What's Halloween without an upbeat costume camaraderie? No charismatic Halloween costumes in your kitty and you're most likely to fall out of the freak-wave that surges through all and sundry during Halloween ! Of course you've heard about getting dressed to kill, but here it's time to dress to thrill. The funkier and freakier your Halloween costume, the more the fun and thrill. Everyone seems to be ?possessed? spending loads on their Halloween costumes and behaving like spooky spend-alls on Halloween. Demands for the kookiest Halloween costumes go sky-high almost a month before the most-awaited Halloween night. And the stores generously oblige with scary Halloween masks and peachy props to pep up people's Halloween guise!

Now Halloween no longer remains a kid's holiday today. People of higher age-groups are equally ?spell-bound? by the spirits of Halloween! While men go for scary Halloween costumes, women prefer to charm in more feminine and coquettish costumes on Halloween. Greeting cards and Halloween decorating props also witness record sale figures along with Halloween party supplies and Halloween costumes. Halloween props from the grooviest to the wildest, offbeat to the upbeat?hit the shelves at all stores all over. Many tradesmen space out their shops to accommodate the umpteen Halloween masks, Halloween props and Halloween costumes during this season. Young and old throng alike at stores to buy the bestest of the best Halloween costumes and to surprise friends and family with these.

It's great to watch a world of spooks and demons, monsters and aliens unleash before you as Halloween fever takes over with a ghastly intensity. It's even more thrill to keep guessing who's who because you never know what surprise Halloween costume your dearest buddy or your sweetie pie will be in this year ! Now if you're under the impression that Halloween costumes mean just the scary vampires and ghosts, you got to note this. Halloween costumes and masks have a whopping range and can be anything under the sun that grabs the attention. It can be anything from Frankenstein to Porky Pig, killer wolves to goofy clowns, Tom Cruise to Scooby Doo, dancing dolls to wacko witches, black cats to batman, honeybees to a bag of beans and so on. There's no bound to choosing your Halloween costume; whatever fits your whim would do good.

But what do people do in these Halloween costumes ? Answer is simple?bewitch! Either in a party or just going about in the neighborhood with a whole bunch, the idea is to bewitch all and charm looker ones in unwonted Halloween gears. Some even go haunting about a haunted house with their folks, while some others spend a romantic Halloween night with their spook hearts. Now let's get down to some kooky costume ideas for your Halloween:

Play a ghost !

The most common and easy-to-do Halloween costume?cover yourself with a white sheet and cut out holes for eyes and mouth. Other colors would also do; who said ghosts can't be colorful ? You can deck this one up more with red-colored spray paints or may be with a crooked hat.