The actress says that although she’s a big fan of the holiday, she can be last-minute when it comes to choosing her costume
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It’s about to get spooky up in the Mendes-Gosling household!
Speaking with PEOPLE about her new partnership with Look Optic to drop a line of stylish readers and sunglasses, Mendes tells PEOPLE that she loves getting into the spirit of the spooky season. “I do love Halloween. It’s just such a beautiful vibe everywhere in the country.”
“I’ve spent Halloween in New York, which has been so amazing, and then I’ve been in L.A. for the past decade. There’s just something in the air,” she shares.
However, the actress, 50, says she’s kind of last minute when it comes to choosing her costume.
“I’m not like Heidi Klum level. No, that’s next level. I totally feel like now she’s raised the bar to a level that I just can’t meet,” Mendes says of picking out what to wear. “I’m more into a make your costume at home kind of vibe. Or I just take last year’s costume and make it bloody.”
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“We have these fun Halloween boxes full of costumes, which we actually haven’t gotten out yet this year, and then we kind of go through them and figure out what we want to do,” Mendes says of partner Ryan Gosling, and their daughters Esmerelda Amada, 10, and Amada Lee, 8.
She says in recent years, the holiday has gotten even better now that neighborhoods in L.A. close the streets off to traffic.
“It makes you feel a lot better,” the mom of two explains of taking the girls trick-or-treating through the neighborhood, which she says she loves to do.
“I usually don’t talk to my neighbors; then I’m knocking on their door randomly, asking them for candy. So it’s really beautiful. I love the community aspect, as well as the costumes. We’re all in for Halloween.”
Mendes recently talked to PEOPLE about how she’s no longer in denial about getting older.
“I was around my late thirties, and I remember the moment that ingredients became a little harder for me to read,” said Mendes of her eyesight.
“I was like, ‘That’s weird!'” Mendes continued. “In my late thirties, I just didn’t think aging was going to happen to me. I was at that point where I thought that only happens to other people.”
She joked that she even went through a denial phase.
“I was like, ‘They’re changing things on me!’ They’re making the type so small on prescription bottles and things like that. And then I came to the terms like, ‘Oh my God. I need readers and possibly other lenses like progressives.'”
She may need readers, but she still said there’s one thing she’ll never give up, no matter how old she is: Heels.
“I don’t have any style rules, really, but I can’t live without heels, so those will never die,” she said.
“I’m Cuban! I don’t know, It’s cultural. I was born dancing in the heels. It’s a stereotype I like to hang on to, but I can dance, and I can wear heels, and I’ll never stop.”