Coolest X-Men Mystique Costume

Coolest X-Men Mystique Costume

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

Sexy Homemade Mystique Costume from X-Men

Sexy Homemade Mystique Costume from X-Men

My homemade Mystique costume inspiration began when I decided to dye my hair bright red at the end of September. I’m a natural brunette and had not dyed my hair for years, so I wanted to do something different for a while. I absolutely LOVE Halloween and making my own costumes, so at the beginning … Read more

Cool Mystique Halloween Costume

Cool Mystique Halloween Costume

I always loved Halloween, but was never someone who put countless hours into a costume. One year I decided I wanted to go full out since some good friends of mine were having a party. After a few days of research, I decided I wanted to be Mystique, from the X-Men series. My friends thought … Read more

Marvel X-Men Mystique Costume

Marvel X-Men Mystique Costume

Happy Halloween! This whole process of making the Mystique costume took about two month of prep work and eight hours the day off. I started with a few picture of Mystique’s character and with clay molded the small scales and spikes on as best as I could to copy the images. This was super tedious. … Read more

Easy Wolverine Costume

Easy Wolverine Costume

The trick for this easy Wolverine costume is in the details without getting too literal. Grow your hair out to around an inch and a half( this one obviously takes advance planning) and brush the sides up with moose leaving a price to hang in the front. Make sure it’s a mat Finish product so … Read more

Cutest X-Men Mystique Halloween Costume

Cutest X-Men Mystique Halloween Costume

My little one loves Marvel and wanted to be Mystique, but there was no Mystique Halloween costumes to be found. So we made one! The Mystique Costume I started off with a white onesie and bought some blue fabric dye. I wanted it to look like a body suit so I made her wear it … Read more

Sexy Handmade Mystique Costume

I thoroughly enjoyed coming up with the design to complete this Mystique costume. I decided to scrap the body paint idea (it’s cold outside) and just use a unitard instead. I chose to use sequinned material to add the scales effect. I cut and attached this while wearing the unitard which probably sounds just as hard … Read more

Big Booty Baller Fulfills Dream by Going Rogue!

Big Booty Baller Fulfills Dream by Going Rogue!

I play in an adult competitive dodgeball league in West Hollywood where the names of the teams are usually some fun pun (like What Would Jesus Dodge or Game of Throws). This season my team decided to be a costumed mash-up of the English TV show Absolutely Fabulous and Marvel Comic characters calling ourselves Absolutely … Read more

Coolest Kids Wolverine Costume

Coolest Kids Wolverine Costume

To create my Wolverine (2009 “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” version), I created the first 10-inch cardboard claw, shaped to fit in and protrude from the spaces between my fingers realistically, and then used it as a template for the other claws that I would use. Then I covered the claws in two layers of duct tape, … Read more

Cool Homemade Hulk, Storm, Captain America and Joker Costumes

Cool Homemade Hulk, Storm, Captain America and Joker Costumes

Heroes Among us! These are my four kids, at the time I made these costumes they were  ages  13,10,9,4. Everyone of them had their own ideas of what characters they wanted to be, I  had the task of creating them. I first started with the one that would take the most time which was The … Read more

DIY Classic Wolverine Costume for a Lady

DIY Classic Wolverine Costume for a Lady

I started making the boots by using an old pair of ballet flats with knee socks over top and covering them with blue duct tape. I used many layers so that they would keep their shape when I cut down the back of the boot to add grommets (about an inch apart) and ribbon so … Read more

The Mystique Costume That I Spent 4 Months Planning For!

The Mystique Costume That I Spent 4 Months Planning For!

First off, I have always wanted to do this costume…so I started planning in June. I came across this website and read through all the Mystique entries to get ideas and to combine what I thought were some of the best  techniques. I also viewed several YouTube videos on makeup ideas and techniques on how … Read more