Has it really been a year? Why yes, it has!
I´m sorry to have left my blog quite unattended.....but I wasn´t feeling motivated towards keeping up a blog at all, not even my personal one. I´ve kinda drifted away from lolita fashion since, but I´m still cosplaying strongly! My first year teaching has also been quite wonderful and successful, in my opinion! (I´ve still got one moth left; God, how I´m gonna miss my kids!)
Anyhow, here´s a bit of a preview of the things I´ve been up to in this past year. I promise that I´ll get more into detail about each cosplay soon!
(As always, special thanks to the two photographers in my life, who are also awsome friends: Jonathan and Flor. Though this pic was taken by my wonderful friend Nane. <3)
Phases of the Moon
miércoles, 29 de mayo de 2013
viernes, 18 de mayo de 2012
Expomanga Sunday Cosplay: Ikkitousen
Hello everyone! Long time no see! I promise that now that the rush for the exams and the cons are both over, I´ll be updating this blog with more cosplay stuff, from tutorials to just random pics of my cosplays and other people´s cosplays.
I´m going to start this out of order, because I want to dedicate a slightly larger post to my Saturday cosplay, and I still need to look up nice pictures (I ended up epic failing at taking pictures at the con....luckily I got lots taken).
On Sunday (The 13th?) I was initially planning to cosplay Youko from the 12 Kingdoms anime and novels. I´ve always wanted to do that cosplay, and have spend a pretty penny buying jade beads and such to make nice accesories.
Unfortunately, we had a heat wave this past weekend, and it´s only now that the tempreatures are edging back (in fact, we´re going to have a cold snap this weekend....crazy weather). As you can see, Youko wear 3 top layers and 2 bottom layers.....which is not compatible with 30ºC+ weather.
In a last-minute change, I was forced to speed-sew something much much cooler which would allow me to wander around the con without fainting (or getting many pictures taken, really).
I teamed up with my friend S and we cosplayed from Ikkitousen. It´s a manga also known as "Battle Vixens". The name says it all, right? I cosplayed this girl:
And here is the one picture I´ve managed to get taken of me.
Not bad, not bad. Must learn to raise my leg higher. The wig is white, but.....I don´t own any grey ones. Most of the figures tend to favor whiter hair anyhow.
I plan on taking a few more soon; ones that properly show off the skirt´s pleating. It turned out really nice, in my opinion.
I´m going to start this out of order, because I want to dedicate a slightly larger post to my Saturday cosplay, and I still need to look up nice pictures (I ended up epic failing at taking pictures at the con....luckily I got lots taken).
On Sunday (The 13th?) I was initially planning to cosplay Youko from the 12 Kingdoms anime and novels. I´ve always wanted to do that cosplay, and have spend a pretty penny buying jade beads and such to make nice accesories.
I wanted to do this version. |
Unfortunately, we had a heat wave this past weekend, and it´s only now that the tempreatures are edging back (in fact, we´re going to have a cold snap this weekend....crazy weather). As you can see, Youko wear 3 top layers and 2 bottom layers.....which is not compatible with 30ºC+ weather.
In a last-minute change, I was forced to speed-sew something much much cooler which would allow me to wander around the con without fainting (or getting many pictures taken, really).
I teamed up with my friend S and we cosplayed from Ikkitousen. It´s a manga also known as "Battle Vixens". The name says it all, right? I cosplayed this girl:
Her name is Choun Shiryuu. |
And here is the one picture I´ve managed to get taken of me.
Not bad, not bad. Must learn to raise my leg higher. The wig is white, but.....I don´t own any grey ones. Most of the figures tend to favor whiter hair anyhow.
I plan on taking a few more soon; ones that properly show off the skirt´s pleating. It turned out really nice, in my opinion.
viernes, 3 de febrero de 2012
Hauls: Minitaladro (Minidrill)
Hello everyone! Long time no see! I just wanted to share today what I bought yesterday to help me with my future prop-making projects for cosplay.
I have no idea what it´s called in English, though--feel free to tell me! It´s like a mini-drill, oly it has a lot of different attachments which can be used for a lot of things--from sanding to drilling to shaping, apparently. I´ve never had anything like this, but I can definitely see its multiple future uses!!
I won´t be using it for my Goddess Harp, since I´ll be constructing that out of softer materials, but I can see how it´ll really help me out with detailing in pieces (such as Lady Sun´s Hula Hoops!).
This is one of those things that I´m really glad I found on sale for a decent price.
Expect pictures of the Goddess Harp construction soon--I´ve been away from cosplay awhile due to studies, but I hope to be back soon.....
domingo, 1 de enero de 2012
Mulan Photos
So, it came to my attention (yesterday no less!) that I haven´t shared pictures of some of my less recent cosplays.
Specifically, of my Mulan cosplay. I made it for a Disney Princess group that got together in May 2011. I kept on putting off showing the pictures because, well--I have no good pictures of the outfit (only ones from after hours of sweating and wandering around and stuff all day, pretty much). But I´ll share the few I do have. Since I plan on fixing a few things of this cosplay, there´s a rather large chance of my re-wearing it and therefore getting nice pictures of it. Hopefully. If not, there´s always my garden, which has a pond--yay for Mulan-staring-at-pond pictures? I need to buy myself a tripod. Preferrably one of those monkey ones that bend and twist around anything so you can get interesting pictures.
The whole outfit was made out of Mikado silk (yes, that´s why it´s somewhat shiny) and chinese brocade. The only non-silk or brocade item in the whole outfit is the central pink belt, because I was looking for a nice solid pink color that was close to the one from the Mulan images, and that was the closest I found.
The silk was OK to sew, but the brocade was horrible. Slippery-slidy and it kept on having lose threads. I was forced to do zigzagged and folded over seams to make it work.
Version 2.0 will have a more corsetted blue part; as it was I went with a traditional folding patterns and then added a zipper. Thank god the sash was tied tightly; it really pulled the outfit together, hahaha.
My favorite part of this cosplay? The flower haircomb (which I ordered specially online) and the sword. I also wanted to get a Mushu, but those are insanely hard to find now, apparently. People at the Disney store said I´d have to wait for a Mulan movie re-release to get one. *irritated* And Ebay is no help at all (60USD plus shipping for an 6inch plushie? As if!).
Mulan has always been my favorite Disney princess, so it was a pleasure to "be her" for a day.
To all of you Mulan haters who say she isn´t a "real" princess: Disney says she is. There you have it, the almighty creator has decreed her status. Deal.
Specifically, of my Mulan cosplay. I made it for a Disney Princess group that got together in May 2011. I kept on putting off showing the pictures because, well--I have no good pictures of the outfit (only ones from after hours of sweating and wandering around and stuff all day, pretty much). But I´ll share the few I do have. Since I plan on fixing a few things of this cosplay, there´s a rather large chance of my re-wearing it and therefore getting nice pictures of it. Hopefully. If not, there´s always my garden, which has a pond--yay for Mulan-staring-at-pond pictures? I need to buy myself a tripod. Preferrably one of those monkey ones that bend and twist around anything so you can get interesting pictures.
My one and only professional picture of the cosplay. |
Our whole Disney group (technically, it was a Kilala Princess group, but it evolved) |
Jasmine was one of the group organizers; she´s insanely nice. We (Anastasia and I) helped her sew her outfit. |
My makeup was SO messed up by the end of the day. |
Sadly, it blurred. We have no idea why. : / |
Mulan is mad. Anastasia is evil. ´Nuff said. |
The silk was OK to sew, but the brocade was horrible. Slippery-slidy and it kept on having lose threads. I was forced to do zigzagged and folded over seams to make it work.
Version 2.0 will have a more corsetted blue part; as it was I went with a traditional folding patterns and then added a zipper. Thank god the sash was tied tightly; it really pulled the outfit together, hahaha.
My favorite part of this cosplay? The flower haircomb (which I ordered specially online) and the sword. I also wanted to get a Mushu, but those are insanely hard to find now, apparently. People at the Disney store said I´d have to wait for a Mulan movie re-release to get one. *irritated* And Ebay is no help at all (60USD plus shipping for an 6inch plushie? As if!).
Mulan has always been my favorite Disney princess, so it was a pleasure to "be her" for a day.
To all of you Mulan haters who say she isn´t a "real" princess: Disney says she is. There you have it, the almighty creator has decreed her status. Deal.
viernes, 23 de diciembre de 2011
Photograph mention
My photographer got mentioned on a Marvel fanpage! : 3 So exciting!
Check it out here:
Maaaaaarvel!!
Check it out here:
Maaaaaarvel!!
sábado, 17 de diciembre de 2011
Lady Thor: second round of photos
Here goes the second round of photos of Lady Thor with the same credit going to Eylin da Cyel:
And lastly, a "street snap" that got taken of us at the Con:
Skrull version of the Avengers |
And lastly, a "street snap" that got taken of us at the Con:
miércoles, 14 de diciembre de 2011
How to be a Happy Cosplayer
I found this (translated into Spanish) on one of my friend´s blogs. They, in turn, found it on Deviantart, here.
It is a really interesting illustrated list of what a cosplayer needs to keep in mind in order to be happy. I especially agree with the one that explains "Life vs. Cosplay"....especially since I had to make that very same choice for this last Con in December: study for my teaching exams, which might determine my future and get me a job....or sew two cosplays for the con. I chose the former, and am very happy about it. In the end, I did get time to complete one of the two cosplays, which isn´t that bad, and still satisfied my cosplay craving.
Do you agree or disagree with any or all of the listed "have to"s?
It is a really interesting illustrated list of what a cosplayer needs to keep in mind in order to be happy. I especially agree with the one that explains "Life vs. Cosplay"....especially since I had to make that very same choice for this last Con in December: study for my teaching exams, which might determine my future and get me a job....or sew two cosplays for the con. I chose the former, and am very happy about it. In the end, I did get time to complete one of the two cosplays, which isn´t that bad, and still satisfied my cosplay craving.
Do you agree or disagree with any or all of the listed "have to"s?
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