Thread: Tips on Cheap ways to improve any props, WIGS! WIGS and cheap add ons!

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Here is an huge improvement by just adding a dollar wig! She now looks way more batsh.t crazy!

Also, I add a hat, cape and a cane to my new butler, all dollar store stuff, made him look so much more interesting!



Also, here my new male ground breaker, but with a wig, he looks more creepy!


Any tips you have too?

Paint. If it looks cheesy or cutesy, try to imagine what it would look like with a coat of paint and some texture...



Cutesy "paint your own" angels


Repainted and used for a gravestone - and it only cost the paint. (the angels were clearance because of a broken wing, so they were CHEAP)

I've done the same with a can of spray paint - find stuff that is interesting but maybe sort of cutesy or mainstream. Paint it with a flat or gloss black or white, and you've got a cool decoration or prop. Just got a cutesy china bluebird on a branch at the thrift store and it's now a glossy black raven that looks great mixed in with my other Halloween vingnettes. Home decor, picture frames, some shelves...


The hanging shelves with the cool ornate frame were clearance due to a corner being chipped. It was originally a light green. Can't even tell that it was chipped at all now. The frog on a ball decoration next to the mummy is also a "pretty" piece that looks weird and creepy when painted a solid. I went with gloss black ( I LIKE black apparently) but would have looked just as good if I'd painted it white and put it with an all white set of items...

all great ideas.

Oh so true! I was in need of hands for my life size "Jack the Ripper of London" prop. (I hate making hands)

Found a pair at "Dollar General" Just $5.00 ea. but the flesh tone was crappy. A bottle of flesh tone paint and "Ta Da"

Jack has a good looking pair of hands for cheap. Never underestimate the power of wigs, paint, press on nails, cheap liquid make up on clearance, Thrift store clothing and hats, Rubber worm bait (great in guts) and ties , bows, and cuff links.