Carbon Costume

Mrs. Puff (played by Abby C. Smith) is a character from Spongebob the Musical.  She is a pufferfish.  As a teacher in Bikini Bottom, Mrs. Puff helps students like SpongeBob SquarePants learn to drive boats as a means of underwater transportation.  In the Broadway musical, Mrs. Puff wears a bright blue jacket with polka dots and a pillbox hat to match.  To recreate her appearance from the stage production, focus on finding a coat in your budget that has a bit of flare to the bottom.  Layer it over a red petticoat skirt and blue and green striped tights.  Mrs. Puff’s accessories include an oversized pearl necklace, teal gloves, and Mary Jane shoes.  Finish the look with blue eyeshadow and red lipstick.

The iconic plumber Mario gets a bit of a makeover in the Super Mario Maker video games.  The eighteenth addition to the Super Mario catalog, Super Mario Maker allows players to create their own Super Mario courses as well as play those made by other users.  Builder Mario in the game wears a yellow hard hat with his signature “M” emblem.  He also wears a yellow long-sleeved shirt beneath a pair of red overalls.  Finish your costume with brown boots, white gloves, a brown utility belt, and a bushy mustache.

Lucy is the main character from the film I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Charlie Kaufman, and is played by Jessie Buckley. This film that you can find on Netflix is based off of the book by Iain Reid.  Lucy is a character we follow throughout the story as she goes with her boyfriend to visit his family’s home and farm as the world around her begins to change.

In the beginning of the film, Lucy wears a bright red coat paired with a yellow scarf and matching red wool beret over a navy blue floral skirt/dress and a brown striped sweater.

Cosmo is a talented inventor from the Space Kingdom in the webcomic Cucumber Quest.  They help Cucumber and Almond occasionally throughout their quest.  Cosmo has black hair and grey skin with pink freckles, which you can recreate with body paint and an eyeliner pen.  They also have a pair of grey rabbit-like ears.  Their clothes consist of a light purple shirt and black leggings under dark blue star-and-planet-themed shortalls.  You can add the cosmic design with some fabric paint yourself.  Accessorize with pink gloves, blue polarized glasses, and some star pins; a black one at your throat and two silver ones on the straps of your overall shorts.

Joan, played by Salma Hayek is from the episode Joan Is Awful from the Netflix series Black Mirror (Season 6). Joan Is Awful is about an average woman named Joan who discovers her life has been adapted into a television series on a popular streaming service for everyone to watch. The actress who plays her is Salma Hayek.

Salma-Joan wears bold costumes like a stunning, over-the-top yellow jumpsuit with a green purse. Another features Joan’s distinct hairstyle, a brunette wig with blonde front pieces. She wears this with a green blazer and white shirt.

Penelope Blossom (played by Nathalie Boltt) is a recurring character in the CW series Riverdale.  The mother of Cheryl and Jason, Penelope is manipulative and cunning, with a penchant for poisons.  She has copper hair and favors the color red in nearly all of her ensembles.  She wears a glove on her left hand to cover scars after receiving third-degree burns.  When crafting your costume, focus on chic silhouettes, carefully styled hair, and crimson pieces that really pop.

Webber is one of the playable characters of the survival horror game series, Don’t Starve.

He is a young boy that got merged with a spider during a lab experiment gone wrong, fled from his home, and now lives in the Constant with the other survivors.

Webber, due to being partially spider, has course fuzzy black hairs all over his body, spider legs sticking out of his head, an assortment of white eyes, and long yellowy fangs.

Sydney is from the series The Bear and is played by Ayo Edebiri. The Bear is about a chef named Carmen, who has quit fine dining and returns to Chicago to try and fix the run down sandwich shop, previously owned by his brother who passed. Sydney is the sous chef that joins this restaurant in season one, and we watch her help Carmen restore it.

Sydney wears the same uniform most of the kitchen staff does, which is a deep blue denim apron, a white shirt, black pants and non-slip shoes. She also wears various bandanas of different colors and patterns which makes her stand out amongst the rest of the staff. Add two kitchen towels at your sides and you’ll look just like this sous chef!

The Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) is the main character in the stop-motion animation feature film The Pirates! Band of Misfits.  The Captain leads his crew on an adventure to try and steal enough gold to win the Pirate of the Year award, but is plagued by bad luck as they strike ships without the bounty they seek, eventually coming in contact with Charles Darwin on the HMS Beagle.  The Pirate Captain has a bushy red beard and wears a long red coat with gold details.  His shirt and sash are different shades of yellow, while his pants are tan and his boots brown.  He also carries a sword.

Hawks (voiced in Japanese by Yuichi Nakamura and in English by Zeno Robinson) is one of the main pro heroes in the anime/manga My Hero Academia.

He is currently the No.2 Pro Hero, and has a variety of ties to different groups, both current and former. His Quirk incorporates his wings, allowing him to fly and control individual feathers for attacks.

Hawks has golden messily spiked hair, and golden-brown eyes that he wears yellow goggles over, in tandem with ear protectors. His outfit is built for flight, streamlined for the black and gold underlayer, with bulky and warm tan outer layers. He wears a thick pair of black gloves, black socks, and black boots, and has a large set of red wings coming from his back.