I love Hallowe'en. I love candy, I love parties and I love that everyone plays dress up. It's usually a great excuse to do some serious experimental sewing. This year, however, I decided to take it easy. So there is actually very little sewing in this post, but it still feels like making a costume falls into this part of my life so here it is
My partner and I were characters from the new Mad Max movie, Fury Road. It was especially appealing because I could be one of the pregnant women in the harem by wearing a sheet. This is just a piece of muslin I ripped up. I tied a strip under my rib cage and made a bandage for a fake wound on my calf. A few smudges of brown eye shadow on my face for dirt and I was done. The toughest part of this costume was wearing those terrifying sticker nipple covers...well removing them actually. Ouch.
The real prop is my giant belly. A few people kept offering me drinks and weed (this is BC) and I pointed at my stomach. I got a lot of "oh, I just thought it was your costume."
The real prop is my giant belly. A few people kept offering me drinks and weed (this is BC) and I pointed at my stomach. I got a lot of "oh, I just thought it was your costume."
My partner was dressed as the character, Nux, a warboy from the movie. I did do a tiny bit of sewing by making him a leather cuff which took all of 5 minutes. The real work was his make up which I really enjoyed doing. A lot goes into applying a bald cap...quite the process. He was a really good sport about the whole application process which took quite a while and started with shaving his chest and stomach. I watched a few Youtube tutorials but also had to work with what I could find. He's wearing a blend of white face paint and foundation all over his face and head, black eye shadow around his eyes, on his eye brows and on his nose. Black face paint to mark his mouth and scar. Lip liner for the red part of his scar. I also painted a piece of cotton ball to his face with some latex as one tutorial suggested, worked quite well. His body is covered in a blend of white body paint and skin tone foundation. The chest scar is drawn on with eye shadow pencil. The scar would have been better with some sort of gel scar pen but I couldn't find one and this worked well enough.
He really looked quite alarming, especially in the dark. A friend of mine warned me at one point in the evening that there was some "weird white dude dancing near me." I laughed and told her it was my partner. She didn't recognize him at all.
I could only handle about 2 hours of party before my feet were crazy swollen but I'm glad we got out. Did you get dressed up for Hallowe'en?
He really looked quite alarming, especially in the dark. A friend of mine warned me at one point in the evening that there was some "weird white dude dancing near me." I laughed and told her it was my partner. She didn't recognize him at all.
I could only handle about 2 hours of party before my feet were crazy swollen but I'm glad we got out. Did you get dressed up for Hallowe'en?