There are a number of important accessories that make up this costume, which this post will be going over. For information on other parts of the Breathe Ever After cosplay head to the following posts:
The Shoes
A Cinderella story is never complete without the shoes, and Ever After is no exception.
To start with I found a pair of clear heeled shoes (alternative 1 and alternative 2) to use as a base, I wanted to make sure the heeled matched the originals from the movie as well as I could. Be aware when shopping, most clear heeled shoes are very tall.
I cut the back heel of the shoes off to make them slip on. I then created the pattern for the toes of the shoes by wrapping my foot in cling film and tape, and drawing on the correct shape. I then used this to make the fabric cover for the toes out of felt for stability and matte satin for the finish. I glued this directly to the toe of the shoe. I hot glued the thin silver trim to the edge of the shoe.
Rather than hand bead, I imitated the look of the original shoes by using 3D silver and navy dimension metallic paint. Then glued on so many rhinestones, when in doubt add more. The heel decoration was done by taking a small section of the peaked lace and painting it silver and then gluing it directly to the heel.
Wig and Make-Up
The wig I used was the Scyla wig in copper red from Epic Cosplay Wigs, along with wefts in matching color and some gold cord. You can check out my video tutorial of the make-up and styling for the costume. Generally you want sparkle. Lots of sparkle and minimal eye and lip makeup, for the more ‘natural’ look.
I also used this tutorial as a reference for the hair and this as a reference for the make-up.
Wings
The wings are another incredibly distinctive portion of this cosplay, I mean Leonardo Da Vinci made them for her! Though really he must have just had them lying around… Anyway, full sized wings was not practical for conventions, so I made nice cute mini ones out of wire and netting and 3D metallic silver fabric paint. The full sized ones, those were there own undertaking.
The main structure of the wings was formed out of 12 gauge steel wire. I made a template for the wings, which you can grab here. And then bent the wire to match this shape. I had wanted to try and weld or glue the sections together to make sharp points but that proved beyond my resources. The inner ‘struts’ were made with a thinner 16 gauge wire that was wrapped around the the outer wire.
The secure the wire in place I wrapped the points in thread (so it was not very visible) and then used E6000 glue to fix them in place and keep them more secure but still with some flex.
The back supports were made out of ¼ in steel rod that was bent into a ‘U’ shape, and then a larger perpendicular ‘U’ shape. The small ‘U’ was attached to the wire frame by gluing first and then stabilizing using metal 2 part epoxy clay, which was sanded and smoothed into a nicer shape. The larger ‘U’ slides into pockets that were attached to the corset interior.
The whole thing was then spray painted to make it a uniform silver. The netting was then hand stitched to the exterior frame, and interior supports. Lastly, the vertical edge was painted gold using acrylic paint.
