Last updated: April 26, 2026· By Seckin Peker

Costume Guide

Princess Daisy Halloween Costume Guide

Super Mario  ·  Nintendo  ·  Princess of Sarasaland

Hi, I’m Daisy! Yellow and orange ballgown, white satin gloves, daisy earrings, the light-up crown, and the absolute certainty of someone who has never lost a kart race she cared about. The most spirited princess in the Mushroom Kingdom’s orbit.

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Quick Answer: To dress like Princess Daisy from Super Mario, put on the Princess Daisy costume dress, pull on the short satin wedding gloves, clip the daisy earrings in place, place the light-up LED princess crown, step into the orange high heels, and put on the princess cosplay wig. The crown and the daisy accessories together are what distinguish the build as specifically Princess Daisy rather than a generic yellow ballgown princess. Without them the colour palette is right but the character is ambiguous. With the daisy earrings, the crown, and the deep orange wig in place, the costume is identifiable from across a room before the “Hi, I’m Daisy!” lands — and the “Hi, I’m Daisy!” always lands.

Princess Daisy is the princess of Sarasaland, a kingdom of four worlds first encountered in Super Mario Land on the original Game Boy in 1989, where she was kidnapped by the space alien Tatanga and rescued by Mario in his first handheld adventure. Since that debut she has grown into one of the Mario franchise’s most beloved recurring characters, appearing across Mario Kart, Mario Party, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Strikers, and the Olympic Games spinoff series. Where Princess Peach represents a certain gentle and regal composure, Daisy is defined by her energy, her competitiveness, and a specific brand of sunny self-confidence that stops precisely short of arrogance. She is athletic, enthusiastic, and completely at ease with being the best person in any sporting event she enters — and entirely cheerful about it. Her yellow and orange ballgown, deep orange hair, daisy flower accessories, and white gloves are a colour palette as immediately recognisable to anyone who grew up with the Mario franchise as any in gaming, and the costume is one of the most joyful and recognisable gaming character builds available for any Halloween event.

Items Total7 Items
DifficultyEasy
First Appeared1989
Cost$50–$100

Princess Daisy Costume Items

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Princess Daisy Costume Items — Super Mario

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  • 1 Princess Daisy Costume DressPurpose-made Princess Daisy ballgown in yellow and orange with daisy flower detailing, the foundation of the entire build and the piece that establishes the character’s signature colour palette immediately
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  • 2 Princess Cosplay WigDeep auburn or orange princess wig replicating Daisy’s voluminous signature hair, the most character-specific element after the dress and the piece that completes the full Daisy silhouette from head to hem
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  • 3 Short Satin Wedding GlovesShort white satin gloves worn over the hands, consistent with Princess Daisy’s formal princess look across her Super Mario appearances and a key visual element of the royal gaming princess aesthetic
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  • 4 Daisy EarringsDaisy flower earrings matching the floral motif that defines Princess Daisy’s entire aesthetic across the Mario franchise, the accessory that most distinguishes the build from any other yellow princess costume at the event
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  • 5 Orange High HeelsOrange high heels completing the costume’s warm colour palette from the ground up, the correct footwear for the Daisy aesthetic and strong enough in colour to read clearly against the yellow and white of the gown
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  • 6 Princess Daisy Costume For Toddlers & GirlsDedicated Princess Daisy costume set scaled for toddlers and younger girls, the same yellow and orange ballgown aesthetic available for younger wearers and ideal for family group builds alongside the adult costume
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  • 7 Light Up LED Princess CrownLight-up LED princess crown worn as Daisy’s royal headpiece, the accessory that immediately confirms the royal identity of the costume and whose illumination makes the look stand out in lower-light Halloween event environments
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Princess Daisy in her yellow and orange athletic leotard look as seen in Super Mario sports spinoff games, showing her sporty alternate costume with daisy flower accessories and her signature orange hair

How to Style the Princess Daisy Costume

The Princess Daisy build has a clear assembly sequence, and getting the accessory order right before leaving for the event prevents the most common small problems. The gloves go on after the dress but before the earrings, since putting on gloves after earrings risks catching the earring backs in the glove fabric. The crown goes on after the wig is fully positioned and checked, since adjusting the wig once the crown is in place risks shifting both simultaneously. The orange heels go on last, after all standing and checking is done. Everything else — the dress, the wig, the earrings — is assembled in whatever order is most comfortable, with the final full-length check at distance done before the crown is placed, so the wig position is confirmed before anything is added above it.

For the dress: put it on and smooth the skirt flat, checking that the bodice sits correctly at the waist and the daisy detailing at the neckline is visible and unfolded. The yellow skirt should fall evenly without bunching at the sides. For the wig: place it after the dress is on and fully arranged, since the neckline of the dress can catch the wig edge if the dress goes on over an already-placed wig. Smooth the wig flat and check the hairline at the temples. For the gloves: pull them on smoothly and ensure they sit at the same height on both wrists. Clip the daisy earrings. Place the light-up LED crown at the crown of the head, pressing the comb teeth into the wig and securing with a bobby pin at each side if needed. Check the batteries in the crown before the event rather than at it. Step into the orange heels and fasten any straps.

For makeup: Princess Daisy’s register in the games is warm, vivid, and sunny without being heavily stylised. A warm-toned foundation, softly defined brows, a warm peach or orange-toned eyeshadow, and a bright coral or orange-pink lip reflect the character’s colour palette and energy correctly. The makeup should feel warm and confident — the look of someone who just won a grand prix and is entirely unsurprised by the result. Avoid cool tones in any product layer. Daisy’s palette is consistently warm across her entire visual identity, and the makeup should reinforce rather than contradict that.

The Light-Up Crown: Getting the Most Out of It All Evening

The light-up LED princess crown is one of the most effective individual accessories in the Daisy build and the one that requires the most preparation to perform reliably through a full Halloween event. Before the event: install fresh batteries rather than using whatever came in the packaging, since manufacturing batteries are often partially depleted before purchase. Test the light function for at least five minutes to confirm the connection is stable before putting the crown on. If the crown has multiple light settings, choose one and note which button or switch controls it before the event so adjustments can be made without fumbling in low light. During the event: turn the lights off during well-lit indoor portions of the event to preserve battery life, and turn them on for photographs, darker rooms, and outdoor moments where the illumination makes the most visual impact. A crown that runs out of battery at nine in the evening is just a crown. One that is managed carefully throughout the evening remains a light-up crown at midnight.

Distinguishing Daisy from Peach: The Accessories That Do the Work

Princess Daisy and Princess Peach are the two most commonly confused Mario princess costumes at Halloween events, since both wear full-length ballgowns with crowns and white gloves. The distinction is entirely in the accessories, and getting those accessories right is what makes the Daisy build specifically Daisy rather than a slightly different shade of Peach. Daisy’s differentiators are the colour palette — yellow-orange rather than Peach’s pink — the daisy flower motif on the earrings and the dress detailing, and the deep auburn or orange hair rather than Peach’s blonde. At a Halloween event, holding up the daisy earrings and pointing to them while saying “Hi, I’m Daisy” is the fastest possible disambiguation for any Mario fan who needs it, and almost no Mario fan will need it if all three elements — the warm orange palette, the flower accessories, and the orange wig — are correctly in place. The two characters are close enough in silhouette that the accessories are doing the recognition work, and none of them should be substituted or omitted.

Princess Daisy Group Costume Ideas

The Super Mario Core Cast

Daisy, Princess Peach, Super Mario & Shy Guy

The central characters of the Super Mario franchise assembled as a group, covering the heroic, royal, and masked registers of the Nintendo universe in a single ensemble. Princess Daisy’s warm yellow and orange gown alongside Princess Peach’s pink ballgown and platinum blonde hair, Super Mario’s iconic red cap, dungarees, and moustache, and Shy Guy’s white mask and robes create a group with strong visual variety and the specific shared identity of Nintendo’s longest-running and most beloved franchise. The group rewards any gaming audience immediately and works across age groups, since the core Mario characters are as familiar to children encountering the franchise for the first time as to adults who grew up with the original games. Daisy and Peach together as a paired princess duo within the larger group is a particularly effective visual, since the contrast between their colour palettes — warm orange-yellow and cool pink — makes both costumes more vivid alongside each other than either would be alone.

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Super Mario Villains & Alternate Universe

Daisy, Bowsette & Rosalina

A Super Mario group that spans the franchise’s heroic, villainous, and cosmic dimensions — covering the three most visually distinct female characters in the Mario universe and creating an ensemble with exceptional palette contrast. Daisy’s warm yellow and orange, Bowsette’s crown-and-shell villain aesthetic with its bold black and gold, and Rosalina’s silver-blue space princess gown and platinum hair create a trio with strong individual visual identities that read as a deliberate group rather than three unrelated costumes. Bowsette, though originating in fan culture rather than official Nintendo canon, has become one of the most immediately recognisable Mario-adjacent character designs and generates enthusiastic recognition from any dedicated gaming audience. The three together produce a Super Mario women’s group with a specifically curated quality that rewards any fan of the franchise.

Princess Daisy Bowsette Rosalina

Disney Animated Princesses

Daisy, Merida, Ariel & Elsa

Three of Disney’s most beloved animated princesses assembled alongside Princess Daisy, creating a group that spans gaming and animation and covers four of the most recognisable and beloved princess characters across all of popular culture. Merida’s highland archery gear, flame-red curls, and determination from Brave, Ariel’s mermaid tail or the blue-and-white human outfit from The Little Mermaid, and Elsa’s ice-blue gown and platinum plait from Frozen alongside Daisy’s warm yellow and orange ballgown create a group with exceptional visual variety — no two palettes overlap, no two silhouettes repeat — and a shared quality of each character being a princess who defines the term on her own terms. The group works as a celebration of the princess archetype across animation and gaming simultaneously and rewards any audience with a knowledge of either or both.

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Game & Cartoon Royalty

Daisy, Princess Elena & More

A broader group of gaming and animated royalty assembled from across the full spectrum of the princess character tradition, united by a shared identity as characters whose royal status is the starting point rather than the full description of who they are. Princess Elena of Avalor’s Latin-inspired red gown and her specific warmth and leadership register sit naturally alongside Daisy’s energetic gaming princess energy, and the group can expand with additional gaming or animated princess characters to fit any event size. A princesses group of this type rewards any audience with a knowledge of animated television and gaming simultaneously, and the variety of source materials — video games, Disney Channel animation, Nintendo spinoffs — means different members of the group will generate recognition from different people in the event crowd, which spreads the in-character interactions evenly across the full evening rather than concentrating them around the most recognisable single character.

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Princess Daisy as she appears in NES Open Tournament Golf, one of her earliest Nintendo appearances alongside Mario, showing her classic orange hair and cheerful expression in an early sprite and promotional art style

Princess Daisy Costume — Frequently Asked Questions

Princess Daisy’s signature look is her yellow and orange ballgown with daisy flower detailing at the neckline and waist, worn with short white satin gloves, a princess crown, and daisy flower earrings. Her hair is styled in a voluminous deep auburn or orange shade. A purpose-made Princess Daisy costume dress covers the core of the build, with the princess cosplay wig, satin gloves, daisy earrings, light-up LED princess crown, and orange high heels completing the look. A toddlers’ and girls’ version of the costume is also available.

Princess Daisy is the princess of Sarasaland, first appearing in Super Mario Land on the Game Boy in 1989 as a character kidnapped by the alien villain Tatanga and rescued by Mario. Since her debut she has become a recurring fan favourite across Mario Kart, Mario Party, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, and the Olympic Games spinoffs. She is characterised as energetic, spirited, and tomboyish — a contrast to Princess Peach — and is closely associated with Luigi across the spinoff games. Her yellow, orange, and daisy white colour palette is one of the most immediately recognisable in the Mario universe.

Princess Daisy’s most famous and most quoted line is her cheerful self-introduction: “Hi, I’m Daisy!” — delivered with the bright, confident energy of someone who considers her own arrival excellent news. The line has become one of the most affectionately quoted moments in Mario gaming culture. Her competitive victory lines in Mario Kart and Mario Party, including “Oh, did I win?” and various exclamations of cheerful triumph, are the full in-character register for a Halloween event. The correct Daisy approach is confident, warm, and entirely certain of her own excellence without being remotely unpleasant about it.

Yes. The core of the build is a purpose-made Princess Daisy costume dress available as a dedicated purchase, making the foundation straightforward. The princess cosplay wig, short satin wedding gloves, daisy earrings, light-up LED princess crown, and orange high heels complete the adult build. A toddlers’ and girls’ version is also available, making this one of the most accessible family-friendly gaming costume builds available. Total cost typically runs $50 to $100 depending on which pieces are already owned.

Princess Daisy first appeared in Super Mario Land on the Game Boy in 1989 and has since appeared across a wide range of Mario spinoffs including multiple Mario Kart and Mario Party entries, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Strikers, and the Olympic Games titles. She also appeared as an unlockable echo fighter of Princess Peach in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Her most consistent appearances are in the sports and party spinoffs, which has contributed to her reputation as one of the franchise’s most athletic and competitive characters and a particular favourite among fans who prefer her energetic personality to Peach’s more traditional princess register.