Halloween Costumes for Women – Creative, Not Complicated

From bottles of champagne to blow up dolls – these creative Halloween costumes for women aren’t complicated. They’re easy to make costumes, perfect for October 31 parties, school events, and trick or treating!

These homemade Halloween costumes are from Xerlan, a reader who collected homemade Halloween costume ideas for women for years.

While making your costume, remember:

“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”  ~Mason Cooley

What story will you tell this Halloween?

If you’re into music and wild costumes, check out the Lady Gaga Women’s Halloween Costume on BuyCostumes.com. You’ll get a few ideas from their website – it’s amazing.

And here are several creative ideas for women’s Halloween costumes…

Halloween Costumes for Women – Creative, Not Complicated

24 Karat Gold: Wear a gold-colored suit or dress and pin fake or real carrots all over yourself.

Alice in Wonderland: Wear a light-blue dress with puffy sleeves. Find a cardboard box big enough to fit over the middle of your body. Cut holes for head and arms and paint it to look like a house, with your head sticking out of the chimney and your arms sticking out of windows.

All Dolled Up: Wear a white paper coverall and attach dolls all over yourself.

Baby Doll: Wear a nightgown and slippers, paint your cheeks, tie your hair with a red ribbon, and put a pacifier in your mouth.

Baby Wearing Bowl of Spaghetti: Use white cotton cloth to make a diaper big enough to fit you. Take a towel and cut a hole for your head where one side hangs longer than the other so it looks like a bib. Get a bald cap and use spray adhesive to attach cooked spaghetti (colored with food coloring to look like sauce). Then glue a bowl on top of that. You can also glue spaghetti to your bib & shirt. You might decorate your bib (I used “SPIT HAPPENS”).

Backstabbed Beauty Queen: Wear a pretty pageant dress and a crown/tiara. Make a sash from wide ribbon that says Miss America or whatever you want. Use make-up to give yourself a black eye and bloody nose. Take a hollow plastic knife and cut it to spread the knifepoint out, and tape it to a piece of stiff cardboard. Tape the cardboard to your body so that the knife handle is sticking out of the dress (safety pin around the zipper or cut a hole in the dress).

Bag Lady: Make an entire set of clothes from plastic or paper bags. Use tape to hold everything together. This easy homemade Halloween costume for women can make an environmental statement, too.

Bag of Jellybeans: Take two or three clear dry-cleaning bags and put one inside the other. Punch a large hole on each side next to the opening for the hanger (your legs will go into these holes). Blow up about 15-20 balloons of various colors. Turn the bag upside down and step into the leg openings. With your body in the bag stuff it with the balloons. Tie the bag off at your neck with a colorful ribbon.

Basket Case: Uniform colored clothing (dark works best) with lots of baskets pinned all over. Top it off with a basket with a handle on your head.

Bird Watcher: Wear safari-type clothes, with a safari hat and binoculars around your neck. Make a mixture (white-out and latex works, or make up your own) and splatter it all over your hat and clothes (so it looks like a few too many birds flew over your head!).

If these aren’t appealing to you, read Book Character Costumes – it’s my second most popular article about Halloween costumes.

Birthday Suit: Get a pre-packaged birthday kit (tablecloth, hats, plates). Cut a hole in the center of the tablecloth for your head. Staple plates, cups, napkins, etc., on the tablecloth. Put a birthday hat on your head. When someone asks what you are, tell them you are wearing your birthday suit.

Blow-Up Doll: Wear longjohns dyed pink or peach, with doll hair from the craft store hot-glued to the strategic areas (match your own hair color). Get fake boobs from a gag gift store. On the back attach a valve from an old beach ball and a sign saying something like “Acme Inflate-a-Date.” Spray paint old running shoes pink to match, or go barefoot. Use gel to make hair look plastic and wear bright red lipstick and gaudy make-up.

Body for Life Contestant: Wear a pair of very, very large pants and hold them up with suspenders. Wear a regular-sized t-shirt labeled “Body for Life Contestant.” This easy homemade Halloween costume for women could trigger more reality TV show ideas!

Bonfire: Wrap a brown towel around your waist and wear a brown or gray sweatshirt. Attach branches or twigs to the towel and put a few marshmallows on the branches. Create “flames” by using orange,red and yellow tissue paper surrounding your head. Color your cheeks red.

Born to Be Wild: Dress like a baby (diaper, bonnet, bib, rattle), then add a leather jacket, bandana and boots.

Bottle of Champagne: Wear a long, light-gold-toned dress or something similar. Style your hair piled up, wear lots of body glitter and carry a bottle of bubbles to blow from.

Bubble Bath: Wear pink, blue or white clothes, with small pink, blue or white balloons attached. Wear a matching bath cap, also with balloons. Carry a back scrubber, a rubber ducky, and for an added touch hang some soap on a rope as your belt. Optional: take a toy tub, cut out the bottom and form straps to hang from your shoulders.

Burned Out: Carefully burn some holes in a white work shirt. Use make-up to put dark circles under your eyes. Wear frazzled, bed-head hair.

These are just the homemade Halloween costumes for women that start with the letter “B.” Here are more Halloween costumes for women: 2011 Halloween Ideas – A Round Up of Tips for Monday October 31.

Halloween Costumes from BuyCostumes.com:

• Humorous Costumes
• Wizard of Oz Costumes
• Sexy Costumes
• 1920′s Costumes and Accessories

Didn’t find any ideas for Halloween costumes for women? Read Food Costumes You Can Make at Home – From Beef Tacos to Dates.

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