For the aliens though, we made armour out of double ply cardboard and painted rather cool designs on them. We wanted to achieve this apocalyptic look and therefore we painted the rather battered and war torn effects on their armor. Actually the armor went through many revisions, from having initially spikes on the shoulders to having asymmetrical hip plates.

We also painted fierce tatoos design on both their arms and face using blackpaint and our oh so lovable green camo cream.

Standard issue alien (although he was carrying the Alien King's pole)

And the alien king (With 3 other raggers). He had tatoos on both his arms instead of just one and he also had this especially cool head gear. The "dreadlocks" were made from black painted plastic tubes attached to a hairband. 2 black elastic bands also had to be used to keep the headgear in place.

But to me, the most exciting costumes to make of all are of course the fairies, since we had to sew from fabric from scratch.

Faries during the static judging portion during Rag Day. The pink colored faries are the standard issue ones, while the fairy in the maroon dress is the Fairy Godmother.

Close up of the normal fairy. It was a simple tube dress with elastic sewed at the bust area. The wings were just white organza attached to the backpart of the dress and then tied to their fingers. They also made a tiara with a large pearl on it for them.

Closeup of the fairy godmother. I made the dress for her and also did the facepainting. A friend did up the tiara and it was modelled after the one that liv tyler wore for her role as Arwen and it was absolutely stunning. Anyway the dress was also a tube dress, but longer than the normal fairies. It was originally supposed to be spilling out onto the floor, but because of functional reasons (She had to dance), i had to sadly chop off some length so that it ends right after the ankle, and it became much less elegant. The bust area was not held up using elastic though, but it was done in the similiar method to a corset. I inserted a wire into it to maintain the shape, and i thought the V dip in the middle of the bust area added a nice touch to it.

I also added some beads/pearls of varying size/colors to the front. I wanted this diminishing effect, this dense centralized area in the middle and a slow trickling effect towards the bottom and the sides. These 2 pictures were taken in the process of sewing on those beads and it took approximately 3 hours to hand sew everything on. And it was seriously hell tiring and boring to be repetitively sewing the same thing. Haha.

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