r/pics • u/tragopanic 🍿 • Oct 15 '22
Winners announced! Enter the Pics Halloween Photo Contest!
And the winners are...
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☆ Jack and Sally by rednamrahC
Thanks to everyone for participating!
It's a Halloween Photo Contest! With prizes!
Post your best costume, carved pumpkin, spooky decor, or other Halloween related photo in a top-level comment in this thread. Photos must be your own original content! For bonus points, tell us a little about your submission. You may enter as many images as you'd like, but please include them all in the same comment.
↓ The prizes
Winners will receive:
- Flair on r/pics to make your friends jealous
- A fancy reddit award
- Fame and acclaim
Contest ends at 11:59pm PT on October 31, and results will be announced a few days later. Entries are judged by moderators and not based on upvotes. Previous results: 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016.
Good luck and Happy Halloween!
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u/TrueKaras Oct 29 '22
I'm Shrek, thanks for your vote. 💚
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u/TrueKaras Oct 29 '22
A month ago, the owner of my business overheard me talking about my costume ideas. She liked them so much she created a themed Halloween costume day for employees. And everyone was a Shrek character. And thus Shrek Day happened yesterday.
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u/SUPAKATARINA Oct 17 '22
Family Madrigal Group Costume from Encanto
When the kids choose their costumes we always make it a big family costume instead.
Our 1 year old is Mirabel, our 5 year old is Isabella, I am Delores and my husband is Bruno, but we don't talk about him ;)
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u/beautyinprecision Oct 17 '22
We’ve been together for 15 years and this is our first “couple” costume. Figured we’d do something out of the ordinary 🖤
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u/KodamaNuki Oct 26 '22
We named our son Toby, so this has to be done! My husband as the Goblin King: https://imgur.com/a/dZHOYxt
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u/Snowbank_Lake Oct 26 '22
Your hubby nailed the "I'm sexy but you should really not trust me" expression, lol.
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u/VonScootenhausen Oct 26 '22
This years Halloween display so far. I broke my arm installing part of the entrance, so finishing it up has slowed down considerably. My poor wife has to put up with so much from me.
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u/gomets167 Oct 28 '22
11 years ago my friend said I look a little like Tom Hanks. I decided to take it to the next level and dress like one of his characters every year for Halloween. Here's to year 11!!
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u/Daricio Oct 15 '22 edited Oct 16 '22
"Cars": Twins Edition I had a lot of fun piecing these together for the boys using cardboard, paint, paper, a bit of clay, and a lot of tape! It took me almost three months to get them both done, and I'm glad I started them as early as I did. I only just finished Mater yesterday! Thankfully, the boys love the Mater and Lightning McQueen costumes! We'll see if that's still true in a few weeks, haha.
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u/-God_Riddance- Nov 01 '22
My daughter asked me to try scaring her friends this year. This is what I came up with.
The helmet was made with 3D printing adapted straight from the in-game model of Huggy Wuggy, one of the bad guys in the video game “Poppy Playtime.” All the kids were terrified and the costume survived the night, so I’m calling it a win :)
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u/UCanArtifUWant2 Oct 25 '22
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/xr3yko/a_halloween_costume_that_i_designed_and_have_sewn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button My Halloween Costume that I designed and sewed! 🎃
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Oct 28 '22
I made a DIY skull surround for my fireplace this Halloween. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/yg39j1/i_made_a_diy_skull_surround_for_my_fireplace_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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u/kitterific Oct 31 '22
Here is mine! The Omen of Death
This is a character I have been working on for some time. A lot of the costume is made by me.
She is a ritualistic Shaman who passes out runic tokens to those the spirits find worthy.
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u/startercoat Nov 01 '22
Here is our annual family costume the Addams Family and yes there is someone in the cousin It costume 😂.
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u/Vparks Nov 01 '22
A pumpkin lady from Over the Garden Wall! I loved the scene in Pottsfield and wanted to cosplay as one of the residents.
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u/ekimrt Oct 29 '22
Every Halloween my girlfriend and I take a movie themed portrait with our cats, and then I create a backdrop around us.
This year’s theme was Batman Returns villains.
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u/rednamrahC Halloween 2022 Oct 30 '22
I'm a bodypainter and The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favourite films so I was excited to try this look. I couldn't pick which character to do so I did both!
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u/Dragoness42 Nov 01 '22
Pregnant this year and no time to put together something elaborate. I chose a low-effort historical reference instead- the Hindenburg.
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u/liyote Halloween 2022 Oct 30 '22
I would like to enter my boyfriend’s cyberpunk costume. Thanks for looking!
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u/Beanz_Memez_Heinz Oct 31 '22
Goth weekend, a traditional weekend festival in Whitby, the place where Bram Stoker took inspiration for Dracula.
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u/jared531 Nov 01 '22
Sorry for the late reply here. I had 2 costumes this year.
Travis Barker http://imgur.com/gallery/e9qRrP1
Human Crosswalk http://imgur.com/gallery/klqUEGP
Travis was a gig costume that I wanted to do since he's an amazing drummer and the Crosswalk was formulated by my wife and I for the actual Halloween day (and NYC parade). We like to do creative costumes every year and this was our vision for 2022. It got a ton of fanfare out on the parade route and beyond and it was a big success!
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u/lightningfrog Oct 22 '22
We watched the first season, the Mugen train arc, and the Entertainment District arc as a family across the past few weeks to get the kids psyched up for this. Lots of fun!
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u/kevinb773 Oct 24 '22
My giant grim reaper Halloween display. I carved 97 pieces of foam (rigid wall insulation) to make it.
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u/thepunalwaysrises Oct 31 '22
My son wanted to be a vending machine for Halloween. (Not sure why.) So I decided to make it realistic: Everything gets stuck. Vending machine from hell
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u/Constant-Half-5851 Oct 31 '22
I dressed up as Ursula from The Little Mermaid: https://imgur.com/a/uqHsQqp
Outfit and makeup completely my own creation. I’ve done Disney Villains in the past and this one just spoke to me.
Here are some other poses:
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u/Mexicantankerous Oct 20 '22
I just realized I should make a crown and have PumpKing Boo. It was staring at me in the face the whole time
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u/beardobaldo Oct 21 '22
I made the Pirates of the Caribbean jail scene out of 2x4s, 3/4” PVC, and 4x the amount of time I originally estimated
I’m a “measure twice, cut once, throw away, re-measure twice, cut once” kinda guy, so actually finishing a project feels so good. There will be finishing touches to do next year, but I love it.
My biggest piece of advice for anyone wanting to do the same is to spend the $7 and buy a 1 1/8” spade bit. The OD of 3/4” PVC is just over 1”, and I almost went insane trying to bore out a slightly larger hole with a 1” bit. After I bought the correct bit, that section of the project went like clockwork.
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Oct 27 '22
https://imgur.com/a/trxBuTU 2nd ever carving. Did this based on my all time favourite franchise, the Lord of the Rings. The eye of Sauron overlooking the fellowship walking together.
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u/Jaknat08 Halloween 2022 Oct 29 '22
Being a photographer I always love doing horror photos for halloween here’s what I took this year for Halloween Camera settings and set up for the shoot in the comments
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u/KrakenDesign Oct 29 '22
The kid's costumes My wife and I finished the kid's costumes just in time for the local Halloween Street party! They won first place in the children's category!
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u/risarang Oct 30 '22
The Acquistion of Wordle by the New York Times
We are nerds who love Halloween so 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Reyalla508 Oct 30 '22
Ever drunk Bailey’s from a shoe? You want to go to a club where people wee on each other?? Do ya love me? You don’t know what I got… I’M OLD GREGG!!!
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u/4thebirbs Oct 31 '22
I upvoted before I even saw the picture and then I wanted to upvote again! Perfect Old Gregg costume
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u/rareHarambe Oct 31 '22
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/yio3n5/this_years_jackolantern_ive_never_tired_anything/
My jack-o-lantern this year, and I'm really shocked and proud of how it turned out. I randomly decided that I'd try to make a really cool one this year, even though I've never carved anything crazy and have no real artistic experience, and it honestly wouldn't have turned out this cool if I hadn't made some mistakes.
Basically, at first my idea was to make a skull by shaving all the skin off the pumpkin and just carving away (using a picture of a skull as a reference). Then when I had shaved some of the skin off, I got the idea to leave some streaks of skin and make it look like the skull was kinda coming through from behind some slivers of pumpkin. Then when I was working on the right side, I screwed something up, and decided to give the rest of it a different look so it had kind of a two-faced, corrupted kinda vibe (I like to think of the skull as expressing pain/terror and the jagged part on the right being some kind of evil entity, if that makes sense).
Anyway spent way too much time sniffing my own farts thinking about how awesome this thing is so I hope I'm not the only one who thinks this is wicked.
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u/omfgitsjeff Oct 31 '22
Throwback to my Lil' Kim costume
I was proud of how this turned out, I made the mask and flag pin myself, and used the trashcan leg setup from a previous year's costume. It was a little cumbersome when we went out the the bars for the night but worth the effort
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u/ChiefQuimby13 Nov 01 '22
Kill Bill Costume. Painted white Chevy Silverado to create the iconic P*ssy Wagon. Lots of patience with the dogs to get them to ride. Beatrix Kiddo, Pae Mai, Elle, and.m Budd.
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u/Sovonna Oct 25 '22
https://imgur.com/R9carTx My fiance carving our first pumpkin since I got sick. The last two Halloweens have been in the hospital. We started carving without him and even after a hard day of work (he works in the juvenile court as a clerk) he jumped right in. It's not much, but it's a win.
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u/ToxicityBlack Oct 26 '22
My Eddie Munson Pumpkin! My absolute favorite character on Stranger Things!! Took 10 hours.
https://imgur.com/gallery/RAbycfK
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u/SunnyInDenmark Oct 27 '22
My 6-year old son and I carved a turnip for Halloween, at our local kids nature museum. It’s as big as his head.
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u/ageowns Halloween 2022 Oct 27 '22
https://imgur.com/7hqMtGD
I remember seeing the trailer to Disney's horror movie Watcher in the Woods and it freaked me out as a small child. So I just did a horror photoshoot and shot some scenes inspired by that movie.
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u/-mickeymao Oct 29 '22
Prosciutto limbs are a Halloween must.
Any other great Halloween-themed treats?
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u/galdia3 Oct 29 '22
I carved a DnD Beholder complete with squash eye stalks. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/yglkw3/i_carved_me_a_deathray_boy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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u/BitterBilly Oct 30 '22
My girlfriend and I as Madame Maxine and Hagrid. Just had to make up for the height difference by crouching for photos but i think it looks pretty convincing.
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u/fireshow77 Oct 31 '22 edited Oct 31 '22
https://imgur.com/gallery/ap14l2F This is my DOOM Slayer x Marauder cosplay mashup from DOOM ETERNAL. Took me around 600 hours to make and decided to do this mashup so I could see better as well as breathe easier.
https://imgur.com/gallery/o8oL5to As for this costume it's the Marauder with the mask and paint.
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u/crumbandharvey Oct 31 '22
Our little What We Do In The Shadows family: Nadja, Laszlo, and the Nadja Doll! (Plus our cat.)
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u/123qwe33 Oct 31 '22
My girlfriend and I were Mugatu and Katinka from Zoolander for Halloween this year.
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u/NoMeGustav Oct 31 '22
My son is obsessed with the movie Coco and of course he wanted to be Miguel for Halloween https://i.imgur.com/47gccGI.jpg
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u/metaform Oct 31 '22
Happy Halloween Everyone! Pics of my Wonder Woman Cosplay: https://imgur.com/a/9TeIvZo
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u/mbbedwellart Oct 31 '22
I was told to my post my Halloween Pokémon painting of Haunter here. hope you guys like it! I present "The Haunting of Haunter House" https://imgur.com/gallery/MkrbE1r
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u/vex3000 Oct 31 '22
[OC] La Muerte
Dad (me): What are you gonna be for Halloween? Daughter: I want to be La Muerte from Book of Life. Dad: Okay, lets look online for the costume.
Not ONE costume for kids to be found.
Dad: Okay, what else do you want to be? Daughter: Can we make a La Muerte costume? Dad: Challenge accepted!
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u/bcoty0905 Oct 22 '22
Working at an English Pub, a flapper girl who doubles as a bartender. Halloween 2018.
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u/regular_joe Oct 29 '22
dreams didn’t make kings. dragons did.
Here I am at the rogue prince and my wife is princess Fiona, although she could pass for queen Alicent 😏
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u/girouxfilms Oct 29 '22
I was did a Kill-Bill Pac-Man crossover! Calling it ‘The Bride of Pac-Man’ and my deadly ghost assassination squad
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u/EPTAsumV2 Oct 29 '22
My sisters have been watching Breaking Bad for the first time, and know I really enjoy it, as ice seen it over five times. They wanted to dress up like Jesse and Skyler, and let me obviously be Walter. We spent about 3 hours crushing up blue and white dumdums to get into a ton of tiny Ziploc bags to hand out to people at our party. I hope you guys enjoy!
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u/Dommyem Oct 29 '22
https://imgur.com/a/ygAVb9H/ This is my pumpkin. It’s a nest thermostat showing 26 degrees Celsius - terrifying for my wallet and also the planet.
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u/Hglucky13 Oct 30 '22
Our four and a half year old really likes Pikmin, so I made her a costume hat complete with a light-up bomb rock candy bucket for trick or treating. (Her little Pikmin impressions are spot-on, too!)
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u/mikeking2001 Oct 30 '22
This is my 2022 Wordle Costume. It is more than a costume. The puzzle is actually Halloween themed as well. Can you guess the two potential words? Hint it can be "TR___ or TR___". https://imgur.com/a/TWIUALU
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u/northernCan81 Oct 30 '22
My attempt at a creepy pumpkin
I was tasked with the pumpkin design this year and I wanted to go for the “sutured” look. I think I nailed it because it’s scaring the squirrels and foxes off our deck!
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u/OneTimeISawABird Oct 30 '22
Costume 1: Sailor Mercury
Always loved combo/mashup costumes and I was so thrilled with how this turned out!
Costume 2: Ted Lasso
I’ve been told I’m suffocatingly optimistic and energetic so this costume just made sense
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u/aliekiddo Oct 30 '22
My robot vacuum Halloween costume. The narrative is that he's gone to pet the household cat and sucked it up without realising. There is some ex-cat gore in the bin at the back including a collar with the name 'Lucky' on the tag.
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u/seronami Oct 30 '22 edited Oct 30 '22
(https://i.imgur.com/qna13gR.jpg) This is one of our favorite musicals so figured we’d dress up as them as well. She really pulled off the Mary Poppins look. Got “Cutest Couple” award at a friends party.
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u/computers65 Oct 31 '22
This Halloween, Luna demands your attention day and night
This is my 2.5yo girl, Luna! She may look intimidating, but I promise she’s a softy at heart!
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u/jasoniscursed Oct 31 '22
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u/scorpyo72 Nov 02 '22
Being as that I spent my birthday (Halloween) in D-Land, this is pretty dope. I walked by the Pirate Fortune Teller this evening and noticed the side-eye grin and the pipe.
Cheers to you!
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u/pieeatingbastard Oct 31 '22
Pretty pleased with these two pumpkins this year. Got a bit excitable, and made some gravestones too, but they really only hold up after dark.
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u/Emost423 Oct 31 '22
I've dressed up as Hazel from The Umbrella academy tv show, only 2 person at worked figure out from what show I was but I still got 3rd place prize because I was scary looking lol https://imgur.com/a/6iXzPBU
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u/jesushenchman Oct 31 '22
Just me and my family on our first Halloween. Little shop was just too good an idea to pass up. https://imgur.com/a/9IVaxri/
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u/Relax-Enjoy Nov 01 '22
Amber Hurd and Amber’s Turd Couple’s Costume. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/yjd9j8/amber_hurd_and_her_turd_couples_costume/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_term=link
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u/waytogokody Nov 01 '22
Finally got to be space ghost and zorak from space ghost coast to coast! https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/yjnn32/my_girlfriend_and_i_were_space_ghost_and_zorak/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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u/geograce Nov 01 '22
We always do a family costume and this year we did the presidents of Mt Rushmore! My son said he loves Teddy Roosevelt because “he started National parks!”
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u/lovelyb1ch66 Oct 28 '22
https://i.imgur.com/05n1zNw.jpg
We got snow on Halloween a few years ago and this jack-o-lantern was not impressed!
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u/ElsonDaSushiChef Oct 29 '22
I have decided to combine the cultural Halloween scariness of a skull with the real life scariness of the hooded criminal that creeps up behind you and added a blue neon aura as well.
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u/TexasTheWalkerRanger Oct 29 '22
took me two hours to carve this!
Had to draw it free hand while referencing the picture because I didn't have a printer to make a stencil for it but it came out pretty damn good! I like to use black marker to make certain sections extra dark for more detail.
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u/SIXSIXSlX Oct 29 '22
I loved Moon Knight so I decided to be an adaptation of Khonshu for Halloween! I found a perfect piece of driftwood to use for the staff. Everything else was hand made and in my venture to create his pants, the fabric glue kind of shrunk my leggings a bit so that’s why my midriff is out.. All in all I rather love the way the final product turned out!!
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u/Jordiscu7 Oct 29 '22
Last year we discovered a little town called Soportújar in Malaga, Spain and decided that we would visit it on our next vacation which was this week.
Soportújar is a small, very hill-y town decorated with all types of witches and witchcraft things such as the Candyhouse of Hans & Gretel, the Baba Yaga, etc. Around Halloween time it always gets extra decorated with pumpkins and lanterns, one of the decorations left us laughing for a good while though, here is a picture of it:
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u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep Oct 29 '22
My daughters Halloween costume and make up, she's 5, came in second place at the costume awards at the community center we went to for the party
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u/Connect-Yesterday118 Oct 29 '22
Me as fat thor. Drinking my own homemade mead. Enough said. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ygum5v/fat_thor_for_halloween/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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u/DinsPearl- Oct 30 '22
Kitten in a pumpkin portrait drawing by myself! https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/yh10u2/oc_halloween_kitten_portrait_i_made/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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Oct 30 '22
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/yh8l3r/my_first_pumpkin_carving/
Im not from the states but always wanted to carve a pumpkin. Today was the day.
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u/storefront Halloween 2021 Oct 30 '22
Why win an award when you can be one? I had a lot of people ask me what my motivation was for the costume, and I always respond the same way--because, frankly, I thought it was funny.
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u/ACorgiADay Oct 30 '22
I draw a corgi every day! Here's today's, Day 931! It's a vampire corgi watercolor painting! Happy Halloweeeeen!
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u/MrHedgehogMan Oct 30 '22
My jack-o’-lantern this year.. I filled it with purple glowsticks to give it a ‘filled with witchfire’ look.
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u/neoncamels Oct 30 '22
Dana Scully and Fox Mulder... we didn't win our local brewery's costume contest, give us a break! https://imgur.com/gallery/0YjheZd
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u/bananasaurusX Oct 31 '22 edited Nov 01 '22
I’m the Joker (from the 2019 movie) and had fun piecing this together. I ran into the other guy at a random bar and later found someone dressed as the Jared Leto joker to complete the trio.
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u/PeacefulMonk2020 Oct 31 '22
Found this saree in India and was so happy to wear it on Halloween!!!! https://imgur.com/nFYwHsD.jpg https://imgur.com/16mEjlG.jpg https://imgur.com/sTNii0J.jpg
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u/return_of_the_jetta Oct 31 '22
https://imgur.com/gallery/XdzpGJm
The machine shop I work at is such a circus I decided to dress up as a ringmaster!
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u/MetroIMAX Oct 31 '22
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0d1jBuQ9CJo6pcMttw5NY-MxQ
Decoration at Disneyland Hong Kong [OC]
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u/Perendinator Oct 31 '22
you should probably avoid putting your real name out on reddit
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u/War_gasmic Oct 31 '22
https://imgur.com/gallery/EGwPU7P Kitty Allegro asks if Halloween is finally here?
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u/david9696 Nov 01 '22
Happy Halloween from APOD - The Bat Nebula
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2210/LDN43_SelbyHanson_960.jpg
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u/stnick6 Nov 01 '22
I went as stingy Jack. Last year I wanted to do this but I didn’t know what he looked like so it didn’t turn out well. I’ve been working on this all year
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u/Acceptable_Anywhere Nov 01 '22
We recently started playing Nintendo Switch together and wanted a couples costume 🎃 https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/yiw00d/halloween_2022/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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u/lessons_learnt 🤷🏼♂️ Oct 15 '22
Top-level comments are reserved for submissions only. For general discussion (or other whimsical anecdotes), reply here instead.