Would BEYONCE approve your Halloween costume?
thank the Bey-ity before you sleep tonight (sorry.)
To begin, I come from a place that couldn’t give a fuck about Halloween. Going back to my mum’s for a bit, there was an M&S food leaflet that had come in the mail and Christmas snowflakes, turkey and a cold festive cheer was already being anticipated. October isn’t even over and the shops have already moved on to the red and white holiday. I can’t really blame them. A lot of the scenery that makes Halloween seem scary for Americans is just an average day in the UK. There were many days I was on the train or walking to school where I was engrossed in fog, the rain fell heavy and the entire world looked grey. But at least we have Greggs!
After being told by a dumb guy that I have befriended that I shouldn’t wear a Spiderman costume if my friend doesn’t come as Metro Boomin for our joint ‘WE DON’T TRUST YOU’ album costume (I’m Future because I’m taller and only I’m brave enough to wear a tank top and suspenders in the club), it got me thinking about Halloween costumes in general and the types I’d genuinely be excited to see, as well as the ones which I never want to see again. Here’s a comprehensive list of the outfits I think would be impressive enough for the all seeing Illuminati Beyoncé to acknowledge!
I NEVER WANT TO SEE THEM AGAIN (but I probably will…)
Steve Harvey cosplays.
Joint costumes with guys where they literally just wear a mask like they’re a part of a MV with three video vixens that look eerily similar to 2017 Daily Duppy participants
Prison inmate (tired and overused)
Police officer
Couple costumes that are basically just roleplaying in front of us. We get it, you’re gonna get some, I don’t know why I’m involved…
It is 2024, we can move past this…
any variation of ‘cat’, ‘mouse’, ‘dog’ that doesn’t have more than just eyeliner on the face
‘Patrick Bateman’ but they’re literally just wearing a suit in the club
wearing normal clothes and saying a random character because yk damn well…
If omnipotent Beyonce were to see these costumes in public, I think she’d either just leave you alone because your lack of effort isn’t worth her time OR she’d use her laser eyes to obliterate you then and there. Maybe some random person would remember you but eventually their lack of evidence of your existence would cause them to cease mention of you and successfully join the crowd that you don’t exist. I get that some people are just lazy with costuming but let’s be so fr, if you’re going to be lazy, be lazy all the way. Why are you trying to convince me that you’re some 2000s horror film icon when you’re literally wearing absolutely nothing for costuming?
I love them, but I understand why people don’t wear it often.
Casca from Berserk/most anime girl characters
Aliya Will's Casca costume/cosplay is something that I always love to see. Berserk is quite high in male readership and although I am a big fan of Miura’s work, I can understand why people cannot get into it due to some of its plot points. Arguably, the worst of its plots are to communicate an extra fall of humanity scenario and the greatest evils consuming the world through Griffith, justifying it. After a certain point, as someone who read from its first chapter in 1989 to post Miura death and Kouji Mori succession for the continuation of the manga (pausing my reading in 2023), it feels unnecessarily cruel to everyone involved and bleak to read on. Unfortunately, there are people who see this cruelty not only as justified but enjoyable, to the point they actively harass the people who cosplay characters such as Casca and it’s disgusting. This is an issue with Casca cosplayers mostly, but not limited to other women who decide to dress up as female anime characters. For that reason, whilst I love seeing the costumes and references to anime, I understand why people would shy away from it.
Anything to do with religious/spiritual figures/angels/devils
The blasphemy allegations are enough to deter a strong few from dressing up as Gods/spiritual figures, although I do love to see what people can do when they really put effort into these costumes. None of that headband rubbish, I’m talking body FX levels of effort!
Costumes that require glitter
cleaning hazard.
If the omniscient illuminati Beyoncé saw these costumes, I think she’d be happy if effort had truly been taken into it and she’d exile whoever tries to take away the joy of these looks!
Specific looks I want to see
Claudia de Pointe du Lac.
I just think that the show version of Claudia deserves a bunch of women dressing up as her specifically because she didn’t get to have the privilege of being turned at a more mature age. It’s the biggest grapple of her character that isolates her and I think someone as badass as her deserves to be a big costume theme. With the mardi gras outfit, I get that people would probably veer away from it because of the amount of layers/seemingly effort that would be needed but after seeing cutcreaser ’s cosplay breakdown of her Claudia outfit on TikTok, I beg to differ! The outfit is relatively simple (a white cotton nightgown with a white bodice) and is basically done from there, unless you want to add effects like blood. For season two Claudia, just going into a 40s/50s vibe or getting a vintage piece if you’re into that will probably do the trick. The main centerpiece of Claudia’s style mainly derives from her hair, in my opinion, which she styles in 40s/50s pin curls.
Internet references! (to the person who cosplayed Poot, my life is yours <3 )
Word play costumes
Different eras of Beyoncé (not even joking, I think it’d be interesting!)
any Interview with a Vampire costume but ESPECIALLY Claudia and Lestat specifically performing on the French stage
If it’s a house gathering Halloween event, something really inconvenient like dressing up as a Succession or Industry character because I think coming in with smart business uniform and claiming to be Robert Spearing is just hilarious (but anywhere else is just taking the piss)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer but you get an actual original piece that she wore
Chloe Sevigny.
Dune costumes
Twin Peaks characters
any David Lynch character, tbh.
I think all the things listed would be Beyoncé approved (especially the one that’s literally appreciating her) and it would make for an interesting Halloween landscape even in passing. Good costumes truly do last forever, because even if you do something really dumb in the costume, everyone will say that you were obscure and mysterious for a time!
That is all my thoughts (I think?) on Halloween costumes that I’d love to see, understand why I may not and don’t want to see but probably will. I’m probably going to have some kind of Halloween story to tell because I lowkey want to make out with the dumb guy who encouraged this sudden and random blog about Beyoncé and costuming. Later! x