Thread: Medusa Costume Help* UPDATED W/ PICS

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I thought I would do Medusa this year as well and found this forum thread on a Google search. You all have great ideas!

Here is another neat idea that just came out in this year's annual Martha Stewart halloween magazine .... They had taken rubber snakes and mad slits on the underside, then threaded bobby pins through them, which made for easy attachment. Some were left whole and some were cut in half. If you have long hair, braid it and coil the braids around your head. If you don't have long hair but would like the same look, buy a cheap wig from your local costume/party shop, snip off long lengths, braid it, and pin those in a coil pattern along with the snakes.

Anyone have any ideas for the rest of the outfit, aside from the white goddess costume and also the black medusa costume I've been seeing on all the commercial sites?

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I like the type medusa/gorgon, where she has a snake body--and you could wear a gold lame' bathing suit over green leotards, and sew large gold sequins on it for scales. You could sew a few here and there to give it a cool effect. Some also have tusks like a boar's, but I don't think you want to go there, and golden hands and bronze wings. Maybe the golden hands thing would look good. You could put a bit of gold glitter on your snake headress too. You'll want to carry around a hand mirror with you so you can look at peoples reflection instead of looking at them directly--you wouldn't want to turn anyone to "stone" now would you?....don't know how loose you're friends are but you could make all kinds of jokes about one look from you and you can make them 'stoned', LOL

The banshee shrieks with WICKED delight, on this a cold and death filled night!

I've just retired my fabulous Medusa costume. Worn it for 2 Halloweens on the Castro in SF, won 3 1st place prizes in contest and admired by many.

Here is the light-weight way of doing this. Buy 1 inch thick mattress foam from craft store, cut out 12 inch snakes...maybe 20 of them. Easiest way is with an electric turkey carver. Next paint them green or whatever color. Next get some stiff floral wire and stick them inside each snake....this way they are bendable and easy to work with. Next take invisible thread and tie a loop around the top of the neck (or under the head) and spiral the invisible thread around and down towards the end...this gives it texure to each snake. I took an old fitted hat...painted it green and poked holes and put the excess floral wire from sticking out from the snake attaching it from underneath the hat. The snakes stand straight up and are totally posable.

I took a more glamorous approach with gold cat shaped rhinestone for eyes and glittering the whole headpiece with green glitter...lots of green glitter. Even had red tongues on some of the snakes and had a long green faux fur stole to accesorize. Honey, I look so fierce in this outfit, the Drag Queens were jealous.

I have pictures of it if anyone is interested on what this looks like.

I'm not weird...you are just boring.

Sounds excellent, I'd love to see the photos, if you've retired your costume, what are you going to do with it?

I love everyone's ideas, you've really given me great ideas, I'll post pics when I get this year's costume finished.

Last year I made a medusa costume, for the wig I got a cheap black rocker type wig that had straight and wavy pieces. I took rubber snakes cut them in half and attached them with needle and fishing line to the wig. I pushed clothes hanger wire through some of the halves with the heads and left part of the wire sticking out the cut end. That end I bent into a hook and hooked it through the mesh on the mesh cap of the wig. When the wig was on the tension made the snakes stand up and wave around. I also braided parts of it and sprayed the braids with green hair color, which just added to the general snakiness of it. I draped one of the leftover snakes around my neck and used one of the coiled ones for a bracelet. For the rest of the outfit, I used green snakeskin vinyl to make a bustier, instead of straps I attached gold chain which hung over my shoulders and attached to a floor length black lace drape. The skirt was tattered black lace. I covered my face with pale green makeup and used a dark green eyeliner pencil to draw on wrinkles and highlight around my eyes. The cost of the whole thing was about $30.

For my gorgon hair I used a Babyliss crazy braid, braided my hair and sprayed it green, then got little plastic snakes and put them in amongst the braids using kirby grips. (unless you call them somthing else over there.)At the time I was nine months pregnant with my daughter and I had to wrap a sheet around myself, but this year I got a cheap snakeprint dress off ebay. I always wanted to make myself a snakeprint catsuit though. I used green lipstick, white pan on my face, and gold leaf eyeshadow.

CatMean: have you seen the Martha Stewart holiday issue? There's a snake hairdo that looks pretty easy. You attach bobby pins to the underside of small rubber snakes and work them into an updo (accomplished with hairpieces if necessary).

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mm.....when makeing your medusa costume...
do rember everyone out there who want to do this
that medusa was a beautiful maiden...type of thing
and her snakes (in the story i find was told more often)
where given to her by athena for dishonoring her alter shrine ...ect.
so if any man looked at medusa...with lust love...another ect.
he would turn ot stone..

but yeh...she wans't ugle or had snake skin herself! she was pretty!!

but....looking all evil and snake like is fun and probally better for the costume...so yeh

DeadMice

Pictures are now posted in the Halloween Gallery under HalloweenBride2004 or last updated. I've include 2 headshots of the massive Medusa headpiece, one shot of the whole outfit I wore 2 years ago, and the shoes....have to include the shoes.


If anyone needs help on how to make the headpiece....just holler.




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