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How to Apply Sexy Witch Makeup
Makeup for a sexy witch mainly enhances natural features by applying a smokey eye, sultry lipstick and a small mole on the face. Create the look of a sexy witch with a demonstration by a certified...
How to Apply Vampire Makeup
To look like a vampire, apply white makeup to pale the skin and use eyeliner to create wrinkles in the face. Add a widow's peak to complete a vampire look with a demonstration by a certified stage...
How to Apply Pirate Makeup
Makeup can be used to look like a pirate by using brown and grey makeup to create stubble, red and brown makeup to darken the skin, and eyeliner to help the eyes stand out. Create the look of a...
How to Apply Witch Makeup
Traditional witch makeup begins with a green foundation before adding red lips and dark eyes. Apply makeup to look like a scary witch with a demonstration by a certified stage makeup artist in...
Clown Face Makeup Ideas
Clown makeup can be applied to the face in a variety of ways, whether the desired look is a sad clown, a happy clown or a scary clown. Outline basic shapes on the face before filling them in using...
How to Apply Clown Makeup
Applying clown makeup for Halloween involves first outlining the various shapes that make up the patterns and then filling in each shape with the appropriate colors. Use white, red and black face...
How to Apply Zombie Makeup
The trick to applying zombie makeup is to use purple, green, yellow and brown makeup in splotches to look like bruises and decaying skin. Create a believable zombie face with a demonstration by a...
Grim Reaper Makeup
Classic grim reaper makeup creates the illusion of a skull by applying black to the hollows of the face and eye sockets and adding white to the cheekbones, forehead and chin. Apply grim reaper...
Cleopatra Halloween Makeup
Cleopatra Halloween makeup can be applied using regular cosmetics, such as eyeliner, brow pencils, lipstick and mascara. Create a classic Cleopatra look with a demonstration by a certified stage...
How to Apply Red Devil Makeup
Red devil makeup begins with a solid red foundation before black is added to the eyes and hollows of the cheeks. Apply makeup to look like a devil with a demonstration by a certified stage makeup...
How to Apply Halloween gore makeup
Halloween is a great time to let our imaginations run wild. If you like to give your family, friends or complete strangers a great scare gore effects are the way to go. In this article you will...
How to Make a Bunny Ear Headband
"Mad as a March Hare" I've been working on my March Hare costume and I'm getting right down to the end. The March Hare being a brown rabbit, there aren't many things in the ways of...
How to Get Your Teens Involved in Carving Pumpkins Again
Get your older kids interested in carving pumpkins like the good old days. Or, how to decorate your yard for Halloween with many different Jack 'O Lanterns
Dressing in Drag
Dress in drag by selecting a bright dress and wearing a brazier, pantyhose and elaborate makeup. Finish off a homemade drag costume by wearing a styled wig with this free video from a costume shop...
How to Create a '40s Costume for Men
When assembling a 1940s costume for a man, choose slacks, a dress shirt and a necktie, or find a zoot suit with a chain and hat. Add shoes that lace up to finish off a 1940s man's costume with...
How to Create a '50s Costume for Men
Before making a 1950s costume for a man, decide whether to do a greaser look or a preppy look, and then, use a sweater vest for a preppy costume and choose a leather jacket to wear for a greaser...
How to Create a '60s Costume for Men
Create a beatnik 1960s costume for a man by wearing a turtleneck shirt and medallion necklace, or make a Jimi Hendrix 1960s costume by wearing beads, flowing shirts and other hippie attire....
How to Create an '80s Costume for Men
When designing a man's 1980s costume, wear something that is tight fitting and lightweight. Learn what options are available for 1980s hair accessories and hairstyles with this free video from a...
How to Make a Cowardly Lion Costume
Assemble a homemade cowardly lion costume from "The Wizard Oz" using fur, spray paint, gloves and orange fabric. Find out how to use a coat hanger to make the lion's tail in this free video from...
How to Make a Tarzan Costume
Make a homemade Tarzan costume by cutting fabric, buying a wig and applying makeup with an eyeliner pencil. Spray yourself with self-tanning products to finish off a Tarzan costume with tips in...
How to Make a Jeff Hardy WWE Costume
Make a Jeff Hardy World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) costume by finding a wig, applying black eyeliner and wearing a black tank top and jeans. Fashion Jeff Hardy gloves to go with a WWE costume...
How to Wear a Toga
There are different ways to wear a toga, and when designing a toga costume, decide between a short or long piece of fabric. Accessorize a toga costume by adding belts, laurel leafs, grapes and a...
How to Create a '20s Costume for Men
Put together a man's 1920s costume by finding a golf cap and matching suit, wearing gold chain accessories and adding white spats to black shoes. Learn to slick hair to the side to finish a 1920s...
How to Preserve A Jack-O-Lantern
To preserve a jack-o-lantern, wrap the entire pumpkin in plastic wrap and store it in the refrigerator. Help a jack-o-lantern last longer, even soaking it in water to prevent it from drying up,...
How to Decorate Indoors for Halloween
Decorating indoors for Halloween incorporates skulls, ghosts and fake spider webs to create a spooky environment, complete with cardboard gravestones and glow-in-the-dark accents. Embellish an...
How to Decorate Outdoors for Halloween
Decorating outdoors for Halloween incorporates gravestones with creative names on them, fake hands coming out of the ground and craft-store decorations. Utilize an outdoor space for festive...
How to Decorate a Halloween Table
Decorating a Halloween table requires establishing a theme and repeating that theme across the table scape, such as multiple skulls in different shapes and colors. Adorn a table with creepy decor...
How to Make a Backyard Haunted Forest for Halloween
To make a backyard haunted forest for Halloween, design multiple spaces with different themes, and even hire friends to dress up and jump out at the visitors. Create a haunted atmosphere in a...
How to Throw a Halloween Party for Kids
Throwing a Halloween party for kids involves sending out invitations with a start and end time, providing an activity for the kids when they arrive and having plenty of candy and treats for them....
How to Throw a Halloween Party for Teens
Throwing a Halloween party for teens involves sending out invitations, establishing if it is a costume party and providing plenty of Halloween-themed food. Host a teen Halloween party with tips...
How to Throw a Halloween Party for Adults
Throwing a Halloween party for adults involves sending out invitations, providing snacks and Halloween-themed drinks while allowing time for mingling and socializing. Host an adult Halloween...
How to Decorate a Pumpkin With Flowers
Decorating a pumpkin with flowers makes a great centerpiece for a stylish Halloween dinner, incorporating blossoms in fall colors. Add yellow, orange and maroon flowers to a Halloween dinner table...
How to Bob for Apples
Bobbing for apples is a classic Halloween tradition where participants can use only their teeth to retrieve apples from a water-filled bowl or cauldron. Set up a bobbing-for-apples activity,...
How to Prepare for a Pumpkin Carving Party
To prepare for a pumpkin carving party, carve out the top, empty all of the pumpkin seeds and provide plenty of tools and carving patterns. Set up for a pumpkin carving party, for both adults and...
How to Make Cat Halloween Costumes
Making a cat Halloween costume can be as elaborate as a head-to-toe fur outfit or as simple as adding a felt tail and kitty ears to a black leotard and leggings. Create a cat costume, whether...
How to Make Couples Halloween Costumes
Couples Halloween costumes can be a 1950s greaser couple, with rolled up jeans, leather jackets and saddle shoes, or a 1940s Bonnie and Clyde duo, with a double-breasted suit and a vintage dress....
How to Make Ryan and Sharpay Halloween Costumes
To be Ryan and Sharpay for Halloween, find a great pink dress and a bright blond wig, coupled with a guy in a golfer's cap and a dress jacket over a t-shirt and jeans. Create costumes for High...
How to Make a Homemade Halloween Costume
Making homemade Halloween costumes is easy by using clothes from the closet or everyday kitchen items, such as trash bags, to create a simple vampire or witch outfit. Use simple craft supplies and...
How to Make a Mary Poppins Halloween Costume
To make a Mary Poppins Halloween costume, the accessories are key, as a long jacket, a fun vintage hat, a pair of fancy boots and a large umbrella are all important aspects to the look. Be Mary...
How to Make a Pumpkin Costume for Halloween
Making a pumpkin costume for Halloween requires finding a pumpkin pattern and making it out of felt, using a pumpkin printed garbage bag as a dress and wearing an orange ski cap to top it off....
How to Make a Halloween Devil Costume
To make a Halloween devil costume, keep it simple with a pair of black velvet pants, homemade devil horns made from Fimo oven-baked clay and a devil pitchfork. Create a devil outfit in a variety...
How to Make a Halloween Mummy
Making a Halloween mummy involves wearing a simple Egyptian skirt and wrapping the entire body in cheesecloth strips, dirtying them up and applying some makeup to the face for an authentic look....
How to Make a Halloween Muscle Man Costume
To make a Halloween muscle man costume, wear temporary tattoos on the arms, wear loose pants with a sash around the waist and create a set of weights out of cardboard tubes. Create a muscle man...
How to Make a Halloween Nun Costume
Making a nun costume for Halloween involves wearing a simple, long black dress, using a rope as a belt, wearing a cross around the neck and creating a nun's habit for an authentic feel. Be a nun...
How to Make a Halloween Swag
To make a Halloween swag to hang over a doorway, gather corn husks, autumn leaf sprigs and twigs with a twine or wire and wrapping it all together with a ribbon before hanging it on the wall with...
How to Make a Halloween Tree
Making a Halloween tree to use as decoration can be done using twigs and branches from the outdoors, using corn husks and other natural fibers gathered together or by cutting out cardboard and...
How to Host a Halloween Vampire Gathering
When hosting a Halloween vampire gathering, decorate a grand venue, offer blood-colored beverages, create ominous invitations and adorn the room with candelabras. Host a vampire party, equipped...
How to Make a Child's Fairy Costume for Fairy Dress Up or Halloween
Making a child's fairy costume for dress up or Halloween requires shredding old pajamas or torn clothing, adding glitter and trinkets to the outfit and creating fairy wings out of shaped wire and...
How to Make a Dorothy of Oz Halloween Costume
To make a Dorothy of Oz costume for Halloween, find a gingham dress at a thrift store or purchase a pattern, braid the hair into pigtails, decorate shoes with red glitter and accessorize with a...
How to Make a Halloween Bee Costume
Making a Halloween bee costume involves layering black and yellow fabric over a leotard, creating an outfit from scratch or finding a bee pattern, adding wire and pantyhose insect wings to finish...