If you’re looking for a dramatic look for Halloween this year, it’s hard to go past Day of the dead make-up and get up as a costume. What you’ll need White face powder or white face paint Sponge Black Eye-shadow or black face paint Black Eye-liner or black face paint Thin Brush Red Lip…
Tag: Costume Ideas
How to: Intestines Top
Continuing on with the more morbid side of costume how-to’s, here is how to create the look of bloodied intestines falling out of your body. This can be added onto any top/dress as you please. What you’ll need Top/Dress Tan or Flesh coloured stockings Cotton Filling or Tissues or Toilet Paper Red Food Dye Thread…
How to: Horror Film Shirt
Another step-by-step how to today, this time focusing on something a little bit more gruesome in preparation for Halloween later this month. What you’ll need T-shirt Paint Brush Red Paint Black Paint Tyre Red Food Dye Scissors Newspaper Method Put on your t-shirt and stand in front of a mirror. The first step…
How to: Tutankhamun’s Tomb Poncho
The Tutankhamen Tomb Poncho was possibly the most dramatic costume that I made throughout my year-long challenge. So for my second How To, I thought I’d take you through it. You’ll be surprised to learn that while simple, it is quite time-consuming due to the intricate hieroglyphic patterns. What you’ll need Your height in…
How To: Paper Baroque Wig
Welcome to the first of many How To’s where I will give you a step-by-step guide to creating costumes and props for costumes. Today I’m going to show you how to make a baroque wig out of paper which you would have seen in yesterday’s post. What you’ll need White A4 paper (7 pieces) Pencil…
I’m Bach
I’m Bach bitch. Literally and figuratively*. So it’s been a few months since I last posted, but as you know I was taking a well-deserved break from the mayhem that was my Theme Me challenge over in Europe. Then about a month ago I moved interstate and began a new job… so things have been…
Challenge Over!
As you know between my 26th and 27th birthday, I challenged myself to dress up in a different costume every day for a year, for fun. But what I was keeping on the down low was that for the the last 100 days of my challenge, I recorded a few seconds of video. For the last…
Day 365: Finish
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! So this is it. My final costume. Today completes my year-long challenge to dress in a theme, every day, for a year! (Ridiculous. What kind of weirdo does something like this?! …me, that’s who) Today I take on the theme of ‘Finish’ to symbolise the end of the challenge, dressing as a marathon runner…
Day 364: Mary
Today is the second last costume of my year-long daily costume challenge. When brainstorming with friends about what would be my last costume, many people thought that I should take on a Mary theme, as in just go as me. I thought that would be a HUGE cop out and a waste of my last…
Day 363: Barbie
Today I have taken on the user-suggested theme of Barbie, dressing as a Barbie doll still in it’s box. Thanks go to my brothers for helping me get the box sorted in time! Photo credit: Billy Rubin Pink Hat: Vinnie’s Op Shop Pink Dress: Vinnie’s Op Shop Pink Cardigan: SES Silver Sequin Shoes: DSW Barbie…
Theme Me: Costume, Fancy Dress & Theme Inspiration 