Fashion Jewelry Tiara
as if i don't have enough on my plate right now, i realized this
morning that all hallow's eve is RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER and i have
yet to get hopping on a costume! bad, roque, bad! i've been tossing
around a Queen of Hearts idea for awhile because this summer i bought
a very very '80's red prom dress at a garage sale for a dollar.
sweetheart neckline with ruffle, pointed waist, strapless,
medium-long, multi-layered taffeta pixie-edged skirt with bows all
along the bottom. very "Love is a Battlefield". but then i started
thinking, well, the Queen of Hearts isn't very... creepy. so i'm
leaning towards a Queen of BROKEN Hearts. a very vengeful queen, if
you will. i have all kinds of ideas to alter the dress and a staff to
carry, but the one thing i'm getting hung up on is how to make a
crown. not a tiara, but a crown. like the pointy Burger King type
crown. i want to to be very gaudy- all tarnished silver and driping
with garnets and onyx (well okay, not REAL ones, lol). but i have no
clue how i would go about doing this. i was thinking wire, but i've
never done any wire craft, plus i don't know how durable it would be.
any thoughts??
I've been the Queen twice- once last year on Halloween, and once for a
play. My friend was the white chess queen, so we had to do crowns,
too. Here were our methods::
-My friend found one of those bases for holding round vases, "crystal"
or gazing balls, etc. Flipped upside down, they look like crowns. They
tend to be heavy, though, so we tied it to the wig she wore. A bit
precarious, but it worked and looked good.
-My first crown was just spraypainted cardboard and foam. Foam (the
hard kind, like lil balls) will hold paint, and if you want to attatch
jewels, etc. they can be glued on or held on with stickpins. But it
doesn't look horribly real.
-Paper mache' might work. Try to find a bowl that's the size of yer
head. Cover it in mache' and let it dry, then cut points or whatever
on the top. Then you can add more mache' layers to give it some balls.
If you can't find a bowl that matches your headsize, you could
probably cut a band out of tagboard, fit it to your head, and staple
the ends together to use as a guide. Then staple chunks of cardboard
to it to get the shape and size you need. Cover with paper mache',
paint and glue on baubles.