Instead of choosing your Halloween fancy dress costume and adding a mask to go with it why not start by choosing your mask first and then adding the costume?  There are some really gruesome masks available that could be a starting point for your Halloween fancy dress costume.  Zombies, ghosts, skulls, werewolves, trolls and devils, who’s your favourite demon?Half face masks, full face masks and full masks with a hood or hair included are all available online. Add a wig or hair piece to a full facemask and this will be the focus of your Halloween fancy dress costume.

Add more spookiness to your Halloween costume with a spooky voice changer. You get a headpiece and microphone and voice synthesizer that disguises your voice with Halloween eeriness!

Buy a standard robe with a hood and then every Halloween just buy a new mask to add to your collection. You’ll have a Halloween fancy dress costume for every party and will look different at every event.  Masks are pretty economical to buy online., Build up your collection of masks and stage make-up to create a collection of ghoulish outfits.    

You can buy a mask that you wear all night and don’t have to take off when you want to have a drink or talk to somebody.  These masks are held in place by a piece of elastic that goes round the back of your head so if you add a matching wig you won’t even see the elastic! 

If you’ve chosen a devil or devilish Halloween fancy dress costume then add some red flashing horns that light up and flash when you turn them on. If you don’t fancy wearing a full face mask you could wear the horns with some stage make-up as an alternative to wearing a full face mask.  Buy a half mask that leaves the bottom half of your face free or buy some stage make up and get your make up applied by a creative friend who can make you look like Wharf in Star Trek!  Start with some red face paint; add a tache, small beard and the ridges on the forehead for a gruesomely ghoulish and fiendish outfit!!

October 31st is Halloween.  It’s becoming as popular in the UK as it is in the USA.  Halloween fancy dress costumes are traditionally witches, ghosts and all things that go bump in the night. 

Blacks, purples and greens dominate Halloween fancy dress costumes and you can also wear white for brides of Dracula or vampire brides.  Use a white long dress and face make-up for a ghostly bride look. Wedding dresses make great Halloween fancy dress costumes so if you have your wedding dress tucked away just whiten your face with stage make-up, wear vampire teeth and fake blood to become a vampire bride for the night.  If you still have your veil and tiara this looks excellent to finish it off.  

Decide what impact you want to have when you walk into the room.  Then you can look at Halloween fancy dress costumes.  Do you want heads to turn? Do you want to look sexy, devilish, funny or impish?   Choose your outfit and then go to the accessories to choose make-up, wigs, masks and facial hair. 

Witchy Halloween fancy dress costumes include accessories of long hair wigs, stripey tights with black shoes, a broomstick and a tall pointed hat.  If you have a broom hanging around the broom closet then you can take this with you! 

Children go from door to door trick or treating.  Participating houses will have a good stock of goodies to fill the children’s Halloween bags. These will be chocolates, sweets or fruit.  Some houses will even give money if they haven’t had time to stock up on Halloween supplies.  

But if you don’t want to go to a party have a look through your Halloween fancy dress costumes and wear one when you answer the door to the trick or treaters.  Its great fun and the kids love it.  But make sure it’s not too scary!  

If Halloween isn’t your thing buy a sign to put up in your window to let people know you don’t welcome any trick or treating. 

The popularity of angel fancy dress costumes appears to be on the increase. A recent fun run in the north of England in aid of a cancer charity saw the 2000 female runners competing in a variety of costumes, with many dressed in angel wings and tutus, with the colour pink the order of the day. Maybe they were hoping to finish the course on a wing and a prayer, or possibly that they could even fly the route! It could be that many runners have had enough of the impractical giant penguins and chickens, Coco the Clown or Huggie Bear costumes some participants insist on wearing and which must certainly be an encumbrance.

Although charity races are billed as “fun runs”, they are still taken quite seriously by runners intent on finishing the course, which can quite often be a distance of five or even ten kilometres. Surely there can be nothing worse, in the warm weather we have had lately, than running dressed in a woolly mask and heavy bodysuit? Angel fancy dress sounds like a fun and cool (in both senses of the word) costume to wear for such an event. Wouldn’t it be good if some clever person could invent a pair of streamlined angel fancy dress wings with added dynamo to increase running speed?

Fun runs are not the only events where participants have worn angel fancy dress. At public events such as music gigs, it has become fashionable to turn up dressed in all kinds of weird and wonderful costumes. One example is a certain famous female singer’s recent free gig in Notting Hill, for which the 400 audience members were asked to turn up in fancy dress depicting a London tube station. Hence many of the invited guests turned up in angel fancy dress, to represent Angel tube station in Islington, North London.

Others were dressed as birds (Canary Wharf), Sherlock Holmes (Baker Street) and one couple even covered themselves in grass and green paint (presumably depicting Green Park). The star performer of the show was dressed as Queen Victoria (representing Victoria Station), complete with a grey wig and crown, frilled blouse and long Victorian skirt and corset. It was reported that the singer complained, with one or two expletives, that it was difficult to sing in a corset, but would Her Majesty have been amused?

Fancy dress is even becoming popular as wedding attire, and not only for the bride and groom. The theme could be “superheroes”, film characters or pop stars for example. At a recent ceremony held by a celebrity couple to renew their wedding vows, guests were asked to turn up as saints or sinners. Apparently the female guests sparkled in angel fancy dress costumes, complete with tiaras, wings and wands. It was not reported what the men wore!