Today is Halloween. Yay! After finishing off the last of the pumpkin carvings and decorating our front garden with spooky spiders webs we decided to go for a play in the park. It is raining, typical for Halloween, so I am wearing my favourite red riding hood style coat from Topshop, my new grey jeggings from primark (£7), Chelsea boots £18 from primark and underneath the coat is a plain white vest. Also my brown sactual bag is £8 in primark.
Halloween is next week. Yay. My favourite time of year after Christmas of course. If you are like me though, everything gets left till the last minute. I swore this time last year that I was going to plan for Halloween better. Here it is, just days from Halloween, you’ve been invited to a party and you have absolutely nothing to wear–and the ideas are running pretty dry as well. OR even worse, your kids don’t have a costume to wear out trick-or-treating and they are looking to you for some solutions. (Mum’s can fix everything, right?) I have come up with some last minute costume ideas that might just help bail us out!
You’ll already have many of these items in your house. If you need to buy anything, check out the charity shops! My personal goal is to spend as little as possible and to have as much fun making the costume as I will wearing it.
1. Nerd
Short trousers or shorts, which you can get from a charity shop
White socks
Black, clunky glasses, with white tape on the bridge
Shirt with top button fastened, either solid white or plaid
Shred the clothing you are wearing a little bit and then add some dark makeup around your eyes, using a white powder or a more pasty colored makeup on the rest of the face.
Mess up your hair–zombies always have bedhead.
A must-have item for any proper zombie look is vampire blood and lots of it; this is especially effective around the mouth area.
3.Cereal killer
Find a white tshirt and cover it in red paint or lipstick
Stick plastic knives through some cereal boxes
Stick them to your tshirt
4. Mummy
This one is simple. Go have fun with some toilet roll or raid the first aid box at work. :)
5. Killer clown
Put as much makeup on as possible including making your lips massive. Add a little tear drop with some black eyeliner too or just cover your eyes in black.
Wear the brightess clothes you can find and a wig if you have one.
Carry around a toy knife or not as clowns are scary enough.
6. Hogwarts pupil
A cape if you have one or a blanket will do
A red tie
A stick
Draw a lighting bolt on your forehead if you want to be harry
Grey clothes
7. A pumpkin
An orange dress or tshirt
paint your face like a pumpkin
8. Cast of Jersey shore
Find your biggest pair of hooped earrings
Use lots of fake tan or orange body paint
Wear lots of eyeliner and fake lashes
wear heels and tight clothing
Volumise your hair. The bigger the better.
9. The Ring
A muddy white dress or nighty
A black wig placed over your face
Blacken round your eyes
10. Black swan
A black vest and tutu
Pink tights and pumps
Find a toy tiara
Carefully paint your eyes similar to the pic below with black eyeliner
A feather boa if you have one might add a good effect
11. Twilight
(this is bad, im sorry) Wear casual clothes but put on a pair of plastic fangs and you can say you are any character you like.
Or, cover yourself in patches of grey faux fur and wear a shirt. You're Jacob! (oh dear)
12. Rosie the riveter
tie your hair up and add a red headband
Put on a blue shirt
Walk around with your arm flexed
13. Doll
With a black eyeliner, draw two crosses over your eyes and one in the middle of your mouth.
Wear a sand bag or some pretty clothes
Put your hair in pig tails and tie with a ribbon
These are just a few that i had in mind and i hope they help a little. If you would like some funny and simple ideas check out my favorite You tuber Dailygrace whos videos i have posted below. Her ideas are so much much better than mine.
