Zombie Prince Eric and Innocent Ariel Couple Costume

OKAY, so first off, I wanted to be little mermaid and my boyfriend Prince Eric, but with a horrifying twist! Price Eric has turned into a zombie and took a chunk out of little sweet Ariel’s neck. Our costume was a HIT at my party and I received so many compliments on each of our costumes!

For my costume, I went to Joann’s Fabric and bought:

about three yards of green sequence fabric
purple shinny stretch material (for top)
pearls
rhinestones
hot glue
sea shells
tolling for the bottom of my skirt

Also, I ordered a red wig; I don’t remember the site, but eBay had the cheapest. I just didn’t have enough time to wait for it to be sent from eBay! I love my wig, probably my favorite part of the costume.

Also, I wore red lip stick and two sets of fake eyelashes. Ariel doesn’t have much make up on other than lips and eyes, so I kept it simple and didn’t do anything crazy like eyeliner or eye-shadow. Lips and mascara!

My skirt (tail):
I made the costume by wrapping the green fabric around me and pinning it to my body, forming a tight fit around the top and my hips and loser at the bottom. After pinning, I left a top at the back of my skirt(tail) to tie it and make it tight around the top of my stomach. Then I hand sewed the back of the skirt from the top of my booty all the way up to where I cut and left a part to tie. After sewing the skirt, I made a V at the bottom of the skirt and twisted the tolling fabric and hot glued it to the skirt making it cover the whole bottom.

For my top:
I got a bando bra from JC Penny’s (purple) and laid the purple fabric over the top of that, then I traced the bando onto the fabric and cut it out so it matched it. Then I hand sewed the purple fabric around the bando bra and leaving a piece in the middle to have it tie and let it hang and form around the bra I wore under the bando bra. I wore a strapless for extra support. After the bando bra was all sewed with the purple fabric, I left enough to cover the back of the straps and to tie it in the back. Then I added the rhinestones, shells, and pearls; adding them just all over the top of the bando bra.
Shoes:
I ran around barefoot but you could wear flip flops or would be cute with brown or white wedges, whatever is comfortable for you. I was at home for my party so I could wear nothing on my feet.

Zombie Prince Eric
Top:
White men’s shirt from Marshalls was about $13. We cut that up and I stomped around in the dirt on it. Then my boyfriend’s sister made fake blood and I put the blood on my hands and left him hand-prints and bloody all over his back.

Pants:
We took an old pair of blue work pants and cut them off, then cut the bottoms to look like they were trashed and ripped them up a little to make them look dirty.

Shoes:
He wore just black chucks.

I loved our costumes and it was so much fun!