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?

Fly to New York this weekend?


UPDATE: Done. See you Friday, NYC!


(#Thanks so much I’m going to let you guys make all my decisions from now on)