Girl Creates Mormon Wives-Impressed Halloween Show (Unique)

• Kristina Jackson constructed a Secret Lives of Mormon Wives-inspired Halloween show within the entrance yard of her residence in Utah, sharing her creation in a video that is gone viral on TikTok
• The Halloween decorations had been home made to align with the eight Mormon MomTok influencers who rose to recognition in 2020, together with a 12-foot skeleton sporting eyelash extensions and a wig
• The viral TikTok video caught the eye of one of many Secret Lives of Mormon Wives solid members and the famed “soiled soda” store Swig

MomTok sparks SkeleTok!

Kristina Jackson leveled up her Halloween recreation this 12 months for a Secret Lives of Mormon Wives-inspired show within the entrance yard of her Utah residence.

Jackson first shared a video of her creation with a creepy twist on TikTok, the place it is racked up a whole bunch of hundreds of views because it was posted. In an unique interview with PEOPLE, the designer behind the show defined how she introduced the skeleton scene to life.

Having solely lived in Utah for 4 years, Jackson admits she “did not even know” in regards to the eight fashionable Mormon MomTok influencers who rose to recognition in 2020 and star in The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. To familiarize herself, she and her husband watched the hit Hulu present.

“Fan is a robust phrase,” Jackson says with fun of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives after ending season 1, which takes viewers contained in the viral “comfortable swinging” scandal. She described the collection as “over-exaggerated,” but “entertaining.”

For somebody who has gone “all out for the final seven years” on her residence’s Halloween shows, Jackson was nonetheless impressed by the present. “I used to be like, ‘I will make Utah skeletons’!”

Earlier than doing so, Jackson — who shouldn’t be a part of the LDS group — says she bought a temperature test from her neighbors first. “I did not wish to upset them,” she notes, including that they thought the concept was “hilarious.”

As soon as Jackson bought the go-ahead, she set out on what would develop into her DIY challenge for the following two weeks. “I went with the lashes, lips, hair after which the Swig cups as a result of everyone drinks soiled sodas right here,” she says of the vital components she created for decor.

Swig is a well-liked Utah soda store that has grown in recognition within the wake of the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives the place they share their “soiled soda” orders.

They’ve develop into a mocktail-esque mainstay within the state possible as a result of Utah has a big Mormon inhabitants, who do not sometimes drink alcohol and occasional and as an alternative get pleasure from sugary-sweet drinks.

“It is nearly like a espresso store for sodas, besides there’s going to be much more sugar concerned,” Jackson tells PEOPLE of Swig, the place she bought a number of 44-ounce cups to decorate her assortment of eyelash-wearing, wig-sporting skeletons.

Since one of many skeletons towers at 12 ft tall, Jackson made a Swig cup out of a plastic planter and two large items of poster board. “Then I principally purchased a pool noodle for the straw,” she says.

To additional align with the MomTok mainstays, Jackson added a child skeleton within the hand of the 12-foot bony being. She additionally propped up a hoop gentle on the garden, a well-liked device utilized by TikTok creators.

As for who’s who inside the skeleton group she assembled on the garden, Jackson says she did not have particular Secret Lives of Mormon Wives solid members in thoughts when creating them. Nonetheless, she says “the magic” has been within the response of the bypassers.

“Everybody has their very own interpretation of it,” Jackson says of people that drive previous her show. She says everybody has been “having enjoyable” and is “completely engaged.”

Amongst these engaged is Mayci Neeley, herself! The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star reacted to Jackson’s TikTok video displaying off her skeleton setup, writing, “Too good,” within the remark part.

The official Swig TikTok account additionally reacted, writing, “That is all the pieces to me.”

After debating the concept of making this Halloween show within the first place, Jackson says she has not had “one unfavorable remark from anyone on something.” She reveals, “All of them assume it is so, so humorous.”

That eased Jackson’s preliminary apprehensions. “That made me really feel higher as a result of the entire level is for everybody to have enjoyable,” she says. “It is Halloween!”