Best Ever Halloween Princess Costumes
How to Make or Find 20 Fun, Thrifty Halloween Princess Costumes
Media powerhouses provide fresh incarnations of princesses year after year, so there are plenty of variations for kids' costumes and costume accessories.
Buyers with bucks to spend should hop online now for the best selection and auction bargains. However, princess costumes also can be created with make-up, bargain-store prom dresses or gowns, and a few costume accessories to capture the character's essence. Focus on gown colors, hair styles, and accessories, then raid closets at home and scour thrift-store racks to capture the look. A bit of make-up, glitter, and hair spray will do the rest!
Disney Princess Costumes
Tiana, a new Disney princess, debuts this December in The Princess and the Frog. Tiana wears a sleeveless white gown with a blue ribbon sash, long white gloves, blue-stone pendant necklace, and a tiara. A small stuffed frog is the perfect complement! Check out Tiana and all the other Disney princess costumes at the Disney Website.
Rosalinda is another new Disney princess, featured in Princess Protection Program. Her yellow ball gown is worn off the shoulders, with blue and red sash, long white gloves, hair braided and upswept, gold necklace, and a crown.
Enchanted's Princess Giselle is known for her white lace wedding gown, with massive puff sleeves and a hoop skirt, a tiara and necklace, and a huge, curly up 'do dotted with flowers.
The Sleeping Beauty, Aurora, wears a pink, v-neck gown with long sleeves and a three-pointed gold crown atop her long hair.
Belle wears two costumes in Beauty and the Beast. Her everyday dress is a blue pinafore over a long-sleeved white shirt; her hair is pulled back and tied with a blue ribbon. Add a book or shawl. To dance with the Beast, she wears a yellow ball gown with short sleeves, long yellow gloves, and a yellow ribbon in her hair.
Cinderella wears a blue and silver gown, long white gloves, and a blue headband over an upswept hair style.
Jasmine wears a two-piece aqua or purple harem costume in Aladdin, with large gold earrings, gemstone crown, gold collar necklace, and slippers.
Mulan wears a long tunic over pants. Pinks, purples, and reds in satins and brocades are the dominate colors and textures. She wears either a crown or flower comb in her long hair.
Pocahontas wears a blue necklace, and a light brown leather dress with one bare shoulder and fringed hem. Her long, black hair is her trademark.
As The Little Mermaid, Ariel's features are the toughest to replicate: long, flame-red hair and a vivid green fishtail with a purple shell top and flower in her hair.
Snow White's gown is a full yellow skirt, blue fitted bodice, and short, puffed blue sleeves with red insets. Her black hair is tied back with a red ribbon, and she also sports a high, white collar.
Live-Action Princess Costumes
Technically, Lucy and Susan Pevensie are queens in Prince Caspian, but they have big princess appeal in their beautiful coronation gowns. They also wear pretty tunics over long rustic gowns. Check The Wardrobe Door for visuals to make outfits, or shop online for the coronation gowns.
Buttercup, The Princess Bride, wears a tall coronation crown of flowers and pearl points over her long, flowing hair. Make the crown with white silk flowers and fake pearl beads on floral wire. Her gown is white lace, with a shoulder-to-floor train.
Danielle is a unique version of Cinderella in Ever After. Her gossamer wings can be made with sheer white pantyhose stretched over bent wire frames. She wears a brocaded, off-white gown with long Renaissance sleeves. Her hair is braided and upswept, showing off sheer glittery face paint and adhesive jewels.
Princess Leia Organa's trademark hair buns and long, white, hooded dress are fun Halloween accessories. She wears other outfits in three Star Wars movies, but go for a bun over each ear!
Whimsical Princess Costumes
Shrek's Princess Fiona needs green skin, ogre ears, and thick red hair pulled back into a bun or ponytail, topped by a simple three-point gold crown. Luckily, green liquid makeup is available. Cut green felt to shape ogre ears, then attach them to a headband. Red hair spray paint or a wig finishes the look. Her most recognizable outfit is a long-sleeved, bottle green velvet dress.
Add a green, pea-shaped bag to a princess outfit to become "The Princess and the Pea."
Crown a fairy costume to create Shakespeare's Fairy Queen from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Wear thick black eyeglasses, teased hair, and a white shirt and cardigan over a plaid skirt to be Mia Thermopolis, before her transformation in the Princess Diaries.
Plan Ahead for Princess Costumes
Whether buying or making a princess costume, get going! No one wants to overspend on Halloween costumes, so shop in September or early October to buy key costume accessories at the best prices.
Sewing skills aren't critical to make princess costumes. Use iron-on hems, glue guns, or safety pins to shorten hems and take in waistlines, adding glitter, scarves, ribbons, and jewelry from home. Check with grandparents or sorority alumni for long gloves and old gowns, and practice the hair style once or twice before Halloween. Bead a tiara. Imagination does the rest!
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