This is a costume I helped my aunt pull together. All she needed to buy was a nighty, slippers, a wig, contact lenses and food colouring. She mixed green food colouring with porridge and put it on the nighty, like Reagan’s vomit from the movie. That took 2 days to dry. On Halloween day, she … Read more
My boyfriend and I made our own Silent Hill nurse and pyramid head costumes this year. For the nurse dress, I used a XL men’s dress shirt ($10 from Walmart) and took it in to fit better. I then soaked it in tea to make it brown and added accents with brown and black makeup … Read more
I decided to stick with a scary theme and do Jack Nicholson’s character from The Shining, in particular the “Here’s Johnny!” scene. Since I am a woman I challenged myself to paint his face onto mine. I went with a comic black and white approach and used black and white paint only with gray eye shadows. … Read more
This year I decided to dress my son up in a Chucky costume. He loves horror films. I couldn’t find a toddler Chucky costume so I decided to create my own! I purchased the overalls and plain white shirt at Target. I then hand painted the stripes with fabric markers that I purchased at Michaels. … Read more
We are always inspired to make our own costumes, and love doing it. This year Silent Hill inspired us. It took us five to six days out of our busy life to make these Silent Hill Pyramid Head and Faceless Nurse costumes. It was fun and not too terribly hard! We won our local contest … Read more
This is Mia, who came up with the idea of being “Annabelle” for Halloween this year. We purchased an old dress and basically reconstructed it to look like Annabelle’s dress in “Annebelle” and “The Conjuring”. We decided to put a lot of emphasis on her makeup, to make sure she had the definition of a … Read more
I normally do very sexy costumes, but this year I decided to try the scary look. My boyfriend and I decided to do Mr. and Mrs. Freddy Krueger. I loved it. I put a slash on my face using scar putty and then two other marks on my neck. My boyfriend did his very own … Read more
For 20 some odd years, both Kyle and I dreaded Halloween. As kids, we grew up with the standard drugstore costumes: a plastic face mask with a thin elastic strap that was sure to break 10 minutes after putting it on, eye-holes that restricted 70% of your vision, and a plastic suit with your favorite character … Read more
Last year I was SHARKNADO. It devastated the party and caused chaos and mayhem that lasted days. This year – the zombie apocalypse was in full effect. I never thought I would like The Walking Dead but once I started watching it this past summer, I was hooked! I decided to be Daryl Dixon from The … Read more
My Halloween costume this year was inspired by the suspense horror film The Birds directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1960s. I found the suit at my local Goodwill for $5.99. It wasn’t the color I needed so I purchased green apple fabric dye from Walmart and dyed it to more closely replicate Tippy Hedren’s suit … Read more
This costume is based on the look of Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th, Part 7: The New Blood. I bought the skin and bones from latex hobbyists and did everything else myself. This is how I made the Friday the 13th Part 7 Costume: The skin and bones were attached to my undergarments with … Read more
For the Chucky costume, first I bought striped fabric and Red fabric from the fabric store, each one yard for $2.50 and sewed and seamed it together and with the extra left over fabric, I added it to the bottom of the overalls. Second, I ordered the wig from eBay for 12 dollars. The overall … Read more