What was your best homemade Halloween costume?

Answer 1

Beleive it or not a gigantic vagina made of toilet paper and a two by four.

Answer 2

IT wasn't actually mine it was my then 5yr old son had to go to school as a saint. I was baffled because I'm not a sewer. I asked my sister to please help? 2 days before Halloween we went to her house for a fitting.We had no idea what it even was. Then she took out the most beautiful costume I ever seen. It was saint Patrick in all his splendor every thing was perfect she even made his staff with a snake twirled around it. The Principal made him wear the costume for Saint Patricks Day. I'll never forget that costume. after 28 yrs I still have it .

Answer 3

I've been doing monster makeup as a hobby for over twenty years. The best homemade Halloween costume I ever did for myself is actually shown in my picture to the left. I was "The Boogie Man." I wore sclera contact lenses -- they're lenses that cover my entire eye -- the whites and everything. They were custom-made and hand-painted in my prescription, to make my eyes look like scaled, red lizard eyes. I reconstructed my eyebrow ridge, cheek bones and nose using latex parts I made myself. I made a dental impression of my mouth, and, using the same chemicals that dentists use, I made sixteen fangs for myself - eight upper and eight lower, to make my whole mouth seem fanged. Since I had custom fit them for each tooth, I could still speak clearly and drink with them in. I used the same chemicals to make claws on each fingertip. The claws looked like there were growing out of eat fingertip, not like they were just long fingernails. Then I used purple, black and white makeup to cover my face, neck hands and wrists, and sprayed the makeup with a clear chemical so it wouldn't rub off when I shook hands and things. I wore an obnoxious polyester disco outfit, including bellbottom pants, platform shoes, butterfly collar shirt, vest, and a huge afro wig. Get it -- "The Boogie Man?" : )
I disco danced on a stage in front of about 10,000 people that night, and beat 700 other costumes in a contest, to win almost $1000 in cash and prizes.

Answer 4

I made my little brother into a Killer Bee. He wore black pants with a yellow long sleeved shirt. I used wide black electrical tape for stripes. He carried guns in holsters and bullets in a leather holder (an old woven belt) across his chest like the Mexican bandileros. It was really funny.

I went as a Tornado one year. I wore all black and attatched strips of silky, satiny material to my top in a funnel shape (wider at the top.) My hair was ratted and in it were some plastic barn animals and a craft sized little picket fence that had a sign attatched that said "tornado warning tonight".

On the strips of black and grey satin, which I ripped to give a wild tattered look, I attatched small things like barbie heads, farm animals, farm tools etc.. I got best costume.

Answer 5

I took a refrigerator box, painted bricks all over it except on one side I painted a door with a half-moon. I wore overalls under it but couldn't be seen until I tipped over.

That was worth 50 dollars in the contest at the bar.

But WHAT WON 100 dollars was a giant pair of underwear with the "Fruit of the Loom" guys (each in costume - Grapes, etc) with two in each leg hole. Of course they had to split it four ways.

Answer 6

I went out for Halloween as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and made my own costume. I looked quite daring if I do say so myself. It was a fun night. I love Halloween!!

Answer 7

I was a tree. With branches, leaves and roots dragging the ground. Dressed like that, my little boy was able to hide behind me whenever he got scared by some of the other costumes out on the street.

Answer 8

In 7th grade, my two best friends and I decided to dress up as "A PLATE OF SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS" for Halloween. Luckily, my friend's mom was an art teacher, so we worked after school to create a paper-mache meatball helmet for each one of us and paint them brown. We made a gigantic plate out of cardboard and covered it with tinfoil. There were three holes in the plate for our heads to stick out the top. Then we covered the plate with lots and lots of tangled up rope (spaghetti) and some red tissue paper, and viola! We WERE spaghetti and meatballs. The only unforeseen problem was that my friend Betsy was about a foot shorter than my friend Ursula and I. So, our plate was a little tipsy when we were all meat-balled into it.
It was a blast, though!

Answer 9

I had a stroke of genius a couple of years ago and dressed up as "Stolen Identitiy." I wore a bunch of different things that would apply to many different people. I had black tights on, a brigh t-shirt, a shiny silver dress, a long cape, some kind of hat, high heels/2 different shoes, etc. Then I went out and bought those "HELLO MY NAME IS:" stickers and wrote my friends names on them. I put the stickers on all over myself (on the cape and dress), and then I made a sign to hang around my neck that read " STOLEN IDENTITY." Genius, right? Hehe.

Answer 10

A mummy - I was dressing my cousin and I put some combat boots on him, dark circles around the eyes and tore some old white sheets into long strips. It took hours to "mummify" him, but it looked great.

Edited to add: I put some long underwear underneath as it was very cold in the Midwest during October.

Answer 11

My two girls and I went as the Powerpuff girls. I got a pink, green and blue long t-shirts ($9 total) and Sharpie Markered the lines. My husband got a labcoat ($10) and was the Professor. My son had a cape and a silly hat and was Mojo Jojo. ($4).

We all had so much fun and everyone laughed.