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Inside Out Halloween Costumes For 2024

The best part about these Inside Out character costumes is, there's a good chance you already have a lot of the materials you need to dress up as each character at home. That means all you’ll need are an extra piece here or there to buy or DIY (that should make you jump for Joy).

How to Make an Inside Out Anger Costume

Bryan, our Director of Video, is channeling his best scowl and slouchy posture. To get the foundation of this look, all you need is a pair of brown pants, a white button-down dress shirt and a gray tie.

Flaming Headpiece: Measure the circumference of your head with a piece of tape, then use that tape to cut out a headband made of glitter foam paper. For Bryan, I used two pieces glued together, and then trimmed off the rest. To create flames, cut out flame shapes on gold glitter foam paper as your base, then add a few red glitter foam flames on top in whatever fire pattern you like.

Makeup + Eyebrows: You could use face paint if you want, but I actually just used red eyeshadow on Bryan, which feels way more comfortable and tends to be easier to wear without smudging it. The eyebrows are also made from the red glitter foam paper and stuck on using eyelash glue.

The Tie: To get the design on the tie, use painter’s tape to lay a zigzag pattern across the tie, then spray paint the tie red. If you happen to find a tie that has a similar color scheme and print and you would rather keep it simple, then you can skip this step.

Make An Inside Out DIY Fear Costume

Our Associate Editor Sean can’t be any cuter! I mean!?!? To recreate Fear, grab a pair of dark purple skinny pants, a light blue dress shirt, a red bow tie and a pair of black or dark gray dress shoes.

Hair Curl + Eyebrows: Use glitter foam paper to cut out the curlycue hair piece. To keep it standing up straight, glue a toothpick on the backside of the swirl and attach to your hair using bobby pins.

Makeup: First, draw circles around your eyes using white eyeliner, then fill them in with white face paint. Add a little dark gray or black smudgy eyeliner and some mascara to make your eyes pop. Then grab a purple eyeshadow that has red undertones in it and stipple (aka gently tap) the product onto the rest of your face with a kabuki makeup brush. Make sure you’re careful not to get shadow on the white makeup. Again, you can use face paint, but it tends to be a little more high maintenance to keep in tact all night.

Houndstooth Vest: If you can find a vest or sweater that you can cut into a vest, that’s the best route. I couldn’t find one anywhere, so instead I had to make it. Good news: It’s super easy to do. Grab houndstooth fabric, fold it in half over your body (be sure to cut out a place for your head!) and then draw lines on the fabric with chalk to mark the width of your body. Take the fabric off, flip inside out, then sew a half inch beyond where you marked — and leave room to make holes for your arms! You can always find a pattern to DL for something a little easier :)

How to Make a DIY Inside Out Joy Costume

Marisa is the perfect Joy! Our Junior Designer is always walking around the office with the biggest smile on her face, and it didn’t stop here. For the base of this Inside Out character costume, grab a yellow dress and a pair of nude shoes. We found this dress at a thrift store!

THAT Hair: Now, you can buy a wig that is similar to this cut, but I am always an advocate for styling your own wig because it looks more natural. This originally was a light teal bob wig — I used a hair razor (you can find one at your local beauty supply store) to hack the sides off and to create the little stand-up hairs on the top of her head. Use a little wax on the ends of the hairs on top and on the side of your face to really drive up the look.

Makeup: Simple: Go with a heavy teal eyeliner or eyeshadow to help the wig pop.

The Dress: Nab a couple teal blue and dark blue paint pens from your local art store to draw the flowers. I just eyeballed the design from the cartoon and drew the flower pattern on the dress using teal for the petals and then dark blue to outline then for a more defined, professional finish.

How to Make an Inside Out Disgust Costume

I was not sure if it was a compliment or tease when Anj, our Creative Director, told me “OMG you will be the BEST at being Disgust” (hmmm… haha). Regardless, it was SO fun to wear this outfit for the day! The dress is from a thrift store as well as the belt (I got SO lucky finding almost an exact match). You can always get a green belt and add a white or lighter line down the middle with paint if you want to be really true to details.

Hair + Makeup: I found this sparkly green wig at a costume shop and cut a couple of inches off so it was the same length as the character’s. Green eyelashes are clutch — grab ’em while you’re at the costume store, too! For your eyebrows, use white eyeliner to fill them in and then use an angled eyebrow brush to brush on green eyeshadow so they match your eyelashes and wig. Finish off the look with orchid lipstick and practice your most gnarly facial expressions and you are set!

Scarf: Buy a quarter yard of a sparkly light purple tulle and cut it to the right length to tie around your neck.

The Dress: You can use white fabric paint and a paint brush or paint pens to draw on the splattered, floral-like pattern.

Shoes: I could not for the life of me find fuchsia shoes anywhere, so I bought a pair of flats and spray painted them.

Make A DIY Inside Out Sadness Costume

This is MY personal favorite character from Inside Out without a doubt, and I think a fan favorite across the board IRL as well. Sadness steals your heart in the first flick, and our DIY intern Brittany (aka BGriff) stole mine with her perfect channeling of this charismatic little gem of a character. All you need to recreate the look is blue tights, flat shoes and an oversized gray cowl neck sweater (super stoked to have found the perfect one at a thrift store — score!).

Makeup: This makeup is really simple: only add mascara and blue lipstick. The most important part here is to practice your pout! It is too good!!!

The Hair: This wig is the blue version of the green wig Disgust is wearing, only it needed to be cut much shorter to fit the look. Use hair wax to style the bangs over to the side and along the ends of the wig so it looks more natural.

Big Glasses: Use a small glass to trace circles on black glitter foam paper and another slightly smaller glass to make the center circle. Cut them out and attach using eyelash glue at the bridge of your nose.

We couldn’t resist!

Obvs this is the perfect set of costumes for groups of all kinds. You can get everyone in on the action — get a group of the neighborhood kids together and be the show stopping group of the ‘hood with your minis rocking these looks, too!

The Easiest Halloween Costumes, Like, Ever

Baywatch

Still daydreaming about summer? Just grab your favorite swimsuit! Heck, feel free to ditch trick or treating in favor of the pool if it's still warm in your neck of the woods.

The Gang From Saved By The Bell

Go solo or get the whole fam involved in this costume. Kelly's mom jeans, Screech's button downs, and Zach's tees are totally easy to replicate.

Cassie Howard from Euphoria

Grab just about any two piece you can find to rock this Halloween costume — as long as it's blue. Pull your hair into a high pony and slather on some lip gloss and you're ready to go.

Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" Music Video

Any amount of black, leather, or metallic detail will get you ready for battle — er, Halloween night. Go solo as the popstar herself, or turn it into a group costume!

Sushi

Get ready to be the talk of your Halloween party. Fabric, pillows, and paint are all you need to make this ensemble, and when you're ready to relax, ditch the details and hang out in your t-shirt dress.

Fanta Girls

This costume is extra fun because you can take the monochromatic look in different directions for different occasions. Colored pencils, lip gloss tubes, Sharpies. Feel free to keep your hair simple and swap the boots for your favorite sneakers.

Lightning and Thunder

Get your bestie, your baby, or your partner in on this DIY costume. Just grab some fabric paint, glitter, and cotton balls and you're ready to craft.

Cady And The Plastics From Mean Girls

Not only are these outfits iconic, but they're totally easy to replicate. The more pink the better!

The Statue of Liberty

In honor of the Big Apple, DIY this costume with easy-to-slip-off accessories that will fit in your purse.

Offred From The Handmaid's Tale

This is one of the easiest costumes you'll ever make: All you need is a bonnet and a cape. Sweatpants underneath are encouraged.

DIY Scarecrow

Break out your go-to pair of overalls and your fave flannel and you've got yourself a Halloween costume.

Carl and Ellie from Up

Not only are the pieces for this costume super easy to find, but look how cute the finished product is! Wear it for Halloween now, and a trip to Disney World later.

The Dress

Pay homage to this pop culture sensation with a DIY version. In case you're wondering, these dresses really are two different colors.

Marty McFly from Back To The Future

Do you have a plaid shirt, vest, and jean jacket? Then you have exactly what you need for this easy Halloween costume. Easy as a piece of Lou's Cafe pie.

Lorelai and Rory from Gilmore Girls

We can't decide whether the best part of this costume is the skirt and boot combo, or the fact that it gives you an excuse to drink coffee all night long.

Seb and Mia from La La Land

City of stars, are you shining just for me? Don't worry, you don't need to be good at dancing or playing the piano to rock this costume.

Baby and Deborah From Baby Driver

This costume is easy enough that anyone can replicate it. We'd recommend check out our Spotify for iPod playlist ideas.

Dancer Emoji

Leotards, LBDs, or a tee and short combo work great for this easy costume.

Olivia Rodrigo

If you already have some y2k style in your closet, then you'll be able to pull this star's style off without a hitch. If you don't want to commit to a face full of stickers, try drawing one or two on with makeup instead.

Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen

These twins are cute, iconic, and a great excuse to break out the shortalls.

Carmen from Carmen Sandiego

Grab everything from your closet that's red. You're gonna need it.

Eleven from Stranger Things

A pink dress and a jean jacket are all you need to defeat the Demagorgen this Halloween. Don't worry, you don't need to shave your head, but Eggo boxes are definitely encouraged!

Waldo and Wenda from Where's Waldo?

Keep these shirts in the back of your closet — you can use them again later this year as candy canes!

Barbie

There are plenty of Barbie costumes you can create in a pinch. Sailor Barbie (striped shirt), Jumpsuit Barbie (a pink jumpsuit), or even one of the humans in the film (your go-to blouse with a surprised yet awestruck expression). All you really need is pink!

Elvis and Priscilla

You and your partner can be this power couple, or you can fly solo as Priscilla, either way is iconic. Even after the release of Elvis and Priscilla, this costume is buzzy!

Veronica, Archie, and Betty from Riverdale

These outfits make for a great group costume and you can make use of the dresses you haven't had an excuse to wear in awhile.

Marilyn Monroe

Pick any of these looks for a costume that will turn heads, or wear them all as a big group costume!

Halloween Masks

If you're still not feeling an all-out costume, try one of these masks to liven up your look! They're still fun, but require very low commitment.

Bank Robber

This costume will steal the spotlight wherever you go.

Vampire

What's more classic than a vampire?

But even Larson has days she feels off, saying she knows that feeling "very well," and whether it's seasonal blues or mental health days, she knows routine is where she thrives — and seasonal affective disorder lamps. "Light is a big game changer for me because I grew up in California," she says.

To engage her other senses, she relies on movement, breathing techniques, and temperature changes to keep in touch with her body. "A hot bath, a cold shower, both — anything that sort of wakes your brain up and kind of jolts it," she says. "I have a pretty demanding schedule and I truly don't have room to not feel like I'm present in my life. And so you come up with ways to figure out how to do that."

That includes everything from drinking plenty of water and prioritizing sleep to packing foam rollers and bands in her carry on. "It looks like a clown bag!" she says. "I always do [those exercises] every morning because even if I don't want to do it, which I always don't want to do it, I feel a lot better after I do it."

Admittedly, that's exactly how I feel some days about making breakfast — but a powerhouse like Larson knows how important fueling our bodies is. "Pretty consistently I'm having an egg, like a breakfast sandwich, egg on toast first thing in the morning," she says. "I can't think beyond that for breakfast because I wake up so early. It's like there's no creativity happening in the morning. I'm sorry. No."

And while her mornings are all about wellness, her evenings are all about getting cozy, and she tells me her dream night in includes playing a new video game, wearing Gelato Pique sweatpants, and ordering Thai food. But when she's in the kitchen? "I've been making pasta and sausage quite a bit and I make tacos quite a bit. I mean, I kind of just do like protein and veggies and a little bit of a carb," she says.

Cozy nights in wouldn't be the same without a movie, and there's a very good chance you've seen Larson on your screen recently, whether you're rewatching Captain Marvel, 13 Going on 30, or Lessons in Chemistry. But how does the actress consistently choose such beautiful, inspiring pieces to work on? She equates the feeling to having a crush.

"When I feel like [a story] hits something that lives so truthfully in me that I just want to know if it's true to other people," she says. "I just know that we all have more that's the same than different...Film and television, it lives in a way that is beyond me physically. So I'm here talking to you, but anybody can be watching whatever they want. And so I try my best to think through what the pieces are saying so that they go out in the world and I don't get to be at the end of it and explain it or tell people what to feel or what to take from it. It lives a life outside of me. So I try and make sure that it has a complete message in it that I feel like I'll be able to live with for the rest of my life."

Just like Carol Danvers and Elizabeth Zott empower so many viewers, Brie Larson says she feels empowered by her own Hollywood heroes. "Earlier in my career, like when I was trying to visualize what kind of career I wanted, it was Toni Colette and she's still a hero of mine, but she was truly the one that I was like, 'I want to disappear into characters the way she does.'"

"There's so many incredible [actors]," she continues. "Some of them are people that are more my age and some are older than me. But that's the fun part of my job is that there's so many good people and so many things that are getting made. And so it just feels like we're constantly kind of maneuvering, and when they take on certain roles and represent certain things, it frees up for other people to do other things. And so we kind of all work as a unit."

One movie on the horizon that I'm excited for is Mattel's new American Girl movie. Like many 80s and 90s kids, Brie Larson loved American Girl dolls — and borrowed her stage name from pioneer Kirsten Larson! And just like the rest of us AG kids, she tells me she can't wait for the movie. "I've also seen that there's going to be adult Halloween costumes, which I'm also very excited about," she says. Will she be grabbing a Kirsten one for herself? "I just might!"

Q+A With Brie Larson

What's the first thing you did after you won your Oscar?

I probably drank champagne...I drank champagne and I put sneakers on, and then I went to the airport.

What's the best piece of advice you've received?

"When I think I know, I miss so much." We all get stuck in these things — I think an easy one to think about is like, you're in a fight with your sibling or your partner, and you are just so right in how angry you are. And then maybe the next day you wake up and you're like, "Maybe there was another side to that." And so we miss things when we're in a space where we believe that we know. Having an openness to what something can be or that things can be different than what you think makes things easier.

What's on your holiday bucket list?

I love the holidays. Because I'm in California, I really am looking forward to this year having a chilly winter. I love a cold winter, cozy winter. I love Christmas markets, so I'll definitely hit things like that. All the little holiday markets pop up around, yeah, it's just like a rare time when everybody is resting at the same time.

What are you watching, reading and listening to right now?

Okay. I am reading a book called Patricia Wants To Cuddle. I am watching Love is Blind season 7 because I am not silly. And listening to Chappell Roan, obviously.