How to Create a Dead Old Lady Costume
Think of a nice old lady's outfit: white gloves, pillbox hat... But now think of her back from the grave; same outfit, with a few important alterations.
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Things You'll Need
- Plastic Spiders
- Spider Webbing
- Tons Of Plastic Ants
- Halloween Makeup Kits
- Dresses
- Old-fashioned Hats
- Recycled Wedding Veils
- White Gloves
- Face Powder
- Support Hosiery
- Face Paints
- Plastic spiders
Instructions
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Make a bun or an upsweep. Now streak it gray with temporary color, or if you're blond, try a nice blue wash? Old wigs and hairpieces are common thrift shop items.
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Select an old-fashioned hat from the attic, a garage sale, a rummage sale. Add a bit of netting for a veil, and now you have a place to hang plastic spiders, ants and other ghastly bugs.
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Raid your great-aunt's closet or the resale shops for a print dress, wool suit or appropriate skirt and shirt buttoned to the neck. Adorn it with beads, bangles and brooches.
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Put on a pair of little white gloves from the aforementioned rummage sale.
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Pull on the thickest, most bandage-like stockings you can find.
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Find any dark shoes that will fit. If you're lucky to be a woman's size, again raid the Salavation Army shoe racks.
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Powder face generously. No matter what your natural coloring, a dusting of white powder will add a nice deadly glow. Smudge gray eyeshadow around your eyes, especially where there are natural hollows. Spooky?
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Sparingly swoosh bluish highlights around your features.
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Add any plastic scars, gashes or red vampire marks, as you're visiting from "the other side." But do so sparingly - subtle is best.
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Glue thousands of plastic ants and spiders everywhere on your clothes, hair, face and body.
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Dab self with mud.
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Moan loudly.
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Tips & Warnings
Use oversized tote or handbag for candy collection.
If Halloween is cold where you are, a big sweater with lots of moth holes would be perfect.
Watch heels, hems and anything else that might make you trip.
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this is what I'm being or halloween see my picure?
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Nov 22, 2005
If you want to make your hair look white for this costume, just put tons of flour in it. -
Nov 22, 2005
If you want to add a touch of gore, you can dab fake blood on an area with a cosmetic sponge. And to really make it gross, mix instant coffee grinds into the blood to get that caked, dry-blood look.
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Nov 22, 2005
Use cocoa powder on your face or clothes instead of mud or dirt to achieve that graveyard look. This is not an original idea, but I don't remember where I learned it.
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Nov 22, 2005
Adding to the gray hair to make yourself look really old you can take a soft gray eyeliner pencil, and then wrinkel your face. Here's how: raise eyebrows and trace winkles on your forehead. Squint eyes and crinkle your nose and follow the lines.
