Couples Costume DIY - Day of the Dead!

Hello friends! I wanted to share these costumes I made for my boyfriend and my couples costume for Halloween this year!

I painted our faces myself after watching a couple of tutorials on Youtube for women’s sugar skull make up and men’s skull makeup (my boyfriend wasn’t really into the whole flowery sugar skull style of decoration so I went with something more scary for him).

Some of the tutorials I found went into a lot of detail so I simplified them a little bit, especially since I had to do both of our faces and didn’t want to spend hours on it when we could be hanging out with our friends.

I used black and white face paint for both and then added some colour to my own using some cheap dollar store eyeshadow.

For our couples costume I used the following materials:

Sugar Skull Girl Costume:

dollar store flowers (choose any colour combination you like, I went with orange and cream)
dollar store make up (brightly coloured eye shadow palette)
plastic headband (matched to hair colour)
glue gun to glue the flowers to the headband and around the middle of the dress
a cheap black dress from Forever 21 that was starting to pill so I was ok with re-purposing it
lace t-shirt (worn underneath the dress)
skeleton tights (not shown)
dollar store skull earrings
black boots or shoes
could also add some lace gloves but I didn’t have time to pick up any

Men’s Skeleton Costume:

plain black t-shirt
white acrylic paint and paintbrush
this rib-cage pattern from Martha Stewart (front part only) – cut out the holes with an exacto knife to create a stencil to sketch out the outlines for the rib-cage on the front of the black t-shirt. Remove the stencil and fill in thickly with white paint. Make sure to place cardboard inside the t-shirt so the paint doesn’t come through to the other side. Let dry for 24 hours before wearing.
black top hat from the dollar store
black blazer or jacket
dark coloured pants or jeans

For both costumes: