Mother Gothel Costume Accessories

Make Up,Accessories and Props for Mother Gothel Cosplayers

Mother Gothel carries and wears several different props and optional accessories throughout Tangled, and a costumer wanting to recreate her costume and roleplay her for conventions or Halloween may want to pick which items to use.

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?

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Make Up and Accessories

A look at Mother Gothel's face, jewellery and make up

Mother Gothel's fingernails are long and dark red
  1. Eyes are a very pale grey-blue
  2. Fairskinned, minimal make-up (but bronze-coloured eyeshadow, continuing with the gold highlight theme)
  3. Neat black eyebrows
  4. Earrings - long inverted gold pyramids
  5. Dark red nail polish, and long fingernails.

  6. 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.
Flower gleam and glow... by ~chocobojockey on deviantART 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!
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Mother Gothel's Fingernails and Nail Polish

Mother Gothel has finely manicured dark red nails

Mothe Gothel holds her youthful hands up to admire them, showing off her long fingernails


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.

Long Dark Red Dragon Geisha False Press on Fingernails High Luster Wet Look Glossy Fake Finger Nails Costume Accessory
Long Dark Red False
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$3.99

500 Natural Color FULL COVER False Nails
500 Natural Color
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$15.95

Opi Nail Polish Royal Rajah Ruby Nli52

Mother Gothel's hands and dark red fingernails, as she sings to the flower

Mother Gothel's hands and dark red fingernails, as she sings to the magic flower

Jewellery: Mother Gothel's Earrings

Mother Gothel wears the same pair of gold earrings at all times

Mother Gothel's Gold EarringsMother Gothel's only jewellery is a pair of gold earrings, in the shape of leaf-like, three sided, inward curved, inverted pyramids, hanging from a loop (and the wire threaded through a bead, holding the loop closed).

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.

Gold Plated Sterling Silver Brushed Elongated Pointed Teardrop Forged Ear wire Drop Earrings


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

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The Belt Buckle

The gold circle she uses to hold her belt together

A close-up on Mother Gothel's  waist and belt buckleOriginal designs had this as a solid round buckle, but in the film it was a simple gold circle with the belt-sash looped through it. The circle looks the same size as a wrist bangle. From various angles, it looks like there's a bar running across the center, for the belt to loop over, like (---).

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

Here you can see her earrings very well - as well as her facial colouring and eyeshadow,

MILANI LIPSTICK - PINK - PINK
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!

L'Oreal Paris Studio Secrets Professional Eye Shadow Duos, Bronze Star, 0.08 OunceCoverGirl Continuous Color Lipstick, Parisian Pink 545 .13 oz (3 g)NP Set Show Loose Dust Duo Egypt, Gold & Bronze, 0.4-Ounce

Mother Gothel's Basket

Here we go gathering (hazel)nuts in May, nuts in May...

The basket she carries in a few scenes of Tangled

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...

There are suprisingly few wicker shopping baskets around!
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Some Vital Ingredients For Hazelnut Soup

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Rapunzel's Hairbrush

Mother Gothel brushes Rapunzel's hair while Rapunzel sings . And brushes. And brushes.

The hairbrushes that Mother Gothel appears with in Tangled

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 pattern on the back of Rapunzel's hairbrush - previews of the official toy versions

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).

Disney Tangled Sing and Glow Rapunzel Doll



The Rapunzel doll Vanity Playset also comes with a couple of film-accurate (for plastic!) silver hairbrushes.

The hairbrush from the Mother Gothel Limited Edition DollYou can see the silver toy versions (and the pattern on the back) in the image above - they all look to be the same brush, and in the new Limited Edition doll of Mother Gothel, you can see she's holding a golden hairbrush that looks the same (except that it's gold).

Disney Tangled Featuring Rapunzel Vanity Playset

Flynn Rider's Satchel And Its Contents

Mother Gothel finds the bag containing the crown and wanted poster, and featches her dagger

Flynn Rider's satchel, that he uses to carry the stolen crown

tangled props crown satchel dagger magic flower
Tangled Props

by ~chocobojockey on deviantART

For part of the film, she carries this leather satchel-style pouch around, with the stolen crown in it, after finding it in the tower after Rapunzel escapes. She then gives it to Rapunzel, to give back to Flynn. It's a Plot Element, so you might want to use it!

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
  1. When Flynn steals the crown, this is what he is carrying it in (and has to fight Maximus the horse over it)
  2. Rapunzel hides it when he drops it in her tower and uses the crown to blackmail Flynn
  3. Mother Gothel finds the bag and its contents when looking frantically for Rapunzel
  4. 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.
  5. And it passes out of Mother Gothel's hands from then on.
A really good look at the satchel, as Flynn hands it over to the Stabbington Brothers

Flynn hands the satchel to the Stabbington Brothers 

The Satchel by ~chocobojockey on deviantART flynn rider gothel tangled Tangled- satchel and the Crown by ~chocobojockey on deviantART

Real leather satchels are very expensive - much better to see if you can make one, or have one lying around. The ones below are the closest matches on Amazon, and this is one someone made!
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Here Mother Gothel loops the bag around Rapunzel and leaves it, and the crown, with her

Mother Gothel presents the satchel and pulls out the crown, during the reprise of 'Mother Knows Best'

Mother Gothel pulls the stolen crown out of Flynn's bag

Mother Gothel's Dagger

What kind of knife does Mother Gothel carry?

Screenshot of Mother Gothel's knifeThe 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.

Trademark HUGE King Arthur Dagger, 17-Inches gold handle silver blade 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

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

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Or check eBay to see if the right dagger is on offer today!

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The Stolen Crown

The tiara of the 'lost princess'

Screenshot of Rapunzel trying on the crown after stealing it from Flynn, and an image from the 'Art of Tangled' book.

Bottom image of the crown from The Art of Tangled



Disney Store Deluxe Tangled Rapunzel Tiara Crown

For the crown, there's the new Disney Deluxe Tangled Rapunzel Tiara or you can buy one of these Light Up (Blister Card) Jewelry Sets, which was the only 'official' option available for sale for a long time, or make your own out of paper. You can get a good look at the 'official' Disneyland one here on Flickr.

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 (has gems like Rapunzel's), the Metal Faux Pearl Drop Tiara, or the Silver Princess Tiara (All under $10).

You can even buy Tiaras With Heart Stones or Colorful Princess Party Tiaras in bulk.

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's crown - Tangled

by ~yunekris on deviantART



Rapunzel crown WIP by ~Ravenspiritmage on deviantART
Rapunzel crown WIP
by ~Ravenspiritmage on deviantART

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Rapunzel trying to figure out what the crown is

Rapunzel trying to figure out what the crown is
Mother Gothel shows the crown to Rapunzel
The crown on baby rapunzel

Disney Store Deluxe Tangled Rapunzel Tiara Crown



Occasionally a handmade version of Rapunzel's tiara pops up on eBay.
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Flynn Rider's Wanted Poster

Which Nose ended up in Mother Gothel's hands?

The various nose-posters of Flynn Rider and the version that Mother Gothel ended up with

You can download a version of Flynn's Wanted Poster here

Flynn Rider Wanted Poster
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

A closer look at Flynn Rider's Wanted Poster

Musical Cosplay? Mother Gothel's Song

Could you sing as well as dress up?

Here's someone actually singing Mother Knows Best - and well!
Mother Knows Best (Cover) [Mother Gothel Look A-Like!]
by iSingTunes | video info

339 ratings | 102,118 views
curated content from YouTube
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Mother Gothel Convention Photos

WonderCon 2011 Masquerade - Mother Gothel, Flynn Rider, and Rapunzel from Tangled by Pop Culture Geek
WonderCon 2011 Masquerade - Flynn Rider, Rapunzel, and Mother Gothel from Tangled by Pop Culture Geek
Tangled Section of Disney Animation Loop by Loren Javier
Tangled figurine set in Engine-Ears Toys by Loren Javier
Tangled figurine set in Engine-Ears Toys by Loren Javier
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  • JoyfulReviewer Oct 16, 2011 @ 3:55 pm | delete
    Thanks for the fun costume lens!

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