Need a show stopping costume this Halloween? Then you’re in luck! These homemade Medusa costumes are bold, breathtaking and frightening. Beauty and horror combine together in these DIY costumes for an epic ensemble. Learn how to create her incredible look with the instructions here.
Medusa hails from Greek mythology and is fabulously petrifying. Her most terrifying feature is atop her head. In place of her hair, she has living, venomous snakes! Wonder what it’s like having poisonous snakes instead of your hair? Check out the painstaking details that go into creating her elaborate mane.
In addition, crafting these hideously gorgeous DIY costumes can go in so many different ways. Take it as beautiful or as frightening as you like. Discover the clever construction ideas here and add your own design flair.
So, ready to make a grand entrance this Halloween? Try one of the fantastic homemade costumes here!
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The bow is PVC pipe that was heated with a heat gun to bend. I then painted it black. Once dry, I covered it in a fishnet stocking an painted it orange, bronze, and white to make a snake pattern. I then attached a bowstring. The headpiece is a soccer ball, foam, and wire with rubber snakes. … Read more
It’s Halloween season and you’re tired of the typical traditional women’s costumes in the stores and online. Besides them being common they can get pretty expensive when you add the accessories and the makeup the next thing you know you have no money to spend on your night out to show off your costume. This … Read more
This was a last minute costume. I had wanted to be Medusa for a while, but could never afford to pull it all together in time. Until last year! All on the day I was set to help my friends do their makeup and go out for the night. I bought some cyber dread falls … Read more
Every year my daughter comes up with some creative idea for a costume. Her idea to be Medusa has been my favorite! It was so cheap and easy, and she got so many compliments! For the dress, I just wrapped a plain white sheet around her. We embellished with some cheap gold ribbon and … Read more
I started off this Medusa costume rounding up some rubber snakes, a wig, material for the skirt, some air brush paint, wire, and wire mesh. First we made a skull cap out of the wire mesh that would fit my head underneath the wig, then we placed it inside the actual wig. Second we cut the snakes in … Read more
Hey, I dressed up as Medusa in 2010. I just knew I wanted to be Medusa for the longest time….But, I’m broke as a joke. So, I came up with the best way for me to dress up in the character I wanted to be for the least amount of money possible because I didn’t … Read more
This Medusa Costume is from 2011, last year I had such a hard time deciding what I was going to be for Halloween. I was going through a mythology book when I came across Medusa. I thought if I could make the costume sexy and original it would be a good idea. How to make the … Read more
This homemade girls Medusa costume with victim turned to stone is my daughter’s Halloween costume. This was actually a fairly simple costume (no sew) to put together. The materials were: Costume: 3-4 yards of snake skin print fabric, plastic snakes (ordered in bulk from Amazon), hot glue, safety pins, “Victim” Candy Bucket: standard plastic Halloween candy … Read more
This Medusa and her Stone Victim couple costume is a great costume idea for a couple. My mom had always told me that my hair would be prefect for Medusa because my curls could be snakes, so two years ago I chose to be Medusa for Halloween! I went out with my mother and we found … Read more
I wanted to make a medusa costume that would stand out and wouldn’t make me look awkwardly bald like so many of the fake snake hair wigs do. I started out with a bag of 150 plastic snakes and set about attaching them to 5 black headbands that would be connected to create a sort … Read more
For Halloween my daughter wanted something “different,” “kinda freaky but not too scary.” SO we went through the list of costumes in this realm, the Grim Reaper, Zombie, Mummy, … Medusa. “Yes that’s it, we had a Homemade Medusa Unique Halloween Costume Idea.” We embarked upon a mission to buy something Grecian goddess-like but couldn’t … Read more
This year I decided to be Medusa, the Greek Goddess from Greek Mythology. I did not want to use the store bought costume. They all look too much the same and not unique enough, so I made my own Homemade Medusa Costume. I found material that looked like reptile skin. It was dark green with … Read more