A hole-in-your-chest Halloween costume tutorial, to spice up any costume party

Costume design by Lowri Best. Shot and edited by Justin Wolfson. (video link)

Earlier this year, our video production team began spitballing ideas for a Halloween costume project. They likely thought the Ars editorial crew would suggest some boilerplate pop-culture "nerd" ideas, revolving around famous sci-fi or horror characters. Instead, they sighed after reviewing our long, technically challenging list full of stuff like robotic suits and diabolical person-sized packet-sniffing devices. (It was a stab at putting the "trick" into "trick or treat.")

In the end, we settled on a project that leans a little closer to the traditional affordable, last-minute costume ideas you'd find on the Web, though with a decent DIY tech-geek bent: your own see-through flesh wound.

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