If you’re a college-age girl, chances are you’ve already strutted your stuff wearing the all-black-outfit-plus-a-headband excuse for a “cat” costume more than once. Among the many valuable life lessons we learned from Mean Girls is that any costume can be made sexy. This year, leave your bunny ears at home, and opt for something that no one else will be wearing!
1. Sexy Guy Fieri
Because who doesn’t love the Food Network?
2. Sexy Harambe
Bonus points if you DIY a furry bra.
3. Sexy Baby
When you’re sad that you can’t be “Risky Business” since you did that last year, but you still REALLY want an excuse to not wear pants.
4. Sexy Avocado Toast
Everyone knows avo-toast is the most beloved food among grammers. Recreate your most-liked foodstagram and who knows? You might even break your like record!
5. Sexy Emoji
Props to you if you choose the poop one. Bold.
6. Sexy Shrek
Who says ogres can’t be sexy?
7. Sexy *insert Disney princess here*
Bring back (and possibly ruin) a beloved childhood classic for everyone.
8. Sexy Red Solo Cup
You owe it to the solo cup after all of the cover-it-with-an-emoji instas you posted in high school.
9. Sexy 2007 Britney Spears
Bald caps go for about $3, which makes this a perfectly college budget-friendly option.
10. Sexy Solar System
Those galaxy-print leggings that you thought were really cute in 9th grade that you had since banished to the bottom of your drawer because you realized how embarrassing they actually were? Time to bring ‘em back out.
11. Sexy Hobo
Is this entirely insulting and offensive? Absolutely. But you already had the black knee-highs left over from the “cat” costume and your ex-boyfriend’s flannel that you “forgot” to give back, so it just seemed like fate.
12. Sexy Minnie Mouse
The “cat” ensemble’s slightly-less-basic cousin.
13. Sexy Princess Peach
Score points with all the ~gamer guys~
14. Sexy Rotunda
It’s already one of the most alluring architectural miracles in existence, so this shouldn’t be difficult.
If all else fails, in the words of Cady Heron, just wear “lingerie and some form of animal ears.” Just please, for the love of God, do NOT be a cat.