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TikTok star recreates Kylie Jenner’s lion costume with teddy bear
We’re gonna hear him roar.
Artful TikTok star Corey O’Brien whipped up his personal model of Kylie Jenner’s “disturbing” Schiaparelli lion head costume with just a few easy home goods, proving you don’t want to purchase couture to make a significant model assertion.
“The second I noticed this costume and all the eye surrounding it, I knew I used to be going to place my very own spin on it,” O’Brien tells Web page Six Model.
Jenner wore the eerily lifelike (however PETA-approved) animal head — constituted of “hand-sculpted foam [and] wool and silk fake fur, and hand painted to look as life-like as doable,” because the model shared on Instagram — to soak up the Schiaparelli Haute Couture present Monday.
O’Brien, in the meantime, achieved the look with a $13 costume from H&M and a decapitated teddy bear.
For the mane occasion, he used fake fur from the craft retailer to rework the cuddly cub into the king of the jungle.
“Certainly one of my favourite issues to do is take these trend moments and switch them into my very own, with a mixture of humor and creativity. I do know there was an uproar – pun meant – over this costume, however I simply wished to have enjoyable with this and make individuals snicker,” O’Brien quips.
The DIYer even tried his hand at hairdressing, chopping his lion’s “mane” to provide it layers earlier than supergluing the fierce creature to the entrance of his costume.
“Fortunately, it stayed on with no problem,” O’Brien tells us.
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The social media star – who’s courting NFL free agent Ryan Russell – has racked up nearly two million followers on TikTok, because of his dance strikes and design improvements that incorporate dollar-store finds and craft-store goodies.
The skilled dancer beforehand recreated Kim Kardashian’s Marilyn Monroe-inspired Met Gala look, utilizing a $12 Ceaselessly 21 costume and greater than 350 rhinestones to whip up his personal model of the historic garment.
“You can also make a top quality look with out an enormous amount of cash,” he advised us on the time.
“Social media has change into a contest of who could be the prettiest or most muscular, however I’ve been capable of create an area the place I can dance, make a enjoyable outfit, snicker, and have time, and I feel we may all use extra of that in our lives.”