When I finally decided to make my son Gene Simmons around the beginning of October I thought I better get started! My brother in law helped me with the shoes for this costume we made them out of styrofoam. He got two cubes of styrofoam to glue together to be big enough to be able … Read more
Typically my husband and I choose a couples-themed costume, but when he chose to be Ryan Gosling’s character from “Drive,” I knew I was on my own. I look forward to putting together a costume each year, and not simply buying a pre-made packaged one. After weeks of racking my brain, I finally came up … Read more
I’ve always had a long tongue and for years people said I should dress up as Gene Simmons. In 2010, I finally did. I wanted to make the costume myself but only had a day to do so. With some luck, a “build wings” tutorial found online, one pair of (incredibly uncomfortable but totally worth … Read more
It started off as an idea last month after I went to see KISS live at the Comcast Center in Massachusetts with my good friend. I thought, you know, I’d love to dress up as him this year. So after conducting a Facebook poll with my friends, I decided I would make a Paul Stanley … Read more
I am a rocker at heart, so when I was trying to decide what to dress as for Halloween, which is undeniably my favorite holiday of the year, I let myself get a little bit inspired by a story from my dad’s childhood. When he was in middle school, he and some of his friends … Read more
I painted some football shoulder pads for this KISS Gene Simmons Costume, the elbows are roller blade pads painted. The spikes are manila folders taped together and spray painted. The chest is from an old Batman costume that I cut out and spray painted.
This is my 9yr.old son Justin. He has been a BIG KISS fan since he was three. I started dressing him up on Halloween as Paul. We had so much fun with it, I decided to have a Paul Love Gun costume made. It was awesome and everybody loved him (Halloween, Kiss expos, and the … Read more
After renting costumes last year as the three little pigs and winning, we had to go over the top and create this years Halloween costumes. So we decided to go as the legendary KISS. Myself and three of my buddies gathered different items to create these unbelievable costumes and won for the 2nd year in … Read more
I’ve been a long time KISS fan and have created many Homemade Gene Simmons and Kiss Group Costumes over the years. My little brother and I, along with a couple of friends, used to put on fake KISS concerts when we were kids for the neighborhood where we lived. However, I think this year’s costume … Read more
This year for Halloween my kids decided to be the rock band Kiss. Here is what I did and used to make the KISS Costumes. Demon child costume: I started out by making some boots to look similar to what the Demon Child’s Dragon boots look like. To make the Dragon boots I started with … Read more
This Homemade Gene Simmons KISS Costume idea came from my 10 year old son. He has always been told he has a Gene Simmons tongue, so, it was inevitable that, one day, he’d wanted to be him for Halloween. The bat wings were made with a black suede material (couldn’t find fake leather) with studs … Read more
I told my wife I wanted to a Homemade Gene Simmons Halloween Costume and nothing else. Searched internet for costumes to purchase, found them way too expensive. My wife thought she would be able to make the costume and so we set out to purchase fake leather looking stuff. We purchased the boots and studded … Read more