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10 Last-Minute Halloween Costumes

Disguises you can make using stuff around the house

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The appeal of dressing up as Honey Boo Boo tomorrow night is obvious (but you’d have to eat Cheetos the entire time to be realistic).

To get the necessary props, you’d need to elbow through the nightmarish Halloween store crowds and spend a Benjamin on wigs and boas.

Instead we’ve assembled ten costumes you can make with stuff around the house — from Fifty Shades of Grey and Ermahgerd Gersberms to something we’re calling “Gingham Style.”

None of them requires you to chug go-go juice (sorry).

But you’ll still be the queeeeeeeen.

Check out our videos from Halloweens past to see how to dress up like Shark Week or a Kraft Single (yeah, that’s right).

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The Cure for the Common Run

We Take Kangoo Jumps Exercise Shoes for a Field Test

That elusive runner’s high. We’ve heard about it, but until now, it seemed as hard to find as a flight out of Iceland.

We might be getting closer though (literally) with Kangoo Jumps, rebound exercise shoes that make you feel like you’re on a miniature trampoline.

The manufacturer, predictably, suggests major advantages of wearing them while jogging, claiming everything from improved posture to joint protection (less jarring on the knees) to just a harder overall workout. They are, however, exceedingly weird looking.

But before we recommended them to you, we had to try them ourselves, accompanied by Mario Jone’t Green, Kangoo Jumps’s New York rep (he calls himself “Avatar”). What we got: a lot of attention. A lot. But also a pretty intense workout.

And now we finally understand that whole “high” thing.

Available online at kangoojumps.com, $230-$290.

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In this Ask the Office Guy, Dan encounters the age-old battle between fashion and comfort.

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Pizza a Casa: Pizza Self-Sufficiency Center

DIY the Best Pie Ever

Pizza: Even when it’s $1.50-slice-from-Tony’s Down the Block bad, it’s pretty good. And as dozens of artisanal, Naples-trained, wood-fire-building, San Marzano-using obsessives have recently demonstrated, a fresh, hot pie can be ambrosial.

Thing is, you have to wait in line for that. But you can skip the queue after taking a class at Pizza a Casa: Pizza Self-Sufficiency Center, where you’ll learn to make your own.

Founder/pizza scientist Mark Bello, featured in today’s video, has honed his skills for more than fifteen years (he estimates his annual slice intake to be in the thousands). During the four-hour class, you’ll learn all his secrets, from the best way to roll dough to when to add herbs for optimal flavor.

You can also host parties for up to twelve in the tchotchke-filled space. We predict it’ll be the new go-to for birthday celebrations. Just wear an elastic waistband.

Pizza a Casa: Pizza Self-Sufficiency Center, 371 Grand Street, between Essex and Norfolk Streets (212-228-5483 or pizzaacasa.com). Tickets ($150) available online at zerve.com.

Music: Courtesy of Michael Beharie

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In this video, she gives pointers on selecting the right dress based on your body type. Featured designers include Marchesa, Angel Sanchez, Matthew Christopher, Sarantina, and Sassi Holford.

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Curl Your Hair

Teach Your Old Do New Tricks

Seems simple enough: Buy a curling iron, twist hair around the blistering cylinder, and voila, ringlets.

So why does it so often turn into Toddlers & Tiaras and — to magnify the insult — fall flat five minutes later?

Find out what the experts are doing (and you’re not). Today’s Easy Does It video is How to Curl Your Hair the Right Way — and make it stay.

We consulted the geniuses at NYC’s Whittemore House, who showed us everything from how to hold the iron (who knew?) to which products to use (crucial).

And brace yourselves: Mousse is back.

Is there something you wanna learn how to do? Submit ideas to easydoesit@dailycandy.com. Products used in today’s video include Sachajuan Hair Mousse, Sachajuan Shine Serum, and Oribe Impermeable Anti-Humidity Spray.

Special thanks to: Jamie Cook, today’s featured stylist

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Wine Drinking 101

It’s a dead giveaway that you’re not a connoisseur: bits of cork in the wine.

Learn how to avoid the situation with help from Patrick Watson, owner of Brooklyn Wine Exchange.

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Wine Drinking 101

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Not at all. Today we’re launching DailyManCandy, a free daily e-mail informing you about our favorite single men in the metro area (don’t worry, we have a strict screening process).

We’ve got guys for every preference, from all the boroughs. Here’s a video introduction to two of our favorites — Theodore, a self-made businessman, and Sosha, an emerging musician.

We can’t guarantee you’ll find your soul mate. But you’ll at least find someone.

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But newcomer Freelance Whales is our fave — and the music lives up to the awesomeness of the moniker.

In today’s video, they perform “Generator 2nd Floor” from their amazing new album, Weathervanes. To prove how great they are, we got ’em to play acoustically in an apartment hallway — no fancy sound mixing required.

The group honed their skills on the streets and subways of NYC, where they still play at the Bedford L stop on occasion.

If you want to see them live, they’re touring nationally through May 21.

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Welcome to the Dahl House

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Which explains our love for Sophie Dahl, the former hotshot model-turned-chef whose unabashed love for all things delicious inspired her new cookbook, Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights.

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Other recipes from the book include rice pudding with peach puree, pasta puttanesca, fish soup, Eton mess with rhubarb, and flourless chocolate cake. Charming/funny stories abound.

Talk about having yours and eating it, too.

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Head of the Glass

You should like your wine how you like your men: full-bodied, fragrant, mature, and sweet on the tongue.

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Watson just opened a jazzy learning center at the Exchange, where he and others will teach courses on topics ranging from Spanish varietals to cheese pairings.

You might even meet your soul mate.

Brooklyn Wine Exchange, 138 Court Street, between Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Street, Cobble Hill (718-855-9463 or brooklynwineexchange.com). Wine classes held the first Wednesdays and Thursdays of every month (times vary) and most Saturdays at 4 p.m.

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You’ve been known to have cold feet, an icy stare, and a frozen heart.

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For today’s video, we visited the genius designer/artist at his studio in — get this — Gloversville, New York (the glove-making capital of the U.S. ’til about 1950), where he hand-makes all his wares.

Storto, who’s collaborated with Alexander McQueen, Dries Van Noten, Bob Mackie, and Derek Lam, generally sells his custom accessories for hundreds of dollars. But for a limited time, he’s selling a special elbow-length black pair for just $25 (!) on his site. (Check back: He’ll be putting up a new style with a similar price every few months.)

We’re kind of obsessed with the idea of wearing long, ’40s movie star-style gloves year-round.

It’s just plain hot.

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Photos: Courtesy of Stephen Piersanti