I decided to mimic a Lady Gaga Costume from the outfit Lady Gaga wore to last year’s MTV music video awards. She wore her hair curly and her red lace dress covered her face and had a cape. It also had a tall medieval looking crown. I bought nude fabric and sewed it in a … Read more
One day I was watching music videos and I saw the lil wayne lollipop video. I thought that it would be fun to try and become lil wayne for the night. So after watching the video I gathered things together for the Lil Wayne Costume. First I took brown face paint and put it all … Read more
I wore this Homemade Amy Winehouse Costume for Rock Star day for homecoming week. I’m a high school teacher and one of my students asked if I’d be his escort, so I made it a point to dress up with him for the whole week. We had a “candyland” theme and everyday was a different … Read more
Grammy Award-winning Hip Hop artist, T-Pain, created some buzz with his “Big A$$ Chain” jewelry so I decided to go one step further. This homemade T Pain costume took me 2 weeks to complete.
I came up with the Homemade Lady Gaga Costume after watching the video “Just Dance”. I love that song! I bought a blonde wig, fake eye lashes, and a zebra dress. I painted a blue lightning bolt with eyeshadow and eyeliner. I also made a rhinestone microphone (not pictured). I think this came out great … Read more
I got the idea for this homemade Michael Jackson “Off the Wall” Album cover costume when I was invited to a Michael Jackson-themed Halloween Party. I thought how cool it would be to make an album, or CD, cover come to life. I picked “Off The Wall” because I wanted to dress up with my … Read more
Each year my adult daughter asks me to make her a unique Halloween costume. This year she is Bjork the pop singer from Iceland who wore her famous swan dress at the 2001 Oscar awards. I made a basic white strapless party dress for the basic form. I then randomly attached yards and yards of … Read more
This is my son in his homemade Little Elvis Halloween costume! To make this, I bought white and red pieces of fabric. Using one of my son’s coats as a pattern guide, I cut out the jacket. I am not an experienced sewer but had got a rough idea from my mom who makes wedding … Read more
Well I may have outdone myself on my Katy Perry from California Girls Music Video Halloween Costume Idea for 2010. I have always made my own costumes, since they seem to be the funniest. This year I decided it had to be something very current and Pop Culture. I also decided it would have to … Read more
This is a homemade Lady Gaga bubble costume from her first tour in 2009! The “bubbles” are made out of plastic balls that people usually put stuff into and use as an ornament for a Christmas tree. I basically raided every craft store in my area for the different sized plastic ornament balls and spent … Read more
The idea for these Homemade California Gurls Candy Costumes came from the “California Gurls” music video by the artist Katy Perry. My friends and I all wanted to be Katy Perry for Halloween because we love her style, so we created our own versions of the characters from the music video. All of the costumes … Read more
I made the infamous Bjork swan dress for Halloween. It was super easy. I took the crinoline that I wore under my wedding dress and took off the top layer of fabric so the tulle was showing. I glued feathers to that and shortened it so that it would be the right length. I wore … Read more