"Trick or treat!" Are YOU ready for Halloween?
You only have 2 days left and according to
Yahoo!, some don’t have a thing to wear, and are scouring the Internet for inspiration.
By analyzing search data for popular Halloween topics in the past seven days, you can get a pretty good idea of the most popular ideas in time for Saturday's festivities.
Breakout "Last Minute" Halloween Costume Searches (spiking in the past 7 days)1. Balloon Boy Costume
2. Candy Corn Costume
3. Cleopatra Costume
4. Bunny Costume
5. Beetlejuice Costume
Breakout "Last Minute" Halloween Costume Searches from Kids (13 and under, past 7 days)1. Hobo Costume
2. Balloon Boy Costume
3. Pippi Longstocking Costume
4. Zombie Costume
5. Minnie Mouse Costume
Areas where searches for Kids Halloween Costumes are up (in the past 7 days)1. Oklahoma City, OK
2. Washington, DC
3. Chicago, IL
Top Spiking "Last Minute" Halloween Recipe Searches (in the past 7 days)1. Easy Halloween Appetizers
2. Alcoholic Halloween Drinks
3. Halloween Punch Recipes
4. Halloween Cookies
5. Halloween Snacks
When in doubt, go for a classic: In earlier weeks, vampire and pirates were tussling for top costume, and Michael Jackson was high in the mix.
Now, people are checking out an “Alice in Wonderland” favorite, the Mad Hatter, as their go-to outfit.
But, “vampire makeup” leads the cosmetic Halloween searches, a reality mom dominates the wig searches (“kate gosselin wig”), and a Mardi Gras mood’s outstripping all other “mask” lookups.
Making it easy: "Easy halloween costume"
Yahoo! searches have jumped 147% in the past seven days, with 7 out of 10 of queries coming from females.
The areas that want to take it easy: Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, and the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
Most homemade costume: Overalls and stuffing your shirt with straw is the winner: Scarecrow’s leading the homemade costume searches.
Considering Halloween is only a few days away, people are asking a lot out of their homemade costume ideas.
Some want “funny,” others the “coolest,” and others demand “creative” and the “best.”
Procrastinating parents: Overall, "kids Halloween costumes" searches on Yahoo! increased over 15% in the past 7 days.
Don’t worry, the kids have it under control: In searches from boys and girls under 13, the most popular trick-or-treating outfit of choice are hobos, closely followed by Balloon Boy.
Celebrities to be: Michael Jackson is still the costume of choice.
There have been quests for a “kate gosselin wig” and “octomom costume,” but Falcon Heene, the balloon boy who actually stayed in the rafters of his Colorado home, is uplifting costume spirits.
Surprise, surprise, the place most inclined to honor this hoax is Heene’s home state, followed by California and Texas.
What is Yahoo! Search Data? People power: They sift through millions of
Yahoo! searches to uncover trends, burning questions, popular personalities and hot ideas.
