Picked out ones that were very close to the same colors and patterns. Since I didn't have the resources to design my own fabric andĭidn't want to paint it all individually, I went to the fabric store, Then I studied the videoĬlosely for all the different colors & swirled patterns to go where on theĭress. Of how it fits on Sally, which is pretty basic. I made a sheath out of old fabric for the basic dress, making it the shape Plain white talcum powder works the best so you don't get any fleshĬolor spoiling your blue (yes, for the sake of the furniture in England, I did not use the blue on my entire arms, so you can see how obvious the flesh color looks against the blue!). Set the pancake with powder to help it not rub My face, neck and arms wereĪll the pancake base, then I used a black eyeliner pencil to draw on all The perfect shade of light blue for the skin. I found "Blythe Spirit" theatre pancake makeup at a costume store that was Than spirit gum, then you can just take them off when you really need to I would use felt again, but cut a larger hole to see out of, use the yarn eyelashes,Īnd I would put them on the "glasses" frame - much easier to take on & off The party! If I was doing it again, I would combine the best techniques I like how the first set of eyes look better, but I couldn't see atĪll, and I actually broke off the heel to my shoe before I even got to I just used spirit gum toĪttach the felt eyes around my own eyes, which can be dangerous, so don't get the spirit gum tooĬlose to your eyes, but make sure the eyeballs themselves are large enough After trimming the wrinkled excess felt away from each "eye" shape, I glued fabric-covered floral wire around the inside edge for stability, then cut a hole the size of the pupil in each and added the novelty eyelash strips. Get felt wet and dry it stretched into a new shape, it will retain the newįorm. The first set from Halloween 1994 was white felt formed around two eggs, since when you "glasses" form that hooked on with a small line of elastic around my head. On for eyelashes, drew in a black pupil, and attached them to a wire Need to gather up the slack & tie it tightly. I had to use two eggs, one for each eye, since you Methods until the netting formed to the shape of the egg (boiling & Of tulle netting by tying the netting around an egg & using various heat I've done two sets of eyes.if you look at the picture with Jack Skellington standing next to me from Halloween 1997, you'll see that my reprise of Sally had different eyes.
Piece of elastic to go around like a headband and attached the ends of the I used my sewing machine to stitch down the partline, then used a I made my own wig out of just the right rust-orange color of yarn & lots of
Even though I have a personal moratorium on repeating costumes (you'll notice that even though she has made repeat appearances, T'Leo has a different outfit each time!), when I was in England in 1997, I had another opinion in the picture limiting our costume choices to only "Halloweeny" costumes, so even though Sally was repeated, at least the combination costume of Jack and Sally was new.
Sally nightmare before christmas costume movie#
When the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas was released in 1993, I immediately wanted to make a Sally costume, but since the movie was released only a couple weeks before Halloween, I wouldn't have had the chance to do it justice, so I waited until the following year, when the added bonus of the video being released gave me the opportunity to freeze-frame whatever I needed to get accurate details. Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas
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