- Do you want to be the frog to my princess?
Is that you saying yes?
Oh my gosh, you have grass all over your face.
(spooky music)
Happy Halloween.
My name is Vivian,
and this week I'm going to be making
a Halloween costume with $0.
I've been a pirate, I've been a cheerleader.
Basically make it sexy or sassy,
and I've probably been it.
Because I'm in my hometown of Orlando,
I want to do a Disney princess.
The Disney princess I'm going to be recreating
is Princess Tiana.
Not only was she the first black Disney princess,
and I was way too hype when her movie came out,
but I also conveniently have a dress
that's kind of in the color scheme already.
I do a lot of DIY and upcycling,
so I'm going to take a dress
that already exists in my closet
and turn that into Princess Tiana's dress.
I don't feel like princess Tiana has given her fair due.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, she's kind of an underrated, disregarded.
Who makes a princess a frog
for like 80% of the movie?
Come on, Disney.
I got to do her justice with this dress.
This is going to be a challenge,
but I was made for challenges.
I eat challenges for breakfast.
So let's do this.
Bippity, boppity, boo.
On Princess Tiana's dress, there's like a big flower.
This plant is real, so I think my mom might kill me,
if I use like real plants.
We have a lot of fake plants that are really green
that I could possibly take some leaves off of
and hopefully she won't notice, like this one.
Nice, nice, nice, and fake.
I am out here really exposing all of my mom's fake plants.
Do you want to be the frog to my princess?
Is that you saying yes?
Oh my gosh. You have grass all over your face.
You are already turning green.
I feel like if I just take like a chunk from here,
that could work.
It's not the same as like one big flower,
but I'm using what I got and what I got is this.
I feel like we have fabric that I have to just find,
let me look in the closet.
Oh, we also have all of my pageant trophies.
I did a lot of the pageants.
This was actually my pageant dress
when I was Ms. Florida teen and it's full length.
It's really ruffly.
It's not a full circle ball gown the way hers is,
but I think this is the closest we can get with zero budget.
I am searching for anything green that can be used
for the overskirt part of the dress.
This is a bed sheet.
This is a great find.
Oh my gosh. I feel like this is like the perfect color.
I don't know, maybe they won't notice that it's missing.
They'll just notice that, oh my gosh,
it looks so amazing on my dress.
This is the fitted sheet around my waist,
and I just tied it real quick,
but it kind of, it kind of works.
So I'm going to be able to make this into Princess Tiana,
without permanently making it into Princess Tiana's dress,
so that the actual dress can be used
again and again, and again.
I think have a game plan.
I'm going to take the pillowcase.
I'm going to do kind of like a Grecian bodice,
where it's like, boom, boom.
That way the sweetheart neckline of the
Canary gold dress peeps through.
That's pretty much how it looks in Tiana's dress.
This is one of the pieces that I cut from the pillowcase.
I actually went and instead of sewing,
I kind of flipped the edges inside out
and pinned them so that
it looks like it's sewn.
It doesn't really look like much right now,
cause this is just one half.
So it will be like this.
So it has kind of like a shoot.
Tiana has the long gloves that go like up past her elbows.
Green and you know, all of the fingers fit.
I don't know if I have a sewing skills for that.
Half of my DIY's are just my mind kind of problem solving
and problem has been solved. Okay.
I know what I'm doing now.
I need to just do it.
No matter how many times I sew,
threading a needle will always take me 10 hours.
This is the crown.
This was my Ms. Orlando teen crown.
This was the world to me at the time.
I feel like this is like 15 or 20 bucks.
I have some of the sparkly fabric.
I really have no idea what my mom was doing with this.
Like what purpose was this serving?
I think she has this like as a veil.
Tada, we're getting married.
So I'm just going to keep wrapping it.
And then I don't know what else to do to secure it,
I am going to tie them together.
I don't think the sparkly fabric really did anything.
But if nothing else,
I think it's helping keeping these fake leaves in place.
And they're kind of tucked in, then safety pinned.
All of the beautiful safety pinning,
and tying, you know what?
It's fine.
Cause you're not even going to see the back of this.
You're going to see this,
and then my hair we'll cover all of this.
Do you still have faith in my design skills
after my attempt making a dress from scratch for you?
- Yes. I know you can design very well.
You need to improve your sewing.
When it comes to designing,
I think you have that talent.
- Tiana is my kind of Disney princess.
I mean, she's a hard worker, boots on the ground.
She does what she needs to do.
The fact that she had to become a frog to become a princess,
you know, a little obstacle,
but she got through it and she got the dress out of it.
Well, I have with my best friend Dan carrying my train.
- It's like a bride on her wedding day.
- What are your thoughts on the, my princess Tiana?
- I love it.
At first I was worried
you're going to look like a giant pineapple,
but I'm shocked at how good you look.
Like you probably look like you spent 500 dollars.
- I thought you might look like a, you know,
a Kmart princess and stuff like that.
But it actually came out a lot better than,
you know, I thought.
Good job.
- Brother says something nice,
then that's legitimate.
Because when the brothers ever say anything nice?
- Never.
- That's true. That's true.
- Never.
- Usually like try to find a reason to dunk on you.
- I feel like I'm going to my wedding.
A little girl waved to me.
I feel like a real princess.
My best friend and my brother,
they pretty much were into the dress.
And I got great reactions from people at Disney Springs,
but I really need to talk to some diehards.
So I'm going to quiz them.
I want to see what they think.
I want to see what they think I did,
as far as how much of a budget I had.
Hey y'all, so I made a Disney princess costume,
and I want your opinions.
- I'm looking at your pictures right now,
and you look stunning.
You absolutely look like princess Tiana.
I remember watching Princess and The Frog
for the first time when I was nine.
And it was the first time I ever saw someone
who looked like me as a princess,
was just absolutely everything.
- Oh my God, you really could have fooled me.
Like if you walked into Disneyland right now,
I probably would have been like there's Princess Tiana.
- Like I would definitely know that you were dressing
up as her, without you telling me.
So honestly, I feel like you killed it.
- Okay. How much do you think this cost to make?
- Maybe $100.
- I want to say like $150.
- $50.
I feel like it looks like a hundred dollar look,
but like knowing you it's probably a little bit less.
- It costs nothing. It was a zero budget, $0 costume.
- I am so impressed. What?
Viv you never fail to amaze me.
- $0. You did that.
And I am all the way here for it.
I love upcycling.
- So good.
Congratulations.
- This would have been a million times better with a budget.
I would have made this into like this
razzle dazzle, amazing costume.
But because Halloween is once a year,
I'm glad I did it with no budget.
I'm glad I spent $0,
because now I get to spend my money elsewhere.
(upbeat music)