FieryRed
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***This costume is now finished! Scroll down for final pics on this page and page 2!***
So I'm a little nervous to post this because I'm new here and I'm not entirely sure the whole thing is going to work - unfortunately I can't do a full test run because the costume is going to take a while to put on and might not be completely re-usable, so I'm just going to have to hope it all works out!
But I am having too much fun making it not to share
I decided to do the first movie version of Mystique, and I'm really trying to get as close as I can to matching the movie costume, meaning 100% prosthetics and body paint, no jumpsuits or anything. So far it's coming out well! I did small tests on my hand:
And face (ignore the white powder, I am using PAX body paint and I had just finished powdering it when I took the photo):
The above photo is better representative of the colors, the photo below shows it with less powder but it's not really that bright of a blue (and I had taken the yellow contacts out at that point. On Halloween my hair will be red and eyes will be yellow!):
So basically it should be like that, but my whole body! I'm making all of the prosthetics from scratch using liquid latex, hot glue, and PAX paint. I have these big glossy boards I got at home depot for like 15 bucks and they are working very well as a base to paint all these prosthetics:
Here's a close up of what will eventually be my spine scales so you can see the detailing a little:
The basic process is to paint four coats of liquid latex in the approximate shape and size I need the prosthetic to be, then add the scale detailing using hot glue, then paint the whole thing with a couple coats of blue, then just add black on the raised scales. In the first trilogy you'll notice Rebecca Romijn has scales that are darker than her skin (they changed that in X-Men First Class, but I like the two-tone look better myself)
Once it's all painted I'll peel them off the board and trim them to the right size. Then I'll adhere them to my skin with liquid latex (adding a coat or two more latex on the edges to make them blend into my skin smoothly) and paint myself with PAX on any parts that aren't covered with prosthetics - which isn't much, there's 27 of them!
I also got red hair dye and yellow contacts - I think the only thing I don't have figured out is my feet - I will be barefoot, but I'll be walking around outside and I'm thinking I'll probably cut pieces of leather or similar material and just glue them to the bottoms of my feet so I don't get some sort of flesh eating disease from the sidewalk.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Hopefully I'm not forgetting anything substantial that will make the whole thing a big fail! I plan to give myself most of the day to get the costume on since I'm doing everything myself (my husband will help glue and paint on some places like my back, but he's not really crafty so I'll be doing 95% of the work myself)
So I'm a little nervous to post this because I'm new here and I'm not entirely sure the whole thing is going to work - unfortunately I can't do a full test run because the costume is going to take a while to put on and might not be completely re-usable, so I'm just going to have to hope it all works out!
But I am having too much fun making it not to share
I decided to do the first movie version of Mystique, and I'm really trying to get as close as I can to matching the movie costume, meaning 100% prosthetics and body paint, no jumpsuits or anything. So far it's coming out well! I did small tests on my hand:
And face (ignore the white powder, I am using PAX body paint and I had just finished powdering it when I took the photo):
The above photo is better representative of the colors, the photo below shows it with less powder but it's not really that bright of a blue (and I had taken the yellow contacts out at that point. On Halloween my hair will be red and eyes will be yellow!):
So basically it should be like that, but my whole body! I'm making all of the prosthetics from scratch using liquid latex, hot glue, and PAX paint. I have these big glossy boards I got at home depot for like 15 bucks and they are working very well as a base to paint all these prosthetics:
Here's a close up of what will eventually be my spine scales so you can see the detailing a little:
The basic process is to paint four coats of liquid latex in the approximate shape and size I need the prosthetic to be, then add the scale detailing using hot glue, then paint the whole thing with a couple coats of blue, then just add black on the raised scales. In the first trilogy you'll notice Rebecca Romijn has scales that are darker than her skin (they changed that in X-Men First Class, but I like the two-tone look better myself)
Once it's all painted I'll peel them off the board and trim them to the right size. Then I'll adhere them to my skin with liquid latex (adding a coat or two more latex on the edges to make them blend into my skin smoothly) and paint myself with PAX on any parts that aren't covered with prosthetics - which isn't much, there's 27 of them!
I also got red hair dye and yellow contacts - I think the only thing I don't have figured out is my feet - I will be barefoot, but I'll be walking around outside and I'm thinking I'll probably cut pieces of leather or similar material and just glue them to the bottoms of my feet so I don't get some sort of flesh eating disease from the sidewalk.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Hopefully I'm not forgetting anything substantial that will make the whole thing a big fail! I plan to give myself most of the day to get the costume on since I'm doing everything myself (my husband will help glue and paint on some places like my back, but he's not really crafty so I'll be doing 95% of the work myself)
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