How to Dress Up Like Medusa For Halloween

Medusa is known for the snakes that took the place of her hair. Dressing up like Medusa for Halloween can be a challenge, but you have a variety of options to create costumes that will freak out people at your Halloween party and scare people with a phobia of snakes from a mile away.

Paper mache is one easy way to make a costume like Medusa. Blow up a balloon to be the base of the helmet and tie long balloons to resemble the snakes. Make your paper mache paste and apply it over the top half of the balloons. Let it dry thoroughly and then paint the helmet to look like snakes coming out of a head. Make sure that you attach a ribbon or something else to the helmet to ensure that it stays on your head while you enjoy the evening. Attaching googly eyes to the ends of the snakes can give them a level of dimension that is hard to obtain any other way. These eyes are easily found in any crafts store and can be glued on with regular tacky glue or with a hot glue gun in a few seconds.

If you are not one for paper mache but enjoy sewing, you may wish to consider using some old fabric scraps to make a variety of snakes. After you have a sufficient number of snakes complete you can attach the snakes to a hat to wear. If you want to give the snakes some liveliness you can thread pipe cleaners through the snakes and mold them to make them look like they are moving. If pipe cleaners are not available you can stuff the snakes with stuffing, paper towels, or remnants of fabric that you are unable to use to get a similar look. Make sure that you pack in the stuff or other material tightly to get the snakes to hold their shapes when you are enjoying your Halloween evening.

If you're not super crafty but absolutely want to dress up like Medusa, you might want to consider trying an easier method. For this method you will need a wig of dreadlocks, googly eyes, glue, and brown pipe cleaners. Wrap the pipe cleaners around the dreadlocks and bend them to make them look like snakes. Glue on googly eyes to the ends of the dreadlocks to make them look like heads of snakes.

Everyone is fascinated with mythology, why not play that to your advantage this Halloween, get yourself a Medusa costume. No matter what size you need there is an adult Medusa costume out there for you.

Make Your Own Medusa Costume

We only have few days before the Halloween season. You better think of a dashing outfit now that would make people want to be YOU in this event. One of the hardest characters or costume to dress this Halloween is the serpent-lady Medusa but here are some ways on how to make your own eye catching Medusa costume for this holiday.

Checklist:

1. Make-up

2. Serpent Hair

3. Dress

4. Shoes

5. Other Accessories

Make-Up

There is no need to buy face paint for your make-up. Your usual make-up kit would do as long as you have those green, gray and black colors. It would take time for you to master the Medusa look but practice will always make it perfect.

Serpent Hair

This is the most important part of the character. You could actually don any gown as long as your hair has snakes. It is would be hard to look for the hissing snake headdress even in Halloween costume stores. Therefore, the best medusa hair is the home made stuff. You could create a hair out of paper mache. Be patient and creative. Creating a Medusa Headdress will just take a few research and practice.

Dress

This is actually the easiest part of the whole ensemble. You could wear whatever outfit you like. There is no such thing as "I don't have a Medusa dress". You could be a Greek Medusa or a modern Medusa. You could wear tight fitting black dress or tights and look like the bad character in those cartoon hero movies.

Shoes

You could actually just match any shoes with this costume as long as they match the dress. The safest footwear though is the gladiator sandals that are currently in style. You will just have to be careful on the color combination with black as the safest-of course.

Accessories

Just be imaginative and wear those jewelries that you already have with you. There is no need to buy new set of bangles or earrings just to look like a serpent. Like I have mentioned before, it is in the hair. Accessories are just to make it more eye-catching. Even green and black ribbons will do. Wrap them around your wrist or as extensions of your gladiators. Just be creative, anyway it is Halloween.

If you don't have a Medusa costume yet? Check these Sexy Medusa Dresses or if you are more rounded in the middle, try these Plus Size Medusa Costumes.