Avoiding the Rack

I think it's safe to say that child beauty pageants as well as child obesity are both commonly considered odd, cruel, and very modern American forms of child abuse. However the combination of those two things feels so right when Honey Boo Boo is involved! There are many beauty queens on television and probably even more child beauty queens at that. However, none of them are as famous or as big and brassy as Honey Boo Boo. But what I love most about Honey Boo Boo, especially for a costume, is that she always has a specific look to her. You can't think of a little girl in that frilly mess of a pink dress without thinking of none other than Honey Boo Boo and, as her mother has demonstrated, the look works just as well for adults! She's become so iconic that even the thought of child obesity or child beauty queens will just bring her image up in my head. The look is overall so powerful that I don't doubt that the image of this costume will stick with people even...

Pregnant ladies around the world can rejoice because this year there is a classy, easy, and enjoyable costume for all the baby mamas: Pregnant Beyonce. What better way to announce it than on NATIONAL TELEVISION. The full outfit. Everyone is more than excited for the pop diva and her husband to have their first child but no one is more excited than the pregnant women who are sick of being Kim Jong Il for Halloween again. See the resemblance? Or even a pregnant Britney Spears... Classy as always. While we're happy for the star studded couple we're really just happy that pregnant women everywhere have an excuse to dress up as a classy lady this Halloween and be a star themselves. How often does that happen really? Most importantly, remember that your costume end up affecting your children later when they see the pregnant pictures. Baby Kim Jong Il approves of the Beyonce costume. What you'll need: A baby bump from any trimester A hand...