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Halloween : 5 easy Hair-inspired costumes

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It is just 2 weeks for Halloween! and we couldn't be more excited! But did you know that even though we tend to always say that here in Europe we have slowly adopted this American holiday, it is actually  the other way round. While we now associate it with trick or treat, costumes and apple-bobbing the ancient origins are pretty far off..... 2000 years far off in fact with a Celtic festival known as Samhain, when they used to believe that ghosts would roam the earth on the 31st of October so people left food on their doorstep to ward off the ghosts but also put on masks when they left the house so they would be mistaken for fellow ghosts. In the 8th century the Christian church tuned it into all-hallows eve... which eventually was shortened to Halloween. The trick or treating we know today originates from medieval Britain with a tradition known as Guising , when young people would dress up and in return for food, wine or money they would sing, recite poetry or tell