How To Make A Mermaid Costume For Only $10 - Steemit

First rule to making a costume on the cheap: Don’t buy a stupid wig like I did.

Okay, so the wig was only $5.71USD. Which is pretty dang good for a wig.

But honestly, my costume would have been less than $10 total if I hadn’t gotten the wig.

So now I feel like I lost cheap costume bragging rights.

😆

In my overspending defense, there WAS a $500, $300 and $200 cash prize for 1, 2 and 3rd place costumes.

And my thought process was something like “who the heck travels with mermaid costumes in their suitcase? I may not have a ton of competition. Go for it.”

So here are some cheap ways to make stuff (especially in Bali):

🐚Buy a kid's fake pearl bracelet for .20. Make sure employees look at you strangely for shopping in a kid's store.
🐚Find a crap ton of seashells. Just go to the beach, find shells for 2 hours, then repeat.
🐚If you’re in the US, I bet you kind find everything at Goodwill. In Bali, I just drove around the “local” areas of town and popped in a bunch of different stores. I got a mermaid bra and a matching skirt for $4.28 total. Seriously. That’s only $2.14 each.
🐚Talk your friend into being in charge of buying the glue gun
🐚Get a roll of hemp for about .60 cents and then make a crap ton of jewelry with it.
🐚Get a green pancho for about $1 then draw mermaid scales all over with permanent market
🐚Just get a ton of glitter and put it everywhere. Glitter solves all crafting problems.
🐚Get a cheap chap headband for $1 then glue stuff all over it and turn it into a mermaid crown:

🐚Get costume jewelry rings or kids for .25 cents each, break off the top part, and then glue shells to the base:

🐚Cut up your costume jewelry package because it’s shiny and gold and you can borrow eyelash glue and then stick it in a cool pattern on your face:

See? Weird gold stuff. And a really bad wig job!

Crafting is really relaxing and fun. Unless there’s a glue gun involved. In which case, you’ll get burned. Literally. I burned myself 6 times haha.

Adult coloring books are a much safer option if you’re looking to relax via some sort of creative outlet haha.

Despite the burns, it was fun. And cheap.

I ran out of seashells while doing this one, so I kinda just did a seashell outline instead of the full thing:

A mermaidy ring I got for my friend but I think she lowkey hated it. It looked mermaid-fin colored though!

And it was only .20!

Anddd last but not least, the drift wood tile necklace that Nari said was "stupid." 😆

She cracks me up.

^^ It's the stupid blue one on the bottom right.

P.S. For all you pearl trolls, I know the pearls fell off. I fixed it! lol