Halloween Costumes for Women – Creative, Not Complicated
Lady Gaga Halloween Costume
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:
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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I don’t want to take the credit for this because I found the idea on-line, but it’s so cute, simple, and comfortable I had to share.
Ceiling Fan- Make a shirt that says ceiling(s)(s is optional, whatever you prefer.) on it, then write on your face “#1 Fan” or “Go Team” or something along those lines. And you’re a Ceiling Fan.
i really want to be lady gaga but im only 13 and i have no clue what to wear!!!! I dont want to wear anything that is too reveling but i want to have a good costume. Any ideas????
Thanks for the costume tip, Leah — definitely an easy Halloween costume idea!
I saw a list on WGNtv in Chicago, which revealed the Top 6 Halloween Costumes for Women:
Harry Potter
Kate (of “Jon and Kate Plus Eight”)
Lady Gaga, Poker Face
80s Inspired Costumes (Whitney Houston or Tina Turner)
Octomom
Vamps (inspired by Twilight)
Octomom might be easy — maybe you just need a bunch of babies? (is it in poor taste to dress up as Octomom?)
One year I dressed in all blue with cotton balls all over me. I had a squirt gun and was “Cloudy with a chance of rain.” It was well recieved.
Another easy Halloween costume for women is a nun’s habit! I just read about that in a book last night.
This is a great Halloween costume for couples; thanks “Danny and Sandy”!
This is for Noelle, for halloween last year me and my boy friend dressed up as Sandy and Dany from the movie Greece. Picture the lasgt secen of them at school at the carnival and thats what it looked like. I wore high leather leggings, with a thick black belt and a tight black shirt, and i got a short blond curly wig. He wore black jeans, a tight white tee shirt and a teahter jacket that says T-BIRDS. it was great, just an idea. Good luck!
Halloween is next month….now is the time to start planning your costume!
Thanks for giving us this list, it’s the best.
Jessie
I’m glad for you and your boyfriend, Noelle — and that’s a great question.
No, I don’t think it’s too soon to ask him to dress up as part of a couple for Halloween. If you keep it light and fun — and don’t suggest dressing up as a bride and groom
— then he’ll probably love it. I guess it depends on his personality, but I think alot of guys get a kick out of dressing up in a costume for Halloween. It may also depend on his costume — he might want something gory or macho. Have fun figuring out your “Halloween personalities”….
Hi Laurie,
I’ve been dating my boyfriend for 2 months, and he’s such a great guy! But I have a question about Halloween costumes: I think my sister will throw a Halloween party, and I want my boyfriend and me to go together, in a costume for couples. Like a celebrity couple or something.
Do you think it’s too soon to ask him to dress up as part of a couple?
Thanks,
Noelle
I like your idea of a costume exchange party for Halloween costumes. I’ve gone to clothing exchange parties, and they’re alot of fun. Exchange parties are a great way to clean out your closet and get new clothes, but I hadn’t thought of one for Halloween costumes.
I have 3 Halloween parties to go to this year! One costume will be Gilda the Good Witch because I love her. I still have to figure out the other two and figuring out what to wear is the best part of Halloween!
GGW
Thanks for sharing your Halloween costume ideas — it’s always great to hear what people are thinking!
I’d go as Mrs Santa Claus
If your partner can go as Santa Claus, it’d be fun. But, that costume might be really hot and uncomfortable at at party.
I went as a sexy Mrs Santa Claus last year. It was a great costume but very expensive. My sister is wearing it this year, to her company’s Halloween party.
This year, I want an easy costume. I like the Gold Digger one above, but I’m still thinking about it.
It’s not a creative Halloween costume but I’m going as Mrs Claus. I’ve always wanted to!
Hi Natalie and Addie,
Thanks for motivating me to write an article about Halloween costumes for plus sized people! Here’s the link:
Halloween Costume Tips for Plus Size People and Pregnant Women
Laurie
I have the same question, what about Halloween costumes for oversized women?
I love these Halloween costume ideas, but I’m overweight. Do you have any tips for costumes for overweight women?
I can’t wait until Halloween!!!
Yes, I do, Brandilyn!
One of my favorite tips for finding an easy, inexpensive Halloween costume for women is to have a special type of costume party. Invite all your friends and family to a “Halloween Costume Exchange Party.” This is an eco-friendly way to enjoy October 31!
Here’s the link:
http://theadventurouswriter.com/blog/quipstipsachievinggoals/home/7-tips-for-throwing-a-halloween-costume-exchange-party/
I can’t afford to buy a Halloween costume, I don’t want to buy a cheap one, and I don’t have time to make one. Plus, I’m not crafty! I don’t sew or have stuff to put on a costume. Do you have any tips for an easy Halloween costume for me?
Yes, the Bottle of Champagne Halloween costume is a wonderful idea – especially if you like getting all dolled up for Halloween (which I do!).
I like Castaway, too…but might be cold for October 31st.
I dressed up as Jane of the Jungle several times; loved that costume — got it at Value Village for $5.
Holy, what a list! Thanks. I am considering the Bottle of Champagne for this year – love it!
Wow — it’s already time for my easy homemade Halloween costumes article to start getting popular again! How time flies….
Thanks for the info about your costume company, Rose.
Hi,
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