Costume Closet 18: Talkin' 'Bout Coraline

Today I tried to do a version of Coraline...you know, if she were old. I had been looking for something to do with the blue wig that wasn't its original use (Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury cosplay from a looooong time ago). It kind of looks like Coraline if she got a really bad haircut...or was starring in a 90s Nickelodeon show.

The hat is from the 90s and awesome, but has never been seen the light of day before. :( I love hats, but nobody here wears them!

Closeup after the jump.

Costume Closet 17: Old Hollywood

(This is what the hair looked like when I took the pins and wave clips out--after nine hours, ha!)

So here we have a bit of old Hollywood glamor that's a little more 1920s than anything else. The dress came from Windsor, I think, and I bought it for a costume party a while back (did not do such awesome hair and makeup then, though.) The makeup is really quite heavy--lots of eyeliner and gray/green shadow, baby pink blush, thin eyebrows, and a Cupid's bow mouth that exaggerates the poutiness.

Closeup of the makeup and hair after the jump, along with some hilarious pictures of the hair brushed out (for the look of a few decades later...)

Costume Closet 16: Grandma's goin' out, dears

Sorry for the delay, all (three days?? Yikes.) Definitely failing at the daily post thing this week!

I was setting my hair to do the next costume and couldn't resist using the hair set itself for a costume. So what do you think--someone's crazy grandma, a flapper hanging out in her skivvies, or Ms. Hannigan?

I feel like I should've had a cigarette here. :( Curse you, healthy habits.

Pumpkin Life: Day 14

This pumpkin/gourd had a few people helping with the ideas. I was going to make a pac man ghost with the pumpkin at first, but my mother insisted that it had to be Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean (though she couldn't actually remember his name). I still wasn't completely sold, but Michelle agreed that it could be cool and so I did it. It's all done with acrylics, and took me a bit of getting used to the technique.

The hat was totally my idea. I don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing. Davy Jones needed a hat and I didn't really know how I could make a hat like from the movies. So I went all old school and did a newspaper pirate hat instead. I think the result is pretty hilarious.

Pumpkin Life: Day 13

I kind of like my bird theme. I like the silhouette on the interesting green pumpkin on this one. I saw this pumpkin at the store and really dug the colors and patterns. The stem is pretty cool too. I guess I don't have a whole lot to say about this one, since it's pretty simple.

Costume Closet 15: Retro Pro

This costume is supposed to resemble a 1940s/50s professional woman, and was based a little off the Bruce Timm designs for Harley Quinn when she's a doctor. If only I could make my hair temporarily blond...

The makeup here is the same as the previous shoot, only I swapped out the pink lippy for this amazing bright red 80's Revlon color (they sure do not make lipstick that creamy anymore) and darkened up the eyebrows for a sharper look.

A picture without the glasses after the jump (as they were makin' me blind.)

Costume Closet 14: Mad Women

This costume is inspired by all the lovely 1960s fashions worn by Betty Draper on Mad Men, one of my regular shows that I always seem to have to defend to people. I tried to keep the makeup simple like on the show; it's just black liquid eyeliner on the top lid only, mascara and a horrible pink lipstick that can only come in handy for retro shoots. The dress came from a thrift shop and was a really lucky find for a production of Grease when I was young.