Guardians of the Galaxy Family Costume
I have made a few posts about these costumes already:
In my original Gamora post, I had everything done to my satisfaction, except the makeup. We wore our costumes to comic con this year and we got a wonderful photo taken there, but I didn't have time to make my face all green before we went. There were also some other costume issues, but I still love the photo.
On Halloween I had more time to make myself green. Before comic con I had bought some green makeup from the Halloween section at Walmart but it went on all blotchy and was kind of a dull color. I didn't want to spend a ton of money to make my face and hands all green, and I'm not really a makeup kind of lady, so I improvised.
First I used a glue stick to glue down my eyebrows. In this photo you can see I started to put some concealer or highlighter or whatever my sister gave me that she never used.
Then I used the concealer/highlighter stuff to add highlights to some parts of my face, sort of like a under painting of the contouring I would need to do to get the cheeks and face shape a little more like the character in the movie.
As I said I didn't want to spend a lot of money on green makeup I might never use again, so I grabbed some green acryllic craft paint, and used my fingers to apply it. I did my eyebrows first to help keep the glue from coming up around the edges, then my lips, while I waited for that to dry I curled my hair, then did the rest of my face and just enough of my neck and chest to cover anything that would show in my costume. after that I could put on my costume shirt. The highlights I had put on underneath showed up a little through the paint, but not as much as I wanted, so I added more on top.
I also used the cheap makeup from Walmart to add the shadow part of my contouring. I used light and dark blue eye shadow to give the highlights and shadows a little more color dimension. I then used a stencil my fabulous husband made for me to make little white lines of the facial markings the character has, and traced over those with metallic eyeliner that I also used around my eyes along with some black mascara.
I covered my hands with paint as well and the paint only rubbed off my fingertips all night.
For Starlord's boots, I found a tutorial of some amazing replica boots that someone did here: Boot covers
But I had a budget and cheap couch leather so I didn't do quite as good a job as they did, but looking at how they made their pattern helped me figure out the shape of mine. I used tape to keep the tabs in place before sewing them on, and used snaps from the sewing section at Walmart. I started to use a hammer to put them together, but soon found that this damaged them and made them unusable. I found pliers worked much better.
I scratched the detail lines into my leather with scissors and darkened them with shoe polish on a q-tip.
If you look at the photo from comic con you will see that the covers are all slouchy, To fix this I just hot glued craft foam on the inside of them, and Voila!
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