Five Minute Unikitty Costume

No matter how old you get, there’s just something fun about dressing up.  So, when my friend Vanessa threw a {totally amazing} LEGO Movie themed 7th birthday party for her son, even the adults decided to play along and wear costumes.  Here’s how I put together a quick and super-easy DIY Unikitty costume that took about five minutes and cost me absolutely nothing.

I didn’t realize until very close to the party that most of my friends were planning on dressing up.  Originally, I was just going to wear the LEGO shirt I made for Little Crafter’s Ultimate LEGO birthday party two years ago.  But once I heard about the various costumes they were putting together, I couldn’t help but play along.  I pulled up a photo of Unikitty online to see what I would need.

Obviously, there are only so many things a girl can do to make herself look like a combination unicorn and cat made from LEGO bricks, so I decided to focus on the must-haves.

– pink ears
– a blue unicorn horn
– a blue tail
– major eyelashes
– a pink nose and rosy pink cheeks

Now.  To make it happen.  I started with the all important ears and horn combination.  Obviously, the way to go for this was a headband.  Here’s how I did it.

The Ears/Horn:
– headband {I happened to have a pink sparkly one, but anything will do in a pinch}
– pink and blue or white felt
– scissors
– hot glue and glue gun
– Elmer’s Glitter Glue, blue

I cut an ear shape from pink felt, then used it as a pattern to cut one more.  I wrapped each one around the headband and hot glued it in place.  Then, I rolled a piece of white felt into a cone shape.  I trimmed around the bottom leaving a large tab in the front.  I placed it on the headband and folded the tab under the headband, then glued it to the back of the horn.  Then, I finished by adding Elmer’s blue glitter glue.  If you happen to have light blue felt on hand, it would be even better to use that {and of course, still glitter it too}.  I, alas, did not, so I went with white and depended on the glitter glue to make it look the right color.

I figured that after the horn and ears, the most important thing to do was make my face sort of resemble UniKitty…otherwise I would just look like a weirdo randomly pretending to be a unicorn {as Erin so helpfully pointed out when I modeled them for her in the car}.

The Makeup:
– shimmery white eye shadow
– black eye liner
– black mascara
– eyelash curler
– hot pink lipstick {I love Bombshell by CoverGirl}
– pink blush
– CoverGirl TruMagic Luminizer

As always, I started by applying my Olay moisturizer with sunscreen and my foundation.  Then, I tackled my eyes first.  I gave the lids all the way up to the brow line a coat of shimmery white eye shadow.  Unikitty has some seriously big eyes, and I knew this would make my eyes look bigger and brighter.  Next, I took black eyeliner and not only lined the lids, but gave myself three giant faux-lashes at the outer corner of each eye.  Then it was time for some serious mascara.  I curled my lashes first, then applied several coats of black mascara to both my top and bottom lashes.  For the cheeks, I used my finger in some dark pink blush to create large circles.  I finished off by applying hot pink lipstick to my lips and using a cotton swab to color the end of my nose with the same lipstick.

The Tail:

– light blue yarn
– scissors
– a book
– belt

I didn’t realize until I sat down to write this post that I never actually got a good pic of my “tail.”  Blogger fail!  But I’ll tell you how I created it!  All I did was wrap yarn around a book…well, actually I think it was the case of a Wii game, about 50 times.  I cut the yarn at the bottom, which gave me a handful of strings that were all the same length, then tied a short piece of yarn around the middle of the strings.  Voilá, a tail!  To wear it, I simply tied it to a belt.  I happened to have a hot pink glittery belt from NY&Co…doesn’t everyone own one?  If you don’t have pink, though, any color would work.

All that was left was to find some pink clothes to wear.  I happened to have a tank top and a pink skirt from Old Navy in my closet.  I almost wore my pink pajama pants, which would have been comfier, but I decided at the last minute that it might just look like I was too lazy to get out of my pj’s all the way.  Which would have been entirely true.

Pink tights would have made things even more fun, as would a blue sock and a yellow sock, but alas, I didn’t have any of those things and didn’t have time before the party to get them.  I wore my pink Jelly Beans jellies and a pair of black leggings.  Mostly, I put the leggings on because it was a kids’ party and I wanted to {a} be able to sit around on the floor and play with the kids and {2} be sure I was never inappropriate from a small person’s vantage point.

Here you can see that I was not alone with my costume fun!  How many LEGO movie characters can you find?

There’s President Business, two Wild Styles {one grownup and one not}, two Unikittys, two Emmets, Batman, Good Cop, Ma Cop, Vitruvius, the Crazy Cat Lady, Robin, and some Tako Tuesday folks.  Now that’s what I call a par-tay!

Who would you be?