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You Can Now Buy Halloween Costumes Through Snapchat. Here's How

You can use lenses to try on and buy costumes for the spooky season.

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Harry Potter Snapchat Halloween costumes
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Snap has a new way for you to easily try out and buy your costume for this Halloween season: AR filters. Snapchat's new filters, available beginning Tuesday, will let you check out Halloween costumes from Hocus Pocus, Stranger Things and Harry Potter to see how they look on you.

Also included are costumes from Squid Game, Minecraft and Power Rangers, as well as the Disney princesses.

How to try on and buy a costume through Snapchat

Here's how you can even buy a costume after using a Snapchat filter to cut out heading to the Halloween store:

  1. Browse through Snap's Halloween costumes by typing Disguise costumes in the search bar
  2. You can also search for more specific costumes by searching Harry Potter or Stranger Things in Snapchat's Lens Explorer 
  3. Choose which costume you want to "try on"
  4. Take a few full-body photos with whatever outfit you have on already
  5. Snap's AR tech will apply the costume to your photo
  6. You can save the picture and Snap it to your friends
  7. Snapchat will then let you check out and buy the costume while you're still in the app.

Purchases will be made through Disguise Costumes.

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