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5 Awesome, Easy and Funny DIY Halloween Costumes featuring our very own Colgate students

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Colgate chapter.

ALERT ALERT! HALLOWEEN IS NEXT THURSDAY! if you have completely forgot to plan out your costume and need some inspiration check out some of these easy, creative and hilarious costumes pulled off by our very own Colgate ladies, many who are on the HerCampus team! check it out 
1. Regina George

 Who doesn’t love Mean Girls ? This year, dress up as the leader of the plastics like Shanen McElhinney’14. All you need to do is buy a simple hanes ribbed tank top, cut two holes in the boobs and wear a bright colored bra. Add some friends and go as the entire female class of North Shore High School.

 

2. Treasure Chest 

This is a hilarious play on words and super easy! Just like Monique Francois’15 and Michelle Rudin’14 did wear either all gold or all black then grab some mardi gras beads, necklaces, jewels, money, plastic jewlery and place it right at the top of a tank top. Ta-da you have your very own treasure chest! watch out for pirates…

 

3. Grapes

Blow up some green or purple balloons and tape them to a monochromatic outfit! Here’s this weeks very own Campus Celebrity Breanna Giovanniello’16 as some cute green grapes! 

4. Rugrats 

This costume will bring you back to your childhood. Rosie Nelson’14 and Shanen McElhinney’14 killed it last year as Lil and Tommy. Grab a group of friends and dress up as the Rugrats cast! just buy a pacifer and wear white shorts and a blue tee shirt and BAM! you are Tommy Pickles in the flesh.

5. Ghost

The most quintessential halloween costume is the sheeted ghost! Buy a white sheet or a shower curtain and go as capser! But don’t forget the mouth hole like Alexis Poindexter Jenkins’14… 

Elena Havas is a Campus Correspondent for Her Campus at Colgate University. She is an English Major with an emphasis in creative writing as well as a Minor in Film and Media Studies. She began blogging for Her Campus in the Spring of 2013. She has made new initiatives to expand Her Campus across Colgate's Campus. She is a native of New York City and some of her interests include life advice, pop culture, women's rights, public policy reform and referring to herself in the third person under her alias notoriously known as "lanes".