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OK, cheesy song lyrics aside, Cheerleader Costumes Melbourne are great fun and are perfect for almost any fancy dress occasion from birthday parties to Halloween.  If you do have a Halloween costume in mind, you could always go for a crazy ghost or zombie twist – for zombies, you will want to experiment with either plenty of gray/white face paints and fake blood, or perhaps a zombie mask.  Ghost cheerleaders can be achieved with white face paint and stacks of talc in the hair – you could always get your boyfriend to come along as Michael Myers (Halloween) for an extra creepy touch.

Another great way to do ‘cheerleader’ this year is for a group of you to get together and come as an entire cheerleading squad!  This is also a great option for Hen nights, and is guaranteed to turn some heads wherever you go.  Maybe you could look for costumes in your school or colleges colours – if you do go down this route though, you might want to have a couple of cheers prepared for later in the

Fancy dress is a great way to liven up a fun occasion – perhaps a birthday or anniversary party, staff leaving do or graduation party.  Recent years have even seen fancy dress weddings!  The great thing is that the variety of fancy dress costumes is now so wide that you really are limited only by your imagination.

One really fun thing to do is to have a theme party, which can also be helpful in that it gives people an idea of what they’re looking for in their outfit.  Movie nights, such as James Bond or the currently massively popular Suicide Squad are great for getting people’s imaginations to run wild, and you can also have great fun creating movie themed food and drinks to add to the atmosphere.  If film isn’t your thing though, there are still plenty of options – book characters such as Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter or Where’s Wally are all just as much fun for adults as they are children.

Of course, plenty of people prefer free reign if they’re getting to dress up, and

Zombies – there are so many options for zombie costumes here, there’s no way for the genre to get old.  While you could always go for the good, old fashioned classic zombie look (which is always a winner), there are plenty of other routes to go down if you want to do something different.

Perhaps you might want to try zombie-fying one of your favourite characters?  Alice in Wonderland (sometimes known as Malice in Horrorland in this much creepier incarnation) is a good choice, but you could even go as ‘out there’ as turning up as zombie Mario or Luigi.   It would definitely be a little bit different!

Of course, the great thing about zombie costumes is that if you’re a little bit creative you can have endless fun with masks, face paints and contact lenses to make your outfit as authentically scary as you want.  There are some incredible stage make up tutorials doing the rounds on YouTube which mean that achieving a really professional (and terrifying) look is far more achievable than

Halloween has grown so much in popularity that options for Halloween Costumes are now almost limitless.  Although the standard scary costumes still top the list, there are plenty of options if you would like to try something a little different.

Ladies might like to try one of the new and very on trend Harley Quinn costumes, although there are plenty of other possibilities – some of the Day of the Dead costumes on offer now are stunning, and offer the opportunity to play around with as many (or as few) accessories as you would like.  They can be teamed with intricate masks, face paints and wigs or left as they are if you feel like being more conservative.  If you fancy something more subtly sexy, you could try one of the Arabian Genie costumes – they require very little in the way of accessories, all you need is a bit of smoky eye make-up and you’re good to go.

The great news is that guys are far better catered for than ever before when it comes to costumes now, too.  Gone are the

Oktoberfest has become one of the biggest costume occasions on the Australian calendar. What started as a two-week beer festival in Munich now fills pub gardens, function centres and backyards across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and beyond every September and October. If you have been invited to an Oktoberfest party, or you are hosting one yourself, getting the costume right is half the fun. Here is a practical guide to picking an Oktoberfest costume that suits your budget, your comfort level and how big an entrance you want to make.

Why Oktoberfest Costumes Have Become So Popular

Oktoberfest in Munich runs for around sixteen days and draws millions of visitors who come for the beer tents, the traditional food and the atmosphere. Australians have taken the concept and run with it, turning Oktoberfest into an excuse for a themed party almost anywhere there is a pub garden or a marquee. Part of the appeal is that the dress code is instantly recognisable: lederhosen for the men, dirndls for

Halloween keeps growing in Australia every year, and with it comes the yearly question: what should you actually wear? Between scary classics, family-friendly options and costumes built around whatever movie or show everyone is talking about, there is a lot to choose from. Here is a rundown of the main types of Halloween costumes Australians wear each October, along with some tips for picking the right one for your night.

Classic Scary Costumes

The scary category is where Halloween started and it is still the most popular choice for adults. Zombie costumes remain one of the most requested looks every year — partly because they are easy to personalise. A zombie soldier, a zombie doctor or a zombie bride all use the same base idea (torn, dirtied clothing plus pale, bloodied makeup) but end up looking completely different depending on the props and details you add. Witches, vampires and the classic Grim Reaper style are close behind in popularity, largely because they work for almost any body

Out of many costumes trending in the fashion world, one of the most popular and demanded costume is the zombie costume. Zombies are fictitious character with dead brain. Thus, to appear as a zombie, mostly during Halloween, to scare people, folks use zombie costume. Zombie costumes are the imitation of the dress worn by a zombie. There are different types of zombie dresses that you can choose to wear while going to a party. Different types of zombie dresses are characterised by the personality you want to reflect. If you want to appear as a soldier who died in a war, you should be a soldier zombie. A soldier zombie wears the army dress which is torn at different places.

You can buy different types of zombie costumes online from the market. If you do not want to buy them from the online stores, you can even design your own zombie costumes. To do that, you should first decide what you want to be. Take any dress and tear it at different places to make it look like a zombie dress. You can use

There are different types of movie that are trending in the box office.  Some of them don’t just win the people with the story, but along with the movie even the dress worn by the movie star also becomes popular. One of the simple examples of the movie costumes that got popular after the release of movie, is the pirate costume after the movie Pirates of Caribbean. The actor of the movie Jack Sparrow (played by Johnny Depp) and his dress got popular. Apart from that, the dress of the movie Terminator got very popular along with the movie (also made famous by the punch line 'I will be back'). These were some examples of movies which made an impact on the dress sense of people. Let us know some of the movie costumes that are trending in 2016.

1. Alice in Wonderland Costume: This is the costume that came after the movie Alice in the Wonderland. The dress is characterised with blue skirt. The dress is available for different ages of girls. This dress can be worn by girls of any age. It makes

Pirate costume is one of the popular fancy dress costumes which people from different age and sex love to wear during fancy dress party. The concept of pirate costume came into popularity and people loved it after the Jack Sparrow from Pirates of Caribbean was cast with the pirate costume in the movie. He was shown in the movie with the shirt, coat, hat, eye-patch, and rugged boot. His costume was so popular that after the movie, that dress became popular as the pirate costume in the fashion market. If you are planning to wear this one in your party, make sure you get it well before the party.

If you don’t want to buy the pirate costume, but instead you want to develop it on your own, it is also possible. You have to make sure that you have some spare shirt and coat for this. Design the collar of the shirt in the way it exactly replicates the design of pirate shirt. You have to create similar design in the sleeves end as well. After you do that, make sure that you use old torn coat to

If you are planning to go to a fancy dress party, there are few things that you have to remember. Do you want to go to the party wearing what you wore last year or you want to try something new? If you want to try something new in the market, you should either try the queen of hearts costume or scarecrow costume. If you are a guy, you can try to wear some top class movie costume like that of power rangers or you can also choose to be the Superhero by wearing the superhero costume. However, whatever you decide to wear there are two things you should be sure about: the first one is that the dress is comfortable for you and the second one is it should look good on you. You should not just wear the costume because it is trending. Make sure it looks good on you as well.

If you are tall and want to look like a royal person, I would suggest you to wear the queen of sexy hearts costume. The main reason to call it queen of hearts costume is that the dress has the print of queen of hearts.  However,