Selfmade baby costume for adults

This must be one of the weirdest things i have seen lately: both in terms of costume and of presentation of the costume. Dressing up as baby riding on the back of an indicated adult seems to be a good alternative if you strive to have one of the most outlandish costumes for carnival.

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Wave Gothic Festival 2011 – Pictures of remarkable outfits and disguises

Imaginative, elegant, often richly dressed and sometimes also somewhat bizarre – that’s the many participants at this year’s Wave Gothic Meeting in Leipzig presented themselves. The main goal of many participants: Attracting attention. Many gothic followers seem to aim to outdo each other in terms of ingenuity and quality of their outfits like the following pictures show impressively. Have fun watching the vast variety of costume ideas.
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Costumes and Dresses at the Wave Gothic Festival 2011

Since 1992 the Wave-Gotik-Meetings takes place in Leipzig, Germany during Whitsun. This festival is one of the largest events for the gothic subculture and renowned not only for its many concerts and its extensive cultural events, but also for its multifaceted audience disguised in fancy, nonstandard costumes that are often exceptionally creative and of top quality. Obviously, one is able to discover lots of inspiring ideas for costumes and disguises, typically in the form of gothic styled costumes, medieval costumes, cyberpunk costumes als well asl visual-kei or steampunk costumes. If you are looking for costume ideas, please take a look at the following pictures taken during this years event. Continue reading

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Amazing selfmade kangaroo costumes

The kangaroo is widely known as the heraldic animal of Australia. As such, it can also be used to create amazing costumes, as it has been demonstrated by some australians with their homemade kangaroo costumes in Sydney during the ‘NSW
International Students Festival’. The costumes as such are elaborate, without doubt. A notable feature are the jumping stilts used in the costume, which allow the wearers to perform amazing jumps, just like the real kangaroos. It is staggering to see the performance of the members of the ‘Icarus Performance Crew‘. Even if the costumes as such might be hard, possibly even impossible to obtain, they might serve well as food for thought if you are on the lookout for an excellent costume idea.


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Costume made to look like their small archetypes

Costumes made to look like any well known model nearly always brings out the laughter in any costume parade. One such example are costumes made to look like the Lego man. These costumes are colorful and eye-catching. The inspiration for these outfits revolve from the arrays of interlocking small bricks, plastic blocks and mini figures from the construction toy line of the famous Lego brand.

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Halloween makeup ideas

With Halloween getting closer many people are starting to ask themselves what to wear. It is an open secret that you don’t always have to buy a complete costume to be well dressed for halloween. A very good alternative is to make use of some of the excellent makeup ideas to be found out there. All these tutorials are in english, in case you don’t understand english you will still be able to grasp the idea behind the finished makeup well enough to do it by yourself.

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Devil Makeup – Tutorial

The best way to complete the she devil costume look in Halloween is to apply a red devil makeup. For a short tutorial on what to do, read on and take a look at the videos.

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Funny selfmade costumes – Humans transform into machines

No kidding, it really can’t get anymore better than this: modern day transformers coming your way! These robot costumes are decent examples of homemade costumes created by enthusiasts and fans who were inspired by an action movie featuring popular robot characters. Of course, you probably have an idea what I’m talking about. I’m referring to “Transformers.” It sure needs extraordinary creativity and innovation to create such awesome robot design costumes. For instance, take into consideration the amount of time spent in conceptualizing the entire costume. Average individuals who don’t have the passion for creating such may take not only months, but years in crafting robot costumes like those shown in the following videos.


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