The Tricks and Treats of DIYs
Zombies, ghouls, goblins and ghosts; it’s Halloween time! Halloween is all about having fun and dressing up to be different characters for a night. Yet, costumes can get pretty pricey. Instead of buying a new costume, there are plenty of ways to make your own perfect costume.
Creating the perfect costume first comes from the idea. If you want to spice up a Halloween costume that you have previously had or are creating, there are a couple steps that you could take.
The first thing that will make or break a Halloween costume is the makeup. Even if you have basic attire, having a full face of fun makeup will take your costume to the next level. There are fun Halloween makeup kits in the costume store or you can watch Youtube tutorials to create a masterpiece. To top it off, buying different style contacts could really make your costume pop. Interesting makeup ideas for Halloween are: a sugar candy skull, regular skull, clown, zombie, baby doll, mermaid, deer, Cleopatra, a cat and more. With the right makeup, the possibilities are endless.
To make Halloween even more interesting, buying crafts from Michael’s or Joann Fabric could help create the perfect DIY costume. You could buy accessory pieces like rhinestones, feathers and glitter to accent the costume that you are already rocking. You could even start fresh and create an entire outfit for Halloween. For example, instead of being just a plain cat, you could buy a leotard and bedazzle it with diamonds and glitter to be a glitz cat. You could also make diamond cat ears for an eye-catching experience.
If cats aren’t your thing, here are some DIY Halloween ideas that you can make yourself:
Goddess: All you need is a long flowy dress in the color of your choice and hair jewelry. To spice it up you could bedazzle the dress and have your makeup very dramatic with lots of highlight to give you a glow effect. You could make a head piece with lots of rhinestones or buy one at Forever 21.
Boxer: All you need is a sports bra, athletic shorts, a robe and of course boxing gloves. You could make this outfit more interesting by creating a zombie makeup look and making yourself a zombie boxer. Having fake blood on your outfit could make the look even better.
Vampire: You could get very creative with your makeup for this costume. Inserting fake teeth and contacts would spice up a simple outfit with a black dress, black shoes and a leather jacket.
Emoji: If you want to emulate an emoji on your phone, it is really simple to do. Say you want to be the heart eyes emoji. A yellow dress or a yellow oversized shirt would do and some fabric markers or paint. You could just draw the heart eyes and the smile on the dress or t-shirt and then you are an emoji!
Starbucks drink: Clothes-wise all you need is a brown dress. Then, you print out a Starbucks label and iron it onto the dress and buy some cotton balls or white tulle and attach that at the top of the dress. Lastly, the straw could be made out of a toilet paper or paper towel roll painted green and glued on. To make the straw more interesting, you could paint a color around the tip so it could look like lipstick on the straw.
