Halloween 2016 is done and dusted and my group of friends put together an amazing ensemble of costumes! We went as X-Men and, quite frankly, we nailed it!
Since the photos are always the most fun, I’ll post them first! At the end of this post you’ll find more details on my costume and face makeup as Mystique!
X-Men Group Costume
(Julie from Swatch and Review)
(Kaitlyn from Kaitlyn Elisabeth Beauty)
Photos from Church Street in Toronto
Mystique Costume + Makeup Details
My costume itself was fairly straight forward.
- I bought the boots on Ebay – I upsized since they were shipping from China and I thought they wouldn’t fit me – turns out upsizing was too big in the foot, but it fit me perfectly in the legs.
- I opted for a blue body suit to keep me warm and to suck all the jiggly bits in. It’s a blue morph suit that I got at a party store: I cut the head off and it was good to go!
- The gloves are also from the same party store.
- The white tunic was actually a full length shirt/dress thing I got on Ebay from somewhere in England. It had slits down the sides which was a huge help, I just trimmed the sides in so that they tapered to more of a point in the center of the panels.
- My belt is a bunch of plastic skulls that I drilled through and then strung a shoelace through them to hold them together.
- The little skull on my head came from a dollar store treat that my husband found as a last ditch effort to find a small enough skull for my head!
- Sadly, the wig I ordered never actually arrived from China, so my wonderful friend Alison shipped me her Poison Ivy wig from last year’s costume. Thank heavens for that – the wig is such a huge piece!
- The contacts are from SpookyEyes.com and they were FANTASTIC. They added an incredible touch that really completed the costume. And for a complete newbie to putting in contacts, they were really, really not that bad! The ones I wore are the Glimmer Gold contacts.
Now, on to the makeup.
- I primed my face with Make Up For Ever‘s Smoothing Primer to make sure this base would last all evening.
- I used MAC‘s Paint Stick in Marine Ultra and sponged *3* layers on to my skin, letting each layer dry about two minutes between applications.
- I then set my entire face with a healthy amount of RCMA No-Color Powder to try to make the cream base as transferproof as possible. I let my face bake for about 15 minutes before I removed the powder.
- To add dimension to my face, I went in with Sugarpill‘s Velocity eyeshadow and contoured with it. I also set my face with it to help keep the blue base from looking patchy.
- I uses Sugarpill Velocity and Sleek Ink to carve out my eyes. I also used Ink to fill in my brows.
- I also used Make Up For Ever‘s Aqua XL Liners (M-26 and M-22) to line my upper and lower water lines. I used Kat Von D‘s Tattoo Liner in Trooper to create a wing, used some Urban Decay Perversion mascara and popped on a pair of Esqido Lashlorette falsies.
- I used MAC‘s Brick lip pencil and MAC Russian Red lipstick to finish off my lips.
And there we have it! My finished Mystique look! I had so much fun this and I’m already starting to brainstorm for what we can do next!
Great ! You are beautiful team !
My absolut fav are Mystique and Nightcrawler ( Called Diablo, in France, in my old “Strange” comics books )… blue skins are so spectacular ! No Storm/Tornade ?!
Bravo en tout cas, sacré boulot !
Yes! It worked out so well and I’m so glad my friends looked so amazing!
I had no idea Nightcrawler was Diablo in French – good to know! I always find it interesting what different languages use for character names.
No one opted to be Storm this year sadly! We tried to convince one of our friends to do it but she decided to pass on the group costume. 🙂
This is wicked Chelle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m totally forwarding this blog post to my husband haha – oh man the whole lotta yee looked awesome.
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Thank you!!! It was so much fun! I’m already looking forward to next year!
Absolutely amazing!! I absolutely love it and cannot wait to see how you all top it next year!
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I swear the pressure builds every year! I’m so glad people loved this though! 😀
LOVE IT!!! I saw it on your Instagram and was blown away. You guys look AMAZING!
Thank you! It was soooo much fun!
So impressed that the RCMA powder made all of that blue stay transfer proof
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Transferproof, but not rub-proof! I’m not even sure something like that exists tbh.
Doubtful, especially with that much blue but since I left makeup on the collar of my black wool coat, will have to pick some up
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I love that you got a photo with Mugatu (random, but hilarious)! I’ve said it before, but you guys all looked seriously fierce. Your makeup turned out perfectly!!
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Haha it was the one shot we realllly wanted. He looked so confused when we called him over to take a picture with us. lol
This was soooo much fun! Can’t wait to see what we do next year 🙂
I’m already trying to think of things… problem is finding something for enough people!
I really love this post. I love the looks, the make up, the whole clan… Great job!
Thank you!!
You guys all did am incredible job! Haha How are you ever going to top that for next year?
I know right? The stakes get higher every year!
This costume was well worth all of the effort! What was happening on Church Street? Was it just where everyone was gathering?
Church Street is shut down for Halloween evening (7pm onwards) for people to just come out and have fun! There’s always tons of people in costume and people just looking to hang out. So much fun!