Okay, so I’ve given up on “The Little Mermaid Dissolving Into Sea Foam” costume.

Instead, I’m going for “The Little Mermaid Post-BP-Oil-Spill.”

Now I need to figure out how to look oily and sticky without actually being… oily and sticky.

Oh! Also, I’ll be wearing it on a boat. Which is helpful thematically, but not helpful with regard to temperature maintenance.

Materials I have so far:

One red wig.


Help?

In order to help you help me with the “Hey Tumblr, any idea as to how to make a ‘Little Mermaid Turning Into Sea Foam’ Halloween costume?” question I posted below, here are some pictures that will TOTALLY help us figure this out.

Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne

So… yeah. Just like Daphne. Except, you know, turning into foam instead of a tree. Bernini whipped this baby up in the 1620s! Surely we’ve come a long way since then!

I don’t want to look like just another Lady Gaga. But maybe there’s something to work with here?

Or here?


If this proves to be too difficult (it won’t it won’t!), then I’ll have to go with my original plan: The Paper Bag Princess. You remember.

In which case, anyone know how to make this?

Photograph by Andrew Todd. Designer: Keali Tait-Innes. Model: Jena Gogo.

Or this?

“Paper Bag Princess” by Craig McDean for W Magazine, September 2009

In a size 00?

If so, could you possibly help me with a Halloween costume predicament? Please?

I’m shooting for the Little Mermaid. But, like, the real Little Mermaid. As in The-Little-Mermaid-In-The-Midst-Of-Dissolving-Into-Sea-Foam.

It’s the “dissolving into sea foam” part that’s causing the most trouble. (Obvie.) How could one achieve this effect? Convincingly? And still remain semi-comfortable? And not look like Florence (of + The Machine fame) wearing Lady Gaga’s bubble dress?


Materials I have so far:

One red wig.


Help?

dustybe:

New York, I Love You poster

So The Scholar goes outside to smoke a cigarette, leaving me to nurse his scotch and chat with the food writer I’ve just bar-friended. (You know. Bar-friended. That’s when the stranger sitting beside you suddenly seems to be the most intriguing person in the entire world, but despite exchanging cards, phone numbers, etc., chances are you’ll never see him/her again. Except maybe at the same bar.) The Scholar is wearing Ray-Bans, a dress shirt, tighty-whities, tube socks… and sheer pantyhose. When he returns, a girl in a bee costume comes up. “Can you help me settle a bet?” she asks him. “My friends and I are trying to figure out what you are. Are you, like, I don’t know… like, just a guy without pants?”