The Silent Hill Office of Tourism: Demon Nurse

Costume: Demon Nurse

The Demon Nurse wears basically the same dress as the Bubblehead Nurse. The big difference is that here the front half of the skirt is almost knee-length while the back half barely
covers her bottom. Let your creativity flow when it comes to altering and staining the dress; tea, coffe, paint, spray paint.
Keep in mind though that just like almost all other Silent Hill creatures the Demon Nurse has no actual blood stains on her dress. All stains are very dark rust-brown, black and dark gray with - according to the artwork - hints of yellow and green.

The face of the Demon Nurse is human, with her eyes always closed. Thus the developers didn't even bother making eyeballs for this monster as I learned from checking the 3D model.
Her face is pale and her eyelids purplish. The mouth area is covered in a big red rectangle and the lips are dark purple.
The Demon Nurse's hair is deep black, chin-length with bangs. Wigs like those are easily found for a very low price, the hat can be attached with bobby pins.
On the artwork the hat shows a teal line on the top edge, this detail was abandoned on the ingame version though.

Also the Demon Nurse's index, middle and ring finger are merged too. Her gloves look like rubber gloves, you can easily imitate the merged-finger effect by glueing pieces of another rubber glove over/around those three fingers. Just make sure you wear the gloves while you do that to ensure that you have enough room in the gloves later on.

It seems like the Demon Nurse might be wearing a pantyhose since the color of her legs is more gray and at the same time more even than the color of her arms and cleavage.
Her shoes are white pumps without heel. Those are probably rather difficult to find, but no one will really complain if your shoes have a little heel on them.
Also, for some reason the Demon Nurse's shoes are quite clean compared to the rest of her outfit.

A rusty steel pipe or a fake revolver are good choices if you want to have some props.

How Dodo made it:

I made the Demon Nurse costume together with Alessa when she made her Bubblehead Nurse costume, so they both were practically made the same way. Both of us bought the (wrong) nurse costume online and had to more or less make the whole thing ourselves anyway.

I left the original length of the store bought dress, but had to add the long front part of the skirt to the dress. Then I ut off the bottom part of the orignal sleeves and added new ones, simply made out of strips of fabric that I sewed onto the sleeves. The original collar also got removed and replaced with the Brookhaven style collar, made from two front pieces and one back piece. It took me a while playing around to get the size and shape right.

I found a black wig with bangs that was perfect for the costume, so Alessa made me nurse hat too, and we used red lipstick for the red square on the nurse's face as well as the right eye shadow.
Unfortunately we didn't notice back then that the Demon nurse's fingers are also joined, so I just used normal latex gloves.
The shoes originally were from Alessa's Mary costume, since they didn't fit Alessa right though I eventuall ended up using them for the Demon Nurse costume.

To stain the dress I used carefully applied spray paint, acrylic paint applied with roughly wrinkled up paper towel, splattered paint onto the dress with a paintbrush and hot chocolate mix.
The body paint was pretty low quality, dilluted acrylic paint. I don't recommend it since it does not stay on very long and does not show well in photos unless a lot of it is applied.

The steel pipe I carried around actually really is a steel pipe from a hardware store, added the ring on the top (made out of crafting foam) and also added an elbow connection on the top, then painted the whole thing in rusty metallig colors. The revolver actually is just a fancy cigarette lighter.

How Avianna made it:

I’ve made the Demon Nurse costume twice. The first attempt was one of my first costumes. It was an altered Nurse Dress that was stained in a billion different ways and didn’t fit at all. However, I learned from that costume and made my most recent one, which I have sold as commissions to quite a few Silent Hill fans.

I started off buying some high quality white cotton. Cotton soaks up stains really well and they stay for quite a while. I used Simplicy Pattern 4470 but instead of putting a zipper down the front, I put the front panel on the center fold so that it would be one piece and put the zipper on the side. I did this because I could make it invisible and since you can’t see the zipper in the game it makes it less noticeable. I then used tea to stain the dress and acrylics with some water added to spatter the paint all over the dress to get that textured, dirty and rusted look the game has. I based the dress more off the in game images then the concept art. I also made sure to make the back a bit shorter then the front, because for some odd reason they look like they have aprons. I also made sure to make the collar, cuffs and belt a lighter shade of stained, because in the game they stick out a bit.

For my photos on this site, I did not have gloves that connected in the middle for the fingers. However, since then I have used Butterick B5370 to make a pair of these gloves for a client. I used cream colored knitted fabric so that they would fit her hand snuggly and I had to alter the pattern a bit after putting them on my own hand to make them look more medical. They turned out well and all I had to do was not cut a slit between the middle and ring finger.

The wig I bought from a friend because she used to wear it on Halloween. It was my very first wig and although I’ve found the fibers aren’t the best and it curls under a bit when the Demon Nurse’s hair does not, I can’t part with it. It is kinda special to me. The hat I made using a pattern online. I made it using Bridal Interfacing because it’s got a tight weave, but is easy to bend to the shape you want and when you dye it, you can still iron it back into shape very easily. Just in case it bends in transport. I’ve also used white foamy in the past to make nurse hats. I really like how that turns out because it’s got a good shape and its easy to paint. All hats should be easily put in with bobby pins.

For the shoes I got ones with a small heal, just so that when I wore them they made my legs look muscular like the nurses. I used sandpaper to give the surface some texture so that it would hold the acrylic better. I should also mention that I spattered and dirtied the dress, hat, gloves and shoes at the same time. This way they all have the same colors on them. The legs for my most recent costume is all makeup in high lights and low lights, however, in the older costume and in my future use of my newer costume, I’m gonna use white pantyhose, dyed and stained with acrylic. If you put on the white tights, after tea staining them a bit, you can use the acrylic to shade the underside of muscles, which can give off an awesome effect. I do the same when I do make-up, I just use Ben Nye. Be sure to acrylic paint with watered down paint and be careful with it. I recommend doing it in a bathtub so it can be cleaned out later.

I originally got my idea for my face make-up from a photo another cosplayer -named carrousel - did at a haunted house. When I saw she had made her face look split open, I really liked the effect. Infact, it made sense to me for a Demon Nurse (Like they had been shut up with ducktape or something and then it was ripped off). Thus I went with it. How would it look if the Demon Nurse had something square in shape ripped off her lips? I used skin wax and spirit glue for the thick ripped look around the mouth. This makes it really hard to talk and in the future I would like to make a latex appliance in its place. However, it does give off a really gorey look.

My revolver is a toy gun I painted with metallic miniatures paint in black and dark grey. However, you can also use your local Walmart’s acrylic paint. I just like miniatures paint because it comes in so many colors. (Infact, miniaturizes paint you can find at hobby stores and it comes in an awesome color called Gore Red which is PERFECT for old blood)