Oh my God, it's like I have a blog or something...
So now that we're a little past halfway through July, life has calmed down... It's calmed a bit too much down... But I'll live. I really should appreciate the quiet moments.
But really, there is a balance between having a lot of work that needs to get done and not enough time to do it and blog about it and having absolutely nothing to do and right now I'm in the latter camp which means all the old projects I keep wanting to do start looking realistic. (I'm looking at you, mermaid tail.)
Oh yeah, there's a point to this post.
So THIS IS NOT in honor of SDCC because my Facebook feed is practically nothing but posts of people who are there, posts from people who are hanging out outside of there, post from people who wish they were there and posts from people who wish they were but are pretending like they don't want to be to save face. It just so happened that since it's summer, I've been growing my collection of sunglasses. And also because it's summer, I've been headed to the beach more. Also I happen to have a blonde friend who really likes Black Canary and I happen to be a brunette who likes Huntress and we went to the beach on friday because she's back in town and this idea came to me a few days before and I also enjoy Disneybound so sometimes I like to incorporate other pop-culture references into my wardrobe and this sentence is becoming a run on so I'm just going to get the point...
DIY Pop Culture/Nerd/Comic Book (Huntress) Sunglasses!
more appropriately called "how I DIY'ed a pair of sunglasses in homage to the coolest asskicker in Gotham.)
First thing is first, I wanted sunglasses to invoke Huntress' signature mask without being super obvious because if I was a superhero I'd totally do the same thing. I doodled out a few versions of what I thought it might look like but they all looked painfully weird and 80's. Also I can't draw sunglasses very well.
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| The mask in question. If you didn't know. |
Finally I settled on cat-eye glasses because it invoked just enough of the pointy mask look without me having to break out the epoxy or resin.
If I had just found a stupid pair of purple cat-eyes, then I wouldn't have made a blog post about this but nooooo, I couldn't find cute purple cat-eye sunglasses that were qualified for Amazon Prime. SO:
Step 1:
Tape off the areas you don't want colored purple. Make sure to get both sides. Take lots of selfies.
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| And only post one. I've got class, y'know? |
Step 2:
Put on gloves and spray paint your sunglasses. Remember to actually listen to the instructions and hold the can about a foot away from your sunglasses or you'll get this weird bumpy texture from the bubbles. I clearly didn't listen.
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| Mini bottles of spray paint are my salvation. |
Step 3:
Go to Joannes or something while your sunglasses dry. Admire your work when you come back
I could have ended it all there and just had my purple Huntress-inspired sunglasses but I figured, in for a penny, in for a pound so I continued.
Step 4:
Search online or through your copies of comics to find a good quote. One thing I like about Huntress is that she's very blunt. (and violent) Break out a your acrylic paint set you never use because you suck at painting, and your tiniest paint brush. (A lip makeup brush is just as small and or you can use a toothpick if you're clever.) Practice your lettering on a paper plate or something a few times before you apply your quote to the inside of your sunglasses.
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| "Gotham needs buttkickers..." |
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| "...Not shining knights." |
my hands shake so this step was fairly hard but I got it eventually. Overall it's not my best work but I'll get better with practice... if I ever try a project like this again.
I mean, I got what I wanted, which was a pair of purple cats-eye sunglasses. They just now have a quote hipstered away so that I can feel like this was worth the DIY.
For those of you interested in messing with your own sunglasses, here's the buzzfeed article with all the ridiculous ways you can fiddle with them this summer:
Happy summer, Bitches.
