April 1, 2011. Paul Hixon
content“>Halloween is a fun and exciting time for both children and adults! A whole day dedicated to pretending to be something you’re not. The best part of Halloween is that it is up to your imagination, you can be anything you can possibly think of.
There are a few costumes that are very common among long children. Little girls enjoy dressing up as witches with long green noses and broomsticks, cackling throughout the night. Others prefer a princess costume, long flowing pink and yellow gowns with tiaras to top their heads. Another great idea is to dress in the always popular green fairy costume or woodland fairy costume. Little boys on the other hand, are more inclined to dressing like cops and robbers.
Ninjas are a popular costume with boys too, they love playing with the toy weapons. Although Halloween is not just for children anymore, it has become very popular among adults, although their costumes are much riskier. Halloween seems to be a holiday for women to dress in more promiscuous clothing, something they wouldn’t normally do. Halloween allows them to take on a more confident, seductive role for one day a year. Men’s costumes come in a wide variety of imaginative designs.
A favorite is the famous cross-dressing costumer, men in flowing gowns with socks stuffed in their bras and terrible make-up. This is one of the more flexible costumes; it is up to the man how pretty he would like to look. Another classic costumer for adult or child is a zombie.
Being a zombie is easy and can be done at home with things that you probably have lying around the house anyway. Some people get very intricate with their make-up and create effects of wounds and blood dripping from their mouths. This is a great costume because it is scary and easy to accomplish. You can make synthetic skin for special effect wounds by mixing flour and water and using face paint to make it look bruised and blood. The array of costumes seems to never end, meaning that the fun can go on for a long time.
Even as adults, we can have a great time (without the trick or treating of course) and pretend to be something you’re not for a whole day.
Updated April 1, 2011. Published February 2, 2011. Paul Hixon
