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Reviewed by: Doodz
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Gender: Female
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Title: Good Product - Hard to Apply!
Date: Nov 07, 2009
I bought this product for a Halloween costume, and it needed to be shipped to Australia. The shipping options and price was ridiculous - there's only one type of shipping to Australia, which I think is called Premium or Express. It cost me $50 + just for it to be shipped here in 10 days.
Moving on from shipping costs, the product itself was good quality. It was well painted and the shape was just right - just like real Night Elf ears.
I had a few problems with the ears though. On each ear, they have thin back elastics. They're meant to go over your real ears to support the fake ears. Firstly, they don't support the ears at all, as they flop off, even if you open up the bottom of of the ear and force the top half of your ear inside!
Secondly, the top black elastic has to go over your forehead, or more so, over your eyes and the bridge of your nose.
Using the black elastics to keep the ears in place looked silly and didn't keep them in place at all, so I had to turn to buying Spirit Gum (body glue) and Spirit Gum Remover to keep the ears on.
Additionally, I had to actually sew the mid section of the ears to my wig cap (I was wearing a wig with my costume) to stop them from falling off.
The ears also have a small opening at the bottom to put your ear in, but the openings on mine were almost completely covered in latex.
I went to a Halloween party with my costume complete, but I had trouble dancing as the ears felt heavy on my real ears and still flopped around a lot! So I had to hold onto them with both hands as I danced, which looked pretty weird! :P
It got too painful to keep the ears on for more than an hour, so I tried to remove them. It took a while with all of that Spirit Gum and it also being sewed on!
My real ears were very red and hurt for about 3 hours after taking the fake ears off.
In conclusion, The ears themselves were good, application was very tricky, but they looked really great with the completed costume!
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Reviewed by: Annak
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Gender: Female
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Title: Spirit Gum a Must
Date: Oct 30, 2009
Thank you to a previous reviewer who suggested using spirit gum. The elastics simply did not work for me. They kept pulling the ears off my ears, as well as putting enough pressure on them that the edge of the plastic rubbed uncomfortably on my ears. I finally pulled the elastics out (easy enough to do) and simply fixed them on with spirit gum.
Another hint: if you wear a wig, be careful with your placement of the hair in front and behind the ears, so as not to add extra weight on the ears, making them more difficult to remain where you want them.
The makeup is a cream-sort and can easily be blended on the skin. This is a good thing because I am not a good make-up artist, so it was very forgiving. I used it just for general tinting, rather than defined marks.
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