Carbon Costume Women
Chappell Roan from Gov Ball 2024
Chappell Roan is a quickly rising singer-songwriter that has a unique style when it comes to her stage costumes. She is inspired by drag and isn’t afraid to go all out glam in her performances. Her fans have taken a love to her style and share their concert-going costumes and outfits online, showing off their creativity by recreating her looks and making their own.
One look that would be great to recreate is from one that has been taking the internet by storm: her Statue of Liberty look from Gov Ball. This costume is a little more work than others to create but can be done by an artist of any level. To create this look, we’ll start with the makeup. The exact foundation she used is linked, a green body foundation that should be mixed with white to get the lighter and more muted green color. This would be applied on the face, neck, ears, chest, back and arms. Also take green body glitter and apply at highlight points on your arms and chest. Chappell also applies the paint to her legs but if you’d like to make this more wearable, wear light green tights I’ve also linked. Over those you can wear green short bike shorts. For face makeup, use a dark green eyeshadow for contour and to add dimension back to the face. You could also add more white to the high points of your face. For eyes, darken your eyebrows with black or a very dark green. Also add silver face rhinestones over the highlights. Use silver, black, white, and deep green for the eyes. For the lips, wear a green lipstick and top with a metallic green gloss or even a metallic green eyeshadow. Paint your nails green or wear green acrylics.
For her Statue of Liberty headpiece, take a costume one as a base and glue on silver mirror tiles all over it. For the handheld torch prop, you can leave as is or cover in glitter with corresponding colors. To create her clothing: wear a light green tube top, green short bike shorts as mentioned earlier, and use a wide green waist belt as the base for the skirt. Cut strips of light and dark green faux leather or fabrics and attach silver snaps down each of them. Attach these around the wide waist belt, and this will act as the skirt. You can also do the same with the dark green strips on her shoulders, attaching it to the tube top with snaps. For her necklace, create it using any NYC themed charms and attaching them to a necklace.
Lenore Vandernacht from Nevermore
Lenore Vandernacht is one of the two main characters of the webtoon Nevermore. Her name is derived from several Edgar Allen Poe poems as is that of her love interest and the other main character of the series, Annabel Lee. Prior to her brother Theo’s death, Lenore had long black hair, which turned partially white from shock in the aftermath. She cut it short after she escaped the attic where she was drugged and held following the accident which injured her and killed Theo. In the afterlife, Lenore finds herself at Nevermore Academy, where she no longer has to rely on a cane or wheelchair, but maintains her short hair. She wears a uniform consisting of a white blouse with ruffled cuffs, a black tailcoat, light colored pants, and black riding boots. To add the finishing touch to your costume, use a black eyeliner pencil to add twin beauty marks under your eyes and add a dark burgundy lipstick.
Kit from the American Girl Dolls Historical Line
Nostalgia is something that is the driving factor behind so many trends online. We look back on our childhood and together we appreciate and remember things like Barbies to Bratz dolls. The internet has brought back their popularity over the past years, realizing the how great the fashion these dolls have and one of these that have been trending recently, are the historic line of the American Girl Dolls. American Girl Dolls were very popular in the early 2000s. They came with books of their stories and each are from different time periods.
In this I’ll be covering how you can create a costume after the doll Kit. Kit is one of the iconic dolls from the line and her story is one that takes place in the 1930s. To dress like Kit, wear a dusty rose shirt under a dusty rose cardigan, a floral skirt, and white shoes. Take a white knitted cap and add a green ribbon tied in a bow on the side. Pair with a straw clutch.
Brittany Miller from Alvin and the Chipmunks
Brittany Miller (voiced by Janice Karman) is a supporting character in the cartoon series Alvin and the Chipmunks. She is the sister of Jeannette and Eleanor and the lead singer of their group The Chipettes. Brittany is sassy and can come across as a little entitled, but she shows care for her sisters and Alvin. To recreate Brittany’s 80s look, you’ll want to start with light purple leggins and a hot pink leotard. Layer a ruffled skirt and a capelet over the leotard (you may want to turn the capelet backward so the ruffles are more visible in front). Then, tie a pink scarf around your neck into an oversized bow and add light purple shoes and yellow leg warmers. If you don’t want to style your own hair, choose a wig with bangs and a half-up style.g
Sabrina Carpenter from Espresso
Sabrina Carpenter has been going viral online for her new song and music video Espresso, and is making us so ready for summer.
Her vintage-inspired beach looks in the video can be easily recreated for your summer vacations and poolside outfits. Starting with her visor, take an orange retro style visor. You can create the graphic on it by using white acrylic paint on the top that reads ‘Espresso’. With this she wears her hair in 2 low pigtails, gold starfish earrings, and a blue gingham bikini with a bow on the top. Other looks in the video feature other accessories like pastel pink and yellow scarves, the yellow folded and tied as a wide headband and the pink covering her hair. She also wears a black bow headband and black vintage-style sunglasses with a black one-piece swimsuit. Finally, some other swimsuits she wears is a light blue one-piece that is a dress style and a hot pink bikini worn under a teal blue mini dress.
Melody from the American Girl Dolls Historical Line
Nostalgia is something that is the driving factor behind so many trends online. We look back on our childhood and together we appreciate and remember things like Barbies to Bratz dolls. The internet has brought back their popularity over the past years, realizing the how great the fashion these dolls have and one of these that have been trending recently, are the historic line of the American Girl Dolls. American Girl Dolls were very popular in the early 2000s. They came with books of their stories and each are from different time periods.
In this I’ll be covering how you can create a costume after the doll Melody. Melody was a doll released more recently-in 2016 but is still in the historic line. Her story takes place in the 1960s. To dress like Melody, wear a green patterned dress, teal blue sunglasses and shoes, white frilly socks, and a teal blue handbag. Add teal blue ribbon to the dress and your hair, or wear a teal pillbox hat.
Kirsten from the American Girl Dolls Historical Line
Nostalgia is something that is the driving factor behind so many trends online. We look back on our childhood and together we appreciate and remember things like Barbies to Bratz dolls. The internet has brought back their popularity over the past years, realizing the how great the fashion these dolls have and one of these that have been trending recently, are the historic line of the American Girl Dolls. American Girl Dolls were very popular in the early 2000s. They came with books of their stories and each are from different time periods.
In this I’ll be covering how you can create a costume after the doll Kirsten. Kirsten is one of the iconic dolls from the line and her story is one that takes place in 1854. To dress like Kirsten, start with a blue colonial-style dress. Under this wear a white petticoat and white bloomers with a lace trim at the hem. Over this wear a red gingham apron and gold heart locket necklace. Pair with yellow and white striped socks and brown boots. Braid your hair in two braids then time with elastics back on the base of the braid. Cover that area with blue ribbons and wear a red gingham bonnet.
Curly Brace from Cave Story
Curly Brace (voiced by Chihiro Yamamoto) is a character from the Cave Story game. Like Quote, she is a robot with green antennae at the side of her head. She has an automatic shield that activates when missile weapons target her, and she can wield a number of weapons. Curly has long blonde hair and wears an orange crop top, orange cargo pants, and brown booties. You can add an orange waist satchel to your outfit and cut the wire from a pair of bright green headphones to emulate the look of her green ears.
Rosa Casagrandes from The Casagrandes
Rosa “Rosita” Casagrande (voiced by Sonia Manzano) is a character from the Nickelodeon cartoon series The Casagrandes. She is the mother of Maria and the grandmother of the Casagrande children, including Bobby and Ronnie Anne. Rosa is a loving grandmother who enjoys cooking for her family even if she often goes overboard in her preparation. Rosa has dark hair she wears pulled back with a sage green hair tie. Her outfit consists of a navy dress with a white collar and sleeves, black shoes, and a sage green apron. She also wears gold earrings. To create your costume, you can layer a plain navy dress over a Peter Pan collar blouse to emulate her dress and then add your accessories.
Genevieve Delacroix from Bridgerton
Genevieve is a character from the popular historical drama Netflix series Bridgerton, and is played by Kathryn Drysdale. Genevieve is a character we see many times throughout the seasons, as she is the local dressmaker for all the women we see in the series.
To dress like Genevieve, wear a deep navy regency-style dress, a navy flower hair clip, pearl teardrop shaped earrings, and to create her necklace: take a pearl necklace and attach a black charm or earring like the one linked to resemble her own.
