My costume was an easy catch once I bought the jacket from a used clothing store. To design my costume I bought plastic beetles, green hair spray, face makeup, the jacket, a tie, black leggings and black heels. It was kind of a girly way to do beetlejuice and something ive never seen a girl … Read more
My boyfriend and I were really big into Angry Birds when we first started dating. The sorority I am in has a casual Halloween party every year. We wanted something recognizable and creative, but also comfy and not over-the-top. All we did was dress in the color of our bird. Then, I made hats to … Read more
My friend and I had no clue what we were going to be for Halloween until she watched the movie Wayne’s World and was in need of a Wayne! We went out to our local thrift shop and our own closets until we collaborated the coolest Wayne and Garth costumes! My costume consisted of a … Read more
My roommates and I were trying to figure out a cheap costume for Halloween. We decided to do duct tape dresses and thought it be funny to do four locos. So we bought different color duct tape and got to wrapping, which was the hard part. After we were all taped up, we cut ourselves … Read more
The main focus of this Ke$ha costume was the makeup! She is a messy girl, so I did messy make up, with of course, a lot of glitter, and blue lipstick! I slept with my hair in about 100 braids, so it was wild when I woke up! I added about 50 feathers to my … Read more
I did this Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer couple costume with my friend from work for a “Christmas themed” costume. She dressed up as a reindeer, and I went to Goodwill and bought over the belly button pants that we’re to short, wore bunchy socks, grandma shoes, huge glasses, and a Goodwill button up … Read more
“I’m going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won’t be back for ten minutes!” So last year me and my husband decided that we wanted to dress up and go to a costume party for the first time together but with costumes being so expensive we almost … Read more
How to make a black and white cow costume? First I searched around my house for black and white items to recycle into my cow costume. I began with a big black plastic garbage bag and wore it as the head of my cow costume. Then I used a large white kitchen garbage bag to … Read more
To create this Cave-Woman and Cave-Man Couple Costume: You need to hit up a few thrift stores. The skin tight leopard dress was found at a thrift store as a ladies long leopard print dress. Cut garment to look torn and wild. I used leather strips to “sew” my dress to myself. It should be tight and … Read more
I used this Buzz Lightyear Costume 2 years ago in Brazil. This costume was made with several rubber parts. We had the job of separating the armor parts, cut and paste the pieces. The concept was pretty simple, but to execute parts so stay equal to the Buzz was more laborious, almost dramatic. When we finished this first … Read more
This elephant costume was the first costume I ever made. I dived in and started, having no idea what I was doing! I love elephants, and I had the box idea from primary school when we made cars out of a box, and a helmet out of paper mache. So I paper mached half of … Read more
On occasion I get a creative burst, and without planning just dive into my project! I am a fan of trial and error, I don’t really like following a guide or recipe. I started this crocodile costume with the head, using cardboard as a base with a hot glue gun, then paper mâchéing to get the right shape. For … Read more