Fixing Antenea

Project: Larxene from Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

Music: Various

Time: Somewhere close to 30min

As it was to be expected the first time I styled my Larxene wig, the antenea don't always do what I want them to do. So this time around I took a slightly different approach.

What I used:

• AquaNet
• My already styled Larxene wig(originally Saga from Amphigory)
• Blow Dryer with a cool(and low) setting
• Pins

Prologue:

So when I first styled my Larxene wig, I separated the hair that I wanted for the antenea, drenched them in hair spray, put them on a curved surface that I could place on the wig(I used a "bumpits" thingy), and let it dry. They stayed together and elevated pretty well for a while, but with time the antenea began to fall apart as well lower.

After Oni-con this year(and getting sadly mistaken for Vexen at one point), I decided that it was time to fix that problem. More than likely, these ones wont last forever either, but they'll do for now.

Okay, so first I grabbed the already existing antena and lifted it. I sprayed it thoroughly at the base and held the blow dryer there until it dried. I would do the same thing for any part of the antena that was coming apart. I then sprayed it at the base again, pressing it against the wig, and blow drying. This would be so that it would be less apt to going sideways and blending in with the rest of the hair. After doing all this, I placed it where I wanted it to be, and stuck a pin in next to it to hold it in place(don't know if that makes any sense). Then I repeated with the other antena.

I'm pretty pleased with the repairs I made on it.

How UTS does Lazer Tag

Okay, so it wasn't just UTS, for my friend Bells' birthday, she did laser tag. And thankfully she gave us permission to dress as strangely as we pleased. I decided to wear elf ears along with an assortment of clothing I put together. Needless to say, I was probably the most strangely dressed one there. And normally, I suck at laser tag, but this was just so much ridiculous fun. I actually felt pretty awesome and ranked #5 in the second game that we did! ^-^
The design of the place was pretty awesome. The shooting area, as I like to call it, was made to kinda look like a castle with towers and there were some skylines too. There were also pillars painted to look like trees. It was super awesome pwnage on both sides.
Also, I got everyone to shout "Over 9000!"
Lizz win.

Much love,
San

Saldy, I didn't get any pictures when I was there. :(

Nothing to Report

No cosplay this week.

Working on prints for Anime Matsuri.

Hard at work over here.

Happy Thanksgiving all.

The Steampunk Chronicles: Part I - Mock ups and such

Project: Steampunk outfit
Music: Abney Park
Time: About 6 hours.

So this past Saturday was mostly spent in my sewing room making a skirt. To be perfectly specific, the skirt for appending Steampunk outfit. I didn't put an Oni-con recap up, but to sum it up a little, there was ALOT of steampunk there, and it got me really inspired. So I went back to my old design, re-did it, trashed it, and then made a new one. I've already begun progress in it, but I don't expect it to be fully done until next Oni-con, although I'd like to have atleast the clothes done by December so I could wear them to a masquerade ball that I was invited to.

Anyways, I awoke early, ate breakfast, and began my skirt. I made it using a circle skirt pattern. This pattern involved taking three pieces to make one long piece and then gathering it to make it fit me. This was my first time using the ruffle foot and it was quite a learning expirience. The first time I tried I ended up having to undo it, which was painful. I did better the second time, but it was still a but big, so I added some by-hand gathering to make it fit. I then added the band, I also put in these other two bands about six inches long down the back seem, where I was gonna put button holes, but didn't get to. It was around this time of adding bands that I realized that I was using the wrong type of fabric to make this skirt, or any skirt in general(it was a type of vynl-y[I think] fabric). So I decided that it wasn't gonna be the official skirt, but I mock-up to get some well-needed practice in. The thing that really made me decide that was also the fact that while ironing I nearly melted the fabric(yikes?).

Pictah time~!

Much loves,
San~

Why? Because I Can.

Well, this account was initially created for my English class, but since I like blogging about things people don't read about, and having to write a blog every week for class anyways, I figured this would help actually update a cosplay blog regularly. I had a LiveJournal before this(and it had a way more adorable layout), but I never really updated it, so I'm try to be more regular wityh this one. Everytime I update my English blog, I'll try to find something to put in this one as well. Whether it be progress, a photoshoot, or a con, I'll try to put something everyweek.

My first cosplay that I'll mention cosplay progress of is Patty Thompson from Soul Eater. Sadly though, not much work can be done on her until I loose weight, and I personally don't want to talk about that. >_>
Later this week, or next week, I'll do a small Oni-con recap.

That is all.

Love,
Sana-san