This year my son wanted to be Deuce Gorgon from Monster High and so I looked at the Deuce doll that we had and noted what I needed to get together to make a costume for him. It's quite an easy ensemble, this was my checklist for Deuce (some items we already had too).
- Red Tank (or a red tee and cut off the sleeves)
This was hard to find on the internet and so luckily we had the doll and so I took a hi res picture of the tee and then recolored the red area. You can print on iron-on/T-shrit transfer paper and iron on the tank.
- Striped Tee
I was really lucky to have found a close enough pattern but it had this hideous embroidered cartoon **that you cannot remove even with patience and a thread cutter** and so I just cut it out and patched it up with the sleeves that were cut off. Then you can just cut the middle of the tee and create the sleeveless jacket. I also found the perfect image that I printed on T-shirt transfer paper so that I could iron on the patch. Here's the image.
- Black Jeans
We had black jeans already and so I took a washable white fabric pencil then thought to use a Crayola white crayon and drew the little diamonds all over. The crayon is washable (hopefully) so I hope it will wash off!
- Black Glove
We found a cheap pair at a party store, they were perfect.
- Belt
We had a metal buckle belt already and so I just printed the cassette image that I created and then laminated and used foam tape to attach to the buckle.
- Black cuff piece (piece of felt)
I just cut a piece of felt and then ironed on another skull on it.
- Checkered Shoes
Didn't have these so he'll just wear his black sneakers he has.
- Snake Headpiece
This was the most daunting part of the costume to do but I was excited to create it.
First I needed a head model, so I took a cap of his and stuffed it with clothes, then placed it on a stand and saran wrapped all over it.
Then I got modeling clay, the type where it will air dry light. So I first worked on the
After the snakes were done and left to dry (I forgot to mention that when you're doing the snakes, use another wire to make scores onto one side of the snake to create a scales look, do the same with headpiece too--I had used this iron grill thingy), I took a big ball of modeling clay and flattened it into a round piece and then put it over the head model and molded around the head then a placed each snake into place and added a bit more clay to help support some snakes but be sure to let your snakes dry before doing this since modeling clay is quite sticky.
Then let it dry completely for about 2-3 days, I took it off the head model on day 2 so that the inside could dry. I sponge painted the headpiece with yellow and light green acrylic paints. Then I use Mod Podge Matte all over and topped with Mod Podge Gloss. The tongues are also made of red modeling clay, just do strips and let dry then cut off that triangular trip and glue into mouth. The eyes are gold beads that I glued into the sockets.
- Scales
I printed a bunch of these on tattoo paper.
- Chain necklace and belt addition + Sunglasses
I found some plastic chains and red sunglasses at the 60 baht shop Daiso and they were perfect for this.
So I hope you will be able to create your own Deuce and hope that I didn't miss anything!! Happy Crafting!
