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Halloween costumes

by Tigresha - Oct 6, 2017

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What is Halloween? This is the day when everyone - children and adults - dress up in various beautiful or scary costumes, make interesting makeup, or put on masks, and in this form they walk around the city, or go to a theme party. Today in many stores you can buy a fancy dress, but why be the same if you can invent and make a costume yourself ?!

DIY Halloween costume

What people do not dress up on the Eve of All Saints! At any party on such a day, you can meet many vampires, ghosts, the undead, Frankenstein, skeletons, bats, witches. In addition to this set of evil spirits, you can find kind and cute characters: dolls, nurses, fairies, good sorceresses, cats, leopards.

You can make your own costume from materials at hand, or purchased in a store. For example, a ghost costume can be made from a simple white old sheet, after having cut holes under the eyes. With lipstick or a marker, you can draw a sad smile or an open mouth in a terrible scream.

Old clothes are perfect for a zombie costume, you can even tear them a little in some places and smear them in tomato juice or red paint. Do not forget about the appropriate makeup with a pale or greenish face. Several lacerations can even be done.

It's easy to become a vampire, you just need to choose the appropriate clothes in your wardrobe. For guys, a white shirt and black pants are fine, while girls can dress up in a black gothic dress, or wear a corset and a black skirt or pants. Top off with makeup, matching accessories such as fishnet tights, black gloves, red or black lenses and false vampire fangs. For a complete picture, you can make Dracula's cloak. You will need a piece of black and a piece of red cloth. They will need to be sewn together and made with ties around the neck.

It's not hard to become a bat at the party: you need black clothes, makeup and wings to craft. It can be a piece of black fabric sewn to the sleeves and back of a sweater or blouse. If you have the time and opportunity, you can build frame wings, which will be more like the wings of a real bat.

For lovers, you can make a skeleton costume. You will need black clothes, it will be better if it is black tight jeans or leggings and a black shirt, blouse, jacket, T-shirt. If not, you can use a black short dress. From cardboard, build a stencil of the bones of the skeleton, chest, or the whole, depending on your clothes. Use scissors to cut out the bones themselves, attach the resulting skeleton to the clothes and paint the bones with acrylic white paint using a stencil. If you don't feel sorry for some old black T-shirt, then you can make a stencil, and cut pieces of "bones" on it on the T-shirt.

The dead bride costume has been incredibly relevant in recent years. Naturally, such a suit will require a white wedding dress, but only it should be a little wrinkled, torn, dirty. If there is no way to find a wedding dress, then any light dress will do. White stockings, scary makeup with a pale face, expressive eyes, a beautiful headband and a bunch of flowers can complement the look. You can make a veil from tulle.

A gypsy costume is also not very difficult to make. He needs colorful things with bright prints. These can be sweaters and long, loose skirts. You can tie a bright scarf on your head. Additional accessories: a wide bright belt at the waist, large earrings, beads, a lot of ringing bracelets. For horror, you can make up like a zombie: a whitewashed face, a couple of scary scars.

The actual costume for Halloween will be the death costume. For him you will need a black raincoat, or a black robe. A cloak can be crafted from a piece of black cloth. You can make it loose, or you can attach a belt to it. Don't forget to make a hood for your raincoat. You can choose the appropriate scary mask, as an option, the mask of a maniac from the movie "The Scream" can do. Additionally, you will need black gloves, shoes, if possible a scythe, or a staff.

Halloween costume for girl

There are a lot of options for costumes for girls. It can be a witch, a fairy, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, a skeleton, a princess, a zombie, a nurse, a kitty or a leopard, and many other miscellaneous ideas.

A pirate costume will be very advantageous. There are many options for wardrobe elements: leather leggings and a white blouse, a corset, vests, high boots, a fluffy skirt with a shirt. The main attribute here should be a pirate cocked hat; if you wish, you can purchase a black eyepatch, a parrot and a bottle of rum.

For a Catwoman costume, you need black tight leather pants and a leather vest, corset or blouse. Black shoes, half face cat mask expressive eyes, red lips and long claws, you can complement the image with cat lenses.

For a simple cat, you can choose any clothes; for a leopard, it is better to choose pants with an appropriate print. You will need a headband with cat or leopard ears, a ponytail and makeup.

Nurse image includes a medical gown. It can be real or bought in an intimate store, but it will be short. White stockings, a cap with a red cross, a syringe. For a zombie nurse, you can make a scary make-up, for example, like the nurses from the movie "Silent Hill".

Halloween costumes for kids

Not only adults, but also children want to have fun and dress up. For them, you can also find any suit in stores or on the Internet. The most relevant and popular images are animals, vampires, pumpkin, zombies, evil witch from "Malificent", superheroes from comics.

In connection with the release of the film "It", you can make a yellow raincoat for a child and give him a red ball. If you want some horror movies, you can paint half of the child's face, making it scary.

For a mummy costume, you can use toilet paper, gauze, or bandages. They can be used to bandage a child, or sew pieces of gauze onto plain clothes. In addition, you can smear the bandages with "blood".

Chucky's doll based on the film of the same name has also won many hearts and many people make this very character out of their children. He'll need a long-sleeved striped blouse, denim jumpsuit, toy cleaver, shaggy hair and makeup - a few scars on his face.

For girls, you can think over the image of a little princess, taking as a basis Disney cartoons, the image of a witch, a corpse of a bride, a cute animal, a bat, the bride of Chucky.