DIY SUN & MOON GODDESS

One thing I enjoy about Halloween is the creative costumes people design. Due to the pandemic, there’s not many places to go this year but I still had to let my creative juices out. My friend Joe and I decided to have a fun little photoshoot. So here you have it, a Sun & Moon Goddess.

While searching Pinterest I was inspired by a few galaxy costumes. Two images really stuck with me: this amazing photoshoot and Hedy Lamarr in the 1941 musical Ziegfeld Girl.

I immediately started looking online for headpieces and found this Youtube tutorial on a beautiful and creative headpiece. With a few zip ties, gold spray paint, and glitter my sun beam halo was born.

If you like the sun or moon goddess idea, here’s how I made both headpieces… (all supplies were purchased from Walmart and Hobby Lobby)

Sun Goddess Halo

I used a mix of 8″ and 11″ zip ties around a head band I had lying around. I played around with the spacing and once I was satisfied I spray painted the headpiece with Krylon 18K Gold spray paint. I let one side dry for about 20 minutes before spraying the other side. Once it was dry, I put tacky glue on the zip ties and sprinkled a mix of gold beads and gold glitter and let it dry.
Since I could not find any gilded gold flakes, I ended up taking regular foil and spray painting it with the same spray paint. My friend and I tore the pieces up and he was able to place them around my shoulder and the side of my face using glitter stay primer. I also used the glitter stay to add any type of body glitter.

Moon Goddess Halo

I had to get a little creative because the zip ties would not stay secure on the particular head band I used. So I ended up wrapping artistic wire around the headband and cutting them down into different lengths. I hot glued some beaded stars at the end of each wire and sprinkled silver glitter on the wire using tacky glue.
I purchased a few glitter foam sheets to create the stars and moon. For the moon, I used the base of a circular cup to draw the crescent moon on the back of the white foam sheet. For the stars, I free handed a star on a separate piece of paper and traced it on the back of the silver foam sheets. I ended up wrapping the artistic wire around my tripod and tapping the stars to the wire so I could have the illusion of floating stars around me for the photo.