Saturday, September 5, 2009

Adult Tinkerbell Costumes: Fairy Fun for Everyone

By Peter Jacobs

People love dressing up as fairies for Halloween and other costume parties, including adults. The Fairy is human yet magical, small yet powerful, innocent yet sexy, and good-natured yet mischievous - and sometimes even ill-tempered. Fairies symbolize simplicity and freedom, nature and magic. Wearing a fairy costumes allows people to be cheerful, sexy, and mischievous, which is a wonderfully fun combination at parties. It should come as no surprise then, that fairy costumes are among the most popular purchased for Halloween.

Tinkerbell is the most well-known and famous of fairies. Tinkerbell from the Disney movies and books of Peter Pan have set the standard for Tinkerbell's appearance. She wore a green leafy dress and was short with long blond hair. There are other versions of Tinkerbell in the media as well. Tinkerbell was played by Julia Roberts in the live-actions sequel to Peter Pan. In the movie Hook, Tinkerbell was tall with short red hair and work a costume that was a shirt and shorts made of light brown leather. Anyone these days, regardless of weight, height, skin or hair color can be recognized easily when wearing an adult Tinkerbell costume.

These two movie costumes can also be used to represent the two aspects of Tinkerbell. The sweet, sexy, and helpful Disney Tinkerbell wears the green dress, while the energetic, mischievous, and at times jealous Julia Roberts Tinkerbell wears the brown shirt and shorts.

If you want to portray the jealous and mischievous fairy, choose an adult Tinkerbell costume that uses matte fabrics in dark colors. While the different shades of brown that were used in the Hook version of Tinkerbell is a great place to start, experimenting with shades of purple, red, dark green, blue, and black could produce great results. Choose fabrics that will absorb the light rather than reflecting it, like suede or velvet. Wear boots over dark or striped tights and use dark makeup. When looking for wings, choose butterfly shaped wings with color rather that the more traditional dragonfly wings that are usually pale. Don't forget to play pranks on the other party goers!

If you want to portray the helpful, sweet, and sexy Tinkerbell, choose an adult Tinkerbell costume that incorporates a green leafy dress. You can choose any shade of green from light chartreuse and lime, to the darker shades of emerald and forest green. Don't be afraid to mix shades of green. Choose fabrics that are shiny like satin, silk, or polyester. Trim the green dress with sequins, rhinestones, or glitter to give a shimmering effect. You can choose to go barefoot or wear a simple pair of ballet slippers in green or white.

If you want to try the sexy adult Tinkerbell costume, start with the sweet and helpful Disney adult Tinkerbell costume and tweak it in just the right places. Instead of a full, knee-length skirt with scalloped edges, aim for a figure-hugging mid-thigh length skirt comprised of separate, overlapping green "leaf" pieces that will occasional separate to flash your legs as you walk. Choose a sleeveless (or maybe even strapless) bodice with a low neckline. Finish the costume with white, silver, or green high heels.

Tinkerbell was known to use pixie dust that allowed people to fly if she sprinkled it on them. Therefore, if you are planning on wearing an adult Tinkerbell costume, you have to have some pixie dust. You can use a small bag that's filled with glitter or a wand with gold and silver metallic streamers flowing from the end. Either one will work well. You can purchase either one at a party supply store.

Tinkerbell represents so many different things, so many different aspects of personality, that anyone can have a fun time playing Tinkerbell at a party. Costumes are available for any of her moods or images. Careful choices in the details of a costume can change the image from sweet to sexy to mischievous.

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