dryad

How to make your own floral garlandI love making floral headpieces myself, they're useful for your dryad, fairy or nymph dress, and a common element for your masquerade ball or performing garment, not to say also a key element for a wedding or flowergirl dress, thus   surfing the net to polish my technique I found some tutorials you might find worth. Making them is inexpensive and you can unleash your imagination choosing a palette of colors and designing  them to fit the seasons or the color of your garments. Also you  can make smaller versions for a ponytail and add some ribbon steamers and other ornaments to make it stand out.

Of course we are living in the XXI, but  that's no reason you can be wearing actual dresses with a fairy, cyber or gothic edge that sill keeps a magic that distinguish the most daring ones that decide not to . Casual, comfortable and still fantasy oriented,  Alienskin is a british store with a very interesting collection  from which I highlight the hooded coats and long leafy skirts that you can order in your custom size/colours showing that mythic creatures can also adapt to urban backgrounds.

Hairlooms features a lovely collection of headpieces and garlands that will suit perfectly not only a wedding dress but any nymph, dryad or fairy garment.  Full, detailed and rich in colours, it really shows the finery of the materials (with flowers, ribbons, leaves, branches, butterfly wings  and even feathers). Having seen these in person I can tell you we're talking about crowns of the highest quality that will add tha very final and special touch to your garment.

Isn't it an amazing corset? for fairies or dryads? Goblin Road make wearable and made to measure leather corsets to guarantee a perfect fit and they're the "must-have" for a forest nymph garment. The model shown above is called "wood elemental" and also air and fire elemental models are available on the site. I feel tempted to order thos model precisely as I love the cut and that "made of plants" look. The back of the corset is grommetted and cinches with a leather cord.

"Every time a fairy is born in a tree it becomes a dryad" Dryads and forest nymphs are one of my favourite topics overall... and they're often portrays as part tree with leaves and branches. This is a drawing I made myslef of one dryad... of course anything with leaves, green wigs, leave pendants and other extras will help, and we'll cover that in precision very soon... but today I wanted to share specifically these lovely wings I found and that would fit so well your forest nymph design.

Morgan Hearsey is a leather mask artist sculptor based in USA. The masks are hand-dyed, painted with non toxic acrylic leather paints, crafted and all come numbered, dated and signed by the artist. They also come with care instructions, ties, ribbons, beads and other embellishments... it really shows that she puts great care to make a customer happy! I am the proud owner of one of her masks (custom artic blue model in white with silver accents) which I often use in my shows, and certainly go back to her site often to see the increasing number of beautiful models. Gothic, dark, colourful, fairy or fantasy... a wealth of mood and colours to choose wether you want to become a Demon Queen, a raven, a Jester, a Green Man... she has options for almost everyone! Visit MORGAN MASKS SITE