For starters, think about something truly original.  One of the hottest trends right now is found in the simple skin suit.  These suits, which literally cover your body in poly/lycra from head to toe, can serve a plethora of functions.   First of all, these skin suits are a wonderful base layer for any imaginative costume idea you can come up with.  The skin-toned suit will give you modesty and coverage when you want a look that requires a nude or skin-tone appearance underneath.  Let’s say you are a semi-hairy man that wants to don a tutu and be a ballerina for Halloween.  Hey, a body suit isn’t a bad idea is it?  The colored ones are great to recreate superheroes; comic book character looks or they even make a bold under suit of sorts if you just want to dress a little wacky for a football game at your ol’ alma mater.  The green suit, worn with an uber-creepy, extraterrestrial-looking mask makes a fabulous alien look.  Let your imagination go wild with these super versatile and fun skin suits!

Looking for something a little more traditional and perhaps a tad tamer?  Take a historical adventure back to the Greek or Roman Empire and don the finery of a Roman Warrior or a Grecian Goddess.  It’s about time for your inner Goddess or hidden Warrior to come out and make a grand entrance—these costumes will help you to look and act the part!

For you serious gamers out there, a video game character costume may be the perfect way to bring one of your favorite characters to life.  Get your game on with American McGee characters or perhaps the stunning ninja assassin Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.   You are going to find a large selection of wildly realistic renditions of the stars from all your favorite video games.  For a hilarious take on everyone’s favorite  ‘app’—you can even recreate one of the giggling Angry Birds with one of the season’s most popular Angry Bird Costumes – now that’s funny and original stuff!

A swashbuckling Jack Sparrow and his beguiling sidekick Angelica may be just the dynamic duo to take your Halloween adventure out onto the high seas.  Or if scaring the living daylights out of your friends is more your style, get some ghastly attention with a really creepy rendition of Ghostface or Red Skull.  Feeling blue? A whimsical Smurfette may be just what you need to put some comic shenanigans into your Halloween fun. 

No matter where your imagination wants to take your costume this Halloween, you shouldn’t wait another minute to get yours because just like all Halloween spooks these costumes will eventually just fade away!

This Halloween you may have been considering dressing up as part of a group with a specific theme in mind.  Group dressing for the holiday has become extremely popular over the past few years.   You and all your friends can show up at your next Halloween party each dressed in his own themed character, and what an exciting impact your group of costumes will create!  Families can have a lot of fun dressing up together in themed costumes as well.  Choosing a theme that either reflects the personality of your family or is something fun that you all enjoy is a great way to come together and get into the spirit of this great dress up holiday.

There are many costume themes available to choose from, with ideas for virtually any age group or costume genre.  If you have kids (or even if you don’t) you may want to consider dressing up as a group of Crayola crayons.  These whimsical costumes that look just like crayons come in many different colors as well as sizes, so each member of your group can choose his favorite color.  This is a perfect costume idea for families!

If classic Rock ‘n Roll is more your thing and you and your group really want to go all out, consider recreating the band members from one of the greatest rock bands of all time, KISS.  Exciting and fun make up effects along with authentic costumes scream “I wanna rock-n-roll all night!!”  These KISS replica looks are going to give you a Halloween experience that is not only memorable but might even attract a few groupies.  Don’t forget to include the kids in the fun—they might not remember KISS but they are going to love the idea of really rocking out!

The story of Alice in Wonderland offers a plethora of rich characters to recreate as a group for Halloween.  Between Alice, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire cat and the Queen of Hearts, your group will come alive with the entire cast from this great children’s adventure tale.  This fantastic trip down the rabbit hole may be the most exciting one yet!

Recreating several Superheroes may be one of the most thrilling Halloween group adventures of all.  You can choose to be an eclectic mix of several heroes, with each group member picking their favorite from great choices like Spiderman, the Green Lantern and Wonder Woman.  Or you may want to stick with one superhero movie theme and recreate the entire cast from it with choices such as Batman, Robin, Cat Woman, and The Joker.

Dressing in costume as a group of friends or with your entire family will amplify your Halloween fun immensely and will make your party or trick or treating experience that much more fun.  Get into an exciting Halloween group theme and make your holiday anything but BOO-ring!

Wow I can’t believe how big Jersey Shore has become!  It’s like watching a train wreck, you don’t want to but you just can’t help yourself.  MTV really hit the big time with this little reality series about a group of twenty-something year olds living together and partying it up (GTL – gym, tan, laundry) for the summer in Seaside Heights, NJ.  Can you believe season one premiered in December 2009 to 1.37 million viewers and season 3 premiered in January 2011 with record ratings of 8.45 million viewers!  It’s so popular that the cast of Jersey Shore made Barbara Walter’s “10 Most Fascinating People” list!  

Because it’s such a huge hit with high school and religiously watched by college students, it’s no surprise that the stars of Jersey Shore were popular Halloween costumes last year.  Snooki was the most popular by far!  It’s an easy costume – lots of poof in the hair, lots of bronzer and a short skirt and you’re ready to go!  Pauly D was also fun to portray with tons of hair gel and Ed Hardy t-shirt and jeans and you’ve got the look.  You couldn’t have made up a better cast of characters for all the college students to dress up as for Halloween. 

Season one and three were filmed at the Jersey Shore and season two was filmed in Miami, Florida.   But wait, there’s still another season to come with the group heading to Italy for season four.  Now that should be interesting!  I don’t think we’ve heard the last of Snooki, JWoww, Sammi, Pauly D, the Situation, Ronnie and Vinny!

Well, if you haven’t even ordered them yet, don’t worry it’s not too late.  HalloweenExpress.com has some amazing offers in shipping to get your costumes to you in plenty of time!  You can get guaranteed Thursday delivery for only $9.99!  That’s unheard of where shipping is concerned!  When you wait till the last minute it usually ends up costing you a fortune in shipping.


Besides the great shipping prices, there are still so many amazing costumes left to pick from.  Everything from toddlers and infants to tweens, teens and adults.  Thinking you want something easy and quick for a costume?  Check out all the great Halloween masks and wigs they have to offer.  Once you have those the rest is easy!

If your child still hasn’t decided on what he/she wants to be, check out the Harry Potter costumes.  With the movie “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” coming out in November, Harry Potter is back in the spotlight.  This is the 7th and final installment in the most successful film franchise of all time!  It’s actually a 2-parter with the 2nd part coming out in July 2011, so we’re going to be seeing a lot of Harry, Ron and Hermione for awhile!

The original Rocky Horror Picture Show was released on September 26, 1975.  It’s based off a British stage play by the same name.  Still in limited release 35 years after its premiere, it has the longest-running theatrical release in film history.   

It quickly gained a cult following when midnight screenings became popular in the mid to late 70′s.  Theater owners would play the record album of the RHPS soundtrack before the showing to warm up the audience giving it a party atmosphere.  Audiences soon  began participating with the film in theatres by booing the villain and cheering the heroes.  Before long the audiences sang along with every song, even acting out parts of the movie.   The huge cult following is due in part to the fan participation during these midnight showings.

Besides the soundtrack being wonderful, the costumes in this movie make the characters!  Dr Frank-N-Furter, Magenta, Riff Raff and Columbia all have over-the-top wild costumes.  Talk about a great theme for your Halloween costumes this year! 

Next week’s episode of  Glee is the much-anticipated Halloween themed episode of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”  It’s fittingly titled “The Rocky Horror Glee Show.”  Finn and Rachel naturally play Brad and Janet, Kurt plays Riff Raff and Mercedes plays Dr. Frank-N-Furter.  Glee is such a good show and The Rocky Horror Glee Show is going to be one you don’t want to miss!

Halloweenexpress.com has some great Oktoberfest costumes!  If you have a significant other, it would be a lot of fun wearing the Oktoberfest girl and the Lederhosen guy costumes! 

If you’ve never been to an Oktoberfest celebration in your neck of the woods, you’re missing out on a lot of fun! Even though the original Oktoberfest was held in Munich, Germany in 1810, you don’t have to travel all the way to Germany to get a feel for what Oktoberfest is all about; German immigrants brought the tradition with them to the United States. It’s not surprising then that in the US, with the high percentages of people of German heritage, there are hundreds of local Oktoberfest celebrations.

I found this list of the top ten Oktoberfest celebrations online.  

Maybe one is near you!

1. Columbus, OH
2. Tulsa, OK
3. Cincinnati, OH
4. Big Bear Lake, CA
5. Denver, CO
6. La Crosse, WI
7. Torrance, CA
8. Leavenworth, WA
9. Lake Worth, FL
10. Mount Angel, OR

Keep the festvities going by wearing an Oktoberfest costume this year for Halloween!

Flintstones, meet the Flintstones, They’re a modern stoneage family.
From the, town of Bedrock, They’re a page right out of history.
Let’s ride, with the family down the street, Through the courtesy of Fred’s two feet.
When you’re, with the Flintstones, Have a yabba dabba doo time, A dabba doo time, You’ll have a gay old time!

Wow, how many times have you heard that theme song and sung along with it?  I grew up watching The Flintstones and loved it!  It was so much fun to see Fred and Barney unknowingly get themselves in over their head in almost every episode only to have Wilma and Betty lovingly get them out of it.  Who could forget Pebbles and Bam-Bam and of course their adorable pet dinosaur Dino!

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary for everyone’s favorite modern stone-age family from the town of Bedrock, The Flintstones!  Even Google acknowledged this special occasion by creating a Flintstone “doodle” on their homepage.  The classic cartoon premiered on ABC on September 30, 1960.

Great family cartoons such as The Flintstones and The Jetsons have always inspired people to dress up as their characters for Halloween.  It’s not unheard of to see Fred and Wilma, Barney and Betty or even Pebbles and Bam-Bam trick-or-treating on Halloween night or winning first prize at costume parties!  Famous cartoon characters that make up television and movie costumes are always popular with both children and adults alike!

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, hit theaters Memorial Day weekend to box office success. This epic action-adventure movie is based on a video game which was first released in 1989. Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films – who also brought us the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy – did an amazing job bringing the video game to life!

Jake Gyllenhaal (who I must say is absolutely hot in this film) plays Prince Dastan and Gemma Arterton plays the part of the beautiful Princess Tamina.  Now if that doesn’t scream “great theme for a couple costume” for Halloween this year I don’t know what does!  Prince of Persia costumes will be all the rage from young boys to grown men who want to be Prince Dastan to young girls and women who want to portray the lovely Princess Tamina.

The DVD was released on September 14th so go out and rent/buy the movie.  Bring on the popcorn and candy and make it a movie night with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time!

The World Wrestling Entertainment Franchise has been around for years, but became insanely popular in the late 90′s with “professional wrestler” being at the top of ever young boys list of “what I want to be when I grow up”.

Today, the WWE has kept its popularity with shows like Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown. Pay Per View events such as; Wrestlemania, Summerslam, Royal Rumble and Survivor Series have all kept the WWE wrestlers in the spotlight and bigger than life.

Every Halloween I’ve had a smaller version of just about every WWE wrestler out there. However, I think this year is going to be a really big year for those WWE wrestlers. There are so many big names in wrestling right now that it should be easy to become your favorite wrestler for a night of trick-or-treating by either going old school with the Undertaker Costume or some new blood such as The Celtic Warrior Sheamus.

My nephew is really into wrestling and the WWE so he has decided to wear the John Cena costume for Halloween this year.  A few of his buddies are going as Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock and Kane.  I’m sure everyone will recognize them for the wrestlers they are!

Halloween is a holiday best celebrated with lots of family and friends; the more the merrier!  That’s why group costumes are so popular.  Nobody wants to trick-or-treat alone!

There are so many great themes to pick from when choosing group costumes.  My favorite by far is “The Brady Bunch”.  I grew up watching the show and can still remember many of the episodes – who doesn’t!  The Brady Bunch taught us many important life lessons – such as donning a huge Afro wig will make one more popular, how to sport a groovy man perm, taking an ancient tiki from Hawaii is a sure way to get you cursed and exaggerating to your friends will get Davy Jones to sing at your prom.

Besides all that, the Brady Bunch gave us a sense of style!  There wasn’t a family out there that could put together outrageous vintage outfits quite like Mike, Carol, Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby, and Cindy!

This Halloween I’m definitely getting my husband to dress as Mike and I’m donning the Carol Brady costume!  Florence Henderson (who played Carol all those years) is putting on her dancing shoes to complete in “Dancing With The Stars” which airs on ABC in a couple weeks and I know Carol Brady is going to be one hot dance momma! 

I’m sad that my children are too young to appreciate the phenomenon known as The Brady Bunch, but I’m sure my brothers and sisters will be more than happy to portray one of the Brady’s in a Brady Bunch costume. 

Without a doubt we’ll win first place in any costume contest this Halloween!