Are you newly vegan wondering how the HECK you’re going to get through October without slamming 26 Milky-way Midnights straight to your face? Or what kind of candy you get for trick or treaters? Welcome to your vegan Halloween guide! We’re here to guide you through the process!
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I love, love, love Halloween. I love everything about it from the costumes, to trick or treating, to the candy and Halloween makeup. But Halloween changed a bit for me when I was transitioning to my vegan lifestyle. Definitely not in a bad way! Just a little different!
I found myself researching costumes to make sure they were cruelty-free, scoping out my candies ingredients to make sure they were vegan, and even buying candy for my little trick or treaters had to change!
We’re covering everything vegan Halloween here- costumes, makeup, and Halloween candy, as well as some of our favorite vegan Halloween treats!
Vegan Halloween Costumes
So this one is something that may come at a higher priority to some, and fall short to others. Which is entirely fine! Again veganism isn’t about perfection. We’re more or less going to give you pointers for what to pay attention to when searching for (or designing) the perfect Halloween costume to ensure your costume itself is cruelty-free!
Ingredients To Be Aware Of!
- If your costume contains fur – be sure its faux fur! Usually super easy to tell here and absolutely should specify on the tag! If not – faux fur will feel more carpet-y, and you can sometimes see the sewing lines and seams! While real fur wouldn’t be sewn into a backing but rather still remaining on the animal skin itself. Yuck.
- Leather advisory! Just like fur, leather is actually made entirely of animal skin! ICK. A lot of Halloween costumes will require leather-like materials. Think leather jackets, belts, boots, things of that nature. Luckily, most consumers will purchase faux leather costumes because most store-branded Halloween costumes on the market are not made of real leather. Just something to pay attention to!
- Be leary of “vintage” items and stores!! Many of these pieces as beautiful as they are will be made of silk, wool, leather, cashmere, angora, and real fur. Why? Because it wasn’t abnormal to use animal products much more frequently back then!
- Check your accessories too! Shoes, belts, jewelry, zipper pulls, feathers in hats etc – for animal materials!
- Happy Vegan Ingredients- VegNews breaks down for us a list of common VEGAN APPROVED materials! Cotton, beyond cotton, other vegan fibers include linen, polyester, spandex, lycra, ramie, bamboo, hemp, denim, nylon, rayon, Tyvek, PVC, microfiber, cork, acrylic, viscose, and modal. (VegNews)
Vegan Halloween Makeup
If you’re a makeup junkie like I am, you’ll love this section and maybe even skip right down to it! As a makeup artist myself I’m obsessssssed with Halloween makeup. Looking at it, doing it, wearing it, photographing it, ALL of it. Gimmie all the Halloween makeup! I’m going to list a whole bunch of vegan theater makeup companies for you guys as well as every day vegan makeup brands!
I can tell you the best Halloween looks always combine ALL types of makeup!
Theater/Stage/Halloween Vegan Makeup Companies
- Mehron-double check all products just in case but Mehron is STRONG in the game of theatrical makeup! Slay just about ANY look from sfx makeup to everyday makeup!
- Premire Products, Inc – the entire line is vegan! Skies the limit! Have at it!
- Kryolan – Another strong in the game of theater makeup! Check out their fake blood!
- Cinema Secrets – 3rd ones a charm? Another anchor company for theater and stage performing! Cinema Secrets is a fabulous line that’s sure to meet all of your needs this Halloween! (Also they make the BEST ever makeup brush cleaner. I use this for my personal brushes as well as on my pro brushes for clients as well! It removes even the gunkiest of makeup off the scummiest brushes!
- Camelon Bodypaint – this line is one I’ve never personally used. Its main products are body paints which is something I’ve never really played with! If your costume requires any body-painting this company is fully vegan!
Everyday Vegan Makeup Brands
- Wet n’ Wild
- Kat Von D
- Urban Decay
- Tarte Cosmetics
- Too Faced Cosmetics
- NYX
- Lime Crime
- Sugar Pill Cosmetics
Plant-Based Halloween Candy Guide
You don’t have to tell us whether this list will be for your trick or treaters or for you. We’re not judging. Halloween isn’t just for the kids OKAY.
We’re always asked but what about CHOCOLATE?! Don’t worry, got you covered. This list contains a little of everything – hard candies, chewy candies, gummy candies, lollipops, and yes our beloved chocolate. Enjoy Life Rice Milk Chocolate Mini’s are definitely a favorite in this house!
Here’s a complete list of vegan Halloween (or every day) candy!
**All of these links are bulk Halloween purchasing directly from Amazon’s convenient Halloween store!**
- Airheads
- Twizzlers
- Lemonheads
- Smarties
- Swedish Fish
- Skittles
- Sweet Tarts
- Sour Patch Kids (they even make a zombie edition for Halloween!)
- Enjoy Life – Rice Milk Chocolate Mini’s (think crunch bars but dairy-free) *this link is a Halloween Enjoy Life variety pack!*
- Cry Babies
- Dots
- Dum Dums
- Fireballs
- Jolly Ranchers – Lollipops & hard candies
- Cocomel’s – think vegan caramel chocolates – to DIE for
- Charm’s Blow Pops
- Now & Later
- Justin’s Dark Chocolate PB Cups
- Thumbs Up – think vegan butterfingers
- Twilight Bars – think vegan Milky ways
- Mahalo- think vegan almond joy
- Jokerz – think vegan snickers
- Buccaneer – think vegan 3 musketeers
- 2fer- think vegan twix bars
*I didn’t include amazon links for the last few vegan chocolate bars – you’re better off searching your health food stores for these items! I couldn’t find them on Amazon but will keep searching every year and will link if I find them!!*
Some Of Our Fav Spooky New Vegan Treats
Vegan Zombie Brain Cupcakes – Created by BearPlate
Tell me right now these aren’t the COOLEST fu*king Halloween desserts you’ve ever seen! We LOVE these and can’t wait to make them!!
Double Chocolate Halloween “Cheesecake”- Created By CocoonCooks.com
We love cheesecake, and we love chocolate! This spiderweb cheesecake was way way too cool not to feature in our post!
We hope this helps you guys navigate your Halloween holiday as a vegan! Whether it’s your first vegan Halloween or you’re a seasoned pro we hope you learned something and maybe even found a new favorite candy!
Be sure to check out our previous article to make sure YOU have all of your vegan fall essentials!
Happy Halloween Fempire!!! Everyone stay safe and have the best spooky time!!