Forget spending way too much money on way too little fabric for a sexy-something Halloween costume. Instead, use materials you most likely have around the house for these ultra-creative pop culture costume ideas.
Ryan Lochte
If you want to look like a 101 Cantina staple, you’ll need: a Speedo, black eyeliner and aluminum foil.
1. Put on your favorite Speedo. The more obnoxious the print, the better.
2. If you aren’t blessed with Ryan Lochte-level abs, create your own with black eyeliner. No one will know the difference.
3. Rip a small strip of aluminum foil off your nearest roll, and place it on your teeth for Lochte’s fashion-forward grill.
4. Smile like the UF alumnus and Olympian you are!
“Fifty Shades of Grey”
If you want to look like housewives’ favorite erotic novel, you’ll need: a copious amount of gray clothing and accessories and silver eye makeup.
1. Pile on all the gray you own — hat, shirt, shoes, socks, jacket, etc.
2. If you are feeling particularly festive, put some silver eyeshadow and eyeliner for additional shades of gray. (We’re going for 50 here, people.)
“Binders full of women”
If you want to look like the Internet’s favorite presidential debate punch line, you’ll need: a magazine, scissors, three silver bracelets and tape
1. Dress up in one basic color. Black is preferable, because most likely, the binder was not neon pink.
2. Cut out all the women featured in the magazine of your choice and tape them all over your outfit.
3. Put a bracelet on your wrist, elbow and bicep to create the three rings of your binder.
“Honey Boo Boo” Child
If you want to look like a “beautimous” redneck, you’ll need: a formal dress, makeup, toilet paper, a stapler and a bottle of Mountain Dew.
1. Put on your formal dress and plaster your face with an amount of makeup that makes you almost unrecognizable.
2. If Alana can celebrate her parents’ anniversary with toilet paper, it’s only fair that you celebrate Halloween with some. Create a beauty pageant sash out of toilet paper, and staple the bottom together. Feel free to write the label of your choice on it. Bonus points if you have a tiara and a toy pig lying around.
3. Label your bottle of Mountain Dew as “Go-Go Juice.”
4. Make up words, and assert them with every ounce of sass you have.
