Lily Parrot Costume (How I Met Your Mother) for Cosplay & Halloween
How to Make a Lily Parrot Costume
| # | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tight dress, green with straps | The dress acts a base to the costume. It should be a tighter dress with straps, you’ll be sewing the feathered boas onto the dress to try and mimic Lily’s dress. |
| 2 | Feathered boas, multicolor | The feathered boas you will sew onto the dress staring from the bust. You will need about 4-5 boas to cover the dress completely. |
| 3 | Tights, purple | Lily wears purple tights under her dress, you can as well to give your costume a more authentic look. |
| 4 | Feathered parrot headdress | The headdress is an important piece to this costume as it gives more of a real parrot look overall. |
| 5 | Parrot beak | This accessory is something you can add if you really want go all out with your costume like Lily does. |
| 6 | Costume makeup | Lily wears bright makeup on her face to try and give it some semblance of a parrot. This is a really fun addition to the costume and you can easily do it yourself just by mimicking Lily’s makeup. |
| 7 | Boots, long, green | Lily wears green boots to tie in with the green dress used as the base of the whole costume. |
| 8 | Bubble skirt | Finish the look with this colorful bubble skirt |
While a parrot costume may not be for everyone, it sure makes a fun and colorful costume for those brave souls willing to give it a try. The parrot costume worn by Lily, played by Alyson Hannigan, is a very easy costume to make as a DIY and is definitely not a costume you’ll be seeing at every party. The “How I Met Your Mother” How I Met Your Mother character managed to pull this costume off and featured a lot of brightly colored feathers as well as crazy makeup.
To make this crazy costume yourself, all you need is a bunch of feathered boas, a tight green dress, purple tights, and a parrot headdress along with a couple extra accessories.
About Lily Parrot
Lily, played by Alyson Hannigan is the wearer of this spectacular look. Her other half, Marshall, is dressed up as a pirate. You can easily make this into a couple look which is a super fun option.
Lily is known for her crazy costume’s on the show How I Met Your Mother, and this costume of hers is surely one of the craziest and funniest ones make for yourself.
