With all of the Michael Jackson talk in the news, we decided to pay tribute to the King of Pop. We used a spray painted recycling can with mailbox lettering as a bottle of propofol and pieced together different clothing for MJ. Most of it was already in my closet, so I just needed the … Read more
I was just on the internet one day and happened to see a picture of Richard Simmons pop up in an advertisement. I knew my husband and I had a contest party to go to and thought how funny would that be if my husband would go along with a Homemade Richard Simmons Costume, and … Read more
I got this One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater Costume idea from the song, obviously. It was a hit, although some people didn’t know what it was which boggled my mind. I bought the dress from Forever 21, but any purple dress, or purple attire will work for this. I also purchased purple … Read more
A friend asked if I wanted to go to an “I wish I was….” party as Daft Punk (the 2 french guys who made ‘one more time’ & ‘around the world’). I of course loved daft punk and went to it, it was a first attempt but considering no leather jackets and the time it … Read more
Our Elementary School’s Accelerated Reader theme was Famous Tenneseans. My daughter, aged 6, decided she’d like a Homemade Dolly Parton Costume. We bought a blond curly wig from a Costume store and a hair net. I found a red turtleneck, added a red-fringed suede vest, long denim skirt, red fringed cowboy boots and a concho … Read more
Lil Wayne is one of the most well known music artists in America so I decided I wanted to dress up as him for Halloween, even though I am not a man. First I made my dreads out of a super long black wig I bought from Wal-Mart. I had to piece the wig and … Read more
I got this idea for a Gene Simmons Halloween costume a few months back and started gathering bits and pieces. Here’s a basic run-down of my costume: Bought the wig, just added a band for the “pook”. Bought the make-up for 50 cents from the dollar store that was selling out. Bought 3 pairs of … Read more
We decided to do Kiss this year because they are on tour and we are going to see them in concert. Now we can wear our Homemade Gene Simmons KISS Costume to the concert as well. I made the Gene Simmon’s costume for my husband out of 2 yards of vinyl. I used pictures of … Read more
Costume was designed around my 8 year old daughter’s long tongue. I knew she would be a great Gene Simmons. Making the costume took some time and thought. I used thin cardboard cut out in a scalloped design over and over and glued and stapled them all together and painted silver to make the scales … Read more
I made my Gene Simmons Halloween costume within a week, having first decided that I wanted to recreate his costume from the 1974-75 KISS Alive. I visited a lot of fabric and craft stores and ordered my studs on-line. I was KISS last year and used my old costume as a template, so that saved … Read more
I wanted to do something very original for Halloween this year, and when Lady Gaga wore the meat dress to the VMA’s this year, I thought it was the perfect costume idea. The DIY Lady Gaga meat dress Halloween costume took me about 3 weeks to finish, working about 1 to 2 hours on it … Read more
I made this Mr. T Halloween costume using a bald cap, a sponge cut into a Mohawk, faux fur to make the hair and beard. I then took a foam visor and glued gold rope yarn to it to create the appearance of a think gold necklace. I used brown theatrical make up to change … Read more