I told my wife I wanted to a Homemade Gene Simmons Halloween Costume and nothing else. Searched internet for costumes to purchase, found them way too expensive. My wife thought she would be able to make the costume and so we set out to purchase fake leather looking stuff. We purchased the boots and studded … Read more
My friends and I try to come up with a cool costume idea for our group each year. We decided on a Spice Girls Group Costume because it was so convenient for the 5 of us and each character matched our personalities so well! First, we all got head phones, making it more obvious that … Read more
My two roommates and I decided to dress up as the Beastie Boys in their Intergalactic video for Halloween. This Homemade Beastie Boys Costume was really inexpensive and a smash hit. We got white painter suits, safety goggles, and rubber gloves from the hardwear store. We used yellow and black spray paint to paint the … Read more
Here are our homemade Gene, Paul and Ace from KISS costumes for Kids. My kids won contests in our hometown and in a Radio Disney contest in our capital with hundreds of contestants. Here’s what I did for this Homemade Gene, Paul and Ace from KISS Kids Costume: Gene – I took a belt and … Read more
The idea for this LMFAO Golden Robot costume came from my 13 yr old son Kenneth and our love for music. It’s from the popular group LMFAO video Party Rock Anthem. He loves all eyes on him so we knew this would be a good costume to create. Just like last year for Halloween where … Read more
Here is my attempt to become Gene Simmons for a night. I have been a Kiss fan since seeing them in 1978. Everyone loved this Gene Simmons costume.
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
This is our KISS DIY Halloween Costume. For the Demon we found the leather pants, boots, cape, and studded biker jacket at second hand stores. We cut the arms off of the biker jacket to make a vest, and repurposed one of the arm cuffs as a choker collar. We cut the bottom of the … 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
“You wanted the best and you got the best…the hottest band in the world…KISS!” My beautiful wife of nearly 20 years was the best sport in all this. She agreed to help me celebrate my favorite rock band of all time. So here you have it, Homemade Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS Costumes. … Read more
My son wanted to be Gene Simmons from Kiss so here it is. We had bought the wig and ski mask. We spray painted old football shoulder pads as well as a jock strap black which was so funny to see. Then we of course had to bejewel all of these items. We also used … Read more
We most definitely made history this year! Every year since 2004 our office has dressed up. This one particular year we went with the KISS theme. It was a great time, and the only difficult part was trying to get the makeup to look right! The costumes were very simple to make… we all owned … Read more