[freudstein]

I'm gonna be Michael Myers (H1 version) this year. I'm weathering the worksuit as we speak and I just finished repainting a Don Post mask. I know the DP shape isn't correct and I could spend $300 on a fan-made one that looks awesome, but i just don't have the money right now, you know? I think the DP 2006 mask looks pretty good with a repaint. Before the repaint he looked more like Bill Murray than William Shatner!

Great paint job! I don't think people will notice it's not a real mask! It looks very similar. Who needs to splash the cash when you can DIY!?

 

[Britishwitch]

The ideas and pictures are wonderful! I cannot wait to see everyones photos after all their parties!

I am really excited as my costume has just arrived in the post.

For the last 4 years I have always worn the same Witches costume with different things added or changed each year to give me a different colour scheme, but this year I promised myself that I would treat myself to a new costume. I knew I would have difficulty buying one, being a lady of slightly larger proportions hey ho! but I found one on a website the other night and thought I would give it a try!

It arrived this morning and guess what......IT FITS!!!! I am so happy

For the first time in four years I have a new costume!!!!!!!!!!

I will attach the picture from the website so you can see it

The other good part is I am off on holiday next week to Disney, and I have tickets for their Mickeys Not So Scarey Halloween Party and I intend to take it with me so I can dress up for that so me and my little girl can go TOT together around the Park. I am so happy I could cry

BW

 

[gldngddss]

that dress is stunning! as are you! your pictures will be fab! Good luck & I hope we'll see the rest of the pics after your big day

oh thank you so much!!! i absolutely love the dress... it's fits perfectly and is extremely comfortable. I have to have help getting into it so I volunteered my mother to help. it's quite amusing watching us try to get all of me stuffed into the corset part of it and make sure it's straight!
I'll make sure to post plenty of wedding pics. I'll also post pics of the decorations as I start making them.

 

[Tish]

The ideas and pictures are wonderful! I cannot wait to see everyones photos after all their parties!

I am really excited as my costume has just arrived in the post.

For the last 4 years I have always worn the same Witches costume with different things added or changed each year to give me a different colour scheme, but this year I promised myself that I would treat myself to a new costume. I knew I would have difficulty buying one, being a lady of slightly larger proportions hey ho! but I found one on a website the other night and thought I would give it a try!

It arrived this morning and guess what......IT FITS!!!! I am so happy

For the first time in four years I have a new costume!!!!!!!!!!

I will attach the picture from the website so you can see it

The other good part is I am off on holiday next week to Disney, and I have tickets for their Mickeys Not So Scarey Halloween Party and I intend to take it with me so I can dress up for that so me and my little girl can go TOT together around the Park. I am so happy I could cry

BW

That's really cute! I have a hard time finding costumes too, being of larger proportions as well. Especially ones that don't look like crap or are ill fitting. That one looks really stylish. Have fun at Disney, that sounds awesome! I'm jealous.

 

[Magickbean]

Oh Britishwitch you will look fabulous! That is such a cute costume - it's like a funky Morticia Adams!

I'm just about finished making my bridal skirt and train for my Corpse Bride costume, and I've made the veil and bouquet, so just waiting on the corset now.. plus I gotta make the dreadlocks for it, but will post pics when I get them!

 

[Britishwitch]

Thank you Magickbean

I can't wait to see your photos of your costume, I know you have waited a while to do your Corpse Bride theme!

BW

 

[CharlieWinslow]

Hi there! I started this thread on the HauntWorld forum but it wasn't very popular, so I'm really happy to see that this thread is here!!!

Okay, so this year, I always think about my Halloween costume 364 days a year and I always have such a hard time choosing what or who I'm going to dress up as, but this year I think I got it: I'm gonna go as a zombie version of myself!!! I know it's not that original, but it'll be so cool, 'cause I'll wear my everyday clothes, but put on zombie makeup on my face and bloody myself up a little, so you know, when my friends see me from far away they'll be like "Hey, it's Charlie" and then they'll go "Oh, that's weird..."

Just for fun and because I love Halloween, here's what were some of my past Halloween costumes:

2007 - Freddy Krueger
2006 - Dr. Frank-N-Furter
2005 - Columbia
2004 - Robert Smith
2003 - Scream
2002 - The Grim Reaper

 

[Autumn Myth]

gldngddss: I'm so jealous of the autumn leaves you have! Florida has nothing until January and it's only a few trees on my street.

I' need 2 costumes since I'm also having Halloween be the theme of my 18th birthday party on November 22nd.
I'm thinking an Autumn nymph for the party but I'm not really sure what I'll be for the holiday.
It's between a store bought witch or, what I almost was last year, dead tired (Zombie makeup, cob webs in hair, and Pj's).

 

[dustin2dust]

Last year I couldn't decide between Corpse Bride or Demona from Disney's Gargoyles cartoon. I ended up getting more stuff for the bride and that made my decision for me. I was going to do Demona this year, but I don't want to be blue two years in a row. I was dubbed the blue girl for a while and feel I should mix it up.
So I was trying to think of what to be and it came to me last night. I was thinking maybe a half man half woman side show person but the image of a specific tattooed lady came to mind and I decided to be her... but zombified! Turns out her stage name is Artouria. I need to get a flapper type dress. I usually make my own costumes, but if I'm going to be getting it all bloody, I might as well fork over the $40 for a premade one and focus on the other details like the tattoos. I get obsessed over the details of my costumes and I want the tattoos to be similar. So today I bought 10 sheets of inkjet printer tattoo paper and I'm going to make my own temporary tattoos! I'm just not sure if I should put on the greenish sickly color make up before or after the tattoos. I'll have to do some test runs. I'm going to be a yucky sticky mess a few days afterwards. Temp tattoos get gummy after a few days. So worth it though!
Here is a picture of Artoria: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wmh/images/tattoo.jpg

 

[Bilbo]

Last year I couldn't decide between Corpse Bride or Demona from Disney's Gargoyles cartoon. I ended up getting more stuff for the bride and that made my decision for me. I was going to do Demona this year, but I don't want to be blue two years in a row. I was dubbed the blue girl for a while and feel I should mix it up.
So I was trying to think of what to be and it came to me last night. I was thinking maybe a half man half woman side show person but the image of a specific tattooed lady came to mind and I decided to be her... but zombified! Turns out her stage name is Artouria. I need to get a flapper type dress. I usually make my own costumes, but if I'm going to be getting it all bloody, I might as well fork over the $40 for a premade one and focus on the other details like the tattoos. I get obsessed over the details of my costumes and I want the tattoos to be similar. So today I bought 10 sheets of inkjet printer tattoo paper and I'm going to make my own temporary tattoos! I'm just not sure if I should put on the greenish sickly color make up before or after the tattoos. I'll have to do some test runs. I'm going to be a yucky sticky mess a few days afterwards. Temp tattoos get gummy after a few days. So worth it though!
Here is a picture of Artoria: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wmh/images/tattoo.jpg

D2D... I would have to think putting the make on AFTER the tattoos would be the only way they would stick properly. But I have one question....


They make inkjet tattoo paper?????!!!!

Where can I find that!!!!!?????



Freakin' awesome!

 

[dustin2dust]

I bought the tattoo paper on ebay. It seemed to be the best deal out there.
10 sheets Temporary Tattoo Inkjet Transfer Decal Paper - eBay (item 320288886069 end time Aug-26-08 16:38:33 PDT)
There is also stuff for your inkjet for shrinky dinks, rub on transfers and water slide decals that you can use to bake on ceramics.

 

[dustin2dust]

I bought the tattoo paper on ebay. It seemed to be the best deal out there.
10 sheets Temporary Tattoo Inkjet Transfer Decal Paper - eBay (item 320288886069 end time Aug-26-08 16:38:33 PDT)
There is also stuff for your inkjet for shrinky dinks, rub on transfers and water slide decals that you can use to bake on ceramics.

 

[madmm.x]

Last year I was commissioned to make two costumes, made my own (the Ghost of Anne Boleyn), and embellished hubby's storebought costume, and therefore was exhausted by the time the big day rolled around.

So this year I'm feeling a bit lazy (plus exhausted from various health & financial stresses), and want to do something a bit more simple but no less awesome than Halloween deserves. I would love to do Leeloo from 5th Element, but after searching the web for hours from work decided that it's not going to work (those dang orange crotch suspenders are maddening)! I'm thinking I'll do Aeon Flux--her outfit from the live action movie (cuz I have everything but the shrug...and I'm not brave enough to wear her cartoon outfits). But to make the costume recognizable, I want to do the hair swirls like the cartoon. I have fine hair cut into a Posh bob that's now shoulder length. I've tried sculpting my hair into the curls, but the back is too short and the curl won't hold.

Any suggestions how I can get a look close to this without a wig?

Thanks in advance from a forum newbie!!

Madame X

 

[WickedBB70]

We're going as ghosts this year... We're on a 3-year rotation theme: witch, vampire, ghost...

 

[RedSonja]

Last year I was commissioned to make two costumes, made my own (the Ghost of Anne Boleyn), and embellished hubby's storebought costume, and therefore was exhausted by the time the big day rolled around.

So this year I'm feeling a bit lazy (plus exhausted from various health & financial stresses), and want to do something a bit more simple but no less awesome than Halloween deserves. I would love to do Leeloo from 5th Element, but after searching the web for hours from work decided that it's not going to work (those dang orange crotch suspenders are maddening)! I'm thinking I'll do Aeon Flux--her outfit from the live action movie (cuz I have everything but the shrug...and I'm not brave enough to wear her cartoon outfits). But to make the costume recognizable, I want to do the hair swirls like the cartoon. I have fine hair cut into a Posh bob that's now shoulder length. I've tried sculpting my hair into the curls, but the back is too short and the curl won't hold.

Any suggestions how I can get a look close to this without a wig?

Thanks in advance from a forum newbie!!

Madame X

I've thought in the past about doing Aeon Flux myself....boy, if I was only 20 pounds lighter!!

My hair sounds similar to yours and styling is usually a problem. You might try not washing it for a few days and then using some serious pomade & hair spray. But if your hair is really fine like mine, that will only hold up for a short time. I think a wig would really be your best bet.

 

[MrsMyers666]

Last year I was commissioned to make two costumes, made my own (the Ghost of Anne Boleyn), and embellished hubby's storebought costume, and therefore was exhausted by the time the big day rolled around.

So this year I'm feeling a bit lazy (plus exhausted from various health & financial stresses), and want to do something a bit more simple but no less awesome than Halloween deserves. I would love to do Leeloo from 5th Element, but after searching the web for hours from work decided that it's not going to work (those dang orange crotch suspenders are maddening)! I'm thinking I'll do Aeon Flux--her outfit from the live action movie (cuz I have everything but the shrug...and I'm not brave enough to wear her cartoon outfits). But to make the costume recognizable, I want to do the hair swirls like the cartoon. I have fine hair cut into a Posh bob that's now shoulder length. I've tried sculpting my hair into the curls, but the back is too short and the curl won't hold.

Any suggestions how I can get a look close to this without a wig?

Thanks in advance from a forum newbie!!

Madame X

Lots of hair gel and hair spray. Wonder if you could use some type of wire also in your hair, maybe get a comfortable headband and attach wires to it that you could then curl your hair and secure it to the wires.

 

[Rikki]

Madmm.x, school glue and a blow dryer should do the trick. Not sure how things work on the "washing it out" end but I know that a lot of people with liberty spikes go this route. It's also how the Troll Doll at my party last year did her hair.

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[madmm.x]

Awesome!! Thanks for your suggestions!! I'll be playing around with your ideas and see what works!!

 

[Mr Unpleasant]

Usually I try to make something up and create it but this year I'm going classic as Mr. Stein...and I ain't talkin' about Ben. Franky...........Franky....................Franky

 

[Mandy]

I'm back!

Wow after being off of here for almost 2 years I'm finally back! I see familiar names. No surprise. You are all addicted. As was I and I'm sure i will be again...just give me a day or two. Being an American living in Holland (they don't really celebrate halloween here...I know, they don't know what they're missing.), after my family moved back to the states I haven't had a Halloween party. THIS year I will be having one! YAY! Halloween costume ideas have been bouncing around in my head for 2 years now and I FINALLY get to pick one!!!
BUT seeing as I'll be 6 and half months pregnant and I already have a huge belly...I'll have to give up on some ideas....
I'm not big on doing the same tired old costumes for pregnant women. My ideas so far are Goddess of Fertility, Papa smurf, Balloon bouquet (blowing up tons of balloons and then tying them all over your clothes as my mother did this when she was pregnant.) OR going the more Halloween-ish route and doing a whole Alien crawling out type thing....
I'm sure I'll get some great ideas from you guys before i actually have to decide!
YAY, I'm back!!!!!!!