Vintage Halloween Masks - Make Your Own Creepy Mask

 

Halloween masks of the 70s and 80s were plastic store-bought variety, but prior to that, folks made their own masks often times. Some of the masks they came up with were very unsettling. I believe they are much scarier than any "realistic" werewolf and clown masks of today. 

Inspired Halloween Costumes and How to Halloween Makeup

 

Today, I'm going to share some costumes that inspire your creativity, and also share where to find ones that you don't have to construct yourself. Find a place to go this Halloween or have your own party, but be sure and dress up and be someone else for the evening!

European Pagan-Themed Costumes Inspired by Nature and Legends

 

Natural elements to make Halloween costumes means giving an Old World magical vibe. We know the usual characters of Halloween - Frankenstein, witch, vampire, etc. What we NEED are self-created personas in an Old World way using goods around us to look very homemade and creepy.

100 Female Halloween Costume Ideas

 

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If there's a chance you plan to go out and dressup or simply have a romantic evening with your loved one, there are so many costumes to consider. If you aren't going out, consider at least getting decked out and doing a photo shoot to add to your library of fun life pics and crazy things you did. 

Homemade Halloween Costumes With European Pagan Themes

Natural elements to make Halloween costumes means giving an Old World magical vibe. We know the usual characters of Halloween - Frankenstein, witch, vampire, etc. What we NEED are self-created personas in an Old World way using goods around us to look very homemade and creepy.

Bizarre Pagan and Native Costumes: Inspiring Halloween Ideas

If you want a unique and inspired Halloween costume that leaves people wondering at the meaning and greatly unsettled, there is no better way than to look to Native costumes and Pagan ceremonial costumes to find some very creepy ideas - 

October is a Time For Romance

Sure, costumes certainly amp up the romance....

Like this cowgirl costume--find other super sexy costumes here.

Feeling threatened by this vampire?

Zombie Cop? You like the vampire and cop? Look here.



Let's not forget the men...

Don't want to wear a werewolf thong? Consider other costumes....


A reaper cowboy? (Damn! I'm turned on!) Want more options? Look here.

This one is not a turn on for me, but I'm sure there's some edgy gal out there all curly toed over his one...


How about a bed to enjoy it in?





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-- Dinner for two in our Ovations Restaurant. We feature a traditional New England style menu that changes daily.

-- Country-style breakfast for two in the morning. We offer a full hot breakfast with your package. There are no roadway chain motel cold breakfast buffets here - just good, wholesome hot breakfast treats.

Dating Options:
*drive around to see Halloween decorations
*sneak into a cemetery--don't get caught!
*picnic under the moon in the middle of a big open field
*bonfire and beer and music with friends
*corn maze at night
*hay ride at night
*chili supper, hot cocoa, fire in the fireplace, horror movies
*costume and a club scene
*Halloween party
*flashlight walk in the woods
*play "Halloween" while carving jack o'lanterns in candlelight, roasted seeds
*ghost tour in your city
*stay at a haunted B&B


I love it so much, I made it a permanent part of me--the changing leaf is symbolic to me in many ways, but it also ties me to my season--autumn!

Hope I got y'all thinking about romance and Halloween--they go hand-in-hand, for us creepy gals. Screw Valentine's Day--that's for pussies! Give me a romantic Halloween guy in a mask and a fist full of candy corn and I'm all over that!

Vintage Halloween Costumes & Halloweens Past

What do you suppose it is about these vintage costume pics that make us feel very disturbed? I think the movies "Trick R Treat" and "The Strangers" definitely gave me this feel.


This was back when kids could wear costumes to school and teachers would dress as witches and we would do every politically incorrect thing under the sun. My mother once even did a Halloween party for my older siblings at our estate. She put the children in black hooded cloaks, had them hold a dish with a candle and walk the long march under the dark wisteria arbor, down the gravel path to a part of the yard we called "The Pit." She had a stake in the ground with a witch effigy. The kids got to light the kindling and chant while it burned. She would so not be able to get away with that today.


It was always so blasted cold and we needed coats but refused to wear them. We carried pillowcases and knocked on doors until midnight, the official end of the door answering time. Yes, midnight! No parents, just lots of runs for miles around to every door we could race to. We never had our candy inspected. Somehow I survived, though I admit I never ate the candy cane from the drunk up on Sideburn Road. This man always had a party going on during Halloween and would open the door, staggering and say "Merry Christmas" and give us a candy cane. We weren't supposed to knock on his door (he was notorious) but we just had to see what the commotion inside was. Lots of martinis clinking in that house and drunken guests rushing the door to look at the "adoradabable" kiddies (hiccup).


I'm trying not to reveal my era too much, but I did Trick or Treat in a time when almost all costumes were handmade. I went most often as a gypsy, one time as a hobo and one time as Pocahontas. I still love the gypsy costume because I can have my curly hair natural and walk around barefoot while reading palms. People think it's part of being in character, but when I read them accurately, they kind of get spooked. That's what Halloween is about!


I'd like to collect these pics and more like them and make a huge wall arrangement in my writer's office. There is something eerie about creepy vintage dolls and vintage Halloween pics that will definitely incite me to write some true terror.


You might consider picking up some of the cues from these pictures for a Halloween costume that would disturb more than any Latex Pinhead mask. Sometimes, the rigged costume is the freaking creepiest. Just look at Michael Myers with mechanic's overalls and a William Shatner mask...

I remember as a kid spending weeks ahead considering the costume, beg, borrowing, rigging, sewing, gluing, and the day of Halloween, with the smell of chili cooking downstairs, the flickering Jack O'Lantern light casting shadows on my image in the mirror, I'd excitedly fix my makeup with my older sisters helping. It was the prom night for grade school!

**Tomorrow Syfy has a fun giveaway here on my blog!**