Poison Ivy – DC Comics (Ame-Comi)

Made for: Dragoncon 2009

Background: I love this little elvish-looking version of Poison Ivy, plus I realised it was a way I could reuse my Starfire wig from the year before. (banner photo by Orobouros!)

Journal Entries: Read more at my Ame-Comi Poison Ivy tag

Patterns Used:
None

Bikini:
I had enough leaves still leftover from my previous Poison Ivy to do most of the work on the top and the bottoms, I just painted them with a wash of bronze and darker green. I bought a bra and covered it in the leaves, along with a swimsuit bottom for the bottoms. I made the flap for the back section out of suede and covered it in leaves, also.

Boots:
The boots were a pair of boots I already had, I made boot covers for them out of some leftover green suede. I bought a lot of moss and vine-y looking stuff from Hobby Lobby and glued, stapled, hand-sewed, whatever I could do make them stay on the boot covers LOL. Some of the excess moss would come off as I walked while wearing it, so you could tell where I’d been LOL

Vines:
The back piece I designed a frame for, and my husband made it for me. I took a couple of big vines I bought, add some more vines and leaves, and wired them onto the frame. The frame ties onto some D-rings I sewed onto the bikini top. A lot of it ended up being fairly last minute because I spent so much time fooling with the boot covers, I didn’t even know if I would finish it all in time. But I did – don’t know if I’ll wear it again but it was fun 🙂

Bodypaint:
Ben Nye Magic Cake Aqua Paints.

History: I’ve still never worn it again because that’s a lot of body paint to get into. I need to do it at some point so I can take backdrop photos – then I’ll probably sell the accessories.

Progress Photos:

                       

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