I love going hunting with my dad and being our family is very involved with hunting I decided to make a costume out of it. Instead of going as the hunter I thought I would put my makeup skills to use and some of the branches you can buy at Walmart. I bought some flower … Read more
This Halloween my little brother and I decided last minute we would team up and be The Joker and Harley Quinn. I decided I would make everything, from the big hammer Harley carries to the green tie the Joker wears. I started with my hammer, which took a few days to make due to letting … Read more
Our friends were in town and we got invited to a last minute Halloween party, which meant last minute Halloween costumes. We thought, “why not a sleek skeleton gang dressed in black and white with painted faces?” The guys wore all black, two wore skeleton suspenders that we had from our day of the dead … Read more
It was my daughter’s idea to be Medusa this year and I was super excited and up for the challenge. I knew that I wanted a full on showstopper of a wig and not a headdress, so I sat down and sketched out how to tackle this hair. Immediately I thought of those white foam spheres … Read more
This costume was inspired from a childhood fear. Clowns. The clothing and shoes all came from thrift store. With a bit of cutting and sewing I reworked and added to the all of the clothing pieces. I just gathered as many crazy patterns as I could from the thrift store finds. I scetched up a … Read more
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
Well this is my story, I like Halloween a lot, and I love make-up (special effects make-up to be more specific). This year I was doubtful, I didn’t know what I wanted to do but I definitely wanted to make something creepy, scary and original that involved special effects make-up. The thing is I’m a … Read more
Here is Arthur Terminator. We made the mask with FIMO – a jaw and eye structure. We painted in metallic. I bought a red LED and built a small eye also with FIMO and put the LED inside and let the metallic wire connection on top and bottom. I welded the metallic connection on the … Read more
I saw a picture of this online and knew I HAD to recreate it for Halloween this year. I’ve been playing around with special fx makeup for years now, having worked in several haunted houses when I was younger. This took about 3 hours to make, including making the flesh mask. I created this look … Read more
I’m blaming this one on too much Tolkien during my formative years, plus the fact that I happen to live in a national forest. After some intense psychological self debate (‘If I were a tree, what kind of tree would I be?’), I decided that I was feeling rather maple-ish. My three year old nephew … Read more
I am pretty creative when it comes to all aspects of crafting and creativity as a whole. I was just born with that creative bone, I suppose, but when it comes to costume ideas, I basically hit a brick wall. I feel as though it has all been done before. Although I do make all … Read more
I went as the fortune teller Esmeralda. My inspiration came from Zoltar in the movie Big. My boyfriend Kevin constructed the frame and box out of wood I purchased at a hardware store. I wanted it sturdy because it had to go over my wheelchair. We used big pieces of plywood and different sizes of … Read more