For this Stitched-Up Prom Queen costume and Makeup, you’ll need: Liquid Latex Tissue Paper Liquid Eyeliner or charcoal powder BLACK Ben Nye Death Wheel Ben Nye Stage blood Ben Nye Thick Blood Urban Decay “Naked” Pallette Castor Sealer Barrier Spray Spirit gum Nose and scar wax Steps for Applying the Makeup Using the Urban Decay … Read more
My favorite color is pink and cats are my favorite animal. So what could be more purrfect than me being my own version of the Pink Panther for Halloween! And after seeing me as the Hot Pink Panther, a local private investigator paid me to dress up in it again to represent him at a … Read more
My boys wanted to be Zombies for Halloween, but they didn’t want a store bought costume that others were also wearing that same night. I gathered all the supplies I needed, including toilet paper, paste, face paints, brushes, and black eye shadow. You clean the area of the face and remove facial hair, because sometimes … Read more
This Glam Meets Gore costume took me about an hour and a half to create. I am an aspiring Special FX Makeup Artist, trying to build my portfolio, so I usually just sit at home and practice on myself. Products Needed to Recreate This Look Liquid Latex Tissue Paper Ben Nye Nose and Scar Wax Ben … Read more
Here’s our cool homemade couple costume – Pikachu and Ash. The Pikachu costume is made from a yellow dress, heels, and a Pikachu headband/tail combo sold on Ebay. The cut-outs in the dress make it so you don’t need to add the brown stripes that Pikachu has on his back, but those could also be … Read more
Our son was born rather large and rather furry. Daddy was concerned that he was a wolf boy. I assured him that it would all fall out quickly, and of course it did, now our son is the most handsome. But, we still had to play off the idea of wolf boy for his 1st … Read more
Elsa transforms into a tiny ‘The Dude’ this Halloween. Unfortunately, store bought costumes for girls are typically pretty limited, so I’ve made costumes for Elsa since her first Halloween. We’ve had a lot of fun with unique costumes — Team Zissou member, Rosie the Riveter – since she’s not quite at the age to choose … Read more
Since I was pregnant with my first son, I have made family costumes every year. This will be the 5th year! I’m not a sewer but I always end up with creative costumes! The sushi family costumes were fun to make. For the kids, I got some foam from the craft store and rolled it, … Read more
I saw this costume on the internet and thought it would be funny for our local costume competition. As soon as she walked in everyone looked. I framed the upper body using foam poster board to keep it light. I cut slots to feed a belt through to hold the torso frame in place. The … Read more
My husband and I were inviting to a disco themed Children’s Hospital Fundraiser party and he didn’t want to just go dressed in a standard disco outfit. So I came up with the idea of being the Bee Gees and he got 2 of his friends to go along with it. We decided on an … Read more
My husband loves the Swedish Chef and likes to imitate him from time to time. His favorite skit is the one with the lobster. So for Halloween, we decided it would be fun to have him act out the character, and in a play on my red hair, I of course had to be the … Read more
I love dressing up for Halloween, but the one thing I always wanted to be was MEDUSA! But I could never figure out how on earth to do it. The most challenging part was her snake hair. Rubber snakes were too heavy to use, plus costly. Store bought Medusa snake hair looked cheap and fake. … Read more