The countdown to Halloween is on! Hopefully your costumes are ready to go, or maybe they’ve even been worn already to Halloween parties over the weekend. It seems like there are some years my kids are wearing costumes for nearly a week leading up to Halloween.
We used to attend a big family Halloween party that my brother and his family hosted the weekend before Halloween, complete with a haunted house set up in the garage. It was LEGIT. Sadly they moved to the East coast, so no more fun family Halloween party.
We often attend a big Halloween carnival hosted at a local community center, but this year it conflicts with the Fall Carnival at our church, so we’ll attend the church party where my teenager gets to handout candy and host carnival games for the kids as they trick-or-treat among the classrooms and do a cupcake walk. Meanwhile the adults chat over a chili dinner and everyone goes home happy.
So far this year, one of my kids wore a unicorn costume to Buddy Day at karate last Friday, went to an informal Halloween party at a friend’s house as a hippie, and another daughter went as the Cat-in-the-Hat to her acting class. These are not even their “REAL” Halloween costumes.
I digress.
In case you don’t have a costume ready and need something quick, here are two tutorials that show different methods of cutting up a t-shirt to look like a skeleton. This would be fun to do for an individual, a couple, or a family.
The first shows a more precise method with a template, and the second video shows a much easier way. I would cut the shirt using the freehand method from the second video, but print out the template from the first to visualize the cuts so there’s not as many as the second shirt. It looks cool, but not as realistic as the first. Watch them both and see which one you like. Pair up these easy-peasy skeleton shirts with black jeans and skeleton makeup. Quick, stylish, done. This is the kind of costume every teenager wants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MFrkYPaqj4
These are a few simple skeleton makeup tutorials that I ran across among the many uber-fancy ones out there. The first is a 43 minute tutorial!! Sheesh! I have no idea why she needed to take that long because it looks like it could have been done in about 5 minutes. I like the simple, not-too-creepy design, though I don’t think I would bother with liquid latex on the eyebrows because they get covered up in black paint anyway, and I don’t like the fancy lines she started adding at the end. You don’t need to watch the entire 43 minute video, just skip ahead throughout and you’ll get the jist of it.
This second makeup tutorial is a bit of a sweet skeleton face and I like her detail, although I would have done it on a white face for more contrast to show up in the colors.
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