Halloween is just around the corner! The pumpkins are out, skeletons are waving from people’s front yards, and you can practically hear the ghosts getting ready to say “boo!” But with the scariest night of the year fast approaching, there’s one important question: Do you have your costume ready?
If you’re still looking for ideas, we’ve got you covered! We’ve rounded up some of the most brilliant Halloween costumes out there, and there’s plenty of spooky inspiration to go around. Scroll down to find the perfect look for yourself, or simply admire just how creative some folks can get when Halloween rolls around.
#1 Mushroom Costume
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#2 Sow Thistles Costume
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#3 I Transformed Myself Into Winifred Sanderson From “Hocus Pocus”
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One of the best things about Halloween is that you get to be whoever you want for a night. Want to dress up as your favorite movie character? Go for it! Feel like turning yourself into a giant slice of pizza? Nobody’s stopping you.
But have you ever wondered how dressing up became such a big part of Halloween in the first place?
#4 My Midsommar May Queen Costume This Year!
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#5 Rate It
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#6 2025 Halloween Party Costumes
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To find the answer, we have to go back more than 2,000 years. Halloween has its roots in an ancient Celtic festival called Samhain, which marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter.
People believed that around this time, the boundary between our world and the spirit world became thinner, allowing ghosts to wander the Earth. As you can imagine, that wasn’t exactly a comforting thought.
#7 Genie Costume
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#8 Halloween Is 90 Days Away. What Should I Be This Year? Here’s My Past Costumes
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#9 My Baba Yaga Costume For Halloween At The Office
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So, how did they protect themselves from these unwanted visitors? One belief was that wearing disguises could help people blend in with the spirits. Some dressed up as frightening creatures, hoping to avoid attracting attention from anything supernatural.
Of course, these early costumes looked quite different from the elaborate outfits we see today, but the general idea of dressing up stuck around.
#10 I Healed My Younger Self With This Costume
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#11 Makeup Test For My Clicker Halloween Costume. What Do Y’all Think??
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#12 This Years Costume!
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Over the centuries, the celebration changed as Celtic customs mixed with Christian traditions. November 1 became known as All Saints’ Day, and the evening before it was called All Hallows’ Eve, which eventually gave us the name Halloween.
Later, Irish and Scottish immigrants brought many of their traditions to America, where the holiday gradually grew into the celebration we know today. And as Halloween became more popular, costumes started changing too.
#13 Mid-Transition Clark Kent
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#14 The Swamp Thing
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#15 Last Year, My Daughter And Son-In-Law Went As The Louvre Thieves!
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Speaking of traditions, here’s a fun fact about those glowing pumpkins we see everywhere. They weren’t always pumpkins! According to the Library of Congress, people in Ireland originally carved frightening faces into turnips.
The tradition is connected to a folktale about a man called Stingy Jack, who supposedly tricked the Devil and ended up wandering the Earth with a burning coal inside a carved-out turnip.
When Irish immigrants arrived in America, they discovered that pumpkins were much easier to carve, and the familiar jack-o’-lantern eventually became a Halloween favorite.
#16 Several Of Ours Over The Years
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#17 “It’s My Dreamhouse! I’m The One Who’s Paying For It!” -Backrooms Barbie
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#18 Master Splinter And My Turtles
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And pumpkins aren’t the only Halloween tradition with an interesting past. Trick-or-treating also has a surprisingly long history, with roots in older European customs of going door to door asking for food.
In Scotland and Ireland, a practice called guising involved children dressing up and visiting homes for treats. However, the modern American version of trick-or-treating really took off after World War II, when candy became more widely available.
#19 My Friend And I Dressed Up As Mermaid Man And Barnacle Boy For An Early Halloween Party
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#20 2025’s Costume: The Pigeon Lady From Home Alone 2
I converted dove decoys into pigeons with acrylic paint and gave out bags of bird seed along with my candy and potatoes. But my favorite part of the night was the kid who dressed as a pigeon getting excited that they found the pigeon lady!
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#21 My Backrooms Still-Life Cosplay!
A few people told me to post this here, even though my country doesn’t celebrate Halloween this is definitely what I would have worn.
Suit is from AliExpress, I added the buttons, wig is an old lace front I had, and I sculpted the mask out of foam clay on a regular base mask!
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Halloween has certainly come a long way since its early days. Nowadays, even our pets get to join in on the fun!
According to a 2025 survey by the National Retail Federation, 23% of Americans celebrating Halloween planned to dress up their furry friends.
And if you’re wondering what the most popular pet costume was, it was a pumpkin! Hot dogs and bumblebees were also among the favorites.
#22 Made This Mask And Wings For My Halloween Costume. I’m Dressing As A Fly
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#23 My First Halloween Costume Of The Year… Princess Fiona
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#24 I Made My Brother An Agamemnon Costume
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All this Halloween fun comes with a pretty hefty price tag, too. According to the National Retail Federation, total Halloween spending in the US is expected to reach a whopping $13.5 billion in 2026, with around $4.4 billion going toward costumes alone.
In fact, the average consumer plans to spend around $115 on the holiday this year. That’s quite a bit of money for a celebration that lasts just one day!
#25 My Favorite Costume I Wore This Yea
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#26 I’ve Always Wanted To Do A Couples Costume
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#27 Cute Family Animal Costume
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But you definitely don’t have to spend a fortune to enjoy Halloween. Sometimes, the best costumes are the ones you put together yourself with a little creativity and whatever you can find at home.
Whether you’re planning an elaborate outfit or something simple and funny, the most important thing is to have fun with it. So, we hope these costumes have given you plenty of inspiration for this year’s celebrations. Happy Halloween!
#28 Butterfly Costume
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#29 Sow Thistles Costume
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#30 Getting Excited For Halloween!!
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#31 My Two Sons Going As Their Favorite Two Brothers For Halloween!
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#32 Dad Nailed It As Groot For Halloween
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#33 Couple Halloween Costumes Ideas
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#34 I Was Tooth Fairy
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#35 Made This For My Son Last Year (On His Request)
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#36 I Was A Naughty Nun
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#37 In 2024, I Went As Professor Quirrel/Voldemort (I Was Mid-Chemo Treatment & Decided To Have A Little Fun With It)
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#38 I Was In A Neck Brace So It Made The Inspo Easy
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#39 I Was A “Png” (But Really I Was A Jpg With A Fake “Transparent” Background.) I Suspect This Is Only Funny To The Designers In My Life…
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#40 Morticia Eats Every Time If You’re Dark Haired
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#41 Struggling To Figure Out What To Do This Year Myself, But I Have A Reputation To Maintain
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#42 Gaston, Gender Bend
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#43 Decided I’m Just Going To Go As Myself For Halloween This Year
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#44 Helen Sharp – Death Becomes Her
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#45 Father And Son Halloween Costume
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#46 Today Has Me A Bit Down So I Did A Makeup Test For My Halloween Costume To Distract Myself. Thoughts?
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#47 Here’s My Halloween Costume I Made Even Though I Didn’t Get To Go Anywhere With It. I’ve Been Feeling Really Depressed Because Halloween Is Over, I Didn’t Get To Have A Party Because Of Covid, And The Day After It Snowed For The First Time Where I Live. I’m Going To Miss My Garden For The Winter
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#48 Costume Day At Work! Also, I Work In It
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#49 Dani And Christian Halloween Costumes
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#50 My Friend Andy Always Has The Best Halloween Costume Ideas
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#51 First Halloween Party Of 2026
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#52 Throwback To The Shining Twins Last Year
My best friend & I were the Shining Twins last year for Halloween. We’re going to do our best to top it this year.
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#53 Thoughts On My Budget Velma?
Please ignore my dirty mirror lol
Only things I bought are the shirt and leg warmers, but the shoes and skirt I’ve had for a while.
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#54 My Favorite Halloween Costume Ever – The Babadook
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#55 Jack & Wendy Torrence
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#56 I’ve Finished My Whistling Man Cosplay!
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#57 Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy
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#58 My Punny Costume: Handsome Squidward Games
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#59 Vincent Van Gogh Costume
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#60 Since Im Always Being Told I Look Like Nathan Lane, I Decided To Fully Lean In To It This Year For Halloween
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#61 The Devil Works Hard, But The Deviled Egg Werks Harder
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#62 My Peggy Bundy
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#63 My Silent Hill Nurse Costume!
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#64 Here Comes Honey Labooboo
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#65 Gaga Is Coming Along Nicely. Just Waiting For My Belt
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#66 My Marie Antoinette
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#67 I Was A Costco Butcher For Halloween, Handing Out “Ground Werewolf” Rice Crispy Treats To The Kids
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#68 Lived Out My Dream As Rose From Titanic!
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#69 My Costume This Year
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#70 How Do I Top My Guy Fieri Fairy Costume?
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#71 I Was An Angler Fish This Year
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#72 Turned Myself Into Gomez Addams For The Kids Trunk-Or-Treat
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#73 Just Put The Finishing Touches On My Furby Costume
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#74 My Old Lady Costume – Grandma’s Cookies, Anyone?
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#75 Sun Goddess
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#76 My Costume As Him From Powerpuff Girls
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#77 My Surrealist Eyeball Costume
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#78 Titanic Ghost
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#79 The Scariest Halloween Costume Of 2026
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#80 My Uncle Found A Halloween Costume… Of Himself
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#81 Cynthia (Rugrats) For Halloween
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#82 Invisible Man For Halloween 2025
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#83 Very Late, But Here’s The Biblically Accurate Angel Costume I Made The Week Of Halloween
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#84 Kind Of Basic, But Childhood Me Is Thrilled!
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#85 Me Want Honeycomb
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#86 Hi! Guess Who’s Back (With This Year’s Mashup)?
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#87 My Costume This Year!
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#88 Guys How Did I Do??
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#89 Me And My Fiancée Were Mrs Spider And Mr Centipede From “James And The Giant Peach”
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#90 I’m Gonna Get You Funny!
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#91 Trick R Treat
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#92 Happy Halloween
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#93 Throwback To 08 – 100% Homemade
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#94 The Great Peach, Halloween 2025
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