Popular short hair character costume ideas for Cosplay and Halloween
Halloween is the perfect time to let your inner diva out, and what better way to do that than with a short hair female character costume? Whether you're looking for something cute and sassy or sexy and dangerous, there's a short hair female character costume out there for you. Here are some of our favorite short hair female character costume ideas for Halloween and cosplay.
Alice Cullen from Twilight Costume
Alice Cullen baseball costume features a white baseball jersey, black athletic pants, fitted baseball cap, and her signature pixie hairstyle. Perfect for recreating her iconic vampire baseball scene from Twilight.
Anna & Tess (Freaky Friday) Costume
Anna and Tess’s costumes are a gray crewneck shirt, a two-piece long-sleeve business suit and skirt, black high-heeled office shoes, and a pearl choker necklace for Anna; and a blue cropped denim jacket, a red plaid punk goth skirt, knee-high black punk boots, and a leather black punk choker for Tess.
Maria's Costume from The Sound of Music
Maria blue apron over a black dress. She also has short hair and boots.
The BFG & Sophie's Costume
BFG’s costume is a long-sleeved white popover shirt, green pants, brown chukka boots, a distressed vintage brown belt, a brown leather vest, and an oversized ears headband. Sophie wears a pale-colored nightgown and a pair of eyeglasses.
Remy, Linguini & Colette's (Ratatouille) Costume
Remy's costume can be recreated with a rat or mouse set costume styled with a chef's hat. Linguini wears the usual white chef attire with a coat, hat, and apron. Colette wears a white chef outfit with pants designed with checked print or houndstooth print.
Totally Spies Costume
Totally Spies' costume features a red, green, and yellow bodysuit, boots, and wigs of varying color.
Utz Girl & Natty Boh Costume
Utz Girl's costume features a red tee, navy blue skirt, tights, and a red ribbon as headband. Natty Boh wears a white face paint with a darkened eye. He also has a white shirt and black suspenders.
Ada Wong Costume from Resident Evil
Ada Wong wears a red dress, a gun holster on her leg, and a choker. She has short, black pixie-cut hair.
Joy Costume from Inside Out
Inside Out Joy characters’ costume is a yellow skater dress and blue hair.
Sadness Costume from Inside Out
Inside Out Sadness character costume is a white long-sleeved turtleneck sweater, navy blue pants and slippers, and dark purple round glasses.
Mono & Six (Little Nightmares) Costume
Mono outfit is a gray coat, shirt, pants, and a signature mask. Six's costume features a short wig and a yellow raincoat.
Vi Costume from Arcane
Vi wears a white top, red cropped jacket, striped pants, and mismatched boots. She also has red hair and tattoo on her face.
Sue Sylvester Costume from Glee
Sue Silvester wears a red tracksuit with white shoes and has short blonde hair.
Jay Gatsby & Daisy Buchanan (The Great Gatsby) Costume
Daisy outfit is an embellished pale dress with 20's accessories. Jay wears a formal suit with a bow tie.
Ashi's (Samurai Jack) Costume
Ashi's costume is an all-green ensemble with a one-shoulder top and skirt with boots or long socks. She also has short dark hair.
Laurel Lightfoot (Onward) Costume
Laurel Lightfoot’s costume is a cream woolen sweater, blue jeans, black cat-eye glasses, small gold earrings, and purple shoes.
Dora the Explorer, Boots & Diego Costume
Dora the Explorer’s costume is a purple shirt, an orange pair of shorts, yellow socks, and a pair of white sneakers. Diego’s costume is a blue t-shirt, green cargo pants, a safari vest, hiking socks and boots, a blue watch, and an orange sling bag.
Kyoka Jiro (My Hero Academia) Costume
Kyoka Jiro’s outfit features a cropped jacket on top of a peach top and dark pants. She also has a head phone to complete her signature look.
Gwen (Total Drama) Costume
Gwen outfit is an olive green ensemble featuring a green top, skirt, tights, and boots. Complete her look with a blue-green sleeve and teal highlights on her hair!
Powder (Arcane) Costume
Powder costume is a layer of striped shirt under a blue cropped top. then wear a pair of maroon pants and pink leggings, too. Complete the look with a belt and a blue wig.
Mrs White (Clue) Costume
Mrs Clue's costume features an all-black look with a strapless dress, arm sleeve, stockings and heels. She's got a bob cut and has white jewelries and accessories.
Meilin Lee (Turning Red) Costume
Meilin Lee's costume features a pink cardigan, tights, and skater skirt. She styles her look with pink socks and sneakers, too. Complete her costume by wearing a red wig and a backpack. Then carry a Tamagotchi!
Francine Frensky (Arthur) Costume
Francine's costume features a laid-back look that has a cozy sweater for the top and blue jeans. She wears red sneakers, too!
Crysta (FernGully) Costume
Crysta’s costume is a simple pixie outfit consisting of a red one-shoulder sleeve top paired with a short, red sarong, and beige flats. Crysta is also known for her black hair, pointed ears, and white fairy wings.
Joe Dirt & Brandy Costume
Joe Dirt wears an orange plaid shirt with the sleeves ripped off and acid wash jeans. But the most iconic of his looks is his awesome blonde mullet and peculiar side burns. Brandy costume is a white halter bikini top and colorful wrap.
Ophelia Ramirez (Juniper Lee) Costume
Ophelia Ramirez’s costume is a dark skull t-shirt, black pants, black boots, pink arm warmers, and dark purple lipstick. Her pink and purple spiky hair is also pretty iconic.
Other Mother (Coraline) Costume
Other Mother’s costume is a black and white polka dot dress, a red waist apron, black buttons for eyes, and black and white paint to look extra skeletal.
Janine Melnitz (Ghostbusters) Costume
Janine’s costumes is a black long-sleeve shirt underneath a bright green tube dress with black ribbons, black tights, black boots, and a pair of black-rimmed round glasses.
Martin & Gina (Martin) Costume
Gina's costume includes an all-pink get-up with a pink blazer and skirt combo, earrings, and short bob. Martin's costume has a white shirt and a brown coat on top of it.
Sergeant Calhoun (Wreck It Ralph) Costume
Sergeant Calhoun’s costume is a black long-sleeved shirt, black leggings, a chest plate, shoulder pads, arm bands, leg armor, black gloves, and black boots.
Casey Becker (Scream) Costume
Casey Becker’s costume is a white knit sweater, light washed jeans, and a blonde wig. She is also immortalized with holding a cordless phone with blood splattered on her chest.
Zoya The Destroya (GLOW) Costume
Zoya The Destroya's costume is focused on a red one-shoulder body suit. Style it with a red choker and a red sleeve. Wear a short wig and style the hair into a cool updo. Be sure to add in a black belt with gold buckle as well as a pair of black boots.
Go Go Tomago (Big Hero 6) Costume
Go Go Tomago’s costume is her casual, edgy everyday look and her black and yellow superhero look. Go Go loves going fast.
Sailor Saturn (Sailor Moon) Costume
Sailor Saturn costume is a white top with purple collar and matching skater skirt. Her ribbon on the chest and at the back is plum. She wears a pair of gloves with purple hem and purple boots. Her hair is short and carries a scythe.
Leeloo Costume
Leeloo is famous for two of her iconic outfits, one of which is the very risqué white bondage suit. Other popular Leeloo costume is a white cropped top, gold leggings, and unique, orange suspenders.
Barbara Holland (Stranger Things) Costume
Barbara Holland costume is a simple high-waist mom jeans, brown loafers, a cool plaid top with frills, and an awesome pair of eyeglasses.
2B (Nier Automata) Costume
2B prefers wearing a black dress, black stockings, and black thigh-high heels. She’s always ready with her katana.
Negasonic Teenage Warhead Costume
Negasonic Teenage Warhead costume is black turtleneck, leather leggings, olive green hoodie, long leather coat, x force belt and fingerless gloves.
Hillary Clinton Costume
A basic Hillary Clinton costume would be a navy blue pantsuit and blazer with a light colored shirt underneath, short block-heeled pumps, a pearl necklace and earrings set, as well as her signature blonde bob.
The Powerpuff Girls Costume
The Powerpuff Girls all wear the same outfit, just with different colors and hairstyles. Blossom wears pink. Bubbles prefers light blue. Buttercup rocks green. But they all wear the same white stockings and black Mary Janes.