Costumes are definitely not just for young kids in this collection of teen and adult costume ideas.
Are you buttoned up at work? Do people know you as the class clown? Whatever your regular identity, feel free to switch it with something else. Cleverly disguise yourself so that even your relatives won’t recognize you. You will find ideas here to reveal your inner thoughts and ideas.
Many adults take on kids themes, like Harry Potter. In addition, Disney princesses and villains are always popular. Specially Ursula the Sea Witch which makes for a magnificent and instantly recognizable costume.
Maybe you are more of a zombie fan? If so, take a look at the compelling ways you can transform your face. These are definitely not for the faint of heart!
In conclusion, whatever your number is attached to your age, Halloween doesn’t discriminate. Create a fantastic costume and share it with us! We’d love to see what you come up with.
Hello my name is Beth and I am a makeup artist in training from the East coast. I decided last minute to do a Two Face costume, for Batman has been my latest fandom and I’m up for a challenge. The original two-face Halloween costume idea came from a You-Tuber who had made a male … Read more
It has always been my dream to be The Mask character, and for the last 30 years now I have been making all my dream characters a reality, mostly horror. But also a lot of characters well that are non-horror such as this one! I started by making the mask out of silicone and then … Read more
Owls are my favorite animals so I thought it would be a good idea to try to make a DIY Owl costume. It took 8 long hours of hot gluing feather by feather onto a plain black skater dress and making the head piece with just a headband and feathers. The makeup used was just … Read more
I am a pharmacist and work for Walgreen’s so when someone suggested I do something work related for the office costume contest, a prescription bottle costume immediately came to mind. It came together easier than I thought it would, and only cost me about $30 in supplies and about 6 hours of my life. I … Read more
My friend Ben wanted a Hippo Halloween costume, so I whipped up the most ridiculous, haggard hippo costume you’ve ever laid eyes on. I don’t have a sewing machine, so I hand sewed this bad boy in between watching Modern Family reruns, checking Facebook, and kind of reviewing for midterms, so needless to say it’s … Read more
My boyfriend and I went as a unicorn and dragon couple costume for Halloween! I actually started our costumes last year, but a rogue blizzard rolled in and cancelled our party plans in 2011. Anyone could easily be a mythical creatures couple! For starters, I don’t have a sewing machine, so I kind of just … Read more
This sexy Sheriff costume started as a sheriff costume for a walking dead party. I decided to turn it into a sexy version for a club party. I bought the shirt and shorts from the thrift store. The shirt fortunately was a men old military shirt. I bought brown ribbon and gold ribbon from Walmart … Read more
To make this original duct tape Duck Halloween costume get many roles of yellow duct tape and begin forming about 3-4ft in length rows, and double siding it (make sure to it very carefully because duck tape is very hard to pull off when stuck). Then cut out two oval shapes (this will be the … Read more
This is my Chef Boyardee costume, it was pretty easy to make. I already had the chefs and just printed the logo and stapled it to the hat. I bought 4 large piece of red poster board and used staples and red tape to make the can and printed a large logo and taped it … Read more
This Human Pinata costume was fairly easy to make, just time consuming, I used scrubs with pockets in pants and on shirt to hold candy and with the shake of a leg it will fall out. I used the glue gun to attach the cut up strips of material that I fringed. The head is made out … Read more
I really wanted to be some sort of character from my childhood favorite movies, video games, etc. I decided on a sexy Buzz Lightyear Halloween Costume, even though I didn’t have a Woody (though it didn’t even matter). There was no way I was going to buy a $60+ costume and I knew I could … Read more
After a long thought process and years of wanting to do a couple’s costume I finally picked a sexy Adam and Eve couples Halloween costume. We used old biker shorts (for Adam) and an old bra and pair of shorts for myself. We purchased lots of leaves from Michael’s and Walmart. With a hot glue … Read more