Costumes are definitely not just for young kids in this collection of teen and adult costume ideas.
Are you buttoned up at work? Do people know you as the class clown? Whatever your regular identity, feel free to switch it with something else. Cleverly disguise yourself so that even your relatives won’t recognize you. You will find ideas here to reveal your inner thoughts and ideas.
Many adults take on kids themes, like Harry Potter. In addition, Disney princesses and villains are always popular. Specially Ursula the Sea Witch which makes for a magnificent and instantly recognizable costume.
Maybe you are more of a zombie fan? If so, take a look at the compelling ways you can transform your face. These are definitely not for the faint of heart!
In conclusion, whatever your number is attached to your age, Halloween doesn’t discriminate. Create a fantastic costume and share it with us! We’d love to see what you come up with.
Well, I was inspired by a creepy doll make up tutorial- but I wanted to include my husband so I added some strings and became a marionette puppet – lol. That way he could be my creepy puppeteer. Even though he wouldn’t care if I left him out. Marionette: I started with a really cool … Read more
My 6 year old wanted to me a Minion this year and wanted goggles with real lens. I have to say I got the hardware store ideal from on this site and walked isle through isle thinking up ideals so I took a gamble and just bought safety goggles hoping my idea would work and … Read more
My She Ra costume is entirely hand made and was inspired by the original She Ra cartoon, which I used to watch as a child. I started in September, gathering fabric and the blue beads, but I could not find the right red bead for the head piece! While perusing a costume shop my husband … Read more
Leeloo Dallas, Multipass! This fifth element costume is mostly bare-skin. How hard could it be?? Actually, it ended up taking me WAY longer than I expected. There are twelve straps total and sewing all of them together was a complicated process that involved LOTS of white fabric (about 2.5 yards) and time (4 days). I … Read more
As a child I grew up watching ET and was fascinated. Eight years ago I met my best friend and we both discovered our love for aliens. So much so, that for my first tattoo on my 18th birthday I got “UFO” tattooed on my inner lip. Every Halloween I try to outdo myself, thinking … Read more
I was carried around in a cage by a gorilla, and I was rescued by my husband the hunter! I had a lot if fun with this costume. I made the cage out of Styrofoam and wooden dowels, that I painted silver. I stuffed a pair of pants and socks, put shoes on the feet. … Read more
I enjoyed wearing this King Kong and a woman in a cage illusion costume and even more so, I enjoyed the reactions I received. Most people were deceived by the costume and the fact that it was only ONE person in the costume. My upper body was the upper body of the woman in the cage. … Read more
The adventure began when we decided we were going to Mickey’s Halloween party at Disneyland. (Oct. 21 2013), dressed up. If you go to Disney we thought we should do a Disney character couple. I’m a big guy so we wanted it to look good and fitting. When we first got married all those years ago I could … Read more
Optical illusion “Traditional Bavarian woman sitting in a wooden toilet” costume. My toilet costume is homemade built for an carnival theme part in south Germany in January this year. The design is pretty simple: the skeleton of the costume is screwed of thin wooden poles, the sheathing is done by cardboard which is covered in … Read more
My mom made this Sally costume using hand-dyed colored burlap from Fabric on a Whim. She hand-cut the patches, sewed them on and used black thread to stitch it to an old dress I had that was kind of stretchy. She used dark purple and brown Sharpie brush tip markers to draw patterns on the … Read more
Everyone has seen James Cameron’s 3D blockbuster that was years in the making. As we are always up for a challenge, my girlfriend and I decided to take a stab at the Avatar costumes despite the really funny looking outcomes we saw pictures of online. Going into it, we knew the most important parts for … Read more
For this homemade Palim Palim fantasy head costume I used a large balloon for the mold – and several little balloons. I fixed them with adhesive tape together. I bought wallpaper paste from the store and employ a lot of daily-journal paper. I cut the paper into strips that are about 8 inches long. To make the … Read more