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.
Wanting to create a cute costume I grabbed my scissors and sewing kit and started turning a big bag of blue felt into a lovely bluebird dress. To add a little flair I grabbed some blue ostrich feathers and a beak. Once I put everything together, the realization was obvious… I was the twitter bird. … Read more
We got a lot of laughs for these crazy Cat Lady and Cats group costumes! For the Crazy Cat Lady I used a pajama with cats on it that I already owned and sewed all my daughter’s stuffed cats all over it. The makeup was inspired by Mimi off the Drew Carey Show. And I … Read more
“I’m a Lady… I do Ladies Things…” It took a while to create this rubbish Transvestites from Little Britain: Emily Howard and Florence Couple Costume for a TV Show fancy dress party. We thought long and hard about how to create it and make it as funny as possible. Obviously, we had a little help from the Little … Read more
This is what you will need to make your fun homemade Ice Cream Cone costume with Jimmies: white cotton sheet or fabric (thrift store, Walmart, fabric store) smaller piece of colored fabric (use old colored t-shirts, scrap packs from a fabric store, or small sections from fabric store rolls) white thread tan skirt (or sew your … Read more
The theme for this fancy dress was ‘bad taste’. Turning up to the event painted blue and yellow wearing swimming flippers and plastic ears definitely fitted the ‘bad taste’ profile.To creative this master piece my creative friend made two full body onsies complete with tails. We utilized swimming flippers for feet, deadly boppers for antenna , used … Read more
I used white make up as a base and a black makeup crayon to draw on all the stripes on her arms, back and chest. For her face, I used special face white base and black face makeup with a brush. The make-up took close to three hours and was a blast. I had never … Read more
We have a Halloween party every year for all our family and friends, and every year I try to come up with something original. Last year I was a bath pouf or scrunchie or whatever you call them! I bought a long sleeved t-shirt and some tulle fabric in the same color. I just sewed the … Read more
I came home from college specifically for Halloween. I knew all along I wanted to be Leeloo, but I didn’t even know where to start. A cheap fashion store had those gold leggings. I bought the orange wig on Ebay and the orange straps came from the Borat penis sling costume (Ingenious)! I had the … Read more
I made this best ever homemade Disco Ball costume using a palates ball from Wal-Mart. I covered it in a t shirt and then paper mache leaving holes at the top and bottom for my body and making sure the deflate hole was accessible. Then after it dried, I deflated the ball and removed it, … Read more
I made this Mr. Stay Puft costume for a yearly Queen Fan Club convention fancy dress night back in 2008. The theme was Halloween, so thought this would be something unlikely for anyone else to do. Starting about 3 months before it was needed and with no plans, all I had was a screenshot of Mr … Read more
We bought the red queen costume. But made his mad hatter costume from scratch except for his hat. We bought everything at goodwill and i hot glued thread spools to 2 belts that he wore across himself. short pants. 2 different socks. a plaid vest butterfly scarf and brown corduroy jacket. Then i took some … Read more
I like to be creative with my costumes and thought it would be cool to make a costume that I could change throughout the night. So I thought of being a paper doll, you know, the ones that come with different clothes. You fold the tabs over the doll to hold the clothes on. My … Read more