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Costume Ideas for Halloween: Cosplay Guides and Inspiration

Need ideas for Halloween? Help with finding the right costume, hair and make-up? Then check out Geek Mamas cosplay tutorials where you’ll find links to costumes to purchase for easy Halloween costumes, tutorials on making costume accessories, and guides to doing your hair and makeup.

Full Costume Guides

Want full costume guides that go over the costume, hair and make-up? Click here for Cosplay Tutorials on Scarlet Witch, Fairies, Mermaids, Pennywise, Princess Leia, Cruella De Vil, Beetlejuice Makeup and more!

In these tutorials you’ll find costume details and where to buy the pieces to put your outfit together. This is for costume help head to toe! I link the costumes, and my makeup and hair tutorials so you can recreate the looks.

Ready-to-Wear Costumes

Looking for costume pics with everything tagged? Click here for my Amazon page with shoppable costume photos! Find it all in one easy spot.

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It’s hard to buy online for costume because you never know if it looks like the picture or if it’s junk. I vouch for everything I link to and have tried it out myself to make sure it looks good! Make shopping for Halloween easy this year and check out my costume page for ideas and inspiration.

Halloween Hair and Makeip Ideas

Need help with Halloween hair and makeup ideas? Click here to browse my make-up and hair tutorials (many with videos!) on everything from wearing false lashes to doing special F/X make-up.

I cover a wide variety of costume related make-up and beauty like wearing lashes, lace-front wigs, fairy ears, making mermaid scales and more. Many are accompanied by video tutorials. Take your costume to another level this year!

Halloween DIY Ideas

Feeling creative? Make your own costume fitted mask or magical glowing staff! Click here for tutorials on things like iron-on designs, free mask templates, headpieces and horns and more!

Besides the cosplay related tutorials, I do have some simple sewing tutorials that are helpful! All of my tutorials and patterns are FREE to download and use.

The only thing I ask is that you please tag me in your pics so I can see all the amazing things people are making. Feel free to tag either @sewgeekmama or @geekmamasblog on all socials.

About the Author

Candy Keane is a digital content creator and long-time cosplayer, most well-known for being on the cover of the Star Wars documentary Jedi Junkies. After making costumes professionally for over a decade, she now writes about geek culture and mom life, and continues to cosplay for fun, while sharing her love of costumes on Instagram @SewGeekMama. Her first children’s book, I’m Going to My First Comic Convention, was published in 2020 and won a Story Monsters Approved award for Excellence in Literature.


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