I am so excited to blog about my super amazing Ursula inspired sea witch costume! I make tutus and sell them and had a brilliant thought to turn a tutu into tentacles! Non of this would have worked without my amazing husbands help!
I started with a shopping trip an hour and a half to the town over from us to Michaels ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/micheals-craft-store/291691193538 )craft store, where I bought sea shells for earrings and my hair and jewels and tiny shells for my face, and simply spray spray dye in black.
once home I painted the shells and made them into earrings and hair things! They turned out pretty awesome!
The next step was to make the tutu! I spent a long time cutting all the tulle and getting it put together! Then my hubby went to the hardware store to get wire and came up with the perfect way to attach it to the tutu! Between the two of us we managed to get all the tentacles looking right! I had to use 2 crinolines and and amazing long black skirt by Hips and curves ( https://www.facebook.com/hipsandcurves )to get the poof I wanted and to hide my legs :)
Next up was time to dye my corset from orchard corset (https://www.facebook.com/orchardcorset ) ! I won this zebra print corset from them a year or two ago and had already used it in a shoot . I had originally planned to purchase a brand new corset for my costume but didn't ennd up hainf the money for it! Thankfully this corset could easily be made black and still have the textured look I wanted! I took it outside and used the simply spray dye! I had bought 2 cans of it but one can malfunctioned and we had to make another trip to the next town over to get more! I ended up using 3 cans and kinda missed a few tiny spots but loved how it came out anyways!
We all know details are important and I love how my nail artist Corrine from Attitude South ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/Attitude-South-Salon/91996647169 ) made my nails the perfect detail!
It was finally time to put it all together and who better to help than Lana from kids den events ( https://www.facebook.com/KidsDen ) ! She turned me into a luminescent shimmering beautiful sea witch! putting on all those gems and shells was a lot of work!
My whole costume came together even better than I had hoped and I won 50$ for Best costume at a Halloween Bash! This has been my most epic costume EVER! So in closing......
HAPPY HALLOWEEN ALL YOU POOR UNFORTUNATE SOULS
