Saw a voodoo doll costume online and figure I should just make it. Cost: Under $40 Simple dress pattern: $2 Black Yarn: $2 Needle/Thread: $6 Fabric: $7 Petticoat: $12 Black tights: $5 Red felt for heart: $1 I did the whole thing in about 8 hours. Basic understanding of a dress pattern would have helped. … Read more
This was actually a last minute costume. It all started with a failed attempt at making a costume using stilts apperently I do not have balance. So two days before Halloween I searched the house to see what I could come up with. I used an outdoor skeleton and started to tear it apart. I … Read more
inventing my sexy she-devil costume… the husband says a week away from out annual halloween bash… hey babe, you need to be a sexy she-devil for halloween… okay… one week head to the lingere shops, thrift stores, spirit shop & of course my closet… what have we here gonna have to turn my skin red… … Read more
This “bloody gash” face is fairly easy once you get used to working with latex. I used a cream white and green base on my face that dries quickly. I then used black cream base around my eyes and shadow area of face. Next, I poured a small amount of liquid latex into a plastic bowl … Read more
I always try to come up with some type of crazy or different halloween costume, the previous year I wore the illusion costume of the gorilla carrying the safari guy in the cage, it was fun! a cool illusion, I starting to think how I could use the same costume but make changes to it, … Read more
This costume was so grosse looking yet so convincing-got a great response from everyone! All I did was watch a few tutorials and picked the one I liked best. Went to the fabric store bought a zipper. Bought a small bottle of latex and fake blood. I also wore false eyelashes a black leather zipper … Read more
I love Halloween; it’s probably my favourite holiday. I agonized over what my costume would be this year. I knew I wanted my costume to be gory, I wasn’t interested in being cute— it was Halloween after all. Three days before Halloween, after a lot of searching, I decided to go as a Coraline-inspired creepy … Read more
Me and my fellow co-workers worked for 4 days putting our “Dollhouse” together! It took a lot of hard work, but it was so worth it. We glued paper sacks together to make our roof. I was able to borrow some antique dolls from my husbands grandparents which absolutely made the whole project!!! We used … Read more
So I wanted something different for Halloween this year. Every store bought costume I looked at didn’t stand out to me. So after looking at random Halloween pictures online, I got the idea to do a Zombie theme. I told my friend about my idea and she quickly jumped on board with me and the … Read more
My daughter is 8 years old and she thinks about halloween all year round. She knew last year that she wanted to be a headless person. Now how we were going to do it was the trick. We bought a couple long trench coats from a local thrift store. For only $2.00 each we didn’t … Read more
I got the idea about 15 years ago when I saw a guy wearing something similar. I’ve wanted to do this ever since, so I decided this would be the year. I started the costume in mid-September and finished October 20, 2013. The chair is made from cardboard which I measured, cut, folded and constructed … Read more
I looked up a ton of tutorials on how to do Zombie Makeup. I came across one that involoved liquid Laxtex and Tissue paper, so off to the store I went. My boyfriend and I decided that we wanted to shoot up our clothes so we took an entire day to go out and shoot … Read more