We made this Kick-Ass and Hit Girl couples costume! I found the green sweatpants at a thrift store, bought a green ski mask and used yellow electrical tape to make the stripes for the Kickass costume. For Hit Girl I had the purple thermal. Bought purple leggings and the cape. I made the belt buckle … Read more
By far the easiest part of this simple and easy dark Phoenix Costume was buying the red catsuit as the base of it all. Afterwards, I went to my local fabric store and purchase gold Lycra fabric. Using the computer, I found a photo of the phoenix and hand drew the emblem onto the fabric … Read more
After doing some brainstorming for my costume I decided that I wanted to go with a classic Halloween monster and be Frankenstein. Unbeknownst to me my boyfriend had wanted to do a costume as a couple. When I told him what I wanted to be, he simply said “I guess that means I am going … Read more
My family and I had just finished the X Men series and were OBSESSED with it to say the least! It was a given what we were going to be for Halloween! The Cast: Magnito – Dad Storm – Mom (me) Wolverine – my son Mystique – my daughter For Magnito, I recycled my husband’s … Read more
These X- Men Costumes: Wolverine and Mystique took months to plan. My husband and I used these costumes for two Halloweens, because of the time we had put into them. We started by making the full spandex body suit for Mystique costume, I then used fabric paints to add all of the scales to the … Read more
Last year I decided to be Mystique from X-Men. I didn’t just want to paint myself blue and wear a bikini though. I wanted to be HARD CORE and make prosthetic pieces and look like Rebecca Romijn in the movies. After all, I was going to Heidi Klum’s Halloween Party in Las Vegas and only … Read more
This is my Captain America costume. I made it entirely from scratch. I wore it to the “comic book hero”-themed Halloween party I held last night at my apartment. The pants are women’s leggings that took me 2 weeks to find. I finally sent my girlfriend into a clothing store to find me these epic … Read more
This Incredible Hulk Costume was a hilarious costume to wear because everyone thought I was a boy…I originally got the Hulk idea because I wanted the Hulk smash hands… so this is how it all started. I bought the Hulk t-shirt from a website, got green tights, purple sweat pants (cut the bottoms to look … Read more
I get a phone call from an old friend and he says we need a Mystique costume in under 5 hours and we have latex paint and some clay. I replied “bring her over and we will give it a shot. Having never worked with latex I was excited at the opportunity. It also helped … 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
Well, the idea of dressing up like the Marvel Comic book hero named “Gambit” on Halloween of 2010 came about after watching the Wolverine Origins movie in which he made appearances. Gambit, who’s real name is Remy LeBeau has been a very cool comic book character for decades and I thought it would be fun … Read more
The inspiration for this Homemade Frankstein Wants His Mummy Costume came from a pregame show at an Altoona Curve Baseball game. A gentleman dressed as the Indian from the Village People puppeteered the five other V.P. characters to the song Y.M.C.A., using poles much like we used on our costume’s feet. The Indian was placed … Read more