Pixie from X-Men
Debuted: Halloween 2012. Worn also at Anime Boston 2013.
Awards: Best In Show - The Art Institute of Austin’s Annual Halloween Costume Contest
Skit: N/A
Pixie is the alias of Welch-native Megan Gwynn, who is fairly new to the X-Men team. She has dragonfly-like wings, can fly, teleport to a degree, and uses pixie dust which can cause her enemies to hallucinate and see their wildest nightmare come to life (although Pixie cannot see what they are seeing while under her pixie dust spell).
How I Made It
I’ve wanted to cosplay an X-Men character for some time, but I felt that both Storm and Jean Grey had been overdone. Then I saw Pixie’s design and knew she was the one I was destined to make! I bought a classic black unitard and used four-way stretch yellow to create the yellow leotard from scratch. Using yellow, red, and black craft foam I created the boot covers, arm armor, and trademark X-Men symbols. The wings were purchased from Fancy Fairy and custom colored pearl pink with black veins. Wig and headband were purchased from eBay.
I wore this for Halloween and ended up getting my coworkers into the mix as well. We all chose female X-Men and I helped to craft aspects of their costumes (gloves for X-23, shirt for Shadow Cat, glove extensions and cape for Storm) and we ended up entering the annual Halloween Costume Contest at work. When we won, we were so very, very excited and we all had a great time as the X-Men team!
Images taken by Bella
Reference image is fanart from Dre0083 on DeviantART.
