My girlfriend and I were watching X-men origins and thought since people always tell me I look like Liev Schreiber, what the heck? I’ll be Sabretooth! So, the next decision, who would she be? And who would get the MOST attention? Mystique, of course! And then there’s Vince, he always has crazy hair and different … Read more
You can’t just come up with costumes like this overnight! We started by upping our gym regiments four months before Halloween. But other than that, here is how we developed the Homemade X Men Wolverine and Mystique Costume. Wolverine – The claw-things are made of wood, we could not use anything that could be mistaken … Read more
Here on this Frankie and Freak Costume you can see i slapped on one of those latex prostetics for my face and painted it green. Then I cut up some black patent leather fabric and some shorts. As for Frankie’s freak, she bought an outfit and we made some minor adjustments like the iron on … Read more
This Homemade Bride of Frankenstein Costume became the largest undertaking costume wise I’ve encountered, from my initial sketches to finished product it took 60+ hours. It’s also the thing I’m proudest of! I made everything, including the wig, the rest of the costume involves everything from working nuts and bolts (I was bolted into costume … Read more
I started this Homemade Ironman Halloween Costume on a whim in May 2009. My idea was to build a movie-accurate Ironman suit for my four year old, complete with working LED chest piece and glowing eyes. The process began by building a paper model of each part which was subsequently fiberglassed on the inside to … Read more
Six Days, that was the total time available to put this Homemade Ironman Halloween Costume Idea together. Because of the short time, I had to find construction material that would aid in rapid assembly. For the arms and legs, I used cardboard carpet tubes I got (for free) from the local flooring company owner. Tube … Read more
I got my idea for Mystique because she is one of my favorite X-Men characters. I researched online and found a few techniques that I combined to come up with this Homemade Mystique Costume. First, I pulled up images of Mystique from the internet and had them printed. After that, I put on my yellow … Read more
I love Halloween and always try to come up with funny/original ideas that I just can’t get in costume stories. This year I came up with the silver surfer because it would be truly daring if I actually pulled it. The year before I did Destro from G.I. Joe and really liked how the silver … Read more
I had bought two (yes 2!) old wedding dresses from the local thrift store. Because I didn’t realize how much weight I gained recently, I didn’t bother trying them on. On “party” day, I tried each dress on, neither fit. So my very clever sister took me to BigLots, bought a $5 white bed sheet … Read more
“Blade: The Series” was a program on “Spike TV” during the summer of 2006. It was based on the successful “Blade” movies produced by Marvel Comics that starred Wesley Snipes. The TV version of our hero featured a bald-headed “Blade”. Compared to the movie version, TV “Blade’s” costume was spectacular! As soon as I saw … Read more
I got the Homemade Sexy Female Iron Man Costume Idea for this costume after I had seen the Iron Man II movie. I decided it would be awesome to dress up as him for Halloween because I don’t like going to costume parties and seeing a slew of other girls dressed like me. Therefore, I … Read more
Kick-Ass is such a good film and since I usually try stick to the super hero theme or just hero theme at Halloween I decided to go with a homemade Kick Ass costume. Coolest homemade costumes is possibly one of my favorite sites, I love see’n all the original ideas from the small to the … Read more