Lots of fabric, feathers and glitter ! I made the tail using peacocks feather, I used real acrylic paint for my head and face and hot glued a cut up rubber chicken beak onto my face. I went all out and enjoyed every second of it., until it was night time and got cold. I … Read more
This year’s costume was my wife’s choice. We have always been into the Day of the Dead but never thought to dress up as that style. So we began our research to get ideas and inspiration for our costumes. We found lots of great sugar skull face paintings but, fell in love with the half face sugar skull … Read more
The most fun I’ve had at uni was definitely my zombie Smurf night for Halloween. It was a last minute idea but got really good reactions off everyone and really simple to do. Just beware of leaving blue hand prints all over the place! Very easy to make- just blue t shirt and white plain … Read more
I made this costume out of a Forever 21 dress that was like 9.99. It was a black tight dress with one sleeve. I bought fake leafs, different type of greens. I got them at the Dollar Tree store. I used rhinestones, and gold glitter, lots of glitter! I used a hot glue gun to … Read more
I was so confused on to what I wanted to be for Halloween. After weeks of searching, I finally decided that I wasn’t going to go out of my way and spend a great load of money, so off to the thrift store I went! I ended up finding a costume that was a gypsy … Read more
For this creepy Zipper Face Halloween costume for a boy, you will need: Flesh colored zipper (Hobby Lobby) Coffee Filter(s) Salon Airbrush Leg MakeUp Spray(Target) Fake blood Halloween Liquid Latex I used the latex to attach the zipped part of the zipper down the bridge of his nose. I then used the latex to attach … Read more
My boyfriend and I love Halloween so we decided to dressed up as Frankensteins monster and the Bride of Frankenstein. We went to Value Village and got our clothing. I got an old wedding dress, which I cut up, and shredded. By boyfriend bought a used suit, and an extended forehead wig which we had … Read more
Back in early elementary school a song circulated around that thoroughly freaked out my daughter, “China Doll, in the hall, gonna chop your head off.” This year we saw a costume for just that in a catalog, but it did not REALLY look like an old doll. So, being the crafty folks we are we … Read more
It was difficult making this Sweet Transvestite Dr. Frank-N-Furter costume from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I have been wanting to do this since I first saw the movie. Having to piece the costume together one at a time was probably the most difficult, because I wanted each piece to be perfect. Well, the day … Read more
Our little girl has been a bit of a DC Universe fan ever since her uncles got her the Fisher-Price DC Little People. One of those Little People was, of course, The Joker. Although you and I know that The Joker is a bit of a terrible person, she took to his fun look and … Read more
This Silver Surfer Halloween Costume was a fairly last minute costume but it did the job and is definitely one of my favorites. I was the only silver surfer I saw that night and we went to a huge warehouse Halloween party and I got lots of turned heads, and “hey look at the silver surfer!” … Read more
Lots of hours in this get up, not sure how many! The armor started out as an old set of shoulder pads, added some cardboard spikes, chains, and paint! Homemage cod piece with some glitter type material from the craft section. The arm piecs are a cut up auto shade! Pair of black spandex type … Read more