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The Most Popular Halloween Costume Trends This Year

Fancy dress and make-up predictions for the spook-tacular day

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25 October 2018

Most Popular Halloween Costume Trends This Year

Over the next week we’re going to be surrounded by spook-tacular costumes and glamoween makeup, but what does it take to be the best dressed ghoul?!

In 2016, by far the most popular costume for women was Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad with her pink and blue pigtails, and there were plenty of ironic Donald Trumps around last year –so what’s going to be big on All Hallows’ Eve this year?

According to the experts, these are going to be the biggest Halloween trends of 2018

Matching costumes

According to the trend forecasters, we’re going to be seeing lots of matching costumes this year, with 5,700 options available on the retail site.

For grown-ups that means couples going as a witch and wizard, or taking the easy option with T-shirts that say things like, ‘Mr and Mrs Zombie’ or ‘Pumpking and Pumpqueen’.

For little ones, that means adorable Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm outfits or any of a variety of culinary pairings like salt and pepper, ketchup and mustard or little sushi rolls.

Matching costumes

Pinterest

Spooky Tattoos

Spooky tattoos will be big this year, but only fake ones of course, with a 28% increase in searches for ‘temporary custom tattoo’ recently and over 2,000 search results for Halloween designs.

Pinterest has seen an 85% increase in searches for temporary tattoos in the last year, with thousands of results on both sites, from pumpkins and spider webs to realistic looking skeletons and skulls.

Looking for something a bit more modern? You can also get face tattoos and go as the divisive American singer Post Malone.

Spooky Tattoos

Skeleton temporary tattoos from Etsy seller TattoosbyFrenzyFlare (Etsy/PA)

Glam transformations

Last year saw sales of lashes at Halloween overtake sales at Christmas for the first time ever! Glitter sales also increased by 300% and ghoulish cosmetics, from exclusive brand Revolution, by 69%.

As glamorous Halloween make-up is expected to be just as popular this year especially. You can expect to see a lot of sparkly looks like crystal skulls, mermaids, bejewelled dragons and a glitter zips.

Glam transformations

(Superdrug/PA)

Skull make-up

Mexican sugar skull designs has become very popular in recent years and Pinterest reports searches for ‘skull make-up’ have gone up 40% compared to last year, so that trend looks set to stick around.

Skull make-up

Pinterest

Classic costumes

While some people want to be topical or trendy with their choice of Halloween disguise, some creepy costumes never go out of style.

Pinterest says that searches for ‘witches’ have increased by 45% year on year and ‘zombies’ by 55% so expect to see plenty more broom-wielding women and undead beings marauding the streets when October 31 rolls around.

Classic costumes

Pinterest