How To Be Birth Control For Halloween

If you're in your early 20s or you just have an ornery streak, chances are, someone has told you to have a "safe" Halloween this year. Why not take their advice literally, and dress up as the safest costume there is: Birth control.

You can get more creative with this inherently feminist ensemble than you might initially imagine. The world of birth control is vast, and there are more options (for your health, and your Halloween party) than just hormonal pills. You could be an IUD, a contraceptive patch, a glow-in-the-dark condom, a vaginal ring, or a diaphragm.

Here are some options to help you have the most fun, creative, and super safe Halloween.

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund created the famed "Pillamina" years ago to raise awareness for abortion rights.

You'll have to know how to sew and be pretty crafty to recreate this exact costume at home. However, you can make a slightly toned down DYI version with a simple sandwich board, construction paper, and small paper snack cups. Write the days of the week on square sheets of paper and glue those to the top of your board. Glue the cups in four rows of seven below to represent the days of the month. You can use a marker or paint to make the last row of cups a different color to represent "sugar pills," which don't contain any hormones or active ingredients

Put on a little black dress of your choice, and hang the board around your neck with a sturdy rope or ribbon.