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Lorax Halloween Costume Girls refers to a Halloween costume fad popular among teenage and college-aged girls who dress up as The Lorax from the Dr. Seuss book. The costume consists of an orange morph suit, yellow facial hair and a pillow, which is stuffed into the morph suit to create a potbelly look. Girls began dressing as The Lorax for Halloween en masse in 2023. They'd often share videos of themselves and their friends dressed as The Lorax on social media sites like TikTok and Instagram. In late 2025, before the Halloween season, some on TikTok started calling The Lorax costume trend unfunny, corny or cringe.

Origin

The female Lorax costume in its modern incarnation, featuring an orange morph suit, yellow facial hair (a mustache and eyebrows) and a pillow for an extended potbelly look, largely stems from viral videos posted to TikTok ahead of Halloween 2023. That year, several memes using clips and scenes from the 2012 animated film The Lorax went viral on TikTok, including, Let It Grow, The Lorax Leaving and How Bad Can I Be?

On October 31st, 2023, TikToker^[1] @mckenna_douglas shared a video of herself dressed as The Lorax for Halloween, seen in an orange morph suit costume. Over two years, the video received roughly 779,100 likes.

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TikToker @mckenna_douglas shared several videos of herself as The Lorax in the following days, like on November 2nd, 2023, she shared a TikTok^[3] of herself in the costume, set to the Mean Girls monologue about Halloween.^[4] The video amassed over 244,500 likes in two years.

Other women began replicating @mckenna_douglas, such as TikToker^[2] @joelle_94 on November 24th, who contrasted herself as The Lorax with her normal self, adding the caption, "My boyfriend will have two girlfriends." Over two years, the video received over 81,700 likes.

In 2024, more women replicated The Lorax costume for Halloween. For instance, on October 20th, 2024, TikToker^[5] @allie_riecke shared a video of her and her friends dancing in Lorax costumes, gaining over 263,400 likes in a year.

On August 9th, 2025, TikToker^[6] @_ashbyflorence_ shared a video of herself in a Lorax costume, which was a comedy skit about the Lorax giving a public service announcement. The video received over 1.8 million likes in two months.

On August 30th, TikToker^[7] @lawliet_toes shared a GIFTok video meme with a text overlay caption that read, "Girls with the humor of a 10-year-old getting ready to dress up as The Lorax for Halloween every year." Over two months, the TikTok gained over 13,100 likes.

On September 24th, 2025, TikToker^[8] @kit.lee01 shared a video with the caption, "Wouldn't wish a Lorax or Pitbull costume GF on my worst enemy," which also referred to women who dressed up as recording artist Pitbull for Halloween. He said in the video, "If you think your life's bad right now, just think about all the boyfriends out there in the world whose girlfriends think dressing up as The Lorax and Pitbull is the funniest thing in the world." His video gained over 128,100 likes in nine days.

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