Welcome to #FunFriday – the Halloween edition!
Just like every Friday, we're back with our regular end-of-the-week post filled with fun and interesting topics to entertain you as you finish up the workweek and head into the weekend!
FeedBurner: Spooky, Zany, and Questionable: Homemade Halloween Costumes!
In honor of Halloween next week, we thought we'd use this edition of #FunFriday to explore a few of our favorite homemade halloween costume ideas.
If you haven't bought a costume yet and all the shops are sold out of the good ones, maybe you can get some inspiration from these very imaginative get-ups…
Lightning Strike Victim
This has all the hallmarks of a great Halloween costume: creative, funny, and you can be sure no one else at the party will be wearing it. This works great as a couples costume, but it would be just as easy to go solo and dress as the lightning strike "victim."
How to achieve the look: tease your hair, or if you have short hair, use gel to make it stand on end. Cut jagged holes in a t-shirt and use black paint to make them look like burn marks. Smudge some dark eyeshadow on your face and arms to complete this "burnt to a crisp" look.
This is … odd … and funny? We can't imagine how anyone ever came up with the idea to dress as lobster-meets-seafood-spice, but it kinda works.
Making the costume looks fairly straightforward – paint a piece of cardboard to match the Old Bay container, and hang it from your neck using rope. We can't say how he did the lobster claws, but you could probably achieve something similar by wrapping red duct tape around the sleeves of an old sweatshirt that is stuffed with socks or tissue to give it some added bulk.
Note: Just be sure you don't need to use your hands for the rest of the night!
Does this costume make anyone else nostalgic for the late 80's? This one is best to do with a friend or significant other. It's as easy as cutting face and arm holes in some cardboard boxes and using duct tape to cover the boxes with colored paper. Just don't go for this costume if you are claustrophobic. Or if you want to have the ability to sit down.
Becoming The Colonel is actually pretty simple – you just need a white suit, a black western bow-tie, a pair of black-rimmed glasses, some facial hair, and a big bucket of KFC chicken! You could make the facial hair out of white felt and use some baby powder sprinkled on your hair to make it white (use a spritz of hairspray first, to help it stick.)
Just be careful – if you are headed to a Halloween party with a bucket of fresh KFC, that portion of your costume may disappear quickly …
Ok, we had to share this last one. This lady has waaay too much time on her hands…but you have to admit, this is a pretty awesome costume. A bioluminescent jellyfish? Woah.
If you don't want to go to the trouble of the LED Christmas lights, you could create a simpler version of this costume with just a small, clear umbrella and some iridescent fabric or ribbon for the tentacles. Honestly though, if you are going to go to a party dressed as a jellyfish, you might as well go all out, right? Go for the light-up version and you are pretty much guaranteed to have the most talked about costume at the party.
How's that for a Halloween party? We feel festive already. Now we just need candy.
What is the most creative or funny Halloween costume you've seen? Leave us a comment below. Have a great weekend, and a fun and safe Halloween!
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