I’ve always wanted to be Freddy for Halloween, but I never wanted to wear a mask. This year I took on the challenge of creating a Freddy Kruger from scratch! I did the makeup by first using liquid latex to draw and form many different shapes out onto plastic sheets, and let them dry. Once … Read more
One of my favorite comedies stars George Hamilton as Zorro and Zorro the Gay Blade. The costumes are great in the movie. So I wanted to make one. I started by going to the Thrift Stores and seeing what I could find for the Gay Blade costume. There I found what I needed. I found … Read more
My daughter’s school has a themed Halloween. This year it was Dr. Seuss or Alice in Wonderland. We decided to take on the challenge of Dr. Seuss classic Grinch. The pants are green leggings with green crochet yarn fabric glued to the pants. The top is a long sleeve red shirt with white faux fur … Read more
I dressed up in a headless costume, inspired by ideas from this website. I used a kid-sized roller bag and cut away most of it (including the wheels) so that only the handle and the part that goes against the back remained. Using duct tape I secured the handle up in place, and attached a … Read more
Last Halloween, I was really excited to do this costume, because I always pick a theme for every year. This year’s theme was [“Male Characters as Females.”], one I had chosen to do was [The Joker], so I had to find a way to transform it to look female. I drew it out, then went … Read more
After renting costumes last year as the three little pigs and winning, we had to go over the top and create this years Halloween costumes. So we decided to go as the legendary KISS. Myself and three of my buddies gathered different items to create these unbelievable costumes and won for the 2nd year in … Read more
Part of a trio of goddess costumes I made for teenagers. Athena is the goddess of war and wisdom. She wears a white dress and red Indian blouse from the thrift store. Her armor is all from the Dollar store that I painted and glued jewels to. Athena also cut the head from Medusa to … Read more
In Holland we celebrate the feast ‘Carnaval’ every year. It’s a five day during event and our goal is to have the most original costumes. Last year we were inspired by the movie Alice in Wonderland. We mostly put our costumes together ourselves, except for the Alice dress and Queen of Hearts wig and dress. … Read more
We made these costumes for a Christmas parade in Mt. Pleasant Tennessee. We also made Snoopy’s Dog house, Lucy’s Psych booth and Schroeder’s Piano. We won first place overall and first place for a church. The heads are papier mache, Luc’s dress is a XX-large T-shirt with a ruffle sewn to the bottom and buttons … Read more
I figured I would dress up as her once, just for kicks because I have the face and the legs. 1) Wig 2) Hair buns (scouring pads with the hair wrapped around them — this was the worst — took an hour to do correctly to get them to stay up). Bun covers made of … Read more
To make Anton Chigurh: 1) Guy with uncanny resemblance to Javier Bardem 2) Duct taped pill container to make the cow bolt 3) Clear packing tape over red piece of rolled cloth for the tank tubing 4) Brown shirt from Wal-Mart clearance rack 5) Brown wig 6) Black Wrangler pants from Wal-Mart 7) Old door … Read more
So, at my College, we were organising a Fancy Dress day with the theme of children’s film and TV characters – and I knew I had to go all out with this one. I’ve always loved the Chronicles of Narnia and had seen some great White Witch costumes on the site and thought I’d give … Read more