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"When I read yesterday&amp;#x27;s news that an environmental group is warning that Halloween makeup may be hazardous to your health, my reaction was, really? Didn&amp;#x27;t we all kind of assume that already?Glamour reader Lisa (@lanmaltby) Tweeted us this pic of her rad Jem and the Holograms getup last year I mean, you just walk into one of those pop-up Halloween costume stores and you&amp;#x27;re nearly rendered unconscious from potent plastic and rubber and aerosol fumes. And all that cheaply made glitter and fake blood and black warpaint in the makeup section doesn&amp;#x27;t exactly look like it&amp;#x27;s concocted using gentle ingredients--or even ingredients with any known origin in the natural world. I just had a flashback to Halloween 2009, when my friend and I dressed as robots. It involved thickly encrusting ourselves with spray-on silver body paint and hairspray. I&amp;#x27;d just found out I was pregnant the night before and didn&amp;#x27;t yet want to tell my friend, and I figured one night of poisonous beauty products couldn&amp;#x27;t be that bad in the grand scheme of things. But as I stood in the bathroom holding my breath trying not to breathe in the toxic gray mist, I was more than a little concerned that my child would emerge with one extra arm as a result. (Thankfully, she did not. And now I look forward to showing her those Halloween photos! But will I let HER wear the sketchy makeup a few years from now? Hmm. Maybe not.) Oh the things we&amp;#x27;ll do for this silly holiday. Do you plan to be wearing some extra-toxic makeup this weekend and feel it probably won&amp;#x27;t do much harm? Or does the campy, cheapie Halloween makeup freak you out too much? Pick Up Glamour&amp;amp;#8217;s 1,000 Beauty Dos &amp;amp; Donts to Live By Forever, On Newsstands Now! Download Glamour on your iPad&amp;amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Like freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes. Sign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#x27;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise). One more PS: Did you know you can now read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;amp;#8217;s the ultimate boredom buster."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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