Every Year These Friends Dress Up As A Different Version Of The Same Celeb, And The Result Gets Better And Better
When a best friend joins the fun, anything you’re doing becomes twice as fun. But no duo can compare to a gang of seven besties. At least when it comes to Halloween group costumes. Meet Jamie Bell, Auburn Salcedo, and their friends.
Everything began eight years ago. “All seven of us were hired to work at a fashion blog offshoot of an advertising agency,” Jamie told Bored Panda. “Our boss was way too much to handle; eventually, it became an unbelievably toxic environment, so we all quit within two weeks of each other and have been best friends ever since!”
She also said that their first group Halloween costume idea wasn’t forced or anything. “We really didn’t overthink it that much; [it] just seemed like a natural thing for a girl gang to do.”
Choosing which of the popular celebrities to portray also happens very casually. “Reddit is very opinionated so that plays a role in the thought process, but we typically just have a quick convo the day after Halloween and one usually becomes the group favorite pretty easily!”
When the group settles on the actor, they start picking their characters. “We decide who’s dressing up as who through mud wrestling,” Jamie said. “But honestly, no. We have a pick order predetermined for the next 25 years.”
“We’re going to keep going with these funny Halloween costumes until we make it on The Ellen Show. It could take decades!”
“Lots of people are asking about the Genie Photoshop in 2015,” Auburn added. “Yes, it’s true that this is doctored. I was there for the photo but the original has me in full Genie make-up and quite honestly, it’s terrifying. Gave kids nightmares. In an attempt to save many people emotional trauma, I opted to have a pre-makeup photo of me added in. If you find the original you will either be frightened to your core or laugh hysterically. It seems to go both ways!”
Auburn also explained that in 2017 the besties were in 4 different cities and couldn’t make their funny costume photo happen. “We’ve vowed to never miss another year again!”
Scroll down to check out the best Halloween costumes from this gang, and for more Halloween inspiration, be sure to fire up these 50+ People Who Took Halloween Costumes To Another Level.
2018 Tom Hanks: Toy Story, Castaway, Apollo 13, Forrest Gump, Big, David S. Pumpkins (SNL), A League of Their Own
Image credits: Paige (Stark) Dall
2016 Bill Murrays: Garfield, Space Jam, Caddyshack, The Life Aquatic, Ghostbusters, Kingpin, What About Bob?
2015 Robin Williams: Mrs. Doubtfire, Mork, Jumanji, Popeye, Hook, Aladdin, The Birdcage
Full Disclosure: The Genie (OP/me…hi) is Photoshopped in (duh). I did full Genie makeup and it was horrific. I had nightmares from it and it was my own face. So yeah, I replaced it with a photo of Genie me pre-full face makeup. If you are looking for a Halloween scare, you can find the old photo… if you dare muahahaha!
2014 Will Ferrells: Elf, Blades of Glory, Zoolander, Anchorman, Night at the Roxbury, Semi-Pro, Talladega Nights
2013 Jim Carreys: Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Dumb & Dumber, The Cable Guy, The Mask, The Grinch, Ace Ventura, Batman Forever
2012 Johnny Depp: Fear and Loathing, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd, Cry Baby, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
And here’s a photo from a couple weeks ago so we can knock out all the questions about if we are really friends and what we look like out of costume
Their costumes have already earned them a lot of fans
This was a fun post! I cracked up so bad at the Ace Ventura lady! lol omg
Really refreshing and creative. So tired of sex-object nurse, sex-object vampire, sex-object maid, etc. Dressed like men and still appealing and adorable.
What a great idea! It would be fabulous if the celebrity they are doing that year surprised them with a visit.
In case anyone was wondering - this is what the original Genie makeup looked like! A quick search on her Facebook page yielded the original photo. 37373951_1...81b1bc.jpg
She looked awesome, don’t know why she’d have nightmares about that make-up.
Load More Replies...Gorgeous ladies! Super creative and fun costumes, and they are so blessed to be in each other’s lives through out the years!
Oh the Inspector from the “Pink Panther” would be cool!!
Load More Replies...great job! The best costume I can wear is my face painted as a ghost :/
Nailed it in all costumes of all years (with the exception of cable guy), great job! Also the idea in itself as amazing
What a great idea! People will understand who you are and you almost never run out of costume ideas!
I'm not sure which I love more - the friendship, or the awesome creativity of the costumes! I think, tho, that the continuing friendship is the most amazing part of this post. Rock on!
That's a neat idea, and it must help them to come up with ideas for costumes, I'd get paralysed with trying to decide what to dress up as
Yes Ed Wood would’ve been cool, but them all being ladies and Ed liked dressing in drag, not sure many would’ve gotten that character.
Load More Replies...I think in her original post on facebook she stated that they just couldn’t get everyone together for that year.
Load More Replies...I love this, it is a brilliant idea!! But I have 2 points: A) what about 2017? and B) it'd be cool to see them do an actress, because there are some pretty iconic adaptable actresses out there too.
They didn’t do it that year...but I think in her original post on facebook she stated that they just couldn’t get everyone together for that year.
Load More Replies...IMHO, they need to focus on female actors. It just doesn't look as convincing with some of the anatomical differences.
I like that they do males only, because it is dressing in costume, if they picked an actress, for most things it would be just a girl in clothes. Off the top of my head I can,t think of any actress that vould be 7 costume looks, unless 7 Chers and you would end up running into at least two others, chance of running into another girl dressed as any that they did is rare, maybe not now with this hitting BP. Great job Ladies!
They could do Anne Hathaway, Elena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Natalie Portman, Marylin Monroe, Audrey Hepburn... Anyone who had a role as a super hero, in a Tim Burton film, or any actress with a long career in iconic roles.
Load More Replies...Some women like to dress different for Halloween, at least there isn’t any “sexy version” of a regular costume like a lot of girls like to do.
Load More Replies...This was a fun post! I cracked up so bad at the Ace Ventura lady! lol omg
Really refreshing and creative. So tired of sex-object nurse, sex-object vampire, sex-object maid, etc. Dressed like men and still appealing and adorable.
What a great idea! It would be fabulous if the celebrity they are doing that year surprised them with a visit.
In case anyone was wondering - this is what the original Genie makeup looked like! A quick search on her Facebook page yielded the original photo. 37373951_1...81b1bc.jpg
She looked awesome, don’t know why she’d have nightmares about that make-up.
Load More Replies...Gorgeous ladies! Super creative and fun costumes, and they are so blessed to be in each other’s lives through out the years!
Oh the Inspector from the “Pink Panther” would be cool!!
Load More Replies...great job! The best costume I can wear is my face painted as a ghost :/
Nailed it in all costumes of all years (with the exception of cable guy), great job! Also the idea in itself as amazing
What a great idea! People will understand who you are and you almost never run out of costume ideas!
I'm not sure which I love more - the friendship, or the awesome creativity of the costumes! I think, tho, that the continuing friendship is the most amazing part of this post. Rock on!
That's a neat idea, and it must help them to come up with ideas for costumes, I'd get paralysed with trying to decide what to dress up as
Yes Ed Wood would’ve been cool, but them all being ladies and Ed liked dressing in drag, not sure many would’ve gotten that character.
Load More Replies...I think in her original post on facebook she stated that they just couldn’t get everyone together for that year.
Load More Replies...I love this, it is a brilliant idea!! But I have 2 points: A) what about 2017? and B) it'd be cool to see them do an actress, because there are some pretty iconic adaptable actresses out there too.
They didn’t do it that year...but I think in her original post on facebook she stated that they just couldn’t get everyone together for that year.
Load More Replies...IMHO, they need to focus on female actors. It just doesn't look as convincing with some of the anatomical differences.
I like that they do males only, because it is dressing in costume, if they picked an actress, for most things it would be just a girl in clothes. Off the top of my head I can,t think of any actress that vould be 7 costume looks, unless 7 Chers and you would end up running into at least two others, chance of running into another girl dressed as any that they did is rare, maybe not now with this hitting BP. Great job Ladies!
They could do Anne Hathaway, Elena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Natalie Portman, Marylin Monroe, Audrey Hepburn... Anyone who had a role as a super hero, in a Tim Burton film, or any actress with a long career in iconic roles.
Load More Replies...Some women like to dress different for Halloween, at least there isn’t any “sexy version” of a regular costume like a lot of girls like to do.
Load More Replies...
458
57