Our group costume was KISS, we dressed up and attended a school dance and won our schools costume contest at JMH. The dresses were black with different silver things sewn on! we got our fathers to paint our faces just like the different members of kiss! it was a very fun costume to be and … Read more
I created this costume while I was doing my hair! I have naturally curly hair and one day it wasn’t cooperating, it just kept getting bigger and bigger! I live in Oregon, so the wet weather doesn’t do curly hair Amy favors. I was silently cursing my genetics when I thought, trying to find the … Read more
So I’m a 45 yr old KISS fanatic.I eat, sleep, live, KISS. I saw them when I was 13 and that was it. I must of said more than a 1000 time that I wanna be Gene Simmons, “The Demon” and my wife finally said ,” Just do it already!”So a couple of weeks before Halloween my wife and … Read more
I wanted to be an iconic woman in history and create a glamorous, sexy costume. I researched Marie Antoinette and found that she had been beheaded and that triggered all the ideas for my costume. It took me a week to create it. I used duct tape, spray foam insulation, 3 sticks, a can, a … Read more
The idea and inspiration for this costume came from my daughter who enjoys trick or treating and one of my favorite rock ‘n’ roll bands, KISS. So the first year was just to get involved, makeup and a wig. My daughter and I had such a good time, it was then I decided to actually … Read more
Spent a couple months assembling our costumes. We used as our sources eBay, Walmart, hobby lobby, Walgreens, Halloween City and everyone’s closet. The shoulder pads came from a renaissance festival leather crafter. Silver duct tape added flair to plain black boots and leggings. Both wigs were adapted to work for kiss. Imitation leather pants and … Read more
Easy for Robin Thicke, we used a black suit and put white duct tape on for the pin stripes, and bought black aviators and gold jewelry at the local salvation army. Then we blow dried Tom’s hair to give it the fluffy flow like Robin Thicke’s. For the Miley costume, I used clear rubberbands to … Read more
WRECKING BALL: I used 3 different sized hula hoops from the Dollar Store. I hung them them using string to be sure the ball was the right length. I then cut and taped strips of cardboard vertically over the hula hoops to give it a rounded shape. I taped thin wire under each cardboard strip … Read more
The best part for me is the end result, how easy it was to put together! Everyone loved it, I painted his face to look more like Einstein eyebrows, mustache and laugh lines, with eyeliner and white Halloween makeup the outfit was a mix and match of things he had in his closet already! Not … Read more
Being the huge Michael Jackson fan that I am I decided to re-create the outfit he wore in the “Remember the Time” video. It was a bit harder than I anticipated but turned out wonderful and got lots of compliments. Starting off with the shirt. Where the heck was I going to find a long … Read more
Was good last year and better this year. Did Remember the Time for all the die hard MJ fans. This years outfit was so much more detailed and hard to find. Took me over a month to get the peices worked out so they looked just like the outfit he had on in the spectacular … Read more
After building several other large originals thru the years, I thought how about the one costume that has it’s own song but rarely ever seen ? It’s an oldie but a goodie, throw back Halloween, the Monster that started it all, the 1 eyed, 1 horned, flying purple people eater. So I listened to the … Read more