Just about the right amount of batshit insane

[solarbird]

I think I have just about the right amount of insanity for Shego in my expression here. ^_^ These were taken tonight, right before walking out the door for the Weak Masq. I made the costume myself, yes - it's a black bodysuit, painted; used boots, painted; gloves, painted; the jewels are glued on. (The neck one had to be reglued right before the pictures with hotglue - fortunately Mimi had some handy!) I have a small glow effect for the gloves - tiny chemical lightsticks held between the fingers - but they aren't used here, I was saving them for the party.

Shego, since most people don't know, is a recurring supervillian from Kim Possible.

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[flashfire.livejournal.com]

Ooh! :-)

Random stranger commenting...sorry. ^^;;

[hakudoushi.livejournal.com]

I saw this on my friends-of-friends list...WOW.

You pulled Shego off extremely well. I never expected to see anyone dressed as her, so this kinda made my morning. ^_^;;; How long did it take you to paint all that material?

Re: Random stranger commenting...sorry. ^^;;

[solarbird]

I marked up the suit with tailor's chalk one day; that took about 45 minutes, with adjustments and such. (Figuring out the back - of which I don't yet have a photograph ;_; - took longer, because it changes from scene to scene in the show! Not even episode-to-episode, but scene-to-scene! It's surprisingly sloppy of them. The front is always consistent.)

The next day, I got the first two coats of paint on the back in the morning (separated by not long at all - I basically started on the second coat as soon as I got done with the first); then that needed to sit for a while so the two first coats could stablise a bit, and I did the third coat that night. Then that sat for 12 hours (overnight, plus some), I flipped it over, and repeated the process on the back. So over three days, I'd say about... six hours, maybe? Probably a little more with cleaup and such each time. The boots and gloves took less time, of course; the first coats also took much longer than the second and third.

Dressing took about an hour and a half, but it was the first time I'd done that makeup and I had to change plans midstream. (I had planned to really white up my face with a bit of green tint, but what'd that become? Mint. Minty. Yuck. So that was right out, and I had to take all that off and start over.) Most of the hair colour was spray-on; the eyebrow colour was a separate black temporary hair dye specifically for stuff like that.

Re: Random stranger commenting...sorry. ^^;;

[hakudoushi.livejournal.com]

Heh, I would have never had the patience to do all that. The closest I've ever done was painting flowers onto a kimono, and that was beyond tedious. And yeah, the idea of running around with a mint-colored face is kind of off-putting. I can understand why you took the makeup off.

Still, I'm impressed. Thanks for telling me how you made it- costuming has always interested me. Too bad I'm completely inept at it. ^^;

Well done costume

[(Anonymous)]

From the sewing impaired. Well done costume. I'm not familiar with the character, but the paint job is excellent. Fabric paint? How well does it hold up? Especially the gloss. I gotta learn how to sew. I don't need to very often, but it would be handy to know how. That, and I need to learn to cook. My cooking skills end at putting things in the microwave..(On the eighth day,God created the cavity magnetron). Cool costume...Scott

Re: Well done costume

[solarbird]

I don't know how well it'll hold up; I've never used it before. Hopefully long enough to wear the costume a few times - again on the 31st, then at Norwescon, too. (And who knows, maybe next Worldcon in Boston, for a fourth.)

Costumes need to store well more than wear well, really... ^_^

Cooking is good to learn. Our microwave just decided not to work, so that's kind of, um, bad. It's been dying for a while, but it seems to have finally given in for good now. Unfortunately, it's an over-the-stove model, which I think I'm best off paying someone else to replace... blah!

Re: Well done costume

[(Anonymous)]

Microwave ovens are just too cheap to fix. My old one croaked after 16 years-to replace the magnetron was almost sixty bucks..I bought another oven for forty at Wal-mart.
My next Learn 2 Do is sculpting..just something I want to try-practice on Sculpy,move up to Sculpt-Epox...I want to try things like Watch Faces-take a plain,cheap watch,and sculpt an epoxy face around the existing watch body....Scott

[firni.livejournal.com]

Conor has a toy dancing Shego (okay, so it's actually supposed to be kicking on its little stand, but looks like dancing to me) toy that he got in a McDonald's CrappyMeal. I'm surprised he didn't come up and attempt to arrange your arms and legs like his toy.

[janne.livejournal.com]

Not familiar with Shego, but that's a stunning costume!

[numbereleven.livejournal.com]

Hey! I actually found you on a google search, trying to research my own Shego costume. Yes... yeeeeaaaars later. I hope you still get this!

What kind of fabric paint did you use? It covered really well.

[solarbird]

Wow. Okay, this is the latest comment I've ever gotten to a post. ^_^

Jones' Tones stretchy fabric paint. The most important thing is that whatever you use be able to handle lots of stretching. I had to mix the colour myself, using a darker green and a yellow, both of which were metallic. ^_^