In sum:

Step 1: Take a big pair of gentleman's slippers, aquired for $1, and chop off the top with a big knife.
Step 2: See how well they fit against your feet, with a chunk on the end for his signature third toe. Find where you want the toe division to be: between your second and third toes, or between your big toe and the rest of the piggies.
Step 3: Slice into it, leaving a wide gap.
Step 4: Put the sole at the bottom of a pair of blue tights (preferably a size or two too large for you), and then put your foot in. It's really difficult to get them both in at the same time. Don the tights and be fabulous.
Step 5: Add stripey pants and you're done! Mess around with the tights until the toes don't look silly and wrinkled.
Optional Step 6: Double up the blue tights with a black pair so that the color is darker.

Now you can walk around with the knowledge that you will not cut your foot on broken glass and bleed to death, but still look barefoot to someone far enough away from you!

1. I first applied the ears ("Woochie" Large Space Ears Tips, $10). These can easily be found on the internet, but I was worried about them not arriving in time, so I went to a costume shop instead. I used Ben Nye Prosthetic Adhesive, which was recommended to me by an employee.
2. Next, I applied blue eyeshadow to my eye area, the inside of my ears, my hairline, and the bottom of my nose. I recommend using a shade slightly darker than the rest of the makeup to enhance a sort of shadowy effect and make blending easier.
3. Now the crazy part! I painted my face with blue liquid latex body paint. I googled "blue body paint," and humorously enough, my best bet came from a porn site. The shipping was fast, and the huge tub of paint was well worth the $12 value. In its liquid state, it looks sky blue, but it dries darker. I did a total of three coats of the latex. Note: Make sure you apply a layer of water-based moisturizer beforehand, or it'll be painful to take off afterwards. To seal the latex to that it doesn't stick to itself, they recommend water-based polish or two other products they sell from the website, but I just rubbed in some baby powder (be careful not to inhale any!), and the result was a lovely slate-blue color. However, after a few hours, the color had changed to a rich royal blue color. Lovely!
4. I sprayed my hair black, using Midnight Black "Streaks N' Tips Temporary Hilight Spray" ($4, Sally's Beauty Supply). A bit messy (every time I touched my hair, my fingers came back speckled with black, but it didn't rub off on my clothes), but effective.
5. Using the blue eyeshadow and a slate blue eyebrow pencil (Sally's Beauty Supply), I blended the hairline, eye area, ear area, etc.
6. I was running low on time, so instead of painting on the scars with acrylic paint, I drew them in with the eyebrow pencil. This is the best reference I've found.
7. As for the hands, they ended up being a rush job. I got my roommate to help out so that I could do both hands at once. I rubber-banded my fingers together, which turned out to be a bad idea, as they started cutting off circulation, despite me trying this several times before and having no trouble. I wish I'd known about Finger Cots at the time! Ot maybe I could have found extra large latex gloves and cut out the fingers. Oh well.

1. The base wig is Ivy in white from CosWorx.com. I also discovered the joy of wig caps, which make things soooo much easier when your hair is as long as mine!
2. I dyed the wig with a faint blue-green glow using this recipe, though the subtle streaking ended up being imperceptible when I dreaded it. Drat.
3. I backcombed small, irregular-sized snatches of hair at a time into dreadlocks, a process that took hours! At the temples, I paid special attention to the direction I wanted some of the dreads to go. This made the buns a lot easier to manage!
4. As the dreading process revealed the gaps in the wig mesh, I filled in the holes by adding wool extensions in two or four-strand chunks. I attached them to the mesh using miniature zip ties, purchased at Radio Shack. The extensions are a mix of Colinette Mohair and Point 5 wool in a variety of colors--I picked Jay, Lagoon, Banwy, and Gaugin. Looking back, I wish I had more white represented, and the rich blue Salty Dog would have been lovely. I bought all the wool off eBay, as Colinette is very difficult to find in the US for any reasonable price.
5. I styled the wig into the pigtail buns and pinned them in place with bobby pins. As the tails weren't as thick as I'd like, I added more wool extensions.

• White eyeliner and white mascara for the eyes.
• Ice blue eye shadow on the eyelids and lightly dusted on the "highlight" areas of the face.
• Dark blue eye shadow + clear lip gloss on the lips. It's strangely effective--it makes me seem like my lips are naturally bluish.
• Dark blue eye shadow in the "shadow" areas of the face and accenting the cheekbones.
• Clear and light blue sequins spirit-gummed to the cheeks.