*~*Mad Moxxi Halloween*~*

Mad Moxxi:

For Halloween I was Mad Moxxi from the video game Borderlands. Her costume is designed after a ring master in a circus but, instead of the circus she is the ringmaster of the Underdome which is a fighting arena. She's pretty bad A!

I constructed the outfit on my own without using any patterns. The only things I had to reference the outfit was the internet. All the materials used to create this outfit came from Joann's Fabric store and Walmart. This was an intricate costume to make that took a little over a month to complete and countless hours. I could have had it complete sooner then a month but I did not want to stress myself out. I wanted the costume to look as much like the original!

Costume Details (head to toe):

*Top Hat- was black with black sparkles that I spray painted maroon. Then I hot glued the black and white band to the top hat and then added the feathers and the queen of hearts playing card.

*Face- white costume makeup was used for the base. Heavy black liquid eye liner was used around my eyes and also for the small swirls around the right eye. A simple grey eye shadow was used. Then came the rose red blush that was put in circles on my cheek bones. A bright red lipstick was used follow by more black liquid eye liner to make it look like I was smirking and also to but the beauty mark on.

*Heart- just a simple black outline colored in with red. (I was going to get the heart really tattooed but I did not have time for it to heal before Halloween.)

*Jacket (Tail Coat)- A red and dark red marbled cotton fabric was used for the main part of the jacket. (I could not find any lightly striped fabric like she is wearing in the game.) The lining of the jacket was made with a turquoise satin fabric where lining was put throughout the inside of the whole coat. Yellow double fold bias tape was used to outline the jacket. For the collar and cuffs I sewed cotton fabric to foam paper to give it a more structured look. Button were then sewn on. In order to get the buttons to look like the original I had to use a black paint marker to put the outline on them.

*Bottom- This party was easy seeing that I didn't have to do any sewing just construction. I used a pair of black cotton shorts because I could not find any turquoise. Then I used fishnet tights that I cut holes in. One leg had a black and white striped thigh high on. I was able to buy a garter like she has and then just added some belts. I then just used a pair of black ankle boots.

Due to time restraints I was not able to complete a few things I wanted like having covers on the boots and having the lining in the jacket look then same. But, with all this said and done I would have to say this costume turned out really well and I am extremely please with the work I did by not having a pattern!

(The guy in the picture is my boyfriend Josh who dressed like Ezio from the video game Assassin's Creed 2. He also home made his costume from scratch and did an amazing job)