Wow! I’m so flattered, these awesome people took the time to send me photos of their own Marie Antoinette costumes! I’m really impressed with how these turned out, Congratulations! It’s like a cult or something!

I love this one! Sexy nips! Awesome job - Megan Kolodziej.

Brianne Messer - did a killer job working with the flex foam. She sent me her progress photos and I was super impressed by the cleanliness of her working space. I could learn from her!

Cathy Petch from Washington DC - won scariest costume category at their event!

Laura & Joe Harak from Reading PA took home first prize for their costumes!

Here’s a new one! Shea Brislin from Atlanta, GA - said she made it with paper mache over different pieces of floral foam. Very crafty!

J. Karen Parker from beautiful British Columbia made hers with paper-mache. She was the big winner of a trip to Vegas and $250! Congrats!

Amy King from Austin, Texas also used floral Styrofoam and papier mache. So that’ s a great alternative to making it! Love the cubicle!

If anyone else wants to send me photos of their headless costumes I’d love to post them all.
Thanks

Kali

Originally uploaded by nicemag.

Here is my completed Kali costume. As the goddess of death and destruction, I lived up to her name by causing spillage and poking people in their eyes. I like that one of the flickr comments is that type of behaviour “is so Kali”.
I pretty much destroyed the costume in the process of wearing it. The arms were too temping and everyone wanted to grab them and move them around. They were built to sustain a good deal of abuse, but my friend finally finished one of them off at the end of the night. The nice part was that I could remove the bottom injured set and continue wearing the top set separately. I’m really glad I spent the extra time to make the arms removable. It’s too bad you can’t see my shoes in this photo - they were awesome! Some people thought I was Shiva, Ganesh and Medusa, but quite a few people totally recognized I was Kali. More photos on my flickr site.
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Photo credit: Nik Thavisone
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Alien chestburster

Originally uploaded by nicemag.

Buy this costume for Halloween 2008!
Here is the Alien chestburster costume Andy made. It’s so awesome, but he gave it to his brother so he could be a krumper this year with the boys. He carved this from blue foam, and painted it with acrylic paint. If you’re not familiar with what this costume is, then you should watch this video and get a clue yo!

Kali Costume Parts

Originally uploaded by nicemag.

This costume is so crazy. What was I thinking? All the parts are fabricated, but it’s turning into a big job to put them together. I’m going with the blue shoes by the way.
I will have to come back and add more step by step photos after I’m finished. I’ve been working on attaching the arms to the costume so that they are secure, movable and removable. This involved a whole lot of velcro and elastic. That part I’m good with. I’ve been unhappy with the colour of fabric I was using for the body suit, so I changed it with a couple of light dustings of spray paint to make it more of a grey-blue than a blue-blue.
Tonight I’m making the hands for the arms, attaching the various accessories and finishing the arm-skirt. After that, I can relax and bling it out with lots of gold and jazz.