{"id":22008,"date":"2014-06-05T06:17:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22008"},"modified":"2014-06-04T18:01:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T23:01:04","slug":"octopus-hairpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22008","title":{"rendered":"Octopus Hairpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OctopusThis blog really needs a “Squee” tag.<\/p>\n

deviantART member deeed didn’t think that her costume was sufficiently intricate to stand out at a recent Steampunk Ball, so she accessorized with a splendid wig-and-octopus<\/a> confection. The li’l octopus, complete with appropriate gear detailing, just looks so darn happy<\/em> to be perched on her head.<\/p>\n

She’s posted some work-in-progress photos and build details here<\/a>. The octopus is formed over a shell she made from a styrofoam ball built out with expanding foam. The pumpkin-colored wefts (as well as the base wig) are from Ardra<\/a> (which has got some really nice-looking, fairly inexpensive, wigs and wefts; be sure to browse around). I particularly love the photo of the octopus’ tentacles done up in curlers.<\/p>\n

This is a brilliant idea, and in addition to the obvious Cthulhu angle I could see the same general shape being easily morphed into a spider for a gothier look. Wear a simple cobweb-patterned dress (or suitcoat; I see no reason why men can’t wear big spiders on their head) and you’d have a really striking costume.<\/p>\n

I’d have trouble saving something this awesome for special occasions and wind up wearing it to the grocery store.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to Cookie)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This blog really needs a “Squee” tag. deviantART member deeed didn’t think that her costume was sufficiently intricate to stand out at a recent Steampunk Ball, so she accessorized with a splendid wig-and-octopus confection. The li’l octopus, complete with appropriate gear detailing, just looks so darn happy to be perched on her head. She’s posted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22008"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22038,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22008\/revisions\/22038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}