Mean Girls is undoubtedly one of the most iconic movies of our generation. The coming of age story summarized a lot of the struggles faced by girls. Who better to explain the struggles all girls face on Halloween?

1. Deciding between basic and creative

Obviously, you could throw together a cat costume at the last minute with black clothing, a headband, and some eyeliner, but it feels so boring and predictable.

2. Coming up with something unique

...that isn’t so obscure you spend all night explaining it to people over and over and over.

3. To buy or DIY?

Do you shell out the $50 at the costume store? Or spend $49 trying to DIY it and burning your hand with a glue gun because it looked super easy in the YouTube video?

4. Literally everything looks easier on YouTube

You tell yourself that you can totally do that intricate pop art girl makeup after watching the tutorial once. Then you find out that it’s weirdly difficult to draw blue cartoon tears under your eyes, but really easy to cry actual tears and turn the eyeliner you spent 15 minutes perfecting into zebra stripes on your cheeks.

5. All of the women’s costumes are a “sexy [insert occupation, animal, or character here]”

And basically cost a billion dollars for bra and tutu that you will literally never wear again even if you tell yourself you can repurpose it next year.

6. So. many. offensive. costumes.

Chances are if you have to ask yourself if a costume is offensive, there is 100% chance you can find a better option. Cultural appropriation, racism, and ableism are never cute.

7. Group costumes = nightmare

After you spend an eternity coming up with an iconic group that has the right number, there’s always that one girl who isn’t happy because she wanted to be the red skittle but instead got stuck with yellow.

8. Too many costumes, too little time

There are two types of girls: the ones who struggle to come up with one costume, and the ones who struggle to limit themselves to nine costumes.

9. Questioning if it’s appropriate to wear a Halloween costume to class.

Live your best life; go to class dressed as a mermaid.

10. Wearing the wrong shoes

Of course those heels looked way cuter than converse when you were trying on the costume. They will not be cuter halfway through the night when you feel like you’ve lost all feeling in your toes and choose to carry them as you walk home barefoot.

11. Waiting 364 days for Halloween to come again

How is it over already? Why is Halloween only one day? Can we have a week of Halloween?