Halloween sneaks up on me every year.
Despite loving the season, I am simply never prepared for it. Year after year, I’m too busy navel-gazing to fully focus on assembling a halfway decent costume. It also doesn’t help that the difference between a crappy costume and a stellar costume is usually Comic Con-levels of preparation. You simply cannot just phone it in...
Unless you reference this guide of last-minute pop culture Halloween costumes that are so esoteric and thought-out, people can only assume you’ve had this planned since Memorial Day. This is the season of tricks, is it not?
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Carmy, The Bear
Halloween's hottest costume is also television's hottest chef. Don't forget sensible kitchen clogs, bed head, and a devil-may-care aura.
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Esther, The Orphan
It's wild thinking that even though this character made her appearance 13 years ago, she has already been cemented in the hearts of many horror nerds like myself.
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Britt Barbie
Go slow and steady when doing the "Period Ahh, Period Uhh" tongue choreography! You don't want to pull a muscle.
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The upward-pointing TikTok guy
Simply point up anytime a song is playing.
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Nick and Charlie, Heartstopper/Wilhelm and Simon, Young Royals
Honestly, the wigs work for both.
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Elizabeth Holmes
Practice this line in a vocal pitch similar to talking through a burp: "This is an inspiring step forward." To help drive home this esoteric joke: Upneeq is a prescription-only eyelid-lifting eyedrop.
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Rosalía
Nail the pose, and you've nailed the costume.
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Harry Styles
Did he or didn't he? D.I.Y. your own oversized lapel and let the people wonder.
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That lamp
You know the one.
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