Silhouettes are a great way to spruce up your dorm room, or any room for that matter, and add a touch of your personality and you can do it yourself! Save money and add some sparkle? Does it get any better then that?

I personally love them – but not of faces. For me, that’s just a tad creepy. I do not want to feel like I have people and faces looking at me all day, all night. No. Thank. You. I feel like a crime scene investigator would show up eventually, to investigate a dead body – which would be mine… murdered from the people on the wall. Okay, apparently my imagination is getting ahead of me again – but seriously… creepy and stalkerish? If my boyfriend put a silhouette of my face on his wall… I’d be scared. Body, I can understand – ’cause my body is BANGING! Just kidding… I can seriously understand a man wanting a female body silhouette but face… I’ll pass… and run for the hills! You have seen all those scary college movies, right?

However, if you’re into being creepy, by all means make a silhouette of someone’s face. Maybe you really love yourself and want your facial silhouette up on your wall… but you will need someone to help you. I personally suggest making sihlouettes of things you love. Of course, if you love basketball…. this probably won’t work and you might as well just cut out a circle and paste that up on your wall. Some great ideas are high heels, animals, a candle burning, guitar, a silhouette of my hair dryer….! You really have to kind of look around your room and see what items there are that have something to offer. A unique perfume bottle….  your hand….!

Okay, once you have your idea down pat, you are going to want to follow these steps.

  1. Get a light facing straight on whatever you want a silhouette of
  2. Get funky paper, wrapping paper, coloured construction paper and tape that onto a wall for tracing. (It will be moved from this place – so don’t put too much thought into this)
  3. Get chalk, white eyeliner or a pencil for the tracing part. I suggest chalk as it easily rubs off
  4. Put your object or whatever you want to trace in front of the light so the shadow is on your paper that you have taped on your wall
  5. Carefully trace the outside of the object onto your paper. Be sure not to move the light, object or paper as your tracing will be off
  6. Cut the silhouette out!
  7. Place on your wall

Simple, right? Using an item is much easier then tracing someones face…. just a little extra to deter you from putting faces all over your wall.  If you want to get creative, you can also colour on some detailing.