With Halloween around the corner, we dove into our closets to find quick and easy costumes to please all manner of costume and cosplay enthusiasts!
Today we are looking at the innocent beauty of the Childlike Empress from The NeverEnding Story.
Dress | Sandals | Headpiece | Eyeshadow | Lipstick
As a movie basically made to destroy our innocence, The Childlike Empress only requires a few pieces to make this Halloween costume recognizable, as the the main focus will be on the headpiece and makeup. Thrift shops are a great place to scour for vintage wedding dresses, but we chose to go with a white shift dress with lace detailing from ModCloth. Go for a full length gown to stay close to the source material and combat the October chill, or a shorter cut if you’re feeling a little less childlike. In the grand scheme of things, shoes don’t matter too terribly much, so the sandals we chose are silver with a small heel and similar detailing to AURYN, the Ouroboros talisman.
For the crafty, a quick trip to the craft store will find all sorts of variations of chains and pearls, but if you’re not into making the headpiece, don’t worry. Similar items can be found on Etsy without breaking the bank. For a youthful glow, Urban Decay’s Naked 3 palette is full of rose and bronze colors. Pair a bronze smokey eye with a pale glossy lip, our personal favorite being Buxom’s Full-On Lip Polish in the color White Russian, slick your hair into low ponytail, and throw on your headpiece to complete the costume!
Looking to take your costume to the next level? Completionists out there who didn’t wait until the last second can take this costume to another level by making their very own copy of The NeverEnding Story to carry around! Which sounds a lot more complicated than it is.
Craft stores like Hobby Lobby, Michael’s, and At Home have aisles dedicated to fake books. Choose the one you like the best and, while you’re at it, grab some bronze paint and metal appliques. Then head over to any local Halloween store and make a beeline for the “Goddess” area, where you’ll find different styles of flexible serpent armbands. Buy two, paint those bad boys bronze, and hot glue that sucker and the appliques on to the cover of your fake book. Fantasia can arise anew!
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You hear about it, every now and then. About rising rates of depression among 18-30 year olds. About how many people in my own generation are being medicated for depression. And they have a lot of theories.
But those theories are wrong. Because I know why we are so messed up.
We more than likely have a shared childhood trauma.
Because we were the first generation that would have had the opportunity to see the movie The Never Ending Story at an impressionable age.
In case you haven’t seen the movie, or for whatever reason have repressed this trauma, and don’t know what I’m talking about, let me explain. See, in the movie, the hero, Atreyu, starts off his journey to save a magical land along with his horse, Artax.
Atreyu and Artax are best friends.
And this is awesome, right? This kid has a horse and it is an awesome horse and the boy and his horse are going to save their entire world! LIFE IS GOOD!
Right, so. Spoiler alert:
THEN THEY KILL THE FUCKING HORSE.
And we are not talking “Horse dies noble death saving Atreyu.” No. NO. You know how the horse dies? YOU KNOW HOW THE HORSE DIES?
THE HORSE DIES BECAUSE IT GETS TOO SAD.
Seriously, Atreyu and Artax are traveling through The Swamps of Sadness and it’s all “The sadness can get to you!” But it’s just SADNESS, right? Yeah, being sad sucks, but it’s not like being sad is dangerous.
UNTIL YOUR HORSE GETS SO SAD THAT IT DIES.
I MEAN, YOUR HORSE JUST FUCKING STANDS THERE AND SINKS INTO THE SWAMP BECAUSE IT IS REALLY REALLY SAD.
THE HORSE. IS SAD. SAD HORSE. HORSE IS SADDED TO DEATH.
HERE IS THE SCENE RECREATED IN LEGO FORM FOR YOUR BENEFIT:
You’re a kid, you don’t believe anything bad can happen to that horse. This was before The Lion King and at least then there’s someone to blame for Mufasa’s death and, hey, your brother isn’t actually going to toss you off a cliff into a stampede and kill you.
But oh no! Never Ending Story teaches you that something you love is probably going to die, with no way to save it, because it was just too damn sad to keep going.
And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is why our generation is fucked up. BECAUSE WE WATCHED A HORSE DIE OF SADNESS.
YOU STUPID HORSE!
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