Once I had the yarn teased and fluffed I used strong hold hairspray and hairsprayed the strands really good – don’t forget the inside too! Remember, you’ll be “brushing” (actually teasing) the yarn so it’ll add a little length to the hair in the end. This costume took me about 16+ hours to complete, BUT that’s because I did templates and trial runs before I made parts of the costume. At first I painted the inside grey, but my husband said black would make you pay more attention to the eye. Back in July my little boy and I started having the discussion of what he wanted to be for Halloween.

The page has tips and hints for what products to get to add purple hair and makeup to your Evil Minion costume.The planning phase took a lot of time for me to decide what to make the evil purple minion costume out of. I put fasteners on the outside of cardboard, just like the minion goggles and painted it grey on the outside and black on the inside.

The color wasn’t exactly the purple I was hoping for, but we couldn’t find another purple that would work better. The good part about this is the Styrofoam is easy to work with and you can chisel away until it’s the desired shape you want. Once the fabric is added to the core of the body, you’ll want to go ahead and cut out the place for the eye. It was easiest to hang the costume upside down in our garage – tease, tease, and tease the hair more to the desired body and appearance the hair needed.

Then Illumination Entertainment came out with a new minion—the crazy, screaming, mutant purple ones (the evil minions) for Despicable Me 2. To see their sweet smile and the excited look on their face to wear it around and be that character? Are you one of those crazy mom’s like me who loves for your child to wear a handmade costume, but in the middle of the process you ask yourself – why do I do this every year? To share our ideas and inspiration for making your own Purple Minion costume and to collect ideas from other Minion fans we have a Pinterest board especially for the DIY Purple (Evil) Minion Costume Ideas.