The top includes shells made from an iridescent quilted fabric attached to a metallic jersey. The tail is made from a wide variety of fabrics including shantung silk, taffeta, and sequins on jersey. Two slits between the front and back portion of the tail allow for maximum mobility. The best part of this mermaid costume … Read more
I have searched online for a cool realistic looking Mermaid Woman’s Costume for years and after finding nothing FOR YEARS I decided I would go ahead and make one! I used a lot of shiny blues, greens, yellows and any ocean colors I could find. I used parts of old dresses that I got from … Read more
I bought a wig and some purple body paint for hair and face. I bought a dress from the Goodwill store for the base and a purple long sleeve so I din’t have to paint my arms. I bought black and purple material and sewed them together. I fliped them inside out so the pretty … Read more
This Homemade Mermaid Halloween Costume was my costume a few years ago. I made it by buying a mermaid style wedding dress and it in half to just use the skirt. I spray painted the white dress with 4 colors of blue and green. I cut hundreds of tiny “scales” out of colorful and shiny … Read more
I decided to be a mermaid this year, I love making my costumes. This one took me a lot longer than any others I have made but it turned out exactly how I imagined. Here is step by step the best I can tell you how I made it. A lot was trial and error … Read more
I had been wanting to do an Ursula costume forever. This is my version of it! The tentacles are sort of a belt that I wore all night and stuffed with basic poly fill. There is a wire in each tentacle so that I can bend it. There are a few layers of tulle underneath … Read more
This Blue Mermaid Costume is my third mermaid costume creation. Three kinds of fabric were used: stretchy bathing suit material for the lower torso, glowing blue raw silk for the tail, and irradescent material for the bra. The bra is easy: make a tube of fabric, pleat the center and Velcro the two ends together … Read more
With this Homemade Mermaid Costume I cut strips of fabric in all the colors of the rainbow for the scales and finished the edges with fabric glue. I used a stretchy fitted skirt underneath to sew it to. I wanted my legs to be water so I have blue waves on my shows with sequence … Read more
Happy Halloween! I wanted to be Ursua the Sea Witch becasue she is one of the most bad a$$ women villians ever! I gave her a edgier look for night time use and a more covered look for the kids! DAY LOOK INCLUDED HANDMADE CLAY SHELL NECKLACE made from modeling clay and spray painted gold. … Read more
Makinzi is 6 years old and a dreamer. She wanted to be a LITTLE MERMAID for Halloween. The problem with store-bought mermaid costumes is that the tail restricts movement so we decided on a Homemade Little Mermaid Costume. I made her tail fin from 6 in strips of overlapping twill. This allowed her to move … Read more
For years my boyfriend Brady and I have brainstormed costume ideas and I have always created them. This year…MERMAIDS! Well, I was a mermaid and he was a merman, but not just any merman. We decided to make things interesting and create a “manmer” of sorts. Top half fish, bottom part human. Not only did … Read more
I started my Homemade Ursula The Sea Witch Costume from a simple black corset and hoop skirt. I built the ocean skirt with blue fabric and different color streamer fabric pieces that were attached to the blue skirt. The tentacles I made with black fabric that would match the corset and look like one piece … Read more