It seemed a little ambitious at first to create LED-lit Jellyfish costumes that would be believable and funny, yet cute. But I am so pleased with how they turned out and we really were the hit of the party (many parties) on Halloween. Here’s how I made them: I started by purchasing two felt cowboy … Read more
This year I decided to make a bubble bath costume for Halloween. I wanted something fun and unique so thought this would be perfect. My inspiration came from the Lady Gaga ‘bubble’ costume while adding my own twist. I started by making the ‘bubbles’, some of which being clear plastic ornaments and others being Styrofoam … Read more
We searched and searched for ideas that nobody else has really done too often, I had watched the movie Immortals and said I wanted that helmet Poseidon wears. Then came the idea to create the entire costume and I searched whom his lover was, it ended up being Medusa. My girlfriend searched for ideas on … Read more
We are bodybuilders, so we wanted to wear a costume that will show our hard work with our physique. Instead of doing something popular such as superheros, we wanted to do something unique and don’t see often. We decided to buy leopard bedsheets and create our own Tarzan and Jane costume. We cut the bedsheets … Read more
My boyfriend Ian and I have been together for just over two years and we have always made our own costumes. So far we have dressed up as Pebbles and Bam bam, and John Smith and Pocahantas, so I definitely wanted to keep the couples theme going for this year. Ian actually came up with … Read more
I am super proud of two parts to this Medusa costume – the headpiece and the boots. Both took me days to create. For the headpiece, I took at long wig and braided two strands of hair with a pipe cleaner (So I could bend them afterwards). Once this was done, I sewed pieces of … Read more
This costume was all last minute! I rushed over to the second hand store and found and old baggy nightgown in the women’s department, then sprinted back home to start my masterpiece! First I changed the length! Then fixed the size and altered the bust! Added some elastic inside the waist line so it looked … Read more
This Bud Lightyear costume was such an easy costume to make. I already had a Bud Light shirt that I cut, but you can just tape a Bud Light symbol onto your chest too. I bought Buzz Lightyear inflatable wings at a costume store for $10. I used purple and green duct tape, and at … Read more
After brainstorming for hours and being drawn to my favorite 90s characters, it finally hit me what would be the perfect costume; Lola Bunny! I was absolutely obsessed with both Michael Jordan and Space Jam. I felt a special connection with the sassy Lola and decided to get to work. I used a boys’ football … Read more
My boyfriend (Ethan) and I (Amber) are HUGE Halloween fans! We love to go all out for our costumes and knew that we had to come up with something over-the-top this year! I was inspired by a Matt Valentine character on an episode of Face Off, and we created an Ice Cream Man and Candy … Read more
We did this look for the Toronto Zombie Walk this year. It’s a masquerade look with half zombie, half skeleton makeup. :) Male: I used dollar store vampire teeth (cut the fangs off) to build a prosthetic mouth piece using toilet paper and liquid latex. Once dried, I added some smokers tooth makeup, plus brown … Read more
After watching the most recent X-Men movie, I was completely in love with the character Mystique and decided I had to be her for Halloween. I googled Mystique for days and scanned through 100s of pictures to find which ones I would like to use for my Mystique costume. I also looked at other peoples’ … Read more