Why And How To Dress Up As Female Disney Villains For Halloween?

But what other reasons are there that you may want to do this? For one, dressing up as a villain makes you more original and unique as compared to others who would go with the usual and common Halloween costumes.

This makes dressing up as a villain rather perfect for Halloween. If you want to be different, then you can't go wrong with a Disney villain outfit. A lot of Disney villains are pretty well-known in much the same way that a number of Disney movies are popular and well-loved. As such, you should have no problems being recognized in your chosen Disney villain costume.

Of course, Disney villains aren't always women. There are also male Disney villains and you can also opt to dress up as one of them but that's another article entirely. This article focuses on donning costumes of female Disney villains.

So, how can you dress up as one of the many female Disney villains out there? What are the things that you need in order to look like one of these antagonists? And who are some of these female Disney villains that you can dress up as for Halloween?

With her less than nice personality and her dark ensemble, Maleficent seems to be made for Halloween. Her getup alone looks scary enough with the combination of dark black and purple as well as the way it is cut. She even has the horns to go with it.

Wearing Maleficent's costume should make it easy for you to scare people if that's what you're aiming for. You could add the appropriate makeup and act just like Maleficent to give off that evil and sinister vibe.

Ursula appears as the main antagonist in The Little Mermaid as well as one of the bad guys in the Kingdom Hearts series. She is quite powerful with her magical abilities not to mention rather frightening with her half-human and half-octopus appearance,

Above, you can see images of how Ursula really looks and how scary this can be. Ursula's dark black outfit goes well with her equally dark and manipulative personality while also making this a good choice for a Halloween costume. Of course, since Ursula has octopus-like tentacles instead of legs, it would certainly be pretty difficult to be able to fully dress up as her.

However, the two costumes featured above seem to be doing a good job of looking pretty much just like Ursula. The first outfit doesn't even reach up to the ankles as it instead makes use of a tentacle skirt. The way the tentacles are arranged do make it seem rather real.

The second dress may look more like Ursula since it reaches up to the ankles, making your feet less visible as well as turning people's focus to the large tentacles that is part of this ensemble. The tentacles are connected to the dress itself and they're all in the same direction so there's no movement at all unlike with the first outfit, which gives the illusion that the tentacles can move.

Right away, it's easy to notice that these costumes don't look exactly like how Cruella's getup is supposed to look like. However, these costumes still manage to retain some aspects of Cruella's look (such as the black and white colors and the dalmatian spots), which makes said costumes immediately recognizable as being related to Cruella De Vil.

By donning a fur coat like the one you can see above, you're sure to look more like Cruella regardless of which of these costumes you choose. Wear a wig of Cruella's trademark black and white hair to complete your look.

Her outfit looks regal as befits her status and yet also elegant whilst the colors of her clothing seems to further enhance her appearance. The black color of her outfit seems to represent the darkness surrounding her as she hides her true nature underneath her beautiful looks.  

If you're looking to dress up as someone stunningly beautiful for Halloween and yet still dark and sinister enough to fit the holiday in question, you definitely can't go wrong with choosing The Wicked Queen.

Just like The Evil Queen from Snow White, the Queen of Hearts also does not have a known name and is simply known as the Queen or the Queen of Hearts. She pretty much appears to be mad, crazy and insane especially with the way she is always wont to order people to be beheaded.

Being the ruler of Wonderland, she is indeed powerful as she dominates people and gets them to follow all of her orders, regardless of whether these orders are right or wrong. The red color of her outfit serves to show that not all red things are nice as red, apart from being the color of love, can also be the color of blood.

Below, you can see a costume that is supposed to be that of the Queen of Hearts. However, you can immediately see that this costume doesn't really look like the Queen's dress. Regardless of that, this outfit couldn't possibly be mistaken for anything other than a Queen of Hearts costume by virtue of the hearts on said dress as well as the combination of black and red colors.

If you act like the Queen of Hearts, you're sure to be easily recognizable as portraying the Queen herself especially if you yell her trademark line "off with his / her head".

Image Sources:

• The female Disney Villains image above was modified by Ceres Schwarz
• The original, unedited image is by CamEvans, CC:BY, via flickr