How to Create a Witch Costume

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Are you the Wicked Witch of the West or Glinda the Good Witch? Watch "The Wizard of Oz" and determine your witch personality. When you make a decision, read on and follow these simple steps to create your own costume.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Halloween Makeup Kits
Capes
Tiaras
Witch Costume
Glitter
Makeup Kits
Spray-on Hair Colors
Glow-in-the-dark Stars
black, weird old clothes

Step1

Create your headgear from cardboard and paper, or get a pointy witch hat from a costume shop or toy store. Good witches can wear tiaras or birthday princess hats made of paper. You can make one from cardboard and silver glitter and glue.

Step2

Streak your hair with gray temporary color, or use powder. Good witches can use pink or glitter.

Step3

Make a witch nose (see Related eHows). Good witches may choose long false eyelashes, blush spots, pink lipstick and face glitter.

Step4

Black out a tooth or two using special cosmetics from the costume shop. Good witches need all their teeth.

Step5

Use a black eyeliner pencil and make big black moles for a scary, wicked face.

Step6

Wear layers of musty, black clothes. Skirts over skirts over petticoats look witchy; recycle old stuff, or ravage the thrift shops.

Step7

Choose holey sweaters, rusty silks and weird garments. Good witches will choose pretty, sparkly dresses and flouncy skirts over net petticoats.

Step8

Create a witchy cape with fabric pinned at the neck. A skirt cut up the middle makes a great cape. Perhaps add a cardboard collar. Good witches have capes too, just not black ones.

Step9

Wear black shoes and striped or red tights.

Step10

Carry a broom of course, or leave it home and carry a decorated pillowcase for candy. Draw bats, rats and newts on it. Good witches can carry fairy wands and shopping bags or pillowcases decorated with birds, flowers and rainbows.

Tips & Warnings

Stuff a pillow in the back of your shirt for a humped, truly witchy appearance.
Wear long, press-on nails painted black or blood red for added effect.
Gluing plastic insects, bats and cat stickers to your hat would be creepy cool.
Get your costume from used clothing shops; reasonably priced capes and hats are available at toy shops. Or check Things You'll need for a ready-made costume.
Learn to cackle.
Black clothing is hard to see at night, so make sure you have a flashlight or reflective tape on your costume.
You may scare cats, dogs and little children. And like it.

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Anonymous said

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on 9/8/2006 Take toy sunglasses and then use ping pong balls and use red felt pen on them to color in blood. Use black to color in an eyeball. Stick the ping pong balls on the glasses.

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on 12/30/2005 Head to a fabric store and grab a length (equivalent to your height) of cheap, wide, black satin and the same length of cheap, red satin. Run a quick seam around both, piece together with the black on the outside and the red on the inside. Attach together with elastic and a clasp at one end. It makes a brilliant, inexpensive and very effective cape! Also, silver cardboard can be cut out to make simple shoe buckles, attached to any ordinary black shoes or boots, to give a witchy-look.

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on 11/22/2005 first make sure your face is dark by using brown or black or even green then scrunch your face then use a eye pencil to line out the wrinkles!

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on 11/22/2005 This costume is quick and easy for any adult with a sewing machine.

I used black polyester material in 60 inch width. I used 3 yards for the skirt and 3 yards for the cape. I sewed a hem along the top of both pieces (along all 3 yards). I cut the skirt bottom to a length that I would not trip over, and I used that to cut strips to run through the top hem (to tie the skirt and cape around the waist and neck). An optional seam up the side of the skirt allows you to wear stockings instead of pants under the skirt.

Add makeup, a broom, and other accesories to make a quick and easy witch.

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on 11/22/2005 1. Tie your hair back. Use the triangular sponge to make a purple outline around the face. Fill the outline with green face paint using the round sponge. Blend the colors with the round sponge.
2. Before the green face paint dries, use the medium brush to paint above and below the eyes with white face paint.
3. Paint black bushy eyebrows and wrinkles. Paint creases on the lips. Since witches rarely smile, they have deep frown lines.
4. Use the tip of the fine brush to paint red circles on the chin and forehead. Clean the fine brush before outlining the circles in black. Keep using the fine brush to paint black hairs sprouting from the warts.
5. Use the fine brush and black paint to accentuate the lines under the nose and add other gruesome features. Don't forget to make a broom by tying a lot of twigs and small branches together.

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