[XandonX]

Just wanted to show some of my progress to those interested!

I found a black spandex shirt at Walmart for $11 that I cut into the shape that I wanted and am using for the bust. I glued feathers on it with permanent fabric glue, overlapping the feathers and trimming the fluffy parts off of the feathers to avoid a feather boa look, or running the risk of looking like a muppet! The bust piece tapers down the shoulders and into a long thin "tail" or spine, it will reach my lower back when I'm wearing it. I'm having a makeup artist paint my entire torso and face silver with skeletal bones and she'll also be painting feathers around the edges of the actual feathers to blur the edges.

I used a styrofoam block (from a halloween bleeding pumpkin fountain actually!) as my mannequin as you'll see.

For the wings I used scraps of latex from a bald cap that I'm partly using to cover feathers on my head. I attached 4 different sizes of feathers with black silicone and they will be attached to my triceps with spirit gum. Hopefully they hold! The makeup artist is also going to paint the bases of the wings black and blur the edges to hide the silicone as much as possible...I'm thinking about even adding "demon blood" that i purchased from the Spirit Store to the bases of the feathers and on the silicone etc. Just because.

That's all for now!

 

[Minshe]

Looks like great progress can't wait to see your final costume on you--don't forget to share pictures!

 

[XandonX]

you thought about what?

I thought about that but ended up going with the raven.

 

[Lowretta]

Sorry I'm so late in the game on this, but I just found a pic of the great mask on Pinterest. For anyone who wants to give DIY a try, there are instructions for a leather unicorn mask that could easily be adapted to something like this at http://www.marthastewart.com/270793/leather-unicorn-mask. I haven't tried it yet, but am hoping to sometime soon.

Am really looking forward to seeing pics of your finished costume!!

 

[Kmzthk]

The wing is super cool!

 

[XandonX]

Grabbed some pics from the gala I went to last weekend! Here's the final costume! I stupidly didn't get any pics from the back! But hope u like!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

 

[XandonX]

the raven skull "buckle" got a little banged up throughout the night lol