute around me.
I’ve always flourished and felt my happiest thinking of being surrounded by other baddies wearing their baddie costumes.
A baddie for reference is a bad bitch or a confident girl who carries herself high and loves to dress up and be cute, according to me.
I usually make the countdown to my birthday pretty obvious. Whether it's telling my friends
through a private story post on Snapchat, or a close friend's story reminder on Instagram, my people will always get a reminder that my birthday is coming up, even if they already know.
The last four years I have gotten so sidetracked and busy during October, that I am not always fully conscious of how much longer it will be until my birthday.
Junior year of high school I stressed over college admissions, senior year of high school I was busy trying to keep my grades up and waiting to hear back from colleges.
And once I became a freshman in college I was still adjusting to the environment of university life and new friends, then my sophomore year in college was also its whole other little journey.
Now that my junior year has approached what feels like completely out of nowhere, I have not
had the time to be as extravagant as I wanted to be with my Halloween costumes this year.
I am turning 21 this year, and I believe that 2023 has been my most confident year since becoming a young adult.
Not having the costumes that I envisioned sends me down a rabbit hole thinking that my life will continue to get busier and so many other important things will get in the way of doing the little fun things like buying a costume for myself.
I don’t have much planned for my birthday, which I don’t have a problem with necessarily, but it lets me reminisce how much time I spent wanting to grow up.
I’ve always thought about turning 21, turning 18, 15. It feels like I hadn’t always let myself enjoy being a kid and having the fun I had in my elementary school years.
When my head does get emotional going down that rabbit hole of time, I then ground myself by remembering why I love my birthday. My special Halloween birthday.
I’ve always treasured the Halloween decorations my dad put up around the house. I love the festivities of planning outfits surrounding the themes and ideas of my birthday.
Overall, I love that others get to celebrate with me and I get to feel so loved during my favorite time of the year.
I will forever love and flex my Halloween birthday, and I will continue to treasure every tradition and memory it has given me.
