It’s Halloween and you need a last minute costume? After a quick looked through my closet to come up with a quick and easy Paddington Bear costume.
Despite being short on time I think the costume is rather timely as the Padding movie is scheduled to come out early next year.
I had a blue jacket, which I bought some years ago at Target, which was a perfect match for Paddington’s coat. I also happen to have a red bucket hat that was also similar to Paddington’s own hat.
I decided to coordinate the jacket with some tan slacks; unfortunately, I didn’t have yellow galoshes, so my regular shoes had to do.
To add more Paddington to the costume I cut out a tag from an old cardboard box lying around. I looked up what the original Paddington Tag said and wrote the same on mine. Then I used some string and a safety pin to pin it to my jacket.
I was just going to leave it at that, but then I did a quick Pinterest search and found the cutest bear makeup example. I decided to recreate this look using what I had on hand.
Basically, I just put foundation on, then I used natural brown tones for my checks and eye shadow, even used brown eyeliner. To create the nose and dots I simply used an eye liner pencil I had. I also used the same eyeliner for the upper lip. The lower lip I used a soft pink lip-gloss.
Despite being one of the simplest costumes I’ve ever pulled off it got a lot of attention on social media! I even got a shout from the Paddington Movie.
