How to make a cheerleader costume

The cheerleader costume is one of the most requested costumes for events such as Carnival, Halloween or a costume party. The girls who encourage sports teams have always been very successful at parties, so in we tell you how to make a cheerleader costume adapted to your tastes: if you want a childish costume, if you want a bit more sexy or if you prefer the cheerleader costume for Halloween . You choose!

The shoes of the cheerleaders

The conventional cheerleaders are those that accompany the sports teams of America, therefore, their shoes are designed to dance and do the acrobatics so characteristic of their choreography. However, to know how to make a costume for a cheerleader, you must bear in mind that you can use both sports shoes and high-heeled shoes that will give a more sexy and seductive look to your look .

If you choose to wear sneakers, socks are a garment that you can not leave out. The cheerleaders usually wear white socks; These socks can be short or long, at your choice. Of course: if you want to surprise with a costume of sexy cheerleader we recommend that you dress with high socks and, if it can be, that they reach you above the knees. The higher, the more seductive you will be.

Characterization for your cheerleader costume

To know how to make a true cheerleader costume, the hairstyle is very important. Depending on the use you want to give your costume you can comb one way or another: if you want to give it a youthful look, you can opt for the high horse tail or combing two tall pigtails. If you want to give your cheerleader costume a more wild look, opt for loose, wavy hair.

For the make-up of the cheerleader, it is advisable to choose a base of makeup of the same color and apply pink powder on the cheeks; in this way you will get a sweeter and more childlike face. Putting a little shine on your lips or painting them with a pink tone will get your image softened.

If you want to make a sexy cheerleader costume, you can change the tone of the lipstick and paint it with a deep red that will make you irresistible. You can also intensify your look with a black eye pencil and a permanent eyelash also in black.

Accessories for your cheerleader costume

The essential accessories that you should not miss in your cheerleader costume are the pompoms; You can buy them at any costume store or, if you prefer, you can make them yourself:

• Instructions: you will only have to get 8 sheets of A4 size paper from silk paper or pinocho paper. You must put 4 papers together and cut the strips leaving an untrimmed strip (which will be where we take them). Once the strips are cut, we will have to join the papers with adhesive tape and we will have the first one; repeat the same process to create the second.

Another accessory that you can add to your cheerleader costume is a megaphone. The cheerleaders are dedicated, as the name suggests, to encourage people; therefore, going with a megaphone to encourage people is a very appropriate option that will give realism to your costume.

If you want to give a more athletic touch to your costume, you can put some warmers on the ankles. You can also put on wristbands and a ribbon on your forehead: it looks like you're ready to play sports!

A more childlike look can be achieved by putting red ribbons on your hair: if you have chosen to comb with two tails, you can decorate them with two bows, just as if you have decided to make only one tail high. The ties will give that most childlike touch to your cheerleader costume .

A cheerleader costume for Halloween

If you want to characterize your costume for Halloween, you just have to make a series of modifications to your costume that will give it that sinister and terrifying touch.

The first thing is that the clothes that we mentioned before, should be broken and stained: you can get it by rubbing a bit of dirt on the white clothes and wearing old clothes that will give a darker touch.

The characterization of your makeup should also be modified because instead of sweetening your face, to make it a Halloween costume you should make it with a base that is lighter than the color of your skin, put dark shadow on both the eyelids and the lower part of the eyes and sprinkle with a little red paint as if it were blood. In this video you will see how to create wounds with makeup.

To give a more gloomy appearance to your cheerleader costume, you can choose to dress with dark colors: the combination of black and red perfectly simulate the setting of Halloween.

The ideal hairstyle for Halloween costume is loose and very disheveled, you can get this effect combing the hair upside down and fixing the disheveled with a little lacquer. If you want, you can also make a couple of pigtails but the trick is that the hair is disheveled.