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<\/a>\nOne of our friends wondered if I would be willing to put on “some makeup” for a costume set… green makeup, to play Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) for an Oz-based group for the Masquerade at Westercon 64 in San Jose, July 2011. I said sure!<\/p>\n
Debbie already had her “Oz-girl” costume from a previous event, as did Mia. Kathe had her Glinda costume as well. We needed to add Elphaba, The Wizard, Dorothy and Prince Fiero, for our version of The Dating Game.<\/p>\n
The musical Wicked<\/em> used a lot of asymmetry in the costumes. \u00a0So I went to my Professor McGonnigall costume to see if it would work. \u00a0I thought that the black top was a bit too plain for this, so made the same top in a stretch lace and just put a black t-shirt under it. \u00a0This, of course, meant that not only did I need makeup on my face, but also on my hands and forearms. \u00a0I asked folks about brands of makeup that worked well. \u00a0 I opted for the Ben Nye in part because it was easy to get, and used the CL-3 Green with some CL-2 Forest Green for contours\/low-lights. \u00a0I also found a green eyeliner and a green glitter nail polish. The hat needed a bit of work, as the brim in the show has a defined shape. \u00a0I added bias tape to the edge after finally attaching the millinery wire to the edge of the brim. \u00a0And then realized that since I was wearing a wig, the hat wouldn’t stay on without a pair of really big hat pins. Contents Copyright \u00a9 2015 Christine A. Doyle One of our friends wondered if I would be willing to put on “some makeup” for a costume set… green makeup, to play Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) for an Oz-based group for the Masquerade at… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,11],"tags":[15,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
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