Mother Gothel Costume Accessories
Make Up,Accessories and Props for Mother Gothel Cosplayers 
If you want to dress up as Mother Gothel, then you'll want to wear the right make up and have a dagger to stab people with! You'll also need a hairbrush to brush Rapunzel's hair. The main Costume Analysis page looks at all the big, important parts of Mother Gothel's costume - the dress, cloak, hair, and shoes, while page looks at all the little extra touches, such as make up and jewelry, and optional props, such as dagger, hazelnut soup, crown hairbrush, satchel and belt buckle.
Mother Gothel's costume is a dramatic and fairly easy to mimic, medieval affair overall, as she swoops around in a red brocade gown, covered up with a sweeping black cloak. Her appearance is a little harder - especially her wig - but the main elements of Mother Gothel's costume are straightforward (if difficult to recreate perfectly!). Most of the props, however, cannot be made from scratch, and it can be hard to find similar versions in the shops. If you're planning to do a skit, you'll need to pick parts of the film for which you have the props!
Image credit: Pink Milani Lipstick and 17 inch King Arthur Dagger,
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Mother Gothel's Make Up and Jewelry
Taking Care of Rapunzel: Basket, Hairbrush and Hazelnuts
The Dagger, Flynn Rider's Satchel and Contents
Most Important Mother Gothel Prop?
Which is the one prop you have to have to play Mother Gothel?
Make Up and Accessories
A look at Mother Gothel's face, jewellery and make up
- Eyes are a very pale grey-blue
- Fairskinned, minimal make-up (but bronze-coloured eyeshadow, continuing with the gold highlight theme)
- Neat black eyebrows
- Earrings - long inverted gold pyramids
- Dark red nail polish, and long fingernails.
- Other accessories vary throughout the film and include Rapunzel's hairbrush, a dagger, a basket, Flynn's Satchel containing wanted poster and the stolen tiara.
And of course, there's always the magical golden flower... if you're looking for a real flower to start with or stand in as a prop, or use as a model, the tiger lily is the closest match.Visit the page about the magic golden flower for more pictures and information!
Completing the Mother Gothel Costume: Make Up and Jewelry
Mother Gothel's Fingernails and Nail Polish
Mother Gothel has finely manicured dark red nails
Her fingernails are dark red. It's hard to tell exactly what colour they are in the lighting that they are usually seen in! The red is, as far as I can tell, a slightly darker colour as her dress fabric. There are both false nails and red nail polish available in all the right lengths and colours.

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Mother Gothel's hands and dark red fingernails, as she sings to the flower
Jewellery: Mother Gothel's Earrings
Mother Gothel wears the same pair of gold earrings at all times
I haven't seen any similar earrings available for sale anywhere, so you may have to make them by hand, or substitute another pair of gold earrings, preferably teardrops.
Edit: Try searching for 'elongated teardrop' or 'pointed teardrop' - I actually found one pair that almost matches, and is currently very cheap. The widest part is actually supposed to be at the top, but I haven't seen any like that.
If the above earrings are out of stock, these long gold tear drops are the next closest match. If they're out of stock too (and they often seem to be) then you'll have to keep looking I haven't found anything else online yet that is suitable (something might pop up on eBay or be sold locally though).
Gold Elongated Teardrop Earrings on eBay
The Belt Buckle
The gold circle she uses to hold her belt together
From what I can see, it's tied like a tie is, maybe, so that only the front strip shows. Actually, it looks MORE like it's a single 'belt' section, with another length hanging down the front, but I'm not sure how she'd get that on and off.
The material is a darker red than the dress itself, but still slightly shiny.
There is a double row of delicate gold embroidery using the same S-loop pattern as the edging around the neckline, but with no black background.
Mother Gothel's Face and Makeup
A look at Mother Gothel's eye shadow, make up and earrings

I know nothing about lipstick except that it tends to come off when you eat, so all I can tell you is that her lips are clearly not a natural colour, that the lipsticks I've picked out are a close match to the pink she's wearing (there are so many shades of pink on Amazon!), and that it is shiny.
She's probably wearing pink blusher on her cheeks, but whether you need that entirely depends on your own complexion (if you're drawing her, just remember - pink cheeks!). As more cosplays are made, there will be more in the way of information and actual tutorials available from people!
Eyeshadow is in two colours - gold-bronze on the eyelid, fading slightly down to her eyelashes, and a dark bronze-brown up along the eye socket. There are dozens of brands and products available, so whether you mix and match, or buy a complete set of colours, or opt for the 'duo' options (such as the two below) is up to you!
Taking Care of Rapunzel: Basket, Hairbrush and Hazelnuts
Mother Gothel's Basket
Here we go gathering (hazel)nuts in May, nuts in May...

Mother Gothel actually has a couple of different baskets and a belt pouch that she puts the crown in later - this large, rounded, wicker basket is the basket you see the most, early on in the movie when she's still bringing food to Rapunzel (parsnips, in this case...)
And while we're talking about hazelnuts, some hazelnut soup would be a delicious Tangled-themed food for any Tangled party or event!
Some possible baskets...
Hazelnut Soup Recipes
Apparently it's Rapunzel's favourite
Mother Gothel wants to make Rapunzel a treat of her 'favourite' (according to Mother Gothel) - hazelnut soup. The 'official' recipe is found here - Rapunzel's Squash & Hazelnut Soup, but there are many different kinds of Hazelnut soup.
I hate soup , so I'm not testing any for you, but there are various recipes below. Although I do love hazelnuts, so maybe I should try one....
CREAMY ARTICHOKE HAZELNUT SOUP
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Some Vital Ingredients For Hazelnut Soup
Rapunzel's Hairbrush
Mother Gothel brushes Rapunzel's hair while Rapunzel sings . And brushes. And brushes.
Mother Gothel appears with a hairbrush in hand a couple of times in the film - brushing Rapunzel's hair as they sing the 'flower gleam and glow' song, causing Rapunzel's hair to glow and rejuvenate Mother Gothel. It's the same one that Rapunzel is seen brushing her hair with in front of the mirror - a gold coloured metal or wood brush with white bristles and intricate carvings all over the back. This is Rapunzel, though - she probably has a dozen different brushes!
In the concept/early release art, Mother Gothel appears holding a different hairbrush - a dark coloured one. It makes sense for Rapunzel to have several hairbrushes, the only thing to be sure of is that they're all paddle-type brushes, not combs, or anything too modern. Look for some kind of boar bristle paddle brush, preferably wooden, and you should be fine.
The official toy hairbrushes
The musical toy hairbrush set is not accurate (only the pattern on the pink one is, and that is covered by a picture of Rapunzel), but the (tiny, accessory) hairbrushes that come with two of the Rapunzel dolls are (they are tiny, but the pattern looks right, and the colour - silver - is a much closer match).
The Rapunzel doll Vanity Playset also comes with a couple of film-accurate (for plastic!) silver hairbrushes.
Flynn Rider's Satchel And Its Contents
Mother Gothel finds the bag containing the crown and wanted poster, and featches her dagger

Tangled Props
by ~chocobojockey on deviantART
There's an analysis of Flynn's bag here. You may also want to make a prop crown and a wanted poster for Flynn. This is also the point when Mother Gothel goes and gets her large, scary knife out of the drawer and starts carrying it around to stab people.
Appearances
- When Flynn steals the crown, this is what he is carrying it in (and has to fight Maximus the horse over it)
- Rapunzel hides it when he drops it in her tower and uses the crown to blackmail Flynn
- Mother Gothel finds the bag and its contents when looking frantically for Rapunzel
- During Mother Knows Best (Reprise), she pulls it out, gets out the crown, and challenges Rapunzel to give it back and see if Flynn still sticks around. She also loops the satchel around Rapunzel at the same time.
- And it passes out of Mother Gothel's hands from then on.
Flynn hands the satchel to the Stabbington Brothers
Mother Gothel's Dagger
What kind of knife does Mother Gothel carry?
The knife - actually a dagger (a double-edged knife that is symmetrical ) - is medieval in style, like the rest of her. The blade looks to be about 8-10 inches long, the blade is straight and the quillions (handle bits guarding her hand) are curved downwards. The handle section looks golden in colour (more likely to be bronze or brass!) while the blade is silvery.
There are quite a few similar daggers available for around $10 on Amazon - assuming you're allowed a real weapon! The best match is this 17 inch King Arthur Dagger (blade length 10 inches), the downside being it costs about $20.Other examples below are mostly all silver in colour, or have too straight a pair of quillions, but would all suit in a pinch.
Appearances of Mother Gothel's dagger during the film
In the above screenshots, you can see that:
- The blade is slightly leaf shaped
- The hilt is golden and the blade silver
- There is a spiral pattern (probably a leather wrap, but it could be wire) around the handgrip
Similar mediaeval daggers from Amazon
Or check eBay to see if the right dagger is on offer today!
The Stolen Crown
The tiara of the 'lost princess'

Bottom image of the crown from The Art of Tangled
For the crown, there's the new Disney Deluxe Tangled Rapunzel Tiara
Failing that, there's a nice assortment of cheap princess tiaras on Amazon that will do in a pinch. For example, Tiara with Heart Stones
You can even buy Tiaras With Heart Stones
It IS possible to make your own - out of a plastic crown, wire, crystals, beads and gold paint - if you know what you're doing. As this person has done!

Tangled- Rapunzel's Crown
by ~chocobojockey on deviantART

Rapunzel's crown - Tangled
by ~yunekris on deviantART
Rapunzel trying to figure out what the crown is

Flynn Rider's Wanted Poster
Which Nose ended up in Mother Gothel's hands?
You can download a version of Flynn's Wanted Poster here

Flynn Rider Wanted Poster by ~AyameClyne on deviantART
And if you're hoping to whip up a quick Flynn Rider costume yourself, there's a list of all the bits you can buy on Amazon here and an analysis of his costume here.
A closer look at Flynn Rider's Wanted Poster
Musical Cosplay? Mother Gothel's Song
Could you sing as well as dress up?
Table of Contents
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Mother Gothel's Make Up and Jewelry
Taking Care of Rapunzel: Basket, Hairbrush and Hazelnuts
The Dagger, Flynn Rider's Satchel and Contents
The main Costume Analysis page looks at all the big, important parts of Mother Gothel's costume - the dress, cloak, hair, and shoes, as well as existing cosplays.
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