My Halloween Ideas

Are Halloween costumes too overpriced for you? Or, are you sick of going as the same ghosts and ghouls and are searching for something different this year? Do you wish to have a look that no one else has? If you said “YES” to any or all of these questions, then creating your own Halloween costume is the way to go!

Even if you’ve never done this before, creating your unusual Halloween costume isn’t hard! If you stick to this step by step plan, you’ll have a spooky and eerie Halloween costume in no time. Yet, it is very important that you start this work right now! Do not wait until the last possible second!

1. Creating the personality: The number one thing you need to do is to make a sketch of your Halloween character on paper, because anything you write down will get imprinted on your mind. Once you’ve got a clear idea of the type of costume you would like to make, tit will be easy to create.

2. Collect pieces of clothes: The reason why I asked you to start early is that you will need time to collect the different clothes that might be lying around your house. If you have a maid of honor dress, prom gown, towels, ties, bag cloth pieces, etc., gather them up all!

Do not be too judgmental at this stage: pick up everything that grabs your eye. You never know which piece of material could come to your assistance when making the costume. Also, do not care if all the garments you collect are not of the same color; if you are a bit creative, you will find it simpler to make a costume out of multi-colored clothes than with same-colored clothes!

Do you have some elderly women in your neighborhood who you believe may have out-of-date clothes in their cupboards or closets? If yes, you might be able to visit them and ask them to lend some of those clothes to you. With old clothes you might be able to make a costume of a Victorian or early 20th century Halloween monster. Now, don’t that sound entertaining and exciting?

3. Do not be a perfectionist: Far too many people waste their valuable time making their Halloween costumes look “perfect”. Trust me, you do not need to have a perfect costume; it just needs to REPRESENT your character, even if in a VAGUE manner! That is right, it doesn’t have to match the character exactly!

Just start making the costume and I am sure you will get a good deal of imaginative ideas along the way. You can even ask your friends to give you a helping hand; remember that two heads are better than one!

4. Get the extras: Would a freak look frightening without his weapons? No. So, along with creating a Halloween costume, you also need to buy the accessories that you believe belong with the character. Accessories can be anything from Halloween contact lenses, make-up, masks, toy guns, etc.

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Here you will learn the makeup secrets to become a Sexy Army Girl, in this video tutorial. Military costumes are sure to people’s Atteeen-tion! Now become your Soldier of Fortune this Halloween.

Makeup needed for the Sexy Army Girl Costume

Eyes

MAC “Sharkskin” Shade Stick
NYX “Milk” Jumbo eyeshadow pencil
MAC “Humid” eyeshadow
MAC “Shadowy Lady” eyeshadow
MAC “Mulch” eyeshadow
Urban Decay “Zero” 24/7 eyeliner
MAC “Shroom” eyeshadow
MAC “Zoomblack” Zoomlash mascara
EverLash Flase Lashes “#EL201″

Face

LORAC “Luminizer”
MAC “Sunbasque”

Lips

MAC “Baby Sparks” Dazzleglass

You will be able to find your Sexy Camouflage Dress costume at My Halloween Store. Get your private to do push-ups all night long when he sees you in one of these sexy Army Girl costumes.

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The second coming was nigh.

One night, in a period of prayer and humble supplication, God had appeared to Father Marcus Burtt to tell him that he would bring about the second coming. Father Burtt didn’t question the edict, and promptly left the order so that he might travel the world, seeking followers and the means to bring about the coming of the Lord. It was his purpose, he knew, and he attacked it with the same single-minded focus that he had valued throughout his life. However, Burtt was a man of God, not of science, so his means and capabilities were limited to the earthly wisdom of others.

In his travels, he acquired certain treasures and artifacts, as well as followers like wayward disciples. In Haiti, he spent a great deal of money to obtain an elixir that was rumored to bring the dead to life. While a physical body was required for the substance to work, Burtt reasoned that a sample of DNA, coupled with a physical host, could still work when paired with the grace of God. In Egypt, Burtt spent a great deal of his own time and his follower’s money, but was able to locate what was claimed to have been the garment that Jesus wore when he wept blood in the garden of Gethsemane. This would give him the latent DNA that he required.

Eventually, the church settled in a small rural area of the United States, with the blessing of the Vatican. It was, of course, required that he donate heavily to the mother church in order to be allowed to do so, but the financial blessings provided by the growing body of believers bought not only the legitimacy of the Pope’s blessing, but also a measure of protection from close inspection by the Holy See. Father Burtt’s now-large church was able to continue its research. Given the size, Burtt also held regular services and a Sunday school, more to keep the appearances than to actually reach the lost. While he understood the importance of his daily work with the Parish, it was his Godly mandate that drove him daily; he would rise early, if he slept at all, and experimented in the decaying basement of the aged building. He would kill a test animal- whatever stray he could catch that day- and see if the concoction would revive it.

At first, there would be no reaction. As he fine-tuned the mixture, he could revive the dead flesh for moments at a time, and then minutes; the ‘life’ that was forced into them wasn’t pleasant, but was a harrowing experience with howls of pain and instinctive efforts to escape the terror of impending death. It was a dog, late one night, which came back. At first, it was like the others. The sorry creature yelped in pain and fear, but it didn’t die. After a few panicked moments, it laid still and panted with fluttering eyelids. Then, tentatively, it lifted a heavy head and licked Father Burtt’s hand.
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The vortex effect in your foggy yard is a really ghostly effect that will surely impress your trick-or-treaters and it doesn’t require too much items to create it.

Here is what you need: Holiday Light Projector, fog machine and black construction paper.

Holiday Light Projectors are those lighting devices utilized to project an image onto a side of your house, garage door or virtually any flat surface. They are generally available at department stores throughout the Halloween and Christmas seasons and costs from $30.00 to $50.00. These versions generally have a 50 watt light bulb with sufficient power to produce the wanted effect. These projectors come with a collection of round film images to project various images.

Fog machines, such as the FogFX fog machine are great and can be found at My Halloween Store, for example. It is also recommended to have a Timer Remote, for you not to constantly run back and forth to click the usual remote button.

You have the possibility to create a vortex of any color, but the blue one has the most ghostly look. On the other hand, the green color creates the so called “X-file” look, while the red is perfect for a demonic look.

To get started, first choose from the film images included with the image projector, one with the color you want the vortex color to be. Next, you have to block the picture part of the film image using a paper circle to avoid showing it in the projected image. The paper circle has to be roughly ¼ inch smaller than the film segment.

With a ruler, determine the diameter of the image film within the external circle. Draw the circle on a black cover paper with the help of a compass. Cautiously cut out the circle from the black paper you have used.

With double-sided tape or glue, attach the paper circle onto the middle of the transparent film image, which should leave a 1/8 inch border of the background color uncovered. Make sure to put it on the back side on the disk, and in any case not on where it says “This Side Face UP.” Thus, the paper disc is not straightly exposed to the light bulb.

Place the adapted film image back into the image projector and assemble back the whole projector unit. Position the fog machine high with the projector slightly above it, for its lights to shine down through the fog at the direction your visitors will arrive. Finally, place a CD player and speakers right behind the fog machine to play a ghostly sound effect.

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Apple Bobbing

Well, this is a simple and funny game. Any container large enough to have 3-4 heads over the water simultaneously. Put the container on the floor and fill it with water. Put the apples in the water; just make sure to remove the stalks of the apples to make a more interesting and difficult game. The participants have to kneel down next the container and grab an apple using just their teeth. The container has to contain enough water for the apples to float and making impossible for the apples to be pushed against the base of the container. The winner is the first person to grab and get one apple out, using only their teeth and nothing else. For more fun, have the prize in a bucket of confetti. The winner needs to get the prize out of the bucket with their teeth, with their still wet face.

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Apple on a String

It is also a simple but very funny game. All you need is a couple of apples and string. Attach the string to the stalk of the apples. The other end of the string has to be attached to something high, to hang down from somewhere. The winner of the game is the person who manages to take a large bite out of the hanging apple using only their mouth.

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Pass the Balloon

With the use of some orange and black balloons you can turn into a genuine Halloween game this rather old party game. Organize your guests in pairs and the game starts with the balloon positioned on the foreheads of the pairs. One of them has to roll down the balloon on the other’s body and continue to back up the other side as well. The winner of the contest is the pair to first finish in the initial position. You might also fill the balloon with some shaving foam and they would be blown up by some judges of anyone is using their hands.

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