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 was in a Kiss cover band, and this is/was my costume. All Homemade. So I decided to go in a Gene Simmons Halloween costume.
My son wanted to be a member of KISS. The Homemade Gene Simmons Costume started with a boy’s muscle shirt and girl’s leggings. I bought some fake leather and studded it. Then I used fabric glue to fasten it onto the shirt. Next I made bat wings out of the leather, studded them, and fastened … Read more
My husband is a huge KISS fan so he decided to go in a Homemade Paul Stanley Starchild Costume for a party we were invited to attend. We went to the thrift store and found an old leather vest and some shiny spandex pants. I bought some ladies platform boots at a discount store for … Read more
This homemade Gene Simmons from KISS costume took two months two make. I started with the Demon boots. I took two 2 x 4’s and nailed them together. I then put my work boots on top of the 2 x 4’s and traced my boot print. I then cut out the print on the 2 … Read more