The Boss Is On A Roll...
Halloween is my favourite holiday, always has been. I’ve been dressing up since I was a little girl and I see no end insight. The idea of dressing up and becoming someone else, even just for a night is so exciting to me. I think that’s why I’ve always been attracted to fashion, to be honest. It’s like Halloween everyday, just not as extreme (well, for most people). Every year I plan and make an outfit. And every year, since I’m the fashion designer/makeup artist in my group of friends, I usually end up being Mother Halloween and assisting, if not creating most of my friends’ costumes as well.
This year the bf wanted to be scary. I don’t do scary Halloween - cute, fun, crazy and accurate are more my game. But since the boy hadn’t dressed up in his adulthood, I made an exception. He wanted to be Jason. Or more accurately Jason from the 2009 remake (see what I have to deal with here?). Knowing that the costume would take a lot of time (there’s a machete harness made from a horse bit after all!), I knew I wouldn’t have that much time for a new full blown costume for myself. Being the amazing girlfriend that I am, I decided to make the sacrifice and use a past costume. If you know anything about me, I like to go big, or not go at all. And since we were going to the Silver Snail Halloween Party, I thought why not cosplay as one of my all time favourite villains - Ursula!
Close up of machete harness and full Jason costume
I’ve been Ursula before and in all fairness I always felt that I could have done the makeup much better. During my attempt in 2011, let’s just say may makeup skills were not as refined as they are now. And even though I was re-dressing up as a past costume, I had to make this version even better.
2011 vs. 2013
The full power of this costume came for the makeup, 100%. And the secret weapon - contouring! Contouring makes everything better both in Halloween makeup and in real life! (Yes Kim...I’m looking at you). I wanted to make my face look like a still from the Disney classic. I started by using a white pencil to mark out my new features and then I painted (literally) my skin. After 3.5 hours, I was Ursula, ear to ear grin and all!
The dress itself was made from stretch velvet and power mesh. I took a few throw pillows and used the batting to make the tentacles. They’re attached to the hem of the dress, then tacked to the body at my waist/hip area. My bf actually found the wig online, which had a much better effect than the spray that I had used the time previous.
The reactions at the party were reward enough, for all the time and effort spent gettin‘ my Sea Witch on and making my guy look scary as hell. It was so fun to pass by people and just hear the comments and gasps. I am really proud of this Halloween’s offerings. We also each won a prize, which was an unexpected treat, since we kinda missed the judging time frame (did I mention it look over 3 hours?).
I feel like I did the Boss justice with this one. Now if I want to top this costume, I better start planning...
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