The latest craze to hit our place, of the female kind, is Monster High. If you’re not familiar with it they are a group of ‘Barbie’ sized dolls (if not slightly smaller than Barbie) with gruesome names and gruesome looks, in a tarty kind of way. Not the kind of thing I really like or approve of but if it helps to overcome my very scared daughter of anything relating to anything haunted or gruesome, well a little bit isn’t going to hurt. Bratz dolls have nothing on Monster High dolls.
It was inevitable she would choose “Lagoona Blue” as her favourite. Lagoona is the daughter of a sea monster and is a transfer student from ‘down under’. One good thing about these Monster High dolls is that putting a costume together is pretty easy. This costume was needed for my son’s school ‘Spooky Disco’ one week after Halloween. It may not be exactly the same as the above picture but you can get away with wearing practically any clothes in your daughter’s wardrobe.
The only things I bought were a blue wig ($8), blue fishnet fingerless gloves ($2) and an oversized sparkly bow tie ($2) which I cut in half. It already had elastic on it to go around the neck so I hand stitched that into a loop for my daughter to wear on her elbows similar to fins that the doll has. I didn’t bother with the fins on the back of the legs. The rest of the costume was just made up with a pink flower hair pin, a shell and blue stoned necklance plus some everyday clothes from her wardrobe.
The makeup was pretty dodgy but I tried to copy a cartoon print out my daughter gave me and used blue eye shadow for the face plus eyeliner and pink eye shadow on the eyes. She thought she was so fancy having makeup on. Needless to say, I finished up holding most of the costume as the night progressed because it was ‘itchy’, ‘hot’, ‘heavy’ and everything other excuse you could imagine but it was a bit of fun.
She wanted to go dressed as “Draculaura” (the 1600 year old granddaughter of Count Dracula, seriously – I’m not making this stuff up) trick or treating and I picked up the pink bustier from the op shop for $1.50 to go with clothes she already had. It gave her a chance to wear her fake fangs. Right place at the right time. You can often find just what you need in your kid’s wardrobes or the thrift stores when it comes to putting costumes together.
totes adorbs!
I so don't get the monster high thing, but kids like what thy like and you did a great job on the costume
Kids toys and idols sure have changed a lot since mine were little!
Dress up clothes don't need to be expensive. You've done a great job with both outfits!!!