Six-armed goddess Kali Costume

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The great thing about Kali is that she is the queen of Bling. She has all sorts of gold and weapons and jewels. It was pretty fun to make all this stuff. One of the consistencies in all of the representation of her, it the appearance of a severed head. This is the head of a demon she has heroically slain. So I made him, rather than use a mannequin Styrofoam head, I wanted this to be awesome.

So basically, this was made using the same process as the arms. A rough shape cut out and carved down using various tools. My butane torch cane in handy to smooth down the grooves and areas where it's hard to sand. I also hollowed out the back of the head to reduce weight. He was primed and painted as well.
I modified a "mullet" wig to imitated his hairstyle with the ponytail on the top, added eyebrows and the moustache. I used spray foam at the base of the neck, with a little stub of wooden dowel for bone, to make the bloody entrails.

The crown, sword and trident were all the same. More detail was needed in the crown obviously. I think that if I was to recreate this headpiece I would go back to the casting methods I've used in the past to produce a flexible crown.
She-Ra headpiece
Queen of Hearts crown

Kali is usually blue or black with skirt of severed arms, and a garland of skulls or severed heads.
The skirt of severed arms was made from white fabric and gloves spray painted flesh coloured.
I cut the fabric into strips and sewed them into sleeves. I stuffed the gloves with cotton batting and hand sewed them to the sleeves. I covered the wrist seam with a cuff made from gold vinyl. I painted dead -style veins and bruises and fingernails on the gloves.