Best of AC Halloween Articles: Find a Sexy Costume

Everyone loves to feel sexy and attractive at some point in his or her life and what better time then Halloween? This is the one time of the year where you can be the exact opposite of what you normally are and have fun doing it. To help you pick out your sexy costume, here is some of the best content that Associated Content writers have produced.

Cheap Sexy Halloween Costumes(Jamila Taylor--August 30, 2009)
One of the best things about this article is Taylor gives you ideas for affordable costumes that you can make for under ten dollars but will still help you feel sexy when you go out and get your Halloween swerve on. While there are standard favorites the one I liked the best was the black bat because you can make it from a black leotard, black boats, and a black umbrella that you take the wires out of. Simple, cheap, and sexy.

Sexy Halloween Costumes You Can Make Yourself (Jennifer Claerr--October 8, 2007)
Most of the costumes that Claerr suggests in her articles are costumes you can make from dresses you have lying around the house or ones you can pick up at thrift stores such as a short black dress with an apron for a French maid or a short blue dress with a toy badge (which you can get cheap at any costume store). I like how she gives you ideas for costumes that you may not think about at first and then tells you a cheap way you can make it with ideas so simple that you may not have to even buy anything at all!

Top 5 Sexy Halloween Costumes 2009 (Douglas Vandecaveye--September 9, 2009)
Vandecaveye, like Claerr, gives costumes that are sexy but simple such as a Robin Hood lady whose costume is nothing more than a lace up brown dress with a corset a hat with a feather and boots. I like how he makes the costumes seem like sexy but does emphasize how simple they are so you can go out to a store and get the items needed to make them and not spend so much on a costume you're only going to wear once or twice a year.

Sexy Halloween Costume Ideas for Women: 60s Icons (Aida Ekberg--August 19, 2009)
I like how this article reminds us of how beauty has changed and re-formed itself over the years. It gives a nod towards women of the time that are still considered beautiful such as Twiggy and Audrey Hepburn and also gives an idea for making a sexy feminine Jimi Hendrix (who many people will say was sexy in and of himself without having to feminize his persona). While some of these costumes do call for a lot of small items to make them complete some of the items are so cheap that it shouldn't be too hard on your wallet to buy and it will make the costume more authentic.

Sexy Halloween Costume Ideas for Women: Feminizing Tim Burton Characters (Aida Ekberg--August 4, 2009)
This article from Ekberg takes her brief idea of Jimi Hendrix from the aforementioned one and uses it on all of Tim Burton's most famous male characters. I really like her idea for the Mad Hatter from the upcoming movie because it is hard to make that character sexy but she is very inventive in all of her ideas. Plus with any of these costumes you can still be somewhat spooky as well as sexy.

Women's Plus Size Halloween Costumes for 2009(Teresa Wilson--September 8, 2009)
What I really like about Wilson's article is that she caters especially to plus sized women and gives you good ideas for costumes that still make you feel sexy. She even provides the websites where you can get all of the costumes she recommends and tells you some cheap ways to complete it (like with the Wicked Witch of the West costume when she says she prefers the Hulk make-up over the witch kit as it is cheaper and comes off easily with soap and water). This article almost stands on its own because it is specifically for plus sized women and helps them to feel sexy at this time of year too.

Sexy Scary Halloween Costumes (Living the Salt Life--October 28, 2007)
In the rush to be sexy sometimes we forget that another part of the Halloween fun is being scary. This article gives traditional scary Halloween costumes and makes them sexy and you can always make make-up choices to help make your ensemble scarier. I especially like the Black Widow idea that is given (as well as the website where to find it) because that is a scary costume not many people think of but can still be very sexy.

Sexy Super heroine Costumes for Halloween & Other Nights in Need of Crime Fighting (Kelly Kel--October 6, 2007)
This article gives you the ideas for sexy costumes but what I like about it is also is like a little pep talk for people to help give them the confidence to wear a sexy costume. It gives you tidbits such as making sure you have the right shoes and right hair for whatever heroine who choose, be it Batgirl or Wonder Woman but I do like how it gives you advice to help you feel sexy such as buying the right size which says to me sexy knows no boundaries or isn't just for a specific size. It also encourages you to be confident because if you look uncomfortable then it will show. This is a good article to read to help boost your ego before going out.

Top 10 Fairytale Costumes for Women(Pam Gaulin--September 24, 2007)
This article helps us to get back to the simplicity of costumes by giving you traditional ideas from fairytales to incorporate into your Halloween; for example a great Tinkerbell costume could be a short dress with a cheap pair of fairy wings that you could pick up from any costume store. Or you could try the Wicked Queen and make this simple outfit complete with a sexy black dress, a basket of apples, a crown and of course the Magic Mirror.

Sexy Halloween Costume Ideas for Women: Pop Stars (Aida Ekberg--August 12, 2009)
Another good one from Ekberg this one takes some of the sexiest pop stars from our generation and the older ones to give ideas for what would help make a sexy costume idea. Once again she gives us cheap ideas to help make our costumes unique and sexy such as a black body stocking with a black bikini and boots to complete the idea for Cher. She also gives us ideas for punk rocker Joan Jett that is a simple T-shirt that says something naughty and skinny jeans complete with a leather jacket and make-up. Ekberg even gives us an idea for a sexy Amy Winehouse, which is hard to do since she is not traditionally sexy.

Here are a couple of ideas to have a sexy Halloween costume. Enjoy!