This year for Halloween my kids decided to be the rock band Kiss. Here is what I did and used to make the KISS Costumes. Demon child costume: I started out by making some boots to look similar to what the Demon Child’s Dragon boots look like. To make the Dragon boots I started with … Read more
My 11 month old son is in a Grateful Dead Costume dancing bear for his first Halloween. I transformed my old radio flyer into a Volkswagen bus by recycling diaper boxes and then using paper mache and spray paint. I finished it off with some eBay finds and the bus was driven by Jerry Garcia. … Read more
This Homemade Gene Simmons KISS Costume is my friend Andrea. Yes actually it is a girl under all of that drag. In her costume she’s 7ft tall and even glued hair to her chest to make the outfit complete.
My son won first place with best costume from the entire pack at our cub scout pack night. His picture was also featured on genesimmons.com in the ‘your letters’ section and on our pack website. Ever since I met Gene Simmons my son has been in awe with him. He wants to be a rock-star … Read more
Last Halloween my boyfriend and I started brainstorming “couple costume ideas”. Neither of us were huge on the idea of doing a couple costume, but we figured if we came up with something worthwhile, we would do it. I tried thinking of iconic couples or duos, and eventually came up with The White Stripes (Jack … Read more
This Homemade Guns N Roses Axl Rose and Slash Couple Costume is me (Axl) and my now husband (slash) as Guns n Roses a couple of Halloweens ago, the outfits were pretty easy to put together. For Axl, I went to a close thrift store and got a bright Football shirt and white spandex shorts … Read more
The kids and I LOVE Guns N Roses and what better way to show your age than having them dress up like the two main members? My son is Slash. His costume was made simple by using a wig and a homemade top hat we made out of neoprene material from a hand made pattern. … Read more
This Homemade Gene Simmons KISS Costume idea came from my 10 year old son. He has always been told he has a Gene Simmons tongue, so, it was inevitable that, one day, he’d wanted to be him for Halloween. The bat wings were made with a black suede material (couldn’t find fake leather) with studs … Read more
I had started this Homemade Gene Simmons Costume as a joke with black duct tape and silver painted googly eyes for studs, back in February. After the party, I decided to create the real thing with leather and studs. I used two sheets of vinyl fabric, many 8”X12” foam sheets, dozens of pop rivets, and … Read more
Everything on this Homemade KISS Group Costume was made from scratch besides the leggings and two tee-shirts. Paul – the vest was made from faux-leather and the sewn-on sleeves were shiny stretchy leather-ish material with glitter stars. Skirt had black pleather waist band with shiny silver fabric bottom. Silver leather Stars glued on boots and … Read more
Coolest Gene Simmons the Demon Costume. It all started with a theme of “The 70’s” for our at work Halloween Bash, tie dye, hippie, Go-Go Girl, Disco Diva…. Nope none of those had to show everyone up with a little bit of Gene Simmons the Demon. Can’t be Gene without the wig or I ordered … Read more
My sister and I decided to be Axle and Slash from Guns and Roses. She’s wearing a wig that we braided with a big bandana, I teased my hair to no end, bought a fake cigarette and a bunch of metal bracelets from the dollar stores. We both wore Gun’s n Rose’s T-Shirts, add leather … Read more