Becoming Poison Ivy (Halloween costume)

So this Halloween season, my team and I decided that we were going to go as DC super hero's. Being late to the party, I was left with Batgirl, or Catgirl or some other lame "good girls." It's Halloween, that means dressing like a hoe and getting away with it. So let's begin the hoe-ification of a good girl.

Inspiration:

I googled her, and took my inspiration from every interpretation that I found. I saw LEAVES. Tons and tons of leaves.


My costume consists of and what you'll need

*A TON of fake leaves (I had to make several trips to the buck store)
*A corset
*Some spandex shorts
*Green ribbon
*Black tights
*Glue gun and glue sticks
*Sissors
* Loose glitter - green
*Spray glue
*Glitter glue - green
*Anything green I could get my hands on.
*Dollar store place mat - black
*Black headband 

Lets start with the simple and one of the most time consuming: taking apart the leaves.

Step 1 -
Depending on where and what your leaves look like, chances are they're on some plastic sword things that you can poke someone's eye out with. You don't need that junk.

There are two ways you can do this (I used both):

1. Cut the leaves off at the base of the leaf, leaving the plastic backing on. This makes them stiff and pop more, so you'll have more of a 3D effect.

OR

2. Gently peel the leaves off the stems. 

Step 2 -optional

I thought it would be cool if I individually painted the leaves with the glitter glue, and I realized what a waste of time it was once I started to put it together. You can paint them if you'd like, but you'll see later why you don't have to. 

Step 3 - Corset

I have a black corset because I wanted my PI to be a little bit edgier than normal and black is the easiest to come by. 

I had no plan for placing the leaves. I didn't want a pattern so I just started place the large leaves all over it, using my hot glue gun. Then I took the smaller leaves and glued them to the spots that the large leaves couldn't cover. 

Then I took my green glitter glue and using my sponge brush, I just wiped it all over it.

It's hard to see the sparkles in the pictures.

Complete on both sides

Lace the back with the green ribbon. *Use the original ribbon that came with the corset as the guide to how much you'll need. It's better to have more than not enough. You can always cut it.

Step 4 - Shorts

For the bottoms, I just used a black pair of spandex shorts I had and glued a few leaves to it and then attacked them with my glitter glue. 

Step 5 - Glitter tights

Aerosol spray glue 

and 

Loose glitter

Take a pair of tights in your choice of color. Using newspaper or anything you can bunch up, fill the legs of the tights with it so the tights don't stick together. 

*Spray the tights with the glue and shake on glitter. Cover with coat of glue

*Let dry one hour

*flip over and do the other side.

*Let dry

Step 6:

I made shoes, a clutch and a headband to go with it.

 The shoes are just cheap black flats from walmart

The clutch is a placemat from the dollar store. :) I'm going to put a magnetic strip on the inside so it will stay closed and probably a strap so it's a wristlet. Better for dancing, my dears.

The headband is a cheap black sparkly headband I got on the dollar rack at Joann's. I used my glitter glue and then hot glued some smaller flowers to it.