How To Make Your Own Avatar Costumes
James Cameron’s movie, Avatar, won three Oscar awards and a Golden Glob. Now you can become part of the phenomenon and have some fun this Halloween in your very own avatar costumes. Here are some tips to help you make it real.
If you have decided that you want to be an Avatar, you have two different ways to go with it. If you want to be a native of Pandora, a Na’vi, you have certain things you will need to do. If you want to go as an Avatar, such as Jake Sully you have other things you will need to do to create your look.
If you are dressing as a Na’vi, will will want to first put on your bodysuit so that you do not ruin it when you try to pull it on later. Braid your hair, or put on your braided hair wig. Put in your cat-eye contact lenses. Then apply blue body paint as a base for your makeup all over your face, neck and down to where the body suit will start to cover. Make sure you remember to paint your ears. When it is dry, you can put the bodysuit back over onto your shoulders. Using a brush, paint black stripes from your crown toward your brows, do the same from the side of your cheeks toward your nose, stopping mid-cheek. Now apply white dots in between the stripes and under the eyes. Apply a pinkish blush for women, a bronze for men, on the cheeks. Then put paper ears onto bobby pins and stick into your hair above your ears. Also make certain to include feathers in your hair.
The Na’vi are not shy about nudity, so it takes someone with a good sense of their body to carry off the role of a Na’vi. Other than the apron which they wear over their groin, the Na’vi are essentially naked, except for a few adornments like beaded bracelets or arm gauntlets.
Jake Sully’s costume is fairly easy to make with a few minor changes to everyday clothing. Put on a plain blue shirt, and top it with a field jacket and khaki pants and black shoes or boots. Some costume shops sell this costume with a mask – you can choose to wear it or to paint your face.
avatar costumes are popular. You can find them at any good costume shop, and may include different elements depending on where you get them. Many include a mask for Jake, however, none are offered for Neytiri. Wigs are a necessity for either.
If you have children who are trick or treating or going to an event, even they can get into the fun of dressing up as their favorite character from the movie. If you are like some parents and dislike the idea of having your child wearing a mask (which restricts visibility) consider using the pointers above on how to paint your face to appear like the Na’vi.
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