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Comic strips are a great way to lighten up the day throughout your whole week. Get funny comic page ideas with help from a crafts expert in this free video clip.
Certain last minute tricks are great for making your dress fit better, especially when you're in a hurry. Find out about last minute tricks to make your dress fit with help from an entertainment news, fashion and lifestyle professional in this free video clip.
Handmade Halloween felt bags are a really great way to spread a little holiday "fear." Get tips on making a handmade Halloween felt bag with help from a dedicated and passionate arts and crafts expert in this free video clip.
Funny camera poses are always up to your own interpretation. Get funny camera pose ideas with help from an experienced photography expert in this free video clip.
"Labyrinth" is a very popular fantasy movie from the 1980s starring David Bowie. Find out about how David Bowie did his makeup in the movie "Labyrinth" with help from a certified makeup artist in this free video clip.
Being called creepy is usually an insult -- at least for 11 months out of the year -- but during the buildup to Halloween, some might consider it a badge of honor. Chocolate pumpkins and cute costumes aside, Halloween is a holiday for celebrating the things that go bump in the night and send a tingle up your spine. Indulge your macabre side with gruesome gadgets for your office or home.
Your child is never too young to get him or her interested in Halloween. Learn about Halloween costumes for 6th graders with help from an accomplished designer, organizer, party planner, and shopper in this free video clip.
If there's one night to dress and act like a superstar, it’s Halloween. Among the most outrageous celebrities out there is Katy Perry. Imitating any of her playful, colorful costumes from the whimsical Part of Me Tour will definitely win you a Halloween costume contest.
Even adults can get in on the Halloween fun with some delightful do-it-yourself costumes. Learn about do-it-yourself Halloween costume ideas for adults with help from this free, spooky video.
Certain special effects are absolutely great for maximizing both the "trick" and "treat" aspects of trick or treating. Learn about Halloween special effects for trick or treating with help from this free, spooky video clip.
From trick-or-treating, to apple bobbing, to bacchanalian blowouts, Halloween has become an evening of revelry for all ages -- so it makes perfect sense in its evolution that we, as a culture of nearly pathological pet lovers, should include our four-legged friends in the celebration. Pet costumes have come a long way from the simplicity of a jauntily tied bandana, or squeezing your unwitting animal into a tiny tutu. But creating your own Captain Jack Russell Sparrow, or Katy Purry, comes with a few potential hazards. Your pet will always offer you unconditional love -- or in some feline cases…
Halloween is a great opportunity to experiment with many different kinds of makeup. Get examples of face makeup for Halloween with help from a visual artist of nine years in this free video clip.
Makeup can be used in a very specific way to alter the natural appearance of your facial features. Use makeup to change round eyes into an Asian eye with help from a celebrity makeup artist in this free video clip.
One longtime staple of the Halloween season is candy corn. Find out how to make candy corn Halloween costumes for girls with help from a professional costumer and tailor in this free video clip.
Celebrating a new boss sets a positive tone between the new supervisor, yourself and the other workers. While you must always respect professional boundaries, strict formality isn't necessary when welcoming a new boss to your team. Consider the company culture and the personality of the new boss when deciding how to welcome her. Incorporating silliness and humor in your welcome helps her feel included as a supervising member of the team instead of a disconnected higher-up.
You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot force it to drink. Similarly, you can lead your baby to her crib, but you cannot make her nap. You can, however, implement strategies to make nap time run smoother. Set up a napping routine but remain flexible for life's interruptions.
Halloween is a chance for you to express your love for some of your favorite interests. For physics geeks, it is also a chance to make a clever play on your field of specialty. One good idea for a particle physics costume is to dress as the Higgs Boson particle, the theoretical "God particle" that gives mass to everything in the universe. As a hot topic of scientific study and in the popular media, the Higgs Boson is a perfect opportunity to show off your knowledge, impress your friends and start an interesting conversation.
"Dominion," also informally known as "Minions," is a fantasy card game in which players compete to build a kingdom in a fictional land. One of the expansions of the game has a sea theme, and it is often played for Halloween because of its association with pirates. The game comes with pirate ship cards, as well as a pirate ship playing mat, where you can collect various cards to build a pirate ship and its crew. If you want to make a pirate ship for Halloween during a game of "Minions," play with the appropriate expansion cards.
A homemade tourist costume can make for a humorous Halloween costume, suitable for an individual, couple or a group. Furthermore, this costume can serve as an ideal "last-minute" Halloween outfit, since many individuals are apt to find the costume components in their closet and around the house. In addition to dressing the part, Halloween enthusiasts can "up the ante" by acting the part as well, making for a potentially humorous costume idea for October 31.
While Halloween costumes traditionally require extensive face paint and gaudy attire, dressing like a lawyer for Halloween could be a fun and educational experience for both you and your children. While your child could get away with wearing a simple suit and tie, adding thoughtful flourishes will help make the costume fun and entertaining for both you and your viewers.
Darth Sidious is the alter ego of the evil Senator Palpatine from the "Star Wars" movie franchise. Known for his dark cloak, pale face and raspy voice, Darth Sidious is an easy and effective persona to take on for Halloween. While Ewoks are cute, Luke Skywalker is brave and Darth Vader is evil embodied, Darth Sidious makes for a more subtle brand of fear that will net you a treasure of candy and scare fellow revelers.
Creating the illusion of having squinted eyes can be useful for Halloween costumes and film, and it's easy to do. It requires liquid latex, a makeup application that can be found in costume stores or online, but no other specialty makeup. The technique is normally used to make wrinkles, and it adds a "squint" to the side of the eye. This makeup technique requires some patience, as there is some drying time involved.
Halloween gives children and adults alike permission to let loose and dress up. Some people go for run-of-the-mill costumes while others opt for outrageous outfits. A man can put himself in the shoes of the opposite sex and dress up as a woman for a fun and easy Halloween costume. A trip to a woman's clothing store can be intimidating, but he needs only a few key items in order to successfully dress as a woman.
Halloween can be a great time for you and your kids. One big part of this enjoyment is dressing up for the occasion. A scary theme is traditional and you may be thinking about some common ones that you can remember from when you were a kid but, actually, you can pretty much wear what you want, or more importantly, what your kids want.
According to Peggy McClard Antiques, shade portraits have been popular since the late 18th Century as a way that less wealthy people could afford to have a portrait made of themselves or a family member. Children can make shadow profiles of themselves to give away as gifts to family members and parents can use them as a way to create fond memories of their children as they grow up. With a photo, some silhouette paper, and a nice background, you'll be making shadow profiles of your child in no time.
Making a purple princess costume is easier than it may sound. You don't have to be a sewing genius; you simply have to combine the right mix of accessories to make a costume that will please your little girl. Save yourself the cost of a ready-made costume and make a costume that is personalized to your taste. With a little imagination and creativity, even an amateur crafter can create a purple princess masterpiece.
Halloween is an opportunity for you to wear creative costumes. If you are attending a Halloween party, the host can select a theme for the occasion, but you can also incorporate your personal style when coming up with the costume. You can put together a cute Halloween costume for both children and adults. If you have a pet, dress it up in an adorable costume.
Halloween is a time for dressing up in your favorite costume and going to parties or trick-or-treating. One way to really make a drab or unexciting costume come alive is the facial products that you can apply to make your costume pop. The use of false or painted-on eyelashes and dynamic eye makeup can help accent any costume with the right colors and application.
Top off a little child's party outfit or Halloween costume with a homemade princess crown. Teach the child craft skills by involving her in the crown-making project. It will provide entertainment at the same time as saving you the price of a ready-made product. Materials cost between $2 and $4, as of the date of publication, and the project takes up to one hour.
The oldest vintage Halloween costumes were mostly ghosts, devils, witches and skeletons, but over the years, costumes began depicting characters, movies or styles that were relevant at their particular historical era. Character costumes and figures like goblins or ghosts are often homemade as they can be inexpensively created using readily available wardrobe or household items. Many of today’s most popular vintage costumes or costume supplies can also be found at thrift stores and draw heavily from various aspects of pop culture, entertainment and literature.
If you want to put a little jump in your trick-or-treaters’ step this Halloween, look no further than the blank canvas that is your front lawn. Transforming your yard into a spook-tacular scene is one way to leave your visitors screaming and neighbors green with envy. By following a few tips and tricks, you may blow it out set-designer style and go beyond the simple stake in the ground that says “Boo!”
Putting together a performance with a cast of young starlets can be incredibly rewarding and exciting but can also entail stress and seemingly impossible deadlines. You have one piece of the puzzle left to complete: choreography for your two background dancers. Once you have determined the skill level of the dancers, utilizing a guideline of how to choreograph specifically for girls dancing in the background will help you to complete the task properly and efficiently.
Put your kid’s old Halloween costumes to good use by displaying them on the doors in your home. Old costumes purchased from yard sales or thrift stores can be used as an inexpensive decoration that will greet trick-or-treaters when they approach your front door. Halloween costumes that can be used include vampires, ghosts, scarecrows, pumpkins, maids, princesses or cartoon characters.
Many people have different opinions as to what makes a costume scary. It all depends on what you find terrifying. By identifying your deepest fears, you will be able to determine what costume you think is best at scaring others. In addition, you will be able to create and represent the fear better as you know what would frighten you. There are a few tricks to choosing something that is likely to scare others; these might point you in the right direction.
Dressing up your iPod for Halloween is a creative way to boost the spirit of the holiday. Constructing a Halloween-themed case will both add Halloween allure to the device without ruining the surface via paint or stickers. Make your case from cardboard and cover it in a paper mache coating. Paper mache provides the case with stability and an ideal surface for acrylic paint. Shade the case in black and orange colors, with any Halloween-inspired images you wish.
The 1980s were characterized by outrageous fashion trends, memorable television and movie actors, over-accessorized musicians and headline-grabbing politicians. Neon clothing was impossible to escape, MTV was newborn, John Hughes made smash-hit films, and republicans ruled the White House. Because of this, dressing up as one of the unique male personalities from the decade of decadence for Halloween is an ideal and easy costume choice.
Children develop rapidly in the first year of life. Some developmental steps happen one after the other, such as an infant noticing an object with his eyes and then attempting to reach it with his hands. Although most infants develop at the same general rate there are medical and social issues which can slow or even stop infant development. Caregivers in infant daycare classrooms often keep a flow chart or infant portfolio to ensure every child is monitored and any developmental issues are identified and addressed quickly.
If you have been invited to a costume party with a religious theme or need a last-minute nun costume for Halloween or a theater production, you can improvise using items from your closet or around the house. You will not need to create a lot of complicated props or accessories, because nun's habits are very simple and nuns do not have many possessions.
If you're one of the many who tire of the same old costumes every year, take heart. There are costume ideas that are far from mundane. From comical to questionable, the ideas are, if anything, sure conversation starters. Most of them require minimal effort on your part while making a maximum impact at your next Halloween party.
Dressing up as a Disney character isn't reserved for little kids. Teenage girls can find cute costume ideas from their favorite Disney movies. They can create a modern take on a classic Disney character or uncover a long-forgotten character. Even better, many of these costumes ideas can be put together with just a few basic elements.
If you do not have enough money to purchase humorous couple's costumes or you can't find the costumes you want in stores, create them yourself. Many of the items needed to create a costume can be found around the house, while a few pieces, such as wigs, may need to be purchased.
Mary Poppins uses discipline mixed with a spin of magic to educate and care for the Banks' children in the book "Mary Poppins," originally by the author P.L. Travers, which was adapted into a film in 1964. Replicate her prim and proper appearance with items you or your friends have in your closets or find at a thrift store.
As a parent you want to capture as many memories of your child as possible. You can keep the card that was on your baby's bassinet at the hospital, his first ultrasound picture, and even create your own copies of his handprints to store in a baby book or frame and hang on the nursery wall. The good news is that it's relatively simple to get handprints from your infant, since he's not yet mobile and can't run away as you try to get a full impression on paper.
Halloween is the perfect time to show off couples' costumes. Pairs come in all kinds, such as food items, pop culture and celebrity icons. Before choosing a cute couples' costume, think about the things you like that have counterparts. If you and your partner enjoy tennis, for example, dress up as a tennis racquet and can of balls. Finding a costume you both enjoy wearing is the key to a fun-filled night.
Many little girls dream of being a princess and will love the opportunity to dress as one for a costume party or Halloween. With a little time and effort, princess costumes are easy to create at home using items from the closet or sourced inexpensively at thrift stores. A simple leotard can undergo a magical transformation with the addition of layers of tulle and plenty of sparkle.
At Halloween time, every kid needs a trick-or-treat bag to store all their yummy Halloween loot. Felt bags are great for this, since they're colorful, inexpensive and also quick and simple to make. Whether you need one bag or several, there are different ways to make quick and simple felt bags for this year's Halloween festivities.
Whether you are dressing as a pin-up girl or a French maid for Halloween, a pouty lip can add a lot to your costume. If you were not born with full lips, you can still do a few things that don't include resorting to plastic surgery. By learning and employing several makeup tricks, you can show off your pouty lips at the next Halloween party.
If you're an adult female looking for unique Halloween costumes, you'll probably find a lot of sexualized outfits, as if the sexual objectification of women is somehow original. Unique should be surprising, something that disrupts the notions of normal. This Halloween, instead of settling for another sexy pirate or sexy witch, go for weird.
Creating homemade costumes for your baby is not as difficult as it might seem – at least if you have an idea for what you want your baby to look like, as well as how much time and effort you want to invest into the costume. There are tons of materials at home you can use to conjure up that perfect costume – most just take a little creative thinking to construct.
"Doodle Devil" is a spinoff of the puzzle game "Doodle God." As with the original, players combine elements to create new ones, which they can then recombine to create even more things. By the end of the game, players will be making Lawyers, Zombies and Demons, all starting from a base set of 12 elements including Earth, Chaos, Man and Woman. The Worm is a key ingredient in creating the Snake, which itself leads to several devilish combos.
