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Zombie:
Old clothes - either already owned or from resale, ripped and worn. Basic makeup (white or green with some shading), mess up hair, and practice walking with a slow unsteady gait and an unfocused stare and you've got a very decent costume for almost nothing.
Vampire:
Fangs that fit over your canines like Scarecrows are great, but you can find a cheaper option at Walgreens for under $10 (they work similarly fitting over the canines - NOT the silly fangs like children get with the hinged piece) if you're trying to stay within a budget. Add some dramatic pale makeup, dressy clothes with some antique-looking (costume) jewelry and some fake blood dripped from the mouth. Of course, with the Twilight series, you could just wear street clothes and put on some body glitter and say "I'm a vampire! Ooooh scary!"
Surgeon/nurse (lots of variations you could do here)
You can find cheap scrubs at places like Garden Ridge or even Walgreens sometimes - but they are easily located in stores near hospitals too. Under $15 in my area. You could do just a regular nice doctor or nurse (finding a toy stethescope should be TOO hard, but it's not essential to the costume).
OR you could be an evil crazy doctor/nurse with blood all over you, evil makeup,
OR you could be a SWINE flu nurse: add a pig nose and one of those big joke shot syringes you should be able to fine at the party stores
Doing something like a time era should also be easy - especially for women since their clothes reflect style changes a bit more than the guys. Local thrift stores might have some cool 70s or 80 things that were popular from the different years...
Old clothes - either already owned or from resale, ripped and worn. Basic makeup (white or green with some shading), mess up hair, and practice walking with a slow unsteady gait and an unfocused stare and you've got a very decent costume for almost nothing.
Vampire:
Fangs that fit over your canines like Scarecrows are great, but you can find a cheaper option at Walgreens for under $10 (they work similarly fitting over the canines - NOT the silly fangs like children get with the hinged piece) if you're trying to stay within a budget. Add some dramatic pale makeup, dressy clothes with some antique-looking (costume) jewelry and some fake blood dripped from the mouth. Of course, with the Twilight series, you could just wear street clothes and put on some body glitter and say "I'm a vampire! Ooooh scary!"
Surgeon/nurse (lots of variations you could do here)
You can find cheap scrubs at places like Garden Ridge or even Walgreens sometimes - but they are easily located in stores near hospitals too. Under $15 in my area. You could do just a regular nice doctor or nurse (finding a toy stethescope should be TOO hard, but it's not essential to the costume).
OR you could be an evil crazy doctor/nurse with blood all over you, evil makeup,
OR you could be a SWINE flu nurse: add a pig nose and one of those big joke shot syringes you should be able to fine at the party stores
Doing something like a time era should also be easy - especially for women since their clothes reflect style changes a bit more than the guys. Local thrift stores might have some cool 70s or 80 things that were popular from the different years...
