Tips for that last-minute Halloween costume
By Kayla Rudd |
Face paint is an inexpensive way to become a pirate or zombie for Halloween. Photo credit: AndyWilson / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND
Halloween is tomorrow and some people are still looking for cheap and easy costume ideas.
For little kids, they normally want to be a princess, pirate, zombie, or a fairy. These type of costumes you can find just about anywhere.
Thrift stores and goodwill have a lot of different clothes that can help put together something quick and easy. Even if you need to to be fancy they have clothes that will be useful help to you.
If you’re looking for stuff to be a princess look for frilly glittery dresses or shirts and skirts. If you want a tiara go to the kids spot in the store and there will a lot of them.
For a pirate, striped clothing and old rugged pants and shoes will be perfect. Anything old and rugged will work for this costume.
For a zombie look, find some old make up and paint your face dead like. Get some white shirts blank pants and tear up the shirts. On the shirts put fake blood on it and walk slowly and hunched over.
Fairy costume ideas include glittery dresses, skirts, and shirts. Wings will work too if you want to act like you’re flying around. Face paint with pinks, purples, blues, yellows, and greens will complete the look of a fairy.