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Summary: 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 costume, equipped with pillow muscles, with a demonstration from a professional costume designer and makeup artist in this free video on Halloween attire.
Angel Jones has been designing and costuming for shows and events for more than 20 years. Jones owns and operates Wenches and Warriors, a costume rental store. She is also a licensed...read more
"How to make a muscle man. Here's a couple ways that you can do a muscle man. The simplest really is just to do a circus muscle man. There you really just need to make some great weights for the muscle man. They can come in a million different looks. You could do a toga-style version. That's been done a lot with fur and things of that nature. You simply just find a pair of loose pants for the boy to wear with maybe a sash around the waist some wrapping around the legs anything in that nature to kind of give that circusy muscle man feel. And of course some wonderful tattoos to bring out the arms is always a great thing for a muscle man to have. But most of all you need to have something for the muscle man to lift. Now, this is an easy, constructed out f cardboard, a long tube from the gift wrap station, some hot glue, a little bit of paint, and of course your set weight, don't forget that. And that's easy to just hand over and give to your muscle man to sit there and lift weights with. You want to do that for us? There ya go. Show 'em how it's done. Oh, well done. So that's any easy easy way to make a muscle man. So you can also, if you wanted to do. Maybe your muscle man wanted more muscles lets say. You could also wear a long-sleeved shirt and by taking some of your household pillows running it along the arm with some twine, wrapping it around, putting it underneath that long-sleeved shirt, and don't forget that muscle t over it, finalizing any kind of muscle man that you'd like."
eHow Article: How to Make a Halloween Muscle Man Costume