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More Great Costumes

Have you seen our new line of Everlast costumes?  They’re the satin boxing shorts, robes and gloves with Everlast printed on them.  Today, with as big as the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is, this costume is sure to be a huge hit.  The great thing about this costume is that it comes in boys/mens sizes toddler, child and adult and girls/womens sizes child and adult.  There is even an Everlast costume for women as the Ring Card Girl.  Check out all our Everlast costumes at Everlast Halloween Costumes.

There were some great cartoons on Saturday mornings when I was growing up.  Two of my favorites were the Flintstones and the Jetsons.  They were on complete opposite sides of the spectrum where the Flinstones was a great cartoon about two friends and their families from the past where as the Jetsons was a really cool cartoon about a family that lives in the future.  Both were great shows!  Who can forget Fred Flinstone and Barney Rubble or George and Jane Jetson.   If you had two couples and needed a costume idea for a group, what about Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty?  Or if you’re going as a couple you could always go as Pebbles and Bam Bam.  Make sure you check out our whole line of The Flinstones and The Jetsons costumes at  The Flinstones and Jetsons Halloween Costumes.

Tim Burton is a film director known mostly for the quirky and gothic atmosphere of his films.  Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are just a few of the movies he has directed.  All of these movies have excellent characters to base a Halloween Costume on – Edward has hands made of scissors, Jack Skellington, and Willy Wonka are all fun characters to play.  You can see these and much more at  Tim Burton Movie Halloween Costumes.

 

Classic Horror Films or Scary Family Movies?

Now is a great time of year to watch all the classic horror films.  With the weather cooling and the official start of Fall being right around the corner, Halloween is in the air.  I don’t know what it is about Halloween, but it’s the only time of the year when I’ll go out and rent scary movies and actually watch them.  What would Halloween be without a few frightening movies?  Of course, my children are still way too young to be watching scary movies so my friends and I pick a weekend in October to spend the day watching horror flicks.  We usually pick one movie (Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street) and watch the entire series of sequels.  Last year we spent all day on the Friday the 13th horror series.  This year since there’s the new Halloween movie that was just recently released, we’ll probably do the Halloween series with Michael Myers.  Some other great horror movies that have you jumping in your seat are:  Carrie, The Omen, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rosemary’s Baby, Night of the Living Dead, Exorcist, Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Haunting.

Of course for every creepy, terrifying and gruesome Halloween movie character out there – there is a Halloween costume.  If you want to be Michael Myers, Jason, Carrie, Leatherface or Freddy Krueger (just to name a few) look no further.  Halloween Express has an entire line of horror/gothic Halloween costumes at   Halloween Horror and Gothic Costumes.

There are also some wonderful Halloween themed movies for families to watch together.  This year on October 31st on Nickelodeon, kids can watch Halloween themed episodes all day long.  One of the favorites among my children is definitely the movie Hocus Pocus.  It’s about three funny and wild witches played by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy that return from 17th-century Salem after they’re accidentally conjured up by some unsuspecting kids.  They set out to cast a spell on the town and reclaim their youth, but first they must get their act together and outwit three kids and a talking cat.  It’s a great movie!  It’s an annual tradition at our house to make a big bowl of popcorn and watch this movie together.  Some more great Halloween themed movies for your family to watch are:  Beetlejuice, Casper and my favorite, It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.  If you have young children try starting a new tradition this year of watching one of these great spooky kid-friendly shows.  Your kids will love it!  And don’t forget to check out our “witches and monsters” costumes for kids at Halloween Witches and Monsters.

Do You Have Your Costume Yet?

Still haven’t decided what to be for Halloween this year?  You do realize that there’s only 46 more days until Wednesday, October 31st, right?  And since most Halloween costume parties and costume contests at nightclubs are usually held the weekend before, you really only have 42 more days to find that one-of-a-kind, totally awesome, one that everyone will be talking about costume.  Now I’m sure a few of you might say that’s plenty of time to find a costume, but if you’re like me you’d better start looking now.  I’ll think to myself, “Wow 46 more days – I’ve got plenty of time to find something”.  Then before I know it, it’s down to 26 more days, then 16, then 6 more days and I’m paying extra for overnight shipping!  Did you know that Halloween Express has over 200 stores nationwide on top of having www.HalloweenExpress.com where you’ll find the largest selection of Halloween merchandise anywhere?  That’s a lot of stores!  Right from our website you can go to “store locator” and type in your zip code and you’ll get a list of all the Halloween Express stores in your area.  I typed in mine and five different stores popped up.  Don’t procrastinate, go out and check out all the different costumes that the stores carry.  At the very least, you can “just look” and get an idea of what all is out there in the form of costumes.  You might find something that you really like that is completely different that what you thought you wanted your costume to be. 

Take your children to one of our stores and let them see what all is out there.  I took mine last weekend and we were in there for over an hour.  The good part is that they had a great time trying on a bunch of different costumes, but the bad part was they couldn’t decide which one they wanted.  I suggested we go home write down all the costumes they tried on, let them call their friends and see which ones they like, then decide from there (because you know how important it is for all their friends to love their costume).  Of course, we still had to buy several decorations to bring home with us – we just couldn’t leave there empty-handed!  Plus I had them check out the website because in some cases the website will have costumes that the stores don’t (or maybe just have them in stock in cases where their out of stock at the store) or even vice-versa.  If you’re lucky enough to have a Halloween Express store in your area, go see for yourself, then come home and check out their website.  It’s always nicer to have more than one option of how and where you can buy your costume!

Good luck and have fun shopping!

Accessories Make The Costume

Yesterday I wrote about the special effects contacts that are great accessories if you’re looking to achieve that little added bonus to the overall look of your Halloween costume.  However, that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to great accessories for any costume.  Let’s say you wanted the look of a little blood and gore, maybe some stitches or even a broken bone.  No, you don’t have to go to your local Emergency Room to see those, just check out the latest in latex prosthetics from Halloween Express and you’ll be able to get just about any look you want. Latex Prosthetics  

  1. Devil or Demon:  to make a devil costume look more realistic instead of putting on the little red headband with the horns on it, why not try the sculptured prosthetic horns that you adhere to your forehead with latex or spirit gum.  Devil Horns
  2. Vampire:  add some prosthetic vampire bite marks with dripping blood to your neck for that just bitten look. Vampire Prosthetic Bite Marks 
  3. Pirate:  instead of using the age old eye patch on your eye like every other pirate go one step further and use pirate prosthetic eye. Pirate Patch

  4. Baseball Player:  If you want to add a humorous twist to the everyday baseball player costume add this “baseball in the eye” trick.   Baseball In the Eye 

 

There are so many prosthetics to choose from I couldn’t possibly talk about all of them.  They range from really funny to extremely gory.  It all depends on what look your going for.  It’s Halloween so go all out, add a great prosthetic and make your costume one for the record books!

 

Unhappily Ever After?

Ok, we’ve all grown up with the classic fairytale stories and who doesn’t want to believe in “happily ever after”?  It’s the ending to every fairytale and storybook I’ve ever read and to this day it’s the wonderful ending to the stories I read my children.  However, since the Halloween season is right around the corner even the most innocent of the fairytales have not gone unscathed.  It’s all part of an evil plot to make Halloween costumes even more ghoulish than ever before.  There is a new line of costumes made up of fairytales gone bad called…….. “Unhappily Ever After”! 

These costumes are for adults who have decided that it’s much more fun at Halloween for the classic fairytales to come to life with a gruesome “edge”.  I’ve made a list of the fairytale characters before and after Halloween put its evil curse of them:

Little Red Riding Hood             Little Dead Riding Hood
Snow White                                Snow Fright
Tinkerbell                                   Tinkerhel
Goldilocks                                  Ghouldilocks
Little Miss Muffet                        Lil Priss Muffet
Rapunzel                                    Ripunzel
Alice in Wonderland                   Malice in Wonderland

All kidding aside, these costumes are fabulous!  It’s Halloween, so why be the goody-goody fairytale princess when you can be her evil twin.  If you want to really get into the role of these characters, use white foundation makeup on your face to give yourself a deadly appearance.  Our Perfect Pallor Makeup is just what you need and so easy to use.  You can find it at Halloween Makeup.  Add heavy black eyeliner Halloween Black Eyeliner to your eyes, put on black lipstick Halloween Black Lipstick and you’ll have the perfect combination for that natural “dead look” every Unhappily Ever After ghoulish character longs for!  “Once upon a time”, never looked so frightening!

  

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