We made this Kick-Ass and Hit Girl couples costume! I found the green sweatpants at a thrift store, bought a green ski mask and used yellow electrical tape to make the stripes for the Kickass costume. For Hit Girl I had the purple thermal. Bought purple leggings and the cape. I made the belt buckle … Read more
By far the easiest part of this simple and easy dark Phoenix Costume was buying the red catsuit as the base of it all. Afterwards, I went to my local fabric store and purchase gold Lycra fabric. Using the computer, I found a photo of the phoenix and hand drew the emblem onto the fabric … Read more
After doing some brainstorming for my costume I decided that I wanted to go with a classic Halloween monster and be Frankenstein. Unbeknownst to me my boyfriend had wanted to do a costume as a couple. When I told him what I wanted to be, he simply said “I guess that means I am going … Read more
My family and I had just finished the X Men series and were OBSESSED with it to say the least! It was a given what we were going to be for Halloween! The Cast: Magnito – Dad Storm – Mom (me) Wolverine – my son Mystique – my daughter For Magnito, I recycled my husband’s … Read more
These X- Men Costumes: Wolverine and Mystique took months to plan. My husband and I used these costumes for two Halloweens, because of the time we had put into them. We started by making the full spandex body suit for Mystique costume, I then used fabric paints to add all of the scales to the … Read more
Last year I decided to be Mystique from X-Men. I didn’t just want to paint myself blue and wear a bikini though. I wanted to be HARD CORE and make prosthetic pieces and look like Rebecca Romijn in the movies. After all, I was going to Heidi Klum’s Halloween Party in Las Vegas and only … Read more
My second Homemade Iron Man Costume which is the MKV, which is the Extremis armor from the comic book series. But this build is the movie version of the Extremis. Only a hand full of leaked photos. I decided to create the Very first MKV Extremis movie armor. taken to the children hospital and done … Read more
I’m wearing the Homemade Iron Man Heavy Artillery Costume. It’s a different suit from the red and gold Iron Man suit you see in the movie. The reason why I chose this suit is because I’m a big guy, and this armor is more tank-like than the movie and comic book version. It fits my … Read more
My girlfriend and I were watching X-men origins and thought since people always tell me I look like Liev Schreiber, what the heck? I’ll be Sabretooth! So, the next decision, who would she be? And who would get the MOST attention? Mystique, of course! And then there’s Vince, he always has crazy hair and different … Read more
You can’t just come up with costumes like this overnight! We started by upping our gym regiments four months before Halloween. But other than that, here is how we developed the Homemade X Men Wolverine and Mystique Costume. Wolverine – The claw-things are made of wood, we could not use anything that could be mistaken … Read more
Here on this Frankie and Freak Costume you can see i slapped on one of those latex prostetics for my face and painted it green. Then I cut up some black patent leather fabric and some shorts. As for Frankie’s freak, she bought an outfit and we made some minor adjustments like the iron on … Read more
This Homemade Bride of Frankenstein Costume became the largest undertaking costume wise I’ve encountered, from my initial sketches to finished product it took 60+ hours. It’s also the thing I’m proudest of! I made everything, including the wig, the rest of the costume involves everything from working nuts and bolts (I was bolted into costume … Read more