- Halloween is October 31st.halloween image by Silviu G. Halmaghi from Fotolia.com
Every year when Halloween rolls around, the scariest thing is, inevitably, finding a costume. You want to strike a balance: cute but adult, smart but sexy. Plus, you don't want to spend vast amounts of money at the local costume shop just to show up wearing what everyone else is wearing. This year, try one of these ideas on for size. - Simple sheet ghost costumes are classic for Halloween.gespenst image by Ewe Degiampietro from Fotolia.com
This is a fun play on the classic ghost costume. The family of ghosts costume features you as the mother ghost, so once you cut out the standard ghost eyes from a white sheet, add a GPTA (Ghost Parent-Teacher Association) button and a ghostly diaper bag. The coup de grace is your children: a couple of white helium balloons with white cloth glued over them. Once you've drawn on their eyes, your ghost family is complete. - A "breadwinner" is someone who makes the most money in their family.slices of fresh bread image by Maria Brzostowska from Fotolia.com
This costume is tongue-in-cheek and perfect for a Halloween party full of your wittiest (or most sarcastic) friends. Using brown and beige fabric, you simply make a wearable slice of bread. When you add a medal around your neck or a trophy, you've got the breadwinner costume. - White yarn is essential for this costume.seil image by Frank-Peter Funke from Fotolia.com
The voodoo doll is simple, creepy, and also sexy. After donning a full-length white bodysuit or long-sleeved white leotard with white tights, tightly wrap white yarn all around your body. You want to appear to be made out of yarn. Once you've glued on silver spray-painted extra-large plastic knitting needles, add white face paint on your face and neck and black eyeshadow and mascara and black lipstick, you've got the Voodoo Doll costume down pat. - Sexy Nurse is an especially popular version of the Sexy ProfessionalNurse image by Hunta from Fotolia.com
This is the go-to for most women on Halloween. The costume is simple: take any profession (police officer, doctor, nurse, lawyer, even construction worker) and make it sexy by shortening the skirt or pants and lowering the neckline. Playful accents (handcuffs for a cop, whip for a lawyer) up the sexiness factor. - Full-out animal costumes are better left to kids.cat girl image by Cherry-Merry from Fotolia.com
Another classic is the Cute Animal costume. This can be a cat (black bodysuit, cat ears, and drawn-on whiskers), a bunny (bunny ears and a little white tail), or even something more exotic like a panda (painted-on panda face and mitten paws). The trick is simply to pick a couple of attributes of the animal and emphasize them in your costume without getting too realistic or too cutesy. - Fish and Chips is another good couple costume.real fish and chips image by green308 from Fotolia.com
If you're lucky enough to have a date to a Halloween party, consider doing a couples' costume. This can be anything from the literary (Lolita and Humbert Humbert) to the everyday (Doctor and Patient) to the more abstract (Milk and Cookies).
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