Yes, my husband and I are dorks. We are well aware! One of our favorite movies is Ghostbusters so we wanted to be characters from that movie. We figured there would be many others who dress up in the typical Ghostbuster suit with proton pack so we wanted to do something different. We loved the … Read more
I made this great Ghostbuster costume from things around the house for my son. It took about a week. starting with a large cardboard box, attaching things from garage and house..such as a tissue box, water bottles, nuts, bolts, plastic rings. I spray painted the entire box black and then embellished with stickers, Christmas lights, added … Read more
My husband and I are HUGE Star Wars fans so for our daughter’s first Halloween our first idea was, of course, Princess Leia. All of the baby Leia costumes online weren’t really out of our budget range, but I just had the feeling that I could make a successful baby princess Leia costume myself. I … Read more
I simply LAYERED athletic tape you can buy at any CVS/Wallgreens etc. I looked at a picture of Leeloo from the movie and put the tape exactly where she had it. White booty shorts and tape is the only thing on my body. I bought a small blonde bob wig and spray painted it orange. I … Read more
I love the movie Avatar and decided to do a homemade version of the female Avatar costume, since the store brand doesn’t have sizes that fit tall people too well… (I’m 5’11). 1. I ordered a light blue unitard from a dance distributor, and I painted over it with a mixture of dark blue and … Read more
When you think classics, you think Back to the Future. We decided to Fly from Chicago to Las Vegas for Halloween, and wanted to walk the strip with a good costume. We made the right choice! Marty McFly and Doc Brown couple costume! Everyone stopped walking to take a picture with us, like we were … Read more
My fiance and I were in college (thus on a tight budget) but this Tron Legacy couple costume was awesome, and anyone who has seen the movie was really impressed! It was also comfortable for us both, which is always a plus. Supplies: Men’s costume-Long sleeve t-shirt, black sweatpants, black boots, blue painter’s tape, black paper … Read more
After seeing the Avatar movie and absolutely loving it, my friend and I decided we HAD to dress up in real life Avatars halloween couple costumes for Halloween. There were a lot of full costumes that you could just buy, but we wanted to make ours original. We started by looking through our closets for … Read more
For Halloween me and my friends decided we wanted to do something completely different. I came up with the idea of a group alien costume. I wasn’t quite sure how we were going to pull it off. Things we used to make the costume: Black maxi dress Light Green latex paint Darker green water based body … Read more
My two year old daughter decided she wanted to be an alien for Halloween, after watching E.T and other alien movies, so thought we’d try to make our own child alien costume rather than buy one. I bought blue and black water based body paint and white glow in the dark face paint for face … Read more
This ultimate Spaceballs group costume was made up of Lord Helmet, Princess Vespa’s stunt double, a Space Ball Trooper, and Barf. We picked characters based who we looked like and what people would recognize. PS princess Vespa did not look like a man but we thought it would be funnier. Barf had made his costume … Read more
This X-Wing fighter pilot costume is really simple and pretty cheap to make. Firstly I “borrowed” an orange overall/boiler suit from work and some 20mm black webbing, it was on a roll and I used about 4m of it. I also “borrowed” some flexible ribbed pipe about 1m in length. Next I bought two of … Read more