My Metal Bikini
This blog is dedicated to
the_uzzy for being so kind and buying my live journal paid account. It was totally unexpected and very generous. By request I am talking about my Slave Leia outfit, along with photos of course.
My metal bikini was handmade by moi. It was a Halloween outfit several years ago. My fiance went as Han Solo. It was fun to make and quite easy too. The gold parts are made from floral wire that I wrapped with Crayola foam clay, let dry then painted. I made the arm band and bracelet and hair piece with the clay as well.
The brown cloth on top I sewed to a bra cup kit and then hot glued it to the gold frame. The bottoms were made from a piece of foam which i covered with the clay and made the little details then painted. I sewed the fabric to a pair of panties which I cut the sides out of then hot glued the foam pieces to the front and back. To hold the bottoms up is two pieces of double fold bias tape that i painted on each side sewed on with a snap in the front on each side.
So in all the only thing holding the bottoms on were two snaps. The top was tied on in the back. It took me about a week or two to make because of waiting for the clay to dry. Its rather light weight even though its clay. The collar is my own...of course. And the chain use to be part of a chandelier my parents had.
I wore it to a Halloween party. The first reaction I got I wanted to hit the guy. Not because it was a sexist comment or anything he thought I was Xena. I was like wait what? He said you're Xena right? I glared at him and told him to stare a little longer and try and figure it out and walked off in a huff. Garg that peeved me. The rest of the night was great until they announced the winners of the costume contest.
I didn't win a thing.
Not even sexiest costume. I was practically naked all night and didn't get sexiest costume?!?! Waaa? Some girl who went as the absinthe fairy won...fully clothed. *head to desk*
No matter I loved the way my metal bikini turned out and so did a website dedicated to those who wear the bikini. Check it out. I'm on page 11. The interview is a bit old but meh its mostly right now.
On to what probably everyone scrolled to already the pics:
The Leia Pose
Cropped close
Waiting for other friends
Dancing (you can see the back in this one)
Hopefully soon I'll do an actual photoshoot with a photographer in this one. We've been meaning to just haven't done it yet. Hope you all enjoyed it!
the_uzzy for being so kind and buying my live journal paid account. It was totally unexpected and very generous. By request I am talking about my Slave Leia outfit, along with photos of course.
My metal bikini was handmade by moi. It was a Halloween outfit several years ago. My fiance went as Han Solo. It was fun to make and quite easy too. The gold parts are made from floral wire that I wrapped with Crayola foam clay, let dry then painted. I made the arm band and bracelet and hair piece with the clay as well.
The brown cloth on top I sewed to a bra cup kit and then hot glued it to the gold frame. The bottoms were made from a piece of foam which i covered with the clay and made the little details then painted. I sewed the fabric to a pair of panties which I cut the sides out of then hot glued the foam pieces to the front and back. To hold the bottoms up is two pieces of double fold bias tape that i painted on each side sewed on with a snap in the front on each side.
So in all the only thing holding the bottoms on were two snaps. The top was tied on in the back. It took me about a week or two to make because of waiting for the clay to dry. Its rather light weight even though its clay. The collar is my own...of course. And the chain use to be part of a chandelier my parents had.
I wore it to a Halloween party. The first reaction I got I wanted to hit the guy. Not because it was a sexist comment or anything he thought I was Xena. I was like wait what? He said you're Xena right? I glared at him and told him to stare a little longer and try and figure it out and walked off in a huff. Garg that peeved me. The rest of the night was great until they announced the winners of the costume contest.
I didn't win a thing.
Not even sexiest costume. I was practically naked all night and didn't get sexiest costume?!?! Waaa? Some girl who went as the absinthe fairy won...fully clothed. *head to desk*
No matter I loved the way my metal bikini turned out and so did a website dedicated to those who wear the bikini. Check it out. I'm on page 11. The interview is a bit old but meh its mostly right now.
On to what probably everyone scrolled to already the pics:
The Leia Pose
Cropped close
Waiting for other friends
Dancing (you can see the back in this one)
Hopefully soon I'll do an actual photoshoot with a photographer in this one. We've been meaning to just haven't done it yet. Hope you all enjoyed it!