9 Hilarious Lebanese-Inspired Halloween Costumes

This Halloween, why not up your costume game and give it some Lebanese context? Here are the scariest Lebanese-inspired costumes we could think of for you to spook your friends this Halloween — because nobody in Lebanon likes any of the below listed things.

1. The corrupt politician

The scariest of them all, dress up in a nice suit and tie and walk around town making empty promises for change and progress. Easy!

2. Myriam Klink

Low on budget? That’s fine! Find the tackiest blonde wig available and step out in your birthday suit.

3. The fake beggar

Wear an expensive watch on one hand, and beg your drunk friends for money with the other.

4. The social media ‘influencer’

Put a flower headband on your head to simulate a Snapchat face filter, and walk around saying hashtag before every single word you utter.

5. The road rager

Buy a cheap horn from a party store and wear it as a necklace, walk around the party honking at everyone and screaming profanities. For an added touch, buy a fake toy gun and wave it around — and voila! You’ve magically transformed into every Lebanese driver’s worst nightmare.

6. The crazy ex-girlfriend

This one’s easy. Dress like you normally would, find your ex at the party and follow him around sobbing, asking where things went wrong. It’s just a costume, isn’t it?

7. The Lebanese mother-in-law

Dress up like a Lebanese mother would — conservative, but flashy — blow dry your hair to be extra poofy, and stalk couples at the party asking the girl-part of the couple what she cooked for the guy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner that day with a cigarette in hand and a disappointed look perpetually painted on your face.

8. Cirque du Liban

Dress up like a very, very sad dolphin, and convince people that you’re happy and that ever since you were a baby dolphin swimming freely in the ocean blue you dreamed of the day when you’d be tirelessly swimming in circles in a kiddie pool on the side of a polluted and congested Lebanese highway.

9. The office HR

Wear a tacky work outfit and just tell people at the party that they won’t get their salaries until the 6th of the month.