In case you totally lost track of time, Halloween is in two weeks! This year we have the advantage of it being on a Saturday and go absolutely cray! NOT having a costume is NOT an excuse. Sure, it's tempting to just sit at home and nextflix and chill solo with an entire bag of Reese's, but that doesn't mean you should. Finding a great costume doesn't have to be expensive. You probably have closets you can build from your closet, with the purchase of just a few small accessories! Costumes also don't have to be offensive. Let's all just take the pledge right now that we will NOT have any cultural appropriation present in our costumes.
So maybe these won't be the most creative/ inventive costumes of all time, but they are totally do-able, so you have no excuse but to get ready, get out there, and have the time of your life!
The Base to Any DIY Costume: A Solid Color Dress or Skirt/Top Combo
If you are a college aged female, you probably have a wide array of going out dresses in all colors of the rainbow of varying degrees of sexiness. All you have to do is pick one that corresponds to a color that your desired character/person/thing/creature would wear that is the right amount of "revealing" depending on how whether you want to be sexy/cute/funny etc. Got a pretty blue dress? Throw on some white satin gloves gloves, your fave heels and a crown and do a cute little updo and be Cinderella! Same goes for virtually any corresponding color to any disney princess. In fact, why not make it a group thing with your squad?
Seriously, with the proper "shell" i.e, the right dress, you can accessories it accordingly without any limits and literally be anything!
Get creative with your LBD's. The new criss cross necklines with pointy toe booties would make the perfect witch costume don't you think? Got an old bandage dress in your closet from when those were in style? Supplement that with streamers and be a mummy! Got a white dress? Be Marylin! Got a black dress? Be Audrey! Or you could just wear the prettiest dress you own and do cool Zombie makeup just for the irony. If I had those kinds of makeup skills, I'd totally go for this myself. Note, that I am not revealing the awesome DIY costume I have planned for myself because I kinda want to keep that to myself. Sorry, not sorry.
Let's Get Digital!
So maybe you don't want to buy accessories since you've already spent so much money on what is ALREADY in your closet. If you have access to a printer, you can go digital with your costume. You can literally be anything, any company logo, any object with the right thing!
Literally anything. It's as easy as sticking stuff onto clothes.
So it up the mall, the craft store or the Google search engine and get cracking!
"DUH!"
