Women's Halloween Costume DIY Ideas

Create something beautiful and unique with these women's Halloween costume DIY ideas. (This blog contains Amazon affiliate links.)

1. A cat. Use a simple headband and heavy gauge wire to make your own cat ears. You could wrap the wire with ribbon, fuzzy fabric, or string on beautiful beads. Black, white and/or cheetah print are great when considering what to wear.

2. A witch. Use a headband to make a witch's hat. Use felt, cardboard and embellishments and hot glue your hat to your headband. (Specific witch looks: Glinda the good witch, Wicked Witch of the West, a Sanderson sister, Maleficent (carry around some apples,) Ursula, a Beauxbaton from Harry Potter in all light blue, Hermoine, or the Grand High Witch.

2. Utilize your makeup! Use a black liner to draw on a cat nose, cat eyes and whiskers. Other ideas are a skull, jack-o-lantern, Violet Beauregard (fake freckles and purple shadow & highlighter around your nose,) Tinkerbell (green eyeshadow, freckles), or Wednesday Addams (Black lips, smoky eyes, and two long braids). I'll link my favorite makeup for these below!

3. A butterfly, dragon, bat, or fairy. Make your own wings out of a big cardboard box. Get a reference photo from google images, sketch out on cardboard, paint and attach loops of elastic to make it wearable.

4. Be a mermaid. Pair a long teal sequin skirt with a tube top, shell hair accessories and jewelry.

5. A woman you idolize, in real life, or a character.

6. A cult-classic power woman. Ex: (Elle Woods. I'll link a costume below, or you could wear all pink, get a tote bag and put a stuffed animal dog in. Cruella De Vil. Long red gloves, red lipstick, black dress and a fuzzy white stole, coat or cardigan. )

7. A hippie. Get your florals out. Use a long wig. Make a flower headband and flash some peace signs!

8. An artist. Make a fake palette out of cardboard and paint some colors along the edge like paint pots. Carry it around with a paint brush. Wear an apron splattered with paint, a striped shirt and a black beret.

9. A doll. Use your liner pencil to draw two lines down your chin from your lips. Use concealer on the sides of your lips and put lipstick in the middle. Wear pigtails, a dress and big bow in pastel colors.

10. A ballerina. Use a light pink top and tulle skirt, nude flats and a ballerina bun!

11. Figure Skater. This look could be similar to the ballerina, but more glittery, and wear some lace up boots that look like skates.

12. An newer or unexpected Disney princess. Moana, Tiana, Jane from Tarzan, Tangled Rapunzel, Frozen Queen. Utilize cardboard, hot glue and glitter to make things like crowns and wands. Make a crown out of hot glue by molding the glue around a glass bowl. Peel it off the bowl gently, use spray paint to make it glittery or the color of your choice and then attach a comb or string to make it wearable.

13. A vampire. You can get the fake fangs or you can simply paint white fangs onto your bottom lip. Do red lipstick, high arched brows and a widows peak with eyeshadow. Don't forget your cloak, and if you want to get really extra, wear some red contacts.

14. A Wood Elf. Look through your closet for earthy colors like green and brown. Accessorize with faux greenery and a crown made of twigs.

15. An Angel. Wear all white. Make yourself a halo with a headband, heavy gauge wire and white boa material to wrap around the halo. Make your wings out of cardboard painted white, silver or gold.