{"id":2405,"date":"2016-10-06T05:34:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T11:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cuchicago.edu\/spectator\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2016-10-06T05:34:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T11:34:25","slug":"never-too-early-to-think-about-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/?p=2405","title":{"rendered":"Never too early to think about Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Halloween coming up right around the corner, I know many people are anticipating the day they get to show off their spooky, stylish, cute, and one of kind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halloweencity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halloween costumes<\/a>. It\u2019s the time we get to go to parties dressed up as something we\u2019ve always wanted to be. Many people buy their costumes a few days before Halloween, but as many of us are college students, we know that buying a costume from Halloween City might not exactly fit in our budget. So lets talk about Halloween now and some \u201cdo it yourself\u201d (DIY) Halloween costumes for those who either want to be creative, or save a few bucks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Girls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Halloween for some girls is a time when they want to dress up, look cute, and take a lot of cute pictures. So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cwD2J6hL-NA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> is a video for the girly girls that might not want to go through all the trouble to find a costume. The DIY costumes in this video include: a rocker chick, a hippie, a cop, a Victoria\u2019s secret model, and a pirate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s be scary Ladies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know there are many girls who love going for a scary Halloween look, but also know that it is a lot of work to give yourself that \u201crisen from the dead\u201d look. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pb8RAW3sjYQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This<\/a> is a video of an extremely easy, scary makeup look to satisfy those needs. The fake blood used in this video was something the creator made from home, so this look can be achieved by using home products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the Guys<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alright, so guys don&#8217;t have as many materials to work with when it comes to being creative and innovative with their Halloween costumes, so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dP1gR3YcByE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> is a video with 8 quick and easy DIY costume tutorials for the guys. The costumes in this video include: A ninja turtle, an egg, a road, a monkey, baked potato, a movie theater floor, a tourist, and a bulletin board. Here\u2019s to hoping your attempts at these costumes will come out a little better than the creators of this video!<\/p>\n<p>Alright, now there we have our DIY Halloween costumes for both men and women. I hope you guys found something that caught your eye during this Halloween season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Halloween coming up right around the corner, I know many people are anticipating the day they get to show off their spooky, stylish, cute, and one of kind Halloween costumes. It\u2019s the time we get to go to parties dressed up as something we\u2019ve always wanted to be. Many people buy their costumes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}