‘No disgusting lollies’: Halloween in the Top End gets dark

Halloween is here. The American holiday’s popularity is growing in Australia and here’s how one Territorian is celebrating it.

For Akira Lay, Halloween is time spent with friends and family.

Dressed in a spooky costume with obvious attention to detail, her favourite part of the festive day is knocking on neighbours doors in return for sweets with her friends and family.

Akira said her spooky outfit was inspired by many different characters and themes.

“My top is like a Day of the Dead theme, my face is like Pennywise the clown and my face paint is like a vampire,” Akira said.

Palmerston girl Akira Lay is prepping for a night of trick-or-treating with her friends and family on Monday. Picture: Floss Adams.

“I think it took 35 minutes to get ready and this was originally a dress with sleeves so we cut the bottom off and we cut the sleeves off.”

Although Akira prepared an impressive Halloween costume, she said it was not her best yet.

“The year before I dressed as a vampire,” she said of her favourite costume.

For this year’s night of trick-or-treating Akira will strut her spooky look through her Palmerston neighbourhood.

She hopes for “no disgusting lollies”.