{"id":9014,"date":"2012-10-08T11:51:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T18:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=9014"},"modified":"2012-10-08T11:51:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T18:51:34","slug":"great-kids-halloween-costumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/great-kids-halloween-costumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Halloween Costumes Without Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/haloco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last year we saw less masks as cute kids wearing Halloween costumes trick-or-treated in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/california-halloween-city-events.html\">their favorite haunts<\/a>&#8211;community downtowns, trunk or treats and neighborhoods. Youtube videos have helped average people create dynamic effects with how-to instructions on applying makeup and commercial websites such as Party World also offer useful videos showing how to mix and match costume props and use makeup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012 Halloween costume trends:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Girls<\/strong> still want to be princesses and Disney characters such the brave, skilled archer, Merida(Disney\/Pixar), who wears gowns.\u00a0 Butterflies, angels with wings and lots of sparkly, magic wands dominate the girl scene.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pre-teen to teen girls<\/strong>: Monster High- Frankiestein, Draculaura and Clawdeen Wolf offer great starting points for costumes, plus Lady Gaga and other female celebrites.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boys<\/strong> can become classic action heroes such as Batman, Spider Man, Superman, Transformer or Jake and the Never Land. They also continue to like Ninja and karate style costumes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pre-teen to teen boys<\/strong> like ghosts, goblins, pirates, vampires and monsters. They&#8217;re pretty easy to please when it comes to costumes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Women\u00a0<\/strong> this year will continue to pick costumes to accentuate their best assets by choosing sexy vixens, bar maids, cats,\u00a0 and form fitting costumes. Other options include being a board game such as Twister, or female vampires, witches and costumes that make use of incredible makeup designs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Men <\/strong>who go beyond the Mitt or Barack mask continue to like pirates, zombies, decades (50s-80s), horror, and lots of leather and daggers. (Be careful when and where you unveil your outfit. A costume shop employee in San Mateo last week\u00a0 was pulled over by police because he was wearing a gas mask and camouflage costume. His fake grenade was examined and he was let go. Happy Halloween!)<\/li>\n<li type=\"_moz\"><strong>Group or couples costumes<\/strong> include movies such as Wizard of Oz, gods &amp; goddesses, hippies, pimp,and era themes such as Sony &amp; Cher&#8211;a couples collection that appears nearly every year!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we saw less masks as cute kids wearing Halloween costumes trick-or-treated in their favorite haunts&#8211;community downtowns, trunk or treats and neighborhoods. Youtube videos have helped average people create dynamic effects with how-to instructions on applying makeup and commercial websites such as Party World also offer useful videos showing how to mix and match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}