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The Best Halloween Costume Ideas Ever!
By Jillian Gallo

The best Halloween costume ideas ever are different to each person. That’s because which Halloween costume you like best is a matter of personal taste. You may like the Gothic Vampire best, while I like the Fairy. There are some costume themes that are popular every year, and some styles come and go depending on the blockbuster movies or cartoon characters that happen to be popular right now. Let’s take a look at some of the classic costume styles that are popular year after year.

Superhero and Villain Halloween Costume Ideas

Superheroes and their worst Villains are always a popular costume idea for Halloween parties and trick or treating. This year Batman is popular again, and so are some of his most famous villains…The Joker, The Scarecrow, Cat Woman and Poison Ivy. Logan, of the X-Men is also pretty hot this season…we know him as Wolverine. Transformers have been a popular kids costume theme for years, but thanks to the release of their new movie, Revenge of the Fallen, they are super hot this year. Bumblebee, Optimus Prime and Megatron are the three most popular Autobot costumes for boys.

For girls and women there is Supergirl and Wonder Women to turn each of us into crime fighters with special powers that make us Super! Spider Girl costumes are also pretty popular with the ladies year after year. The really super thing about these superhero costumes is that they work for both male and female costume ideas. It’s just fun to have these extra special powers and crime fighting abilities, even if it is only for one day. And it’s fun to be one of those very bad guys…just for a day too.

Celebrity Halloween Costume Ideas

If your not going to be a Superhero, you might want to dress up like a Celebrity. A celebrity like Hannah Montana are all fun dress up costumes to wear. Movie and TV stars are as close as you can get to Superheroes without actually being one. For boys there are beloved characters like Ben 10 or Dan Kuso of Bakugan are a close relative to superheroes.

For teens and adults there are some real oldies, but goodies costume ideas out there. Be nostalgic and get dressed up as Marilyn Monroe and Elvis from any of his hit movies…or from his music. There’s Michael Jackson costumes with his outfits from Thriller, Bad…and the beautiful sparkling Billie Jean outfit. For the ladies, how about that beautiful and funny lady from I Love Lucy…Lucille Ball, that famous comedian from old time TV.

Then there are some adult funny costumes based on characters like the Flintstones…yep, Fred and Wilma, Barney and Betty and even Bam Bam and Pebbles are popular adult and teen costumes.

Gothic Halloween Costume Ideas

Sometimes, it’s the make up possibilities that attract us to a particular character we can dress up as. The Gothic theme is always a popular one, but this year the gothic costumes for teenagers and adults are really moving out of the stores quickly. The Renaissance goth costumes, and the cooler punkier ones, like the Gothic Fairy, the Corpse Bride and Groom or the Gothic Mummy are fun, not only to wear, but to get made up for. Very light foundation and very dark, smokey eyes are part of the gothic make up charm. Add some black nail polish, a little gray blush and some dark blood red lipstick and you’ve achieved the gothic Halloween look.

Sexy Halloween Costume Ideas

Of course, if you happen to be an adult, sexy is always a hit. You can take one of those Marilyn outfits or get a Greek Goddess Venus or Aphrodite. There’s a really cute lady Cop uniform and some naughty, but nice Angel and Fairy costumes. For the men, there are the classics, the Vampire and the Roman Guard and of course, the Cop if you like a man in uniform.

Fantasy and Fairy Tale Halloween Costume Ideas

The Disney Princesses, Tinkerbell, Fairy and Mermaid costumes are always big crowd pleaser for the girls and the boys, well, they have Prince Caspian, a Knight, Peter Pan and the Dragon Slayer to choose from.

The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland open up lots of costume ideas too.

Easy Costumes For Halloween

Easy costumes are always big hits with all age groups. Togas, Scrubs or a White Lab Coat are very popular because of the ease of making them. You don’t have to buy or sew to turn yourself into a Toga wearing Greek, or a Doctor or Nurse costume. Just get a sheet or a large rectangular piece of material to make your own toga or borrow some scrubs and a stethoscope from someone in the medical field.

What ever Halloween costume ideas you decide on, whether its a toga or Marilyn, or The Gothic Fairy for the ladies, and a Transformer or Indiana Jones costume for the guys, enjoy the chance to dress up and go out and have some fun.

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Buy Halloween Props – Where to Buy!

Halloween Props — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:10:13 +0000

Below are the best places online for finding Halloween Props, Halloween Outfits and Halloween Makeup, categorized for your convenience:

Please note, this site mainly deals with UK retailers, however if you are from the USA or are happy to pay for goods shipped from the USA, a fantastic one-stop shop for all your Halloween needs is BuyCostumes. You can click their banner on the right to visit them. They have a fantastic range of everything that you could need for celebrating this ghoulish supernatural night of the year.

Top 4 UK Retailers of Halloween Props and Decorations:

Halloween Outfits

1. Jokers’ Masquerade have a wide range of movie themed and deluxe costumes

2. Angels’ Fancy Dress also have a wide range of movie themed and deluxe costumes

3. Budget selection of costumes, plus some deluxe costumes

Halloween Makeup

There are a number of places where you can buy great props. We’ve had a good look around the net and discovered that some stores are stronger in certain Halloween Props and some in other categories of items. So we’ve categorised them in order for your convenience.

One of the best that we have seen for props, perhaps not suprisingly being that they cater for all forms of parties in general is PartyBox.

For specialist Halloween Outfits – including movie oriented outfits like Freddy Krueger, Friday the 13th etc, Joker’s Masquerade wins hands down.

For more cost / budget conscious Halloween Outfits, Silly Jokes is right up your street. They offer a number of more cheap and cheerful general themed Halloween costumes at a price that fits the budget. Just do not expect anything related to actual specific movie characters. Silly Jokes specialise in generic costumes. So if you are really looking for famous horror movie characters, Jokers’ and Angels’ are best for costumes based on specific horror movie characters. In addition to Freddy Kruegar from Nightmare on Elm Street, Jason Voorhies from Friday the 13th, you can also find the likes of Michael Myers’ masks, Ghostbusters outfits, Chucky from Child’s Play etc.

For Halloween Makeup, Joker’s Masquerade is one of the best places to buy online. They even have a section for those that regard themselves as complete Halloween Makeup dummies.

All these places win hands down over somewhere like Amazon. Amazon is a one stop shop, so they are like a lucky dip, whereas these other stores are all specialists in halloween props and other supernatural / horror party items. They know what people want and some actually have physical retail stores directly serving the public.

In fact Jokers’ Masquerade and Angels’ Fancy Dress have been going for a while and both own actual costume stores that you can visit. So you are in great hands with those two when it comes to finding the perfect costume for you. They are proven specialists.

Have a look at around the rest of this site as we take a look at some of the best or very interesting ghoulish products on the market this 31st October. Happy shopping for your Halloween props!

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Halloween Decorations – Great Props Ideas

Halloween Props — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:20:14 +0000

Halloween decorations are an essential part of any October 31st event. Exactly what type of Halloween props and decorations you buy will of course depend on whether you want a light and fun themed event, to one with a somewhat supernatural twist, to one that is outright horror, thrills and frights themed. You can decide exactly what kind of atmosphere you would like. In this article we will just look broadly at a range of props that can fit into these categories. And of course you can then do further research to obtain the right props for your party.

Well, you might like to be a proper host of a haunted host and serve up food and drink in Halloween themed crockery. From napkins to shot glasses to snack bowls, the items will all be ghoulishly styled. To accessorise this further you may also like to get some Halloween themed tableware. One of the best types of halloween decorations if you really want to transform a room is to get some scene setter rolls. Made from poly-plastic, these will transform your room for the evening into somewhere like a graveyard, dungeon, haunted house, forest or some other place.

Wall Grabbers look great too. They are lightly backed with an adhesive that is similar to that used on a post-it. So long as the surface is smooth, these Halloween decorations can be stuck on and removed with ease. Place them stretegically, like behind a door so that they take your guests completely by surprise.

Oct 31st would not be the same without a Halloween skeleton or skull. If a human is coming back from the dead, or rather his spirit, then it will usually possess that which is left behind after the flesh has long rotted away – his skeleton.

Bats, Spiders and Rats are of course also staple Halloween props. All creatures of the night, and of course bats are associated as the alternate forms of vampires in some folklore, although quite a few modern interpretations seem to be discarding this particular aspect of a vampire. Spiders represent that classic human fear – apparently from the time of cavemen fearing big furry spders might come out at them in a cave. Whatever, to this day spiders instil fear in many people, especially if they are furry. And of course rats. Not only known for vermin that spread disease but also in History used as a form of torture, rats are very much a part of the Halloween theme. Hanging props. You can get a variety of hanging Halloween decorations. many of those ideas just mentioned will come in hanging variety as well as a number of other ghouls and scary creatures and objects. Limbs. These are very freaky, especially if strategically placed. Seeing a halloween prop of a severed hand, or intenstines or some other body part is grotesque and horrifying. Guaranteed a shriek if you get it right!

Animatronics. Getting something that moves or lights up or speaks is a great way to decorate your event. You can get life size and scaled versions of these props, as well as those that just consist of a body part like a hand, or head. There are many more ideas out these and these are just some of the great Halloween Decorations that are available for you to purchase for your event.

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Halloween Props – Welcome To The Spook Zone

Halloween Props — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:02:59 +0000

Welcome to Halloween Props

It’s coming up to that time of the year again where we like to scare each other witless, play tricks on one another, or perhaps treat each other to something nice. Yes, Halloween is approaching us once more. And here at Halloween Props you can find props, lights, outfits for adults, scary makeup and costumes for kids.

Whether you’ll be heading off for a Fright Night Spooky Party or Trick or Treating, you’ll find everything you’ll need here.

Have you looked at Halloween Outfits to decide who you are going to be celebrating or partying as this year? Who are you going to be, the most notorious horror icon of recent times – the razor claw gloved, burnt body, red and black striped with a dirty hat Freddy Krueger, or the one of the more long standing famous horror icons. The human leeching, blood sucking Count Dracula or a vampire? Or maybe you want to be someone in-between.

Just because it’s Halloween, it doesn’t mean you have to be a scary horror character. Some people go for dodgy characters like pirates – Jack Sparrow anyone. Or maybe the magical route – where Halloween is not necessarily frightening, but definitely spiritual. So maybe you might like to be a wizard or a witch.

You should ensure you have the necessary Halloween Props with you. Whether it’s a broomstick, Grim Reaper’s blade, or witches hat to go with your costume, to of course your mask, vampire’s fangs, fake blood and any other accessories that you will want to get to enhance the visual look of yourself in your halloween outfit.

If your hosting the party yourself, maybe you’d like to have special Halloween paper plates, or halloween candy as part of your decor of halloween props. Don’t forgot your toy bats, spiders or skulls.

You can also add fun things to the decor such as rat traps and blood coloured skeleton print adhesives to your floor to really turn your home into a pit of horror fit for occassion. Similarly for the ceiling you can have hanging bats, spiders, skulls or even chandeliers.

You can even get glass grabbers that add a scarily realistic “I’m gonna get you” feel as they appear to be near and leering at you, hellbent on sending taking you straight to the land of the dead.

Mwahahahaaaa. Are you ready to make this year the most scary, exciting and fiendishly fun Halloween celebration ever? If that’s a resounding yes, then step forth and get select your Halloween Props.

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Halloween Party Decorations & Treats : How to Make a Pumpkin for a Pumpkin Patch

Halloween Props — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:08:02 +0000

Easy Halloween decorations! Learn how to make a pumpkin patch for a children’s Halloween party in this free video clip about making Halloween decorations.

Expert: Karen Weisman
Contact: www.kitchenandcrafts.com
Bio: Karen Weisman teaches cooking, baking, cake decorating and various crafts such as mosaics and sewing.
Filmmaker: Karen Weisman

Duration : 0:2:17

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Cheap Halloween Props

Halloween Props — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:47:59 +0000

Cheap Halloween props can complete a larger Halloween room design of existing props and decor, or they can be a cheap and cheerful way to create a Halloween room design. This is because they usually are not big items, but they are very affordable. So they can be placed in discrete places to enrich the atmosphere and bring to fruition the bigger props, if present, or you can otherwise buy enough to achieve a Halloween effect. Since so many of us grew up with this holiday, it may be worthy spending a little more time creating the right prop than abandoning the tradition. A few examples of such props will be given bellow.

If you have a cemetery set, a bat placed in a cornet or on a piece of furniture somewhere in the room can complete and empower that spooky feeling. Also for a set like this, a tombstone with a skull on it or with the inscription “RIP”, in form of a Christian or Celtic cross are quite appropriate. And of course what cemetery would not have corpses? You can find cheap skeletons, some of which glow in the dark, decorative spider webs and even spiders.

For a psychopath killer theme, some human organs that look as if they were just ripped from a body are a very good idea. We include here the human brain, the heart or a hand, all with anatomic design, not the romantic one. Other cheap Halloween props for this set are the big “Monster House” sign with assorted colors, the warning yard signs with “Danger” or the fake barbwire.

There are many such cheap Halloween props. They are most suitable for house parties, where nor the budget or the space are that big, students or people who just want to save their money, especially in this period of economic recession, yet they still want to keep the tradition of celebrating Halloween. For all those who grew up with this holiday, giving up on it would sound really depressing, to say the least. A black chair back tie, some black table gems – scatter crystals, a black cauldron, some venomous snakes, some bloody razors, an ice bucket with a skull painted on it are just as many possible solutions for you to keep this spirit alive with just a few pounds.

All in all, Halloween can be a lot of fun, whether because you are going to eat a lot of candy or because you will party with friends. If you, as most people, will choose the latter reason, the cheap Halloween props can make a big difference between a regular party and an excellent one.

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Scary Halloween Props

Halloween Props — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:46:15 +0000

Scary Halloween props are the props that are most faithful to the true spirit of this holiday – those designed to shock people. Or in some cases, some people want the props to disgust people. The usual is to go for something that looks shocking though.

Monsters and horror stay at the core of Halloween. Sometimes, for different reasons, people wish to set aside the horror element in favor of more fun in a less frightening environment. But there are still those who like the original thrills of this holiday and for them the internet provides many cool products. Of course these props can be used by other people too, like if you want to increase the level of intensity of a spooky special event for example.

So, here are some of those scary Halloween props that you can buy online. First there is the Halloween Shaking Skeleton in a Cage. This one would look cool with some white smoke around. Its red eyes are glittering and it really shakes, as it works on batteries (which are included in the price). It is 60 cm tall, its rags and cage, and in general the whole design, look very realistic. It costs £14.99.

Other scary products are some human organs with blood pumping out of them. The first of these is the Halloween Pumping Heart in Hand with Adaptor. This will need an electrical outlet near as it does not work with batteries. It will look cool on the main table, among snacks and beverages. Its design is a hand coming out from the earth holding a heart in it. And this heart pumps out blood, imitating the heart beats. It is 28 cm high and it costs £35.99.

Other similar products are the “Today’s Fresh Cuts Heart / Brain” Blood Fountain with Adaptor. Unlike the previous model, here the heart (or the brain) is set on a cutting board with a bloody knife next to it. It also pulsates blood (it is not real blood, of course). This model will look best on the kitchen table or on the crazy maniac theme. It also needs an electrical outlet and it costs £35.99.
These products go well also for scary chambers in amusement parks or any other places where people go to get chills regularly. But they may fit well for the regular horror fans. They are very expensive and you can use them for more than one year. But as mentioned in the introduction, these props can raise the horror factor for your party and are not just for the hardcore fans of horror. So, no matter what your objective is, the investment in scary Halloween props will pay off if you want to put a bit of a scare into your party guests.

Talking Animated Tree Head
Cut Off Head on Chains
Today’s Fresh Cuts

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Halloween Prop Overview

Halloween Props — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:43:18 +0000

The Halloween prop is a must for one of the most popularly celebrated days of the year. Actually, there would be no Halloween without corresponding Halloween props, models of bodies or parts of monsters, vampires, witches and others. And although usually kids dress up and go for trick or treat, grownups enjoy this time of the year with relish too with the usual props and costumes at themed Halloween parties.

Apparently, Halloween draws its roots in the Celtic celebration of the end of summer and of the lighter part of the year and the beginning of autumn and the darker part of year, a celebration named Samhain. This seems to be the prevailing opinion, although other historians linked Halloween with the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or with Parentalia, the festival of the dead. The name “haloween” though, comes from comes from 16th century Scotland where it designated the All Hallows Eve, which was the night before All Hallows Day, the celebration of all saints. But the modern Halloween is a secular holiday celebrated each year on October 31.

Some of the many things you can choose for Halloween are banners and posters for your walls and floors, table decorations, ceiling and hanging decorations, inflatables, replicas of spiders and other creepy animals, confetti, crepes and ribbons. Considering all these options, it will not be hard to have covered every part of your house, but which particular item to choose over the other.

Some objects can be found on more than category. For large parties probably the wallpapers are a good choice. Also good choices are various full size cardboards of characters like Elvira Witch, Freddy Kruger, Buffy – The Vampire Slayer, or even yourself, as there is the option of personalization. If you have a little less space, little items laid around the house like little skeletons, skulls, bones and insects.

An example of one of the coolest Halloween prop is the fake tomb stone decorated with skulls and with the “RIP” inscription. It would be a very good choice for the entrance to your party. Other things that can make your party a “deadly” party are dismembered mummy arms with blood on them which you can lay them around. For your floor you can choose a venomous snake or a tarantula. For your walls you can choose a cemetery banner and your Halloween party is set.

There are few stable, traditional things in the modern life, but Halloween is one of them. Sometimes it is waited for the whole year by people to recall their childhood memories and have fun with their friends. And in both these processes, getting a great Halloween prop or two is crucial, it gives you the taste of the witching hour when the spooks are on the prowl.

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Hey, You! Do you know where I can find some super scary Halloween props?

Halloween Props — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:53 +0000

Here’s an interesting view on Halloween props. Someone has asked for super scary props, and another person has said there’s no such thing, try and scare them with the element of surprise.

This is true to an extent, if it doesn’t move then it’s probably not going to freak someone out if they can see it from a mile off. But if it’s something that may suddenly move or make a noise unexpectedly, then the element of surprise will startle if not completely freak out most people.

An atmosphere of course is established by having high quality scary looking props, but you definitely need the element of surprise via movement or sound to achieve the scare factor element!

Okay…I’ve got a HUGE halloween/birthday party coming up, and when I say HUGE, I mean it. I’ve got a DJ, fog machine, strobe lights, and great music…But I need some scary props. If you can’t already tell, we’ve spent a lot of money on other things, so I can’t really blow the budget on this one.
I need a good website where I can order some extremely scary halloween props.
All help is appreciated!
Thanx for looking!

No such thing as extremely scary props. You’ll need the element of surprise. Have a distraction prop and scare people from behind or use a device to make an object pop up when someone gets close. Last year, Fearnet.com went coast to coast catching ideas on camera then put them online. Maybe they’ll do the same this year. They called it Route 666.

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How to make low cost halloween props

Halloween Props — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:54 +0000

It’s time to get imaginative. A great Halloween Party demands great props. Great props depends on knowing where to look and / or having a creative mind. And the where to buy and a desire to take a creatively inspired approach is exactly what this poster is looking for:

I am starting my first year doing a haunted thing in my front yard for halloween and do not know where to begin!
I would like it to have a WOW factor…

Halloween is my favorite holiday. I add something new every year. After putting everything out, I usually add some more the day of Halloween for a bit of a surprise for the kids. Our house has become the drive by spot, like a house all decorated for Christmas. On Halloween night, kids have their parents drive them to our house to get their goods, and parents in other neighborhood know our home by the Halloween house. Hysterical!!

We always have the music going. A cd on loop hidden in the bushes. We have two foggers going, and a strobe light. Realistic tombstones are easy to make. Use Foam board insulation, cut into the shape you want and then sand the edges down. Once you have them done pick up some Grey latex paint. Paint the entire tombstone. If you purchase Rustoleum spray paint you can remove this little thingie inside the top. That allows the can to spurt. Get black, grey, and white. Stand back and sputter in even strokes. As you add the layers of the spray paint you’ll see that you are creating a granite stone look. They are too cool!!

We have some skeleton bones we put out in front of some. Some skulls, some ravens on the tombstones or in the trees, If you have a large window in front of your home you could do a couple of things. Hang cheese cloth as curtains, and decorate the room as a set. Like a psychic parlor, a haunted room, or roll your big screen in front of it and play a PG scary movie.

The thing is, pull them in with the decorations, get them coming back with the goods. Hit a Sam’s or Costco to get the big candy bars, or find a wholesaler to buy things from. Your house will be safe all year long.
The only problem is you need your friends out their to entertain the line. Those kids can get mean!!!

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