After the release of the movie “Suicide Squad” in 2016, the Harley Quinn costume became one of the most popular Halloween images. Many girls want to recreate the style of the impudent Joker girlfriend in real life. Making a Harley Quinn costume with your own hands is easy. Most of the things that will be needed for a realistic image of a supervillain can be found in every girl’s wardrobe. T-shirt and shorts need only a little transformation, as well as add suitable accessories.
Harley quinn
The DC supervillain first appeared in the animated series Batman in 1992. Harley Quinn was later adapted into comics. The fictional villain was an associate of the Joker, hated Batman and his assistants. She also maintains friendships with Catwoman and Poison Ivy.
The character appears in various films, animated series and comics in different guises. The girl is now dressed in tight trousers and a corset, now in a leather bodysuit and a Joker hat, then in a short skirt, T-shirt and high boots.
The colors of clothes, make-up and Harley's hairstyle remain unchanged. Cheerful, reckless and with an excellent sense of humor, she always uses red and black colors in her image, sometimes also white. Harley Quinn is a blonde, wears two high ponytails with a fading effect (one is blue, the other is red), she has a bright make-up, but a pale face.
DIY costume
Harley Quinn's costume is quite simple to make, especially considering that almost every girl has a wardrobe in the wardrobe of almost all girls in order to recreate the image of the supervillain from the movie “Suicide Squad”, which appeared on the screen in early August 2016. So, you will need:
- Three quarter sleeve t-shirt. For Harley, this is a T-shirt with red accents at the neck and on the sleeves labeled Daddy's lil monster (“Daddy's Little Monster”), torn in some places and dirty.
- Very short blue-red shorts with a heavy belt in rivets. Shiny shorts can be replaced with a skirt.
- A red and blue windbreaker with a golden inscription Property of Joker ("Joker Property") on the back. The jacket can be either short, to the waist, or the usual length.
- Black tights in the net.
- Black and white lace-up high boots. White Converse sneakers, sneakers are also suitable.
- Various accessories: a wide white collar with the inscription Puddin (literally translated as “sweet cake”, as Harley Quinn affectionately calls the Joker), a leather bracelet with golden spikes, a holster for a pistol, a baseball bat.
You will also need cosmetics to make up, like Harley Quinn, a one-day hair dye (tint varnish, mascara, colored crayons). To accurately recreate the image, you can buy several translated tattoos or draw them with henna.
Torn T-shirt
For a Harley Quinn costume, it’s exactly the same as a comic book character, you can make a t-shirt with your own hands out of plain white. It will take red and black acrylic paint, a little blue to stain the sleeve, brushes. Instead of paint, you can use a spray can and a stencil. The stencil that can be used to apply a pattern to the fabric is below.
Also on the shirt should be a red insert at the neck and stripes on the sleeves. When the drawing dries, you need to tint the left sleeve, diluted in water with blue paint. It remains only to tear the shirt in several places and get a little dirty. One of the holes can be sewn with coarse stitches of a contrasting color, for example black.
Red and blue shorts
Finding Harley Quinn suit shorts for sale or second-hand is hard. These should be short, shiny shorts, one half of which is blue and the other is red. It’s more advisable to either buy white shorts, and then dye them in the right colors from the spray can, or buy two (blue and red), and then sew one of them.
Still need a rough leather belt with rivets. If there is no ready, any old belt will do. You will also need black paint (if the belt is not black), rivets and a plaque, which you can buy in the store for goods for needlework or sewing accessories. Rivets and a badge can be attached to the belt with a glue gun.
Under shorts Harley Quinn wears black fishnet tights. For a realistic image, you can make several holes on them in different places. Under the pantyhose, the character of the film shows several tattoos. You can apply them with henna or buy decals that last only a few days.
Short windbreaker
A jacket, too, may be easier to remake from the old than to find a finished one on sale. You can paint the windbreaker in the desired colors or combine from two ready-made ones. Also, in shiny yellow fabric, sew the inscription Property of Joker all over. One of the stencil options is below. The same inscription can be written with acrylic paints, which will be easier if you choose an option with many additional decorative elements.
Wellingtons
Harley Quinn's Halloween costume is almost ready, only the finishing touches are left. The supervillain wears black and white lace-up boots. They are very similar to high Converse sneakers, so you can use them or any other sneakers for the look.
Accessories
Harley Quinn also wears a wide collar with the inscription Puddin, a leather bracelet with spikes and a holster for a pistol on his belt. All this can be found in jewelry stores. Difficulties can arise except with a collar with an inscription. But the letters can be made of ordinary cardboard (as an option - cardboard in several layers), painted and glued to the base. So it is with the bracelet. If there is no bracelet with spikes, you can take a regular one, buy rivets in a sewing accessories store, and then stick them to the bracelet.
Makeup and hairstyle
Harley has a pale face, bright red lips and unusual eye makeup. Color one eye with blue shades, the other with red. To make your eyes more expressive, use black eyeliner. Hairstyle Harley - two high ponytails. Blondes can simply make a one-day tint with a tinting hair spray, but for brunettes it is better to purchase a wig. Although the image of a Harley brunette turns out to be quite interesting.
Suit for children
Costume Harley Quinn for children should not be so frank and daring, you can slightly deviate from the image. Instead of pantyhose in a net, for example, you can make red and blue, and wear jeans shorts. Any T-shirt with a youth inscription will also look harmonious, and not necessarily Daddy's lil monster. A Harley Quinn costume for a girl can repeat the image of a supervillain only in general terms.