Halloween Costumes
Funny and scary costumes for Halloween
Whether you are looking to scare your neighbors or give everyone a laugh, you can find the right costume for your next Halloween party. Halloween costumes ranging from gory to silly abound. You can either purchase one in its entirety or use a little ingenuity and some accessories to bring your own Halloween costume ideas to life.
Funny Halloween Costume Ideas
Although many Halloween costumes are frightening, some are designed to lift your spirits. Humorous costumes can range from the absolutely ridiculous to the subtly silly. Costumes of funny animals, mouth-watering foods and innate objects can add laughter and fun to a costume party or trick-or-treating trip. Other costumes can trigger laughter because of their clothing or color. An Elvis costume, for example, can be humorous because of the fashion, and if you act like “The King,” you’ll add to the laughter. An alien costume of the stereotypical “little green men” will also be more entertaining than frightening.
Scary Halloween Costume Ideas
If Halloween brings out your evil side, scary Halloween costumes are likely more your style. Devils, demons, witches and zombies are some of the many options that can cause spine-tingling chills to friends, neighbors or those innocent little children trick-or-treating. If your budget is tight, you can create your own scary Halloween costume by purchasing accessories instead of a full costume. You can easily add an inexpensive black cape to a solid black or red outfit to create your evil look.
Costume accessories such as a bloody axe, a trident, a sword or a broom can accent your costume, and you can use dark makeup to complete the look. Even a white sheet can be fashioned into a mummy or a scary ghost costume. Inexpensive face makeup can also be used to simulate blood, unnaturally white skin or other strange skin tones or disfigurements.
Whether you want to encourage thrills, chills or light laughter, there is a costume out there for you. Complete costumes are available from many major retailers, but don’t forget to check out discount stores. For those on a budget, a little ingenuity and one or two central accessories is all you need to create a costume whose price won’t haunt you when Halloween is over.
