At the carnival, masquerade, Halloween and other fun festivities, you can dress up a funny and original alien costume. In many online stores you can buy a ready-made fancy dress, but it will cost a lot.
The topic of aliens is so unexplored and diverse that you can build an alien costume from almost any improvised means and materials. In essence, this topic is limitless, since no one has seen the aliens personally, although there are a number of contactees who contributed to the division of aliens into several groups. Given the fact that costumes such as the character of the movie "Alien" are extremely difficult to build, you can limit yourself to the most inexpensive and simple.
Varieties of alien costume
Most people know the so-called "green men", "gray aliens with big black eyes", "aliens in shiny, silver spacesuits" and some others. To make fancy dresses, you need to determine the category of guests from other planets and select all the necessary elements of this image. Such an alien costume can be sewn for both children and adults. The difference between a children's costume is that you do not need to create a frightening image of an alien, since children can be frightened.
The most common alien image is a creature with a large, unusual head of various colors in a wide black hoodie, trimmed with shiny fabric of any “acidic” colors.
Costume of an alien from ordinary overalls
To make it, you will need a building overalls that can be trimmed with shiny fabric. To complicate the image, you can make slots in different places in the suit, into which wire structures, covered with foil or shiny fabric, are inserted and firmly fixed. These protrusions should resemble outgrowths on the body of aliens. To cover the back of your head, sew a loose hood over your suit. The alien’s face is most easily done using papier-mâché technique and painted in the desired color. "Blank" for her can be molded from plasticine. Thin pieces of paper are laid out on this blank. To accurately repeat the contours of the mask, the paper is moistened with water and PVA glue.
To get a solid “face”, 9-10 layers will be enough. The mask should dry for 24 hours. After complete drying, it can be painted with acrylic paint.
Big eyes are highlighted in black
. They need to make holes for the eyes of a person. The mask is attached to the head with a durable rubber band. Gloves and massive boots should complement the alien costume.
Game costumes of aliens
A silver suit for a girl, consisting of silver high boots and a short shiny dress with contrasting inserts of an alien theme, will look very beautiful and spectacular. A bright wig and long gloves will help to complete this image. Such an alien costume is suitable for children, only in the children's version high boots are not needed, and the skirt should be longer. For the boy, an ordinary jumpsuit made of silver fabric and a helmet made of foil with small "antennas" are ideal.