Carbon Costume

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.

Terry Blas is a gay, Chicano (Mexican-American) writer and artist. His original work includes graphic novels Dead Weight: Murder at […]