I opted for a lace front wig because I felt it called for it with her loose bang pieces flopping all over the place. The bodice holds up via sticky bra cups, with loose pieces and the facial oil kept in place with Prosaid adhesive. Thankfully, silicone has quite a bit of flexibility to it so it can move freely and hold about the same stretch limitations as the fabric, so I didn't have to install something unsightly like zippers. With Jeff's help we settled on silicone caulking mixed with acrylic paint and corn syrup to force it to bond to the fabric. The trick to this costume is getting it to look like some kind of slim just oozed up her form, but I didn't want to use latex because it's obscenely expensive, and wouldn't necessarily give me the raised textures I was looking for. I patterned and sewed the bodysuit from scratch, then fit it over a duct tape body double of my torso so not to ruin my mannequin working on it. I scouted the metallic spandex for this outfit nearly half a year in advance while in NYC fashion district, knowing I'd eventually want to make The Unknown, but not yet having the details of how I'd go about her goopy outfit.
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