Sunday, October 3, 2010

Costumes For Couples On A Spending Budget.  

By Andy Peterson

The costume industry has a great time at this time of year and if you are looking for adult couple Halloween costumes, you'll know the reason why. It can get pretty expensive if you want to kit yourself out with the very latest costumes, so you have to think carefully about what you buy.

Most of us have felt that buzz of excitement when going out, knowing that we are absolutely sporting the best Halloween costume at the celebration - or at a minimum, the weirdest! Lots of that is down to the quantity of time that we've put in altering our costumes and introducing small extras to make them particularly distinctive.

The good thing is the fact that all that creativity that we've utilized in the past is what is going to make it easier to put together adult costumes for couples that do not break the bank.

The trick is in taking stock of what you already have, and then working out how to get from there to a recognisable "look". Even if you can only manage one obvious character, it may save you the price of a second costume.

Everybody knows individuals who were born to do this kind of thing. They rustle up the most unbelievable costumes without batting an eyelid and for some of us this could be a significantly more difficult prospect. At the end of the day, it all depends upon just how professional you want to appear. Does your costume have to have those widgets made from aluminum just like in the movie, or could they be something covered in foil? If you go to extremes with this sort of thinking, you could have a "most amateur" party to see who makes the best "worst" Halloween costume.

Now that you've got your foundation idea in position - reusing that red one-piece swimming costume for a hot Baywatch homage perhaps - what can you do to decorate what you have found? Well the simplest trick would be to purchase the absolute minimum that you will need to make your halloween costume one of a kind.

A costume shop these days will sell you as many individual items for costumes as the costumes themselves. If you plan to be Harry Potter then you'll need a wand, sir. If you want to wear an Avatar costume madam, then you'll be needing a blue face-mask. And then, there are all the small things like contact lenses for dramatic eyes or face paints for that just-dead vampire look.

Once you begin checking out the accessories which are readily available, you should be able to uncover a substantial variety of ways that you may use to enhance a home-made costume into something a little special.

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