Your Fantasy Costume

The pic above is a shot of a movie from the eighties called Date with an Angel It really was NOT such a good movie but that kind of romantic and entertaining comedies, BUT the angel wings the main character (gorgeous Emmanuelle Beart) had on the movie always stayed in my mind as what I’d love to wear on stage!! Oh yes, such lovely wings with a very obvious animatronic mechanism…! and thus and we´ll cover soon also a post about flapping mechanisms and also some tutorials, harnesses and other gadgets to move your wings live. Of course in black because I have a fascination for ravens, so I often keep some time looking for feather wings here and there… and in our previously post we talked precisely abound “feathers” for those ones lucky to be good at crafts. If you’re in a hurry to get a pair of wings, and don’t want to throw away your money in a pair of cheap halloween wings glued over weak carton that will undo themselves like a dandelion in the wind… If you’re going for the cheap options, these are not bad looking, though you’ll need to reinforce them to the point to be almost “stony” with generous amounts of glue.

Eproductsales shop is a company that makes hand-made angel wings with a nice range of designs from small to quite large ones. They are a bit expensive regarding the ratio size/prize but on the other hand seems to be finished with delicacy and made to last. They can take several weeks to make the wings but on the other hand It’s lovely to be able to have a well-made handcrafted and not massively produced set and definitely looks elegant and fine. You can though pick from some “ready to ship” models as well. One of my best friends have purchased me a pair of Jupiter wings in black and she got from the lovely Helene wings (both are medium size) that we´ll be using in upcoming concerts for sure and having fun with them… so I’m looking forward to see them close. Both models are shown before. The large model (sigh) above looks really lovely and I would not mind to grab a pair too! am I not greedy?

But yes… I still dream of something big, remarkable, and hopefully animated with a mechanism… and we’ll post about that soon.

So far we go on with this tutorial I found in Instructables website:

In this step-by-step tutorial this guy explains in a quite clever way how he made his with a rather striking result as you can see above. It looks so easy, though I’m aware it might be not LOL! but might give a try soon!

Yes, they are creepy….

Sclera lenses are fx contact lenses that cover most of the eye surface. Yes, you’ve seen them many times in movies!!! From the full blackout (that will make you look as a feeric creature or alien) to the complete white that will make you look blind (and in this particular case, you cannot see through them either), but even if some can limit your sight, you’ll see perfectly through most of the models.

Disclaimer: In USA you’ll need a prescription to purchase them if you don’t have sight problems… I’m spanish and here you can buy them freely but unfortunately the models around here are much more restricted in number and variation. In any case you have to be aware that you DO HAVE to take care of your eyes purchasing a high quality lense, made of a material highly oxygen permeable. This is very important because your eye needs to breath in order not to cause an irreversible injury. You are supposed NOT TO wear them over your own contact lenses (piggybacking) so if you need them powered the handicap is that  they’re only made up to some gradation. If for that reason and at your own risk you decide to wear it over your own contact lenses, please DO NOT DO it for long. I’ve been told that they’re difficult to insert so prepare yourself for some practise…but isn’t it worth the effort?
On the other hands quite expensive (sighs!) and will cost you around 280-300$ and up. Take into account that they’re not meant to be used for long periods. We all know the less expensive fx lenses but they also lasts much less. If you take proper care of your sclera lenses they can last up to one year.

Sigh …. In my wish list I’d love to grave a model of the “whiteout sclera” (some of my “raven children” designs in my drawings have precisely this kind of pattern)

For european dwellers you can visit for example

fashion Contact lenses (based in UK)

and this other one based in Netherlands which have one of the largest catalog  I have found: Fantasy city. They also have some fx make up too.

For an IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION OF MODELS (not only of scleral lenses but also of all kinds of fancy and fx lenses) don’t miss this other  page (US based) called COSPLAY LAB though you will need prescription for these. Simply amazing! My favourites are the “whiteout sclera”, the “corvinus”, “lucian” sclera and from the non sclera models”zombified”, “lilith” and “succubus” hmm, no I wouldn’t mind to grab  (or gifted) any of those…!

“Inmortal eyes” collection Fx lenses at COSPLAY LAB