I bought the corset and the pants then I spray painted half of it black, I then found the boots in a thrift store and painted one boot red. I bought red and black foam squares and cut diamonds out and glued the red on black and the black on red. as for the giant … Read more
Materials needed: Black corset Hot glue gun Rhinestones (got mine from Hobby Lobby, I used two or three sizes) A couple different kinds of black faux feathers (got mine in packs from Hobby Lobby) Tulle skirt or tutu (mine was from Forever 21) I used LOTS of photos for inspiration, mostly of the actual movie … Read more
American flag bathing suits from American Apparel were the main inspiration for this costume. We paired it with a faux navy leather shirt, a silver belt, red heels, and silver star earrings. To add the party to our costume we made American party hats by gluing blue stared tinsel around shiny silver party hats, added … Read more
I was eight years-old when the Little Mermaid was first released in 1998, and ever since, I have always wanted to be Ariel. This year, as a 31 year-old woman, I decided was time! In the beginning of October, I spent about 5 hours looking up costumes, but all of the pre-made Ariel costumes looked … Read more
True Life: I plan my Halloween costumes at least a year in advance I’d be lying if I said I don’t already have plans for 2014. Last year before I even wore the costume I had worked so hard on the previous year, I said “I’m going to be the Queen of Hearts next year” … Read more
One of my favorite movies of all time is Grease! The 50’s are my favorite decade and this was my year to dress up as my favorite character from Grease, Sandy! I wanted to make a statement so I chose “bad” Sandy from the end of the movie. I got a lot of fantastic reactions … Read more
Holy schnikes, Batman, it’s Halloween! I LOVE BATMAN! And I love Halloween! So on one Halloween decided that for next Halloween there would be no better costume than to represent my favorite of the femme fatal of Gotham City, Pamela Isley, otherwise known as the seductive villain, Poison Ivy: a lover, not a fighter. Many … Read more
Don’t just be any police officer, be Officer Jenny! The picture pretty much shows it all. I just took a simple blue dress and short sleeve button up over it. I got both from a thrift store for under $6. The only “crafty” thing I had to do was cut two rectangles of red felt … Read more
When my girlfriend and I decided to dress up for Halloween this year, we definitely wanted to make our costumes ourselves. We figured we wanted to do something cute and simple but we wanted to make sure we looked good. Adam and Eve was one of our first choices and we stuck with it. Little … Read more
So me and my best best friend are obsessed with dexter so we had to be dexter and the victim for Halloween I was dexter.. my costume was pretty easy just bought a skirt the color of dexter pants.. Then bought the shirt he use when he kills and then got an apron from my … Read more
Codex, a character from the web series The Guild was initially purchased as a licensed “bagged ” costume but was of such low quality that I couldn’t bear to wear it. So I deconstructed the entire thing, threw away virtually every piece of decoration and notions, and rebuilt it using the white material from the … Read more
This costume was beyond fun to be!! Everyone loved it! It’s easy to make you just get a dress and see on the tulle of what color you chose! They were so fun and hot! we got a lot of compliments on how nice and cool they were! Overall great Halloween costume!