How to make your own burlesque pasties

With a recent revisit to carnival acts, the art of burlesque is making a *big* comeback worldwide. The tasteful and creative play of showing a lot yet exposing little was made popular in the 20s-40s by names like Gypsy Rose Lee and Sally Rand (although the sassy striptease has been around for a lot longer!) Neo and Guerilla burlesque shows are popping up everywhere (unexpectedly in the latter case!) and there's no reason you can't be a part of it. While I'm not going to be able to help you with the dance steps I can certainly show you how to quickly and cheaply make your own high quality pasties to cover your *ahem* naughty bits!

Step 1 Supplies

about 8" x 8" of craft foam (I find black looks best for the fabrics I usually choose)

scissors

fabric of your choice

tassels/notions of your choice

grommets (you can buy these in the scrapbooking area of any craft store)

grommet smasher (find 'em right by the grommets)

hammer

needle

thread

Comments

[Miscelinious]

The only thing i can say about this.... is YES. :D

[cirqueraven91]

 where the heck did you find the craft foam? I looked a Joann's and Michael's no luck... where did you buy yours? How small are the grommets which you used? I ended up getting ones that were to big and now have to go through the task of taking them back to Joann's....
-Ava
Please help, I really want to learn how to make some. Thanks!

[J@50n]

 here is a link to Joann's for the foam.

www.joann.com/joann/catalog/productdetail.jsp

[cirqueraven91]

 Thank you so much!

[J@50n]

 no prob!

[emattrose]

eyelash glue... how do you get these things off? It sounds painful.

[clamoring]

It's really not too bad. :)

[monkeyjen75]

I use double stick carpet tape. Actually , once I discovered this tape, I use if for LOADS of stuff. It's my new hot glue.

[Gonazar]

Now make a pair with a motor in side to make them spin ;P

[carpespasm]

As soon as I read that I started thinking of where you could source a motor small enough to do that.

[Gonazar]

It depends on how heavy the tassles are, if they're light enough you may be able to use something similar to a cell phone vibrator motor, which are pretty damn small. So are the ones in any mini R/C cars.

[carpespasm]

i would think that the motor being flat would be more important than it being small in general. Pager motors tend to be pretty long. Something like the ones on this page might be good:
http://www.micromo.com/servlet/com.itmr.waw.servlet.Anzeige?fremdaufruf=ja&kdid=40929&sprachid=1&htdigurl=/n112053/i404633.html

That or you might be able to hide the motors from a couple old CD players in some especially thick pasties.

[iTHROWDOWN]

haha yea this is instructables .... it has to have either L.E.D's or something that spins or a lazer LAWLZ

[Geoffrito]

either that or it has to explode. That, however, would be painful.

[clamoring]

How's this:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Firefly-Pendant/

[Naeem Iftikhar]

Good do it again if you have a time

[FixedHDD]

make a photo how to wear em!!

[kellimaier]

Wow...my husband is going to love this little surprise!. I wish I hadn't found it on Feb 15th...but hey, who needs it to be Valentines for a little fun?

[masterochicken]

I do hope you don't mind
http://www.instructables.com/group/kinky/

[clamoring]

Where has this group been all my life?

[masterochicken]

nowhere, I just made it

[cry_wolf]

I like the thumbnail picture for it. xD

[stasterisk]

Hey, what adhesive do you use for attaching?

[lolabirdsong]

I always use liquid latex. It's safest and removes with ease. You can get it from adult stores or use the stuff that comes with false eyelashes. Avoid the mustache glue variety (spirit gum)... it is just gross!

[Juklop]

Why not just go topless?

[clamoring]

Because then you take the "tease" out of striptease!

[static]

The "tease" is OK for awhile, but it all should come off at some point. IMO of course.

[Darkshot]

stripteases are for looosers i say strip...

[jongscx]

There's a certain charm and mystique to the "-tease" part... I think it's more alluring to have an almost-naked woman dancing, than a fully naked woman dancing. And , Jessica Alba in an over-sized hoodie and nothing else is always pretty hot.

[Darkshot]

shes not that hot....plus i disagree full nude is better =/ hope thats not tooo! inapropriate

[cowscankill]

full nude! (not of the same gender D:)

[nvnusman]

Okay, I think all these comments just illustrate the effectiveness of the "tease' element: "Always leave them wanting more." There's not a carnie or con"person" alive who wouldn't applaud your decision to leae the specifics in the mind of we beholders!

[jessyratfink]

Much more simple than I thought! I bet these would be very fun to make - especially if I made them geeky. :P

[stasterisk]

So, I went to a burlesque show in the basement of an MIT dorm last year - the final striptease was by a dancer who used her laptop and mouse as props, and finished to reveal tux pasties.

She could not have made herself more popular. (and she sold a bunch of tux pasties afterwards)

[jongscx]

Motorize them, so that they spin the tassels on their own... And it needs to incorporate an overly complicated yet unnecessary PIC controller assembly...

[lilsideshowgirl]

No way, man... nothing replaces titillation of the the "manual" bouncing twirl of a burlesque dancer. :D

[PerfectlySquare]

I'll do ya one better.... Make 'em self powered with some solar panel bits attached to the front (which could add a bit of flash as well). Add motors, and spin some throwies! Or maybe go all out and add an LED persistence of vision message...like "WoW". It's nerdy and has a double entendre! That'd be tits! (Sorry, I just had to....)

[Doctor What]

OOOH!! I've always wanted meself a pair of these!!! I could put them on and dance around in my room, then cry myself to sleep!!

[nyuszi]

Oh~ thank you so much! you such a darling to share the technique! Good luck with your selling! xxx

[modelmanjohn]

I can't believe you don't have an example of how they fit!