Here’s how I made this Bane costume: Materials: Brown shirt Black military pants Waist harness Mask materials (read below) Vest (read below) MASK: To make the Bane mask to look accurate but not Cosplay quality, I started with an old 3M respirator mask that I had and cleaned and disassembled it to leave only the … Read more
On October 25th, 2014, I was transformed into Two Face from Batman. I got the inspiration from going to Comic Con in Chicago with my nieces a few months back. It was my first time and I couldn’t believe how awesome it was and all the cool costumes everyone went all out on. After talking to my … Read more
My friend and I by far had the best costumes of the night. When my friend chose to be the Joker, it wasn’t long before I thought of being the infamous 2 Face. Not only did over a hundred people ask to take pictures with us, we were literally celebrities. Girls would scream and flinch … Read more
When I asked my son what he wanted to be he screamed Superman. So I started my search and although I found some costumes, I didn’t think any of them were all that cute. Then I got the idea to do Clark Kent. All I needed was khakis, which my son had, a superman shirt, … Read more
I saw the new TMNT movie and said I wanted to bring ninja rap back. I stared with my gloves. Took half inch green foam from Jo Anne fabrics and traced my hands out. I cut and sown them together. After I made sure it was a sure tight fit I stared to reinforce the … Read more
Materials used for this homemade Penguin costume: Man’s suit White dress shirt Bow tie White gloves Silver vest/cumber bun and hankie Top hat Monocle “Cigarette” Umbrella My sister was Penguin for Halloween 2013. This was the easiest costume to put together. We bought a man’s suit coat at the thrift store and she wore black … Read more
Our 5-year-old wanted to be Two-Face for Halloween 2013 and it was the most fun to put together. We found most everything at the thrift store (suit jacket and pants, tie, dress shirt) and only had to purchase the spray paint at Home Depot. Materials Needed: Child’s “business suit” White long-sleeved dress shirt Suit vest … Read more
For Halloween 2013, we went as a group of Batman characters. We were (from left) Penguin, Batman, Bane, Two-Face, Robin, and Poison Ivy. We had such a great time putting these together and everyone loved the result! We also created a Batmobile (1960s era) out of our garden cart. It’s made out of cardboard, red … Read more
This has been the hardest but the most funnest costume I have ever made. I started it 4 months before Halloween, most of which was done at work (which I shall call jo’s car rental). I had watched video after video of how to do this with so many different mediums. But money rendered me … Read more
I absolutely am a huge Batman fan… Like in love with him :) so I thought who else just loves batman and is obsessed? The Joker! So I decided to be the female joker! I love the character, but there are no good costumes out there for women. So I was on a mission to … Read more
So Halloween is always number one on my list of “I have to impress everyone”. Every single year I completely freak out about not knowing what to be. This year I decided to be something completely different. Normally I am the basic cat or cop, but this year I decided to be Poison Ivy from … Read more
As a bartender you never really have a set schedule, so when my boss called me two days before Halloween and asked me to dress in a Ninja Turtle costume to match the theme of the bar, I threw what I had together! I put a green bra on top of a yellow bra. I … Read more