I’m not going to lie the idea of going out for Halloween terrifies me at the moment and not just in a spooky way. But I’m not just going out for Halloween I am going to London Comic Con, which is scaring me 100x more. Big crowds at the moment are terrifying to me. I can carefully navigate small groups of people with very little harm to my leg however mass crowds are out of my control and therefore scary.
I’m getting over this fear by concentrating on how much I love getting dressed up at Halloween.
Throughout the process of choosing what to wear for the weekend away I have had many ideas and thought I would share them and my actual choice for Halloween with you.
As I am going to comic con the majority of these are characters from films or games.
My first choice was Poison Ivy. This is her from the batman arkham asylum game; which is my favourite version of her, however even if I lost a mass load of weight I don’t think I would be brave enough to pull this off. My version (this is actually something a friend suggested) would have been a masquerade style outfit.
However I wanted to make a lot of it myself and have a long possible heavy dress neither of which my recovery from my operation allowed for.
When I was in the height of been scared of going to comic con I decided I was just going to dress in something easy and having just seen the mortal instruments film decided a generic shadow hunter would be perfect. Chuck on all black clothing, cover my tattoos and give myself some new rune tattoos and I’d be all good.
I soon decided that this was too easy and I wanted to do something that seemed more Halloween like and this led to….
The wicked witch of the west.
I love the whole world of Oz and my love for it just seems to grow whenever some new thing comes out such as Wicked the book and the musical or Oz: the great and powerful.
I also have a love of traditional Halloween costumes like witches, vampires, zombies etc. So this seemed to be the perfect combination of both things.
I’m planning on using inspiration from the Elphaba version from Wicked and the Theodora version from Oz: the great and powerful, as well as adding in my own twist on it rather than making an identical version of one or the other.
I will be doing more posts during this series about my Halloween costume so keep tuned for that.
