Saturday, January 17, 2009

Use These Awesome Costume Ideas for Halloween

By Susan West

If you're starting your annual search for Halloween costumes, you know that there is a lot to choose from out there. You could buy a ready made costume or even make your own. Some of the most common costumes are listed below, so read on!

The number one costume for little girls is the princess costume. This has been the favorite costumes for children for decades because little girls love to dress up as a princess. Halloween is the perfect time when you cannot think of any creative costume ideas and you have a little girl. The other favorite costumes for Halloween for girls include a witch, Disney princess, pumpkin, and a cat.

The favorite costumes for boys include Superman, Power Rangers, pirates, and vampires. These are very easy costumes for kids. Superman and Power Rangers have been the favorite costumes of boys for a long time.

For adults, the most common costumes are similar, for both men and women: vampires, clowns, pirates, cats, witches, ghosts, superheroes and fairies. Everyone, children and adults alike loves to dress up for Halloween. There are a lot of costumes for adults too, so you don't have to scour the Earth to find a costume for yourself this Halloween.

When shopping for Halloween costumes you have a few options: you could go to a department store, a specialty costume shop, or you could make your own costumes. Halloween costumes can be found almost anywhere as the holiday approaches; even groceries often sell costumes! This is fine if you are not very picky about what costume you will get. However, this severely limits your selection. For accessories like face paint, department stores are good places around Halloween.

There are costume shops dedicated to holidays like Halloween and costume parties that occur throughout the year. Many of these shops have whatever you are looking for. For instance, if you want to be someone out of the Renaissance times then you can find this too. You can find any type of costume you are looking for in a costume shop. Many of the costumes that you can find include cartoon characters, figures from movies, and many more. Some costume shops will work with you to help you build the type of costume you want to be if they don't have the specific one you are looking for. Some of the costume shops can be rather pricey the more extravagant you want to be. However, many costume shops allow you to rent the Halloween costumes so you don't have to worry about paying a lot of money.

These specialty stores are owned by people who love everything about Halloween and go out of their way to provide everything that you will need to decorate your home, grounds and even yourself. They usually carry a full line of makeup for Halloween, the costumes that are designed in endless styles to fit everyone in your family even your family dog. They provide CD's with scary music, horror video, Masks of countless scary movie icons and also the fake blood that will pull your whole costume together. Why shop anywhere else? Many shops will also allow you to rent your Halloween costumes if you find yourself without time to shop. These shops also have an endless supply of Halloween costume in many different styles from cartoon characters to horror film ideas.

If you cannot spend a lot of money on Halloween costumes, it is very easy to create a wonderful costume from things that are around your home. As most kids want to be witches and vampires, it is very simple to use old clothing along with makeup and accessories to create the scariest Halloween costume on the street. Deciding on the right Halloween costume takes a little creativity and a lot of imagination. Seeing as it is Halloween let your imagination soar and see what wonderfully horrible things you can come up with. edited by Hetsil Protage - 15437

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