Happy Halloween, friends!

I posted a few days ago, but had a few questions so I figured I would share pictures from along the process of making my silent hill bubblehead nurse costume (:

Bought a nurse dress online. Washed it once to get any chemicals out of the fabric .

Then I tea-stained it to give it that old, weathered look. I boiled a large pot of water, added a few tea bags, then submerged the dress. I let it soak for about an hour and a half until it was the shade I wanted.

Then I layed it out on the counter and squeezed the extra juice from the tea bags onto various random spots on the dress.

Mask next! Put a plastic bag over my head (cut out eye and mouth holes) to protect my face and hair from the paper mache. There's about 3 layers of paper mache; I made sure to use long strips around the perimeter of my face and around the back of my head to ensure it would be sturdy.

Finished by adding a few application of gesso to further harden and set the form. *kind of a selfie? Sorry*

Next painted strips of paper towel with gesso and draped them over the mask to look like bandages, trying to make eye and mouth holes as small as possible while still functional.

First coat of paint: light beige

Added details by painting folds with browns, gray and black.

Finished whole look by splattering a slightly watered down mixture of red, brown, and black paint all over!!

Hope you all have a great Halloween!