Pikachu Costume

For this Halloween I was Pikachu and my whole costume I made myself!

I started off with this shirt and I wanted to spice it up so I cut it up but I forgot to take picture while I did it. Don't worry though if you like it I'll be cutting up another shirt later and posting it!

Artsy Fartsy Needs: yellow shirt, hard poster board, one square of felt, pipe cleaners, head band, yellow   black/brown paint, box cutter, cotton balls, and a hot glue gun    

   

Bought this shirt from hot topic!

Poster board from  Michaels. Painted the lightning bolt tail. 

You can paint the end of the tail brown like its supposed to be
but I wasn't wearing any brown so I just did black

Make sure you  cut off the excess  Cut the whole tail out with a box cutter

 

The felt that you need is the size of a paper 

  

You take the felt and cut them in the triangle like shape for the ears

This is what the ear look like when you're all done!

This is the first step to gluing them down, form the triangle and glue it down.

Then glue the whole side down and get ready to stuff it!

Pull the cotton balls apart like so VVV

Stick the pipe cleaner into the ear before you stuff it and glue it down

After all the ears are stuffed you'll glue them down. 

At the end like so, then you'll glue it around the headband. 

Take the excess felt left over and glue it down on the head band and figure out where you want the ears to be glued down and glue it! 

After that you'll paint the tips of the ears black, I painted it at an angle. 

I think I might have put the ears too close together but you can judge where you want to put them. 

This was my make up! :)

And this is everything put together!!

I didn't know how to put the tail on so I just taped it. 

If you can think of another way to put it on your shirt go for it!

Halloween - Flo

Since the progressive commercial came out I've had a bunch of people tell me that I remind them of Flo by my personality and when I cut my hair I decided to finally be her for Halloween. 

This is by far the cheapest costume I've ever had. All I had to pay for was the apron and blue ribbon for my hair. All you need is a white shirt, white pants, black converse, white apron, and a blue headband or in my case ribbon. I didn't want to go buy a blue headband that I wasn't going to wear again so I got ribbon that was only 50 cents. I already had stencils and the paint so I just painted progressive on the apron along with her nametag. For her "I <3 Insurance" button I found it online and taped it on me. 

I think I did a pretty good job of looking like her and I hope I have helped you too!