I came up with this idea for a spooky Halloween costume after making a gash on my face for another party. I really wanted to do a few gashes and make them look like a bear attack. For Halloween what would be better than a bear attack…a feral Care Bear Attack, yes. The gashes are … Read more

The movie “The Sixth Sense” from a few years back was the inspiration for my Dead Bicyclist Halloween Costume. It was in the scene where the little boy was in the car with his mother and they were stalled in traffic (a bicyclist had just been hit a few blocks up ahead). As the mother … Read more

My son was tired of choosing costumes at our local store to run into a handful of kids wearing the same thing. So we conjured up the idea of “Scary Evil Optometrist Halloween Costume”. He wanted to be something scary and he came up with the idea all on his own at age 11. He … Read more

Our homemade killer hair stylist and victim couple Halloween costume idea was made up of mostly items around my house (I’m a hair stylist) however u don’t have to be one for these items to be just around your house! You just need a pair of scissors, any kind will work, a headband, putty, t-shirts … Read more

My son always enjoys dressing up in homemade costumes every year. As we trick or treat through a sea of store bought costumes, he loves hearing over and over again how original his costume is or how it is the best costume of the night. The problem is, every year it gets harder and harder … Read more

This past year I decided to be a stewardess on flight 666, who lived through the crash to see another Halloween. The homemade flight 666 stewardess costume was made from a silk dress, had burn marks and holes, complete with ash from the wreckage. Lodged in my head was a piece of airplane shrapnel.