The Homemade Gambit from the X Men Costume was pretty simple. I spray painted a car mat and cut it to size for my shin guards and black under amour pants. A tight pink shirt with drawn on muscles. I got the trench coat from Goodwill for $10. A metal pole for my bow staff … Read more
I’ve been DYING to create a Homemade Mystique Halloween Costume and finally decided to go for it this year. I’m not the greatest at sewing, so I had a bodysuit made to my exact measurements. I needed the suit to fit really tightly so as to give the impression of body paint and not a … Read more
To make this Homemade Mystique Costume I first started with a Royal Blue leotard I bought from the We Love Colors website, as well as the socks. I know most women who attempt this costume go for the more nude look by painting their body or exposing their chest. I was not down for that … Read more
My friends and I are huge dorks and as an x-men enthusiast I convinced them to join in on the fun for our company Halloween party. They were a HUGE hit everywhere we went – the best homemade costumes by far, we put the rented costumes to shame. Brooke and I ordered our unitards from … Read more
Every year when choosing a costume I look for a strong, kick ass, female character. Preferably a Villain but not exclusively. I was in my office thinking up characters and came across Mystique. I automatically knew this was the character for me. Now once I told anyone that I was doing Mystique they all gave … Read more
I purchased a royal blue morph suit online and cut the head along the seam and sowed at the neckline. Then drew onto the costume segments which were to be scale effect to the body with chalk. I glued sequins individually onto the top half of the breast design. This took around 2 hours! Then … Read more
I decided to go ALL OUT again, and make a costume no one else has come close to duplicating! From the Comic and Movie X-Men II, a homemade X-Men Nightcrawler Halloween costume! I found pictures of this character online from comics and the movies, printed them out and started my research! I spent a solid … Read more
After a search for an awesome female villain, I decided on Mystique from X men because of her unique appearance. There aren’t many all blue characters out there! I love x men, and how mystique fights for the future of mutants. I started this Homemade Mystique Costume with a gold body suit that I bought … Read more
I got the Homemade X Men Storm Halloween Costume Idea from reading comic books and watching the movie. This was pretty easy to put together. I started off with a white wig then added to it from there with a cape hemmed with gold lining and then the rest of the gold material I made … Read more
For my homemade Mystique costume, I bought a blue unitard after deciding that it was too cold where I live to use body paint or liquid latex. I cut scale-shaped pieces out of some shiny blue fabric I bought and used liquid latex to glue them onto the suit. I also painted the suit to … Read more
You can’t just come up with costumes like this overnight! We started by upping our gym regiments four months before Halloween. But other than that, here is how we developed the Homemade X Men Wolverine and Mystique Costume. Wolverine – The claw-things are made of wood, we could not use anything that could be mistaken … Read more
I died my hair from platinum blonde to my natural auburn hair color for my mother’s 50th birthday. I decided to do a costume with red hair this year. After going thru so many ideas I decided to try to make the homemade Mystique costume. I used a liquid shiny blue and made a unitard … Read more