Browse through all of the Monster High character costumes and cosplay guides. Monster High arrived in 2010 as a Mattel line of fashion dolls — the teenage children of famous monsters, all attending the same high school — and grew into webisodes, cartoons and live-action movies. You can dress as a vampire like Draculaura, a werewolf like Clawdeen Wolf, or ghoul friends Frankie Stein, Cleo de Nile, Lagoona Blue, Abbey Bominable, Ghoulia Yelps and C.A. Cupid. Every guide breaks the look down into a simple kit list, so you can pull together a Monster High outfit for Halloween or a convention using shop-ready pieces.
Clawdeen Wolf is Monster High’s confident werewolf fashionista, and her look is all about bold colour and attitude. Start with a wolf-red wig, then build the outfit from an adult monster costume, a leather choker and a crystal chain necklace. Purple eyeshadow, red lipstick and vampire fangs finish the face, while silver high heels tie it together. Every piece is easy to find, so you can pull off Clawdeen for Halloween or a convention without needing a full costume kit or a big budget.
Draculaura is the vegan vampire daughter of Dracula and Monster High’s sweetest goth. Her guide starts with a black-and-pink long wig and vampire fangs, then adds a long-sleeved fishnet shirt, fishnet tights and a white lace collar. Safety-pin earrings, a bat-wings choker, pink lipstick and eyeshadow bring the glam, while a white pleated skirt with pink knee-high boots and a black-and-pink umbrella complete the look, so it works for Halloween, a costume party or any goth night out.
Monster High is built for cosplay: every character has a signature colour, hairstyle and accessory, so you can pick a ghoul whose vibe matches your own and make the look unmistakable. The guides below pull each costume apart into clothing, wigs, makeup and props you can buy or put together yourself. Want the glamour of a vampire heiress, the swagger of a werewolf or the stitched-together charm of Frankie Stein? Start with the two featured characters, then browse the full grid for the rest of the cast. Add fangs, bright makeup or a coloured wig, and you are set for Halloween, a convention or a Monster High party.
Answers to the most common questions about Monster High costumes, from which characters to dress as and what you need, to wigs, makeup and where the look works best.
Clawdeen Wolf and Draculaura are the two most searched Monster High characters, with Cleo de Nile and Frankie Stein close behind. Clawdeen’s wolf-red wig and leather choker, and Draculaura’s black-and-pink wig with vampire fangs, are the easiest looks to recognise, which makes them the usual first choices for a solo costume or a group theme.
Yes. Every Monster High guide here is built from individual pieces you can mix with clothes you already own. Instead of one packaged costume, you assemble the character from a wig, makeup and a few statement accessories, so most looks come together from separate tops, skirts, tights and jewellery at any budget.
You need a black-and-pink long wig, vampire fangs and pink lipstick and eyeshadow for the face. For the outfit, add a long-sleeved fishnet shirt with fishnet tights, a white lace collar, a bat-wings choker and safety-pin earrings; finish with a white pleated mini skirt, pink knee-high boots and a black-and-pink umbrella to complete the vampire heiress look.
Start with a wolf-red wig and an adult monster costume as the base. Layer on a leather choker and a crystal chain necklace, then add purple eyeshadow, red lipstick and vampire fangs for the face. Silver high heels finish the outfit, giving you Clawdeen’s bold werewolf-glam silhouette without building anything from scratch.
A wig is the single fastest way to read as the right Monster High character, because hair colour is the biggest visual cue. Clawdeen is wolf-red, Draculaura is black-and-pink, Lagoona is blue, Abbey is white-and-blue and Frankie is black-and-white. If you skip the wig, lean harder on the signature makeup, outfit and accessories to keep the character recognisable.
Body paint and coloured makeup do most of the work for the non-human characters. Lagoona Blue needs light blue body paint for her sea-monster skin, while Ghoulia Yelps uses a pale grey makeup base and Frankie Stein leans on green-tinged shading around her stitched seams. Set any paint with translucent powder so it lasts through a long Halloween night or convention day.
The small props are what sell these looks. Draculaura’s bat-wings choker, safety-pin earrings and umbrella, Clawdeen’s leather choker and crystal chain, Cleo’s Egyptian jewellery and gold belt, and Frankie’s silver neck bolts all do the work. Add fangs, a coloured wig and a signature colour palette, and the character is instantly recognisable.
Yes. The guides are written for teens and adults, but almost every piece has a kid-friendly equivalent, so you can scale a look down for a younger fan. The accessory-led approach works well for children because a wig, makeup kit and a few props do most of the character work on top of clothes they already own.
Monster High runs on bright, high-contrast colour. Draculaura mixes black with pink, Clawdeen blends red and purple, Frankie pairs black and white with green, Lagoona works in blues and Cleo in teal and gold. Keeping the character’s two signature colours as your base is the quickest way to make any Monster High outfit look right.
Monster High began in 2010 as a Mattel fashion-doll line created by Garrett Sander, built around the teenage children of legendary monsters attending a high school together. The original ghouls include Draculaura, the vegan vampire daughter of Dracula; Frankie Stein, stitched together from parts by Frankenstein’s monster; Clawdeen Wolf, a stylish werewolf; Cleo de Nile, a mummified Egyptian princess; Lagoona Blue, a sea-monster exchange student; Ghoulia Yelps, a brainy zombie; and Abbey Bominable, a yeti. The brand grew from webisodes and animated specials into a cartoon series and the live-action films Monster High: The Movie (2022) and Monster High 2 (2023), with a full 2022 relaunch introducing a new generation of ghouls.
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