Padme Amidala Padme's Picnic Dress v2.0

Tenyon Your dress is exquisite--and I agree, your hair is just lovely! Yeah! Another Picnic groupee!

~Ferd

 

Yes - Tenyon - your hair looks just right! Very nice job!

I'd love to post your pic on my site if that's ok!

Maggie

 

Of course you may Maggie!

I will be attending the FACTS con in a week. I wil see if I can take a couple of good pictures of my hair in progress, cause I don't have any pictures of it now. So next week I'll post a tutorial oke?

@Ann: LOL...I was just kidding But I checked everything, and I can come! So I will see you in April!

Tenyon, Picnic groupie

 

Where did everyone get their bun covers and fake hair? Mine's not long enough as it barely touches my sholder. I'm really stuck on this aspect. I also posted some more pictures to my site Dajuan's site.

 

Check out the padawan's guide for information on the bun covers. I got mine from Lady McSnood (I think Padawan's guide has the URL). I know others here have ordered them from Lady McSnood and have been happy with them. They are a dead on match to the real thing.

I also have shorter hair, so I got a 3/4 wig of wavy dark ash blonde hair to match my own. This wasn't the brand, but it's a similar idea. Your own hair shows in the front, and this blends in in the back. You just have to curl your own hair before putting the wig on.

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/wowwigs/saphire.html

I filled the bun covers with hair that I took off of those pony tail clips sold at the beauty supplies

Hope that helps,

Kay Dee

 

Totally!! I bought the soonds from Lady Snood. Now I just have to find the wig. Hopefully it is not too terribly expensive. This dress is putting me in the poor house.

 

Isn't Lady MacSnood wonderful? I've had my snoods from her since before CII.

All I did was buy two curly hair scrunchies and a clip of long curly hair from Sally's that matches my own. (I think all three items are by Revlon.) I put one scrunchie in each snood and tied them closed. Then, any time I'm doing Padme, I curl my real hair, put the clip near the base of my neck, pile all my real hair on top to cover the clip and approximate the style, ratting and pinning as necessary. Then, the last step is to attach the bun covers (with the scrunchies already inside) using bobby pins.

It took me a lot of practice, but everything matches so well that I've fooled a lot of people into thinking it's all my hair.

Regards,
M.

 

Hi Tenyon - thanks - I'll post your pics!

If you can write up a tutorial on the hair, that would be a great thing to have!

Maggie

 

Obi-Dawn told me she used doll wigs in her bun covers, which I thought was a terrific idea! You can get them at Michaels.

As for bun covers, I bought mine from Lady McSnood and they are very nice.

Ferd found a more affordable alternative though. She has a knitter who will do them 2 for $6 plus $2 for S&H. I have to get her contact info from Ferd to put on my site. Ferd - does she have a site you could post here?

Anyway, she'll do them with gold thread custom. They aren't 100% accurate, I don't think, but pretty close..

Here are the pics Ferd sent me of her bun cover and the gold thread..

http://www.padawansguide.com/padme/flowered/snood2.jpg

http://www.padawansguide.com/padme/flowered/snood2_thread.jpg

(cut and paste)

Maggie

 

That seems like a good idea Mirax. How long is you hair, and what color is it, have highlights? I wonder if that would work for me. Mine's pretty short and highlighted. Might be hard to color match. Before I had it done I could match the dark perfectly.

Great idea thanks!!

 

Hey, there were 1138 replies in this thread! This is the 1139th.

Caitlin

 

1138!

Love that movie....

 

Jedi_Dajuan - My hair is fairly long, below my shoulders. I've been growing it out since a year before Ep. I. But, I've actually found it's getting almost too long to do the hairdo without looking overly full. Since I do use that hair clip for the back length, I'm seriously contemplating a haircut.

The picture on the bottom left of this page shows the back of my hair. And here's what the front looks like (after an hour in Atlanta humidity. )

As far as highlights, I don't really have any, but maybe you could add a few locks of crepe hair from Sally's in the highlight color to a premade clip?

Regards,
M.

 

That's great ObiAnne!

 

Cool!

Can you post pics please?

~spacelady~

 

I like the idea of scarlet in the roses.
This costume would look beautiful in a lot of different color schemes....

We all look forward to seeing your dress, version 2, ObiAnne.

 

GO Anne! You can do it! You're almost there!

 

Howdy-- fooling around and practicing my html skills and put this together that I thought *might* help someone who wants to make a easy corset to this costume.
Click Me

~Ferd

 

FERD! I lovers it! You are so talented. That's a great alternative for anyone not wanting to slave away over embroidering...!

 

Yes thank you Ferd! I may now actually attempt this dress!