One of these days you might feel like turning yourself into a monster. Here are the top ten things you can use to help achieve this horrible task…and create your own great homemade costume!
1. Mom’s makeup (ask first!), especially white to give your skin a sickly pallor, green eyeshadow (rub it on your cheeks), red lipstick to highlight scars.
2. Good old ketchup for blood and gore.
3. Old clothes and hats, like an old black raincoat over your shoulders for Dracula cape.
4. Swim fins to create horrid Creature from the Black Lagoon feet.
5. Child-safe white school glue…dab a thin line of glue across your cheek and let it dry to create a temporary scar. Or make dots that’ll dry into warts. Cool!
6. Colored hairsprays are a common product around Halloween, and white is the most useful color! Makes your hair looks ghostly, great for the wizard look, and striking for a fairy. costume. What other ideas can you imagine?
7. Oatmeal. Mix it onto a paste with water, dab it on your skin and let it dry. Gross (but actually good for your skin when you wash it off with warm water.)
8. Lots of mousse, hair gel or hair wax rubbed into hair creates vampire-looking slick effects. Or lets you pull your hair into spikes or wild snarls. Be ready for lots of shampooing to get back to normal.
9. A rubber glove, filled half full of lukewarm water and secured with a rubber band. Hold this inside a long baggy sleeve and extend your arm to shake hands with unsuspecting friends.
10. Old wigs and fake fur can be cut up to make mustaches, wild eyebrows, even hairy werewolf hands.
Always be careful to keep make-up and glue and powder far away from your eyes! Don’t keep monster make-up on too long, and don’t use any of this stuff on your skin if you have allergies.
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