Every year my friends and I do a group costume. We’re all in-shape, have creative spirits, and all commit to a theme even when it leaves some of us looking a little silly or hidden (as with last year when I ended up the Orko in our Masters of the Universe group because I one … Read more
This Halloween I created my first couples costumes! When my boyfriend and I first met this year we bonded over our love of video games. Together, we would play the villains and superheroes fighting game “Injustice.” After playing for a while we realized that he looked like the Joker! So, we came up with the … Read more
I play in an adult competitive dodgeball league in West Hollywood where the names of the teams are usually some fun pun (like What Would Jesus Dodge or Game of Throws). This season my team decided to be a costumed mash-up of the English TV show Absolutely Fabulous and Marvel Comic characters calling ourselves Absolutely … Read more
My boyfriend is a high school special education teacher in Brooklyn, New York. Once he decided to grow out his hair to donate, all of his students started telling him how much he looked like Thor and well, they were all right. He decided to be Thor for Halloween to try to inspire his students … Read more
I first purchased a green bustier on eBay for $7. I then went to a fabric store and purchased 2 yards of fabric for the skirt $2. I also visited Michaels arts and crafts for the leaves, and some green glitter spray paint. I spray painted just a few leaves and sewed them onto the … Read more
I just take a old red t-shirt an cut off the sleeves, take another t-shirt but green and cut the sleeves and put them in the red t-shirt, I bought yellow and black fabric for the coat, belt, wristbands. Cut all the pieces, sew them and ready to go. The most difficul part is pick … Read more
I have always loved TMNT ever since I was a kid, so I thought it was finally time to be a ninja turtle this year. I’m not sure what motivated me, perhaps I saw a cheesy attempt at a turtle costume and thought I could do better, or perhaps I saw a thanksgiving turkey pan … Read more
This is my last minute women’s Harvey Dent/ Two Face costume. The hair was the easy part, I have asymmetric hair and so I pinned the shorter side into a quiff and kept it pinned down. The other side was sprayed with grey colour spray and left in its natural curly and unruly state. The … Read more
I’ve been a fan of the Avengers for over a year now, and I’ve always had a soft spot for Loki. In the Avengers, Loki does have a good heart and good intentions, but he portrays them in a villainous way, and because of that he is very misunderstood. I can definitely relate to that, … Read more
My costume evolved from an idea a band I was listening to one night gave to me. They were telling me they were sponsoring a costume contest on Halloween, and then told me how they were all going to dress up. All the band members were going to come as their individual versions of mad … Read more
So it all started one night in June… I was mindlessly wandering through Pinterest and I started to think about what I should be for Halloween (big jump… I know). I asked my boyfriend if he had any ideas, to which he stopped playing his Batman game on the Xbox and thought for a second: … Read more
We started talking about Halloween sometime in August. When I asked my son what he wanted to be he had a million different ideas. He would change his mind on a daily basis. Finally, he settled on (and stayed with), a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Donatello to be exact! Since this would be his 4th … Read more