It’s Halloween, which can only mean one thing: Heidi Klum is getting ready to wow the world with her latest transformation.
The Queen of All Hallows’ Eve — who not only throws an all-out shindig for her famous friends but also notoriously goes for broke with her costumes, too — started teasing this year’s get-up in a series of videos and photos posted to her Instagram on Friday.
In the first one, a set of seriously deranged-looking teeth were given a closeup, with the caption declaring, “Ok ….. here we go …. ”
Klum followed that up with a video of stylists putting her hair into a high, slicked-back ponytail, while a third post highlighted the mind-boggling amount of tools and paints involved in the look.
Two more posts showed a green-faced Klum with her hair now covered in some sort of cap — meaning the ponytail tease was a red herring of a clue.
The follow-up tease showed someone holding a bunch of wires, insinuating that her costume likely has some animatronics involved.
And, the last update (for now), appeared to show Klum getting heavily wrinkled green prosthetics applied to her face, leading some fans to posit in the comment section that she’s turning into the Grinch or Greta from Gremlins 2.
Another similar video gave an even closer look at these green prosthetics, which the makeup artist applied on top of her upper lip, instantly giving Klum a witchy look. The model comically wiggled her tongue back and forth as the artist worked his magic.
She later showed a close-up shot of her eye as someone helped insert a green contact with a reptilian pupil.
Earlier this week, the Project Runway star teased to PEOPLE, “I’m going to be very ugly because I always try to do something different.”
Over the years, the model and TV star has gone as everything from E.T. to a giant worm to Fiona from Shrek and made it werk.
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But when it came time to plan this year’s look, Klum told PEOPLE, “I thought last year, I was very cute with my husband as E.T. And the year before that, we were the big peacock with performers. After the worm [in 2022] that felt so simple, I wanted to make something complicated. And with having 15 [performers as part of the costume], being so many bodies creating one thing, I thought that that was different again. So I hope I came up with something new again [this year].”
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Last year, Klum revealed that she first started getting ready with husband Tom Kaulitz around 11 a.m. the day of her party. Klum told PEOPLE at the party that she decided to embody the Steven Spielberg character because he’d been “part of most of our lives” and she’d always been “a big fan.”
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“[I] kind of thought about the universe in a different way and I thought E.T. was so cute and how he was wiggling around and all the moments when E.T. got dressed up with a wig and everything so I just thought it would be fun to become E.T. and especially to see two,” she said of last year’s costume.
Stay tuned for the big reveal and all the nightmares it’s sure to induce.
