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We’re talking Snapchat filter costumes, mermaid hair, and everything else in between.

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“To finish, secure it with bobby pins and lots of hairspray and you are done.”

“you might use neon makeup pigments for temporary color,” she explains toAllure.

“You don’t need to use expensive materials to do it,” she reveals.

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“I used a really old wig and colored it with sharpies.”

Using that, a shower cap, anda ton of patience, she curled her hair with alarge-barrelled iron.

Fairy Lights

Want to bring a little extra flair to your Elsa costume?

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We’ve got it handled.

New Zealand-based hairstylistNicola Moody-Turnwaldcreated thisgorgeous braidedlook using tiny fairy lights.

She simply made amermaid braidand then weaved in a string of tiny lights through it.

woman with pink and purple hair. she arranged her hair into a bun at the top of her head and decorated it to look like a…

She tellsAllurethat the trick is to hide the batteryunderthe braid.

Mermaid Madness

Mermaid beautyisn’t just for music festivals.

Avci usedSexy Hairproducts to style and hold the creation.

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Unicorn Braids

Like mermaids,unicorns havealso caused quite a mystical stir in the beauty world.

O’Leary also created this soft, dreamy Halloween hair look on one of her clients.

This is done on straight hair, but you might try this one on a variety of textures.

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A Massive Hair Bow

Put a bow on it but use some hair instead of ribbon.

Hair vloggerSarah Angiuscreated this hair bow look that can be paired with a wide selection of Halloween costumes.

Watch her create the bow from start to finishright here.

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For the purple ends, she usedPravana’s Violet hair dye hue.

you’ve got the option to do something similar with a range of hairstyles.

The Belize-based blogger is known for creating styles that accentuate her natural auburn curls.

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a woman with bright blue and bright yellow hair styled to stand up and look as if it’s blowing in the wind like Hades…

back of a woman with gray platinum hair’s head. She has a French braid and has weaved small lights through them.

a photo of a woman’s eyes and head. She has a braid in the front of her haid pinned liek a crown. She’s weaved plastic…

Woman with her hair styled to look like cat ears. She is wearing all black and her face is painted like a cat.

Blonde Woman dressed as Rosie the Riveter. She is posing with her strong arm

woman’s hair from the back. It is gray and colored pink teal green purple violet etc. The curls are styled to look like…

a woman’s head. She has pastel rainbowcolored hairand one side of her hair is braided.

Photo of a woman with a multicolored curly fauxhawk

the top of a girl’s head. She is wearing a high bun spray painted orange to look like a pumpkin.

the side of a woman’s head. She has straight hair and she hair is styled with two cornrows on the side. in between both…

Photo of a woman with a hair bow made out of hair on the top of her head

the back of a woman’s head. her hair is blonde and purple and pulled into a bun. She has an undercut that looks like a…

Woman with butterfly clips at the front of her hair to look like the Instagram butterfly filter

Woman with big curly hair with lion ears and a face painted like a lion