Leg Avenue Golden Goddess

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Gold face paint. This gold face and body paint went on beautifully and was impactful and inexpensive. Gold leaves ribbon. This thing had 20 yards worth – PLENTY to wrap around our waists, heads, legs, or anywhere else.

And that’s it for our family Greek mythology costume! It was a blast putting it together, and it only took a few short hours to pull together 7 beautiful costumes that made a big family Halloween costume impact. I hope this inspires you in creating some costumes of your own! Why be an ordinary woman when you can be a goddess? If classical mythology has always intrigued you, women's goddess costumes are an exciting choice for any costumed event. Before you make your decision on the costume alone, you may want to decide on what you want your vibe to be for the night? Are you feeling fierce and powerful? Well, then Athena is a great choice! Feeling a little mysterious and magical? If that's the case, you may want to choose from Egyptian mythology and explore goddess Isis costumes! Since Hephaestus is the mythological god of smithing and building, we thought it would be perfect for our 3rd kiddo, who is our biggest builder by a mile! He loves anything with cardboard and tape, so this was right up his alley. In addition to all that, we’re planning to have him try using some beard oil and then putting gold glitter in his beard! I’ll let you know how that goes.I’ve mentioned before that we love we love matching family Halloween costumes, but that I was sure that last year would be the final time my kids would be on board. Well, lo and behold, this year they came up with a matching theme for a family Greek mythology costume. Delivery is on a selected date, you can choose a delivery day of your choice, up to 10 days in advance (Excluding next day delivery. Postcode restrictions apply) Writing posts like this is a bit fun, and also, challenging. What do we visually consider a representation of a “goddess”? What cultures do we choose from and why?

In this blog post, I’ve chosen to go with the Greco-Roman visual representation of a goddess. Are these costumes the only visual representation of a goddess? Absolutely not. But these design motifs and visuals don’t cross into the territory of cultural appropriation. Look at the measurement, not the size label when shopping for your costume. What is a 5X for one brand is another brand’s 2X!We used a few basic supplies for all the DIY Greek mythology costumes. They were inexpensive and impactful! Fortunately, the Greek mythology costumes theme my kids chose lent itself perfectly to simple but beautiful and impactful matching family Halloween costumes. There’s something about all being in the same color and style that really ups the wow factor, even if the costumes themselves aren’t super elaborate. I LOVE how our family Greek mythology costume turned out and am sharing all the details below! If you believe the tales, Venus rose from the foam of the Mediterranean Sea. As she took on her fair form, she became the ideal of beauty and love, taking on all the attributes of the most beautiful woman imaginable. Marrying the famously ugly and crippled god of the forge, Vulcan, she was one of the chief goddesses of the Roman and Hellenic pantheons. Despite literally rising from nothing, she came into her own and achieved such fame that she is known even to today. Now that is an influencer! Product Details