Wow! It's been a loooooong time since I did an FAQ Friday! (Fun fact: I wrote the majority of those FAQ Fridays between 2012-2014 because I was in a terrible place with my then-job and it gave me something to write and focus on to relieve the stress...) Anyway. There's been a question I've been getting a loooooot lately mostly on tiktok and occasionally on instagram, and that's "I know ...
I mentioned this in yesterday's post, but that post was so long I didn't want to jam this in there too... besides I wanted to get some pics of them on to add to it, also. So, timeline - From 2004-2015 I used the same brunette extensions that matched my 2004 but hasn't matched since 2011 when I went lighter for Donna. I FINALLY updated to red extensions that matched in 2015. And ...
So a couple of years ago I did a tutorial on how I did my hair for my Amidala Parade costume. I used my own hair, just put into little buns, teased, and pinned in a certain way. It wasn't perfect but it worked OK. I have been playing around with the idea of making a hairpiece for AGES. I started one back in 2010 when I was going to wear ...
A friend on instagram asked how I did my Padme lake dress hair, and I thought it would be way easier to answer over here where I could type everything out and post pictures easier than trying to type on my phone on instagram. I've never done a full tutorial on how I did this hair, BUT I have drawn a little diagram about it that I've sent to people ...
I took these pics for a facebook last night so I thought I'd share them here, too, and expound on my post. Several years ago I was obsessed with the different variations of Disney Princess costumes at the parks. I collected photos from all the parks, the parades/stage show/meet-and-greet variations... I had a huge collection saved on my computer. Somewhere during that brief obsession I came across a ...
So a while back, I wrote a post about our white backdrop shoots, and... it has disappeared. I can find my "WHY" post, but not my "how" post. So, I'm posting a new one! For a quick recap, we started doing white backdrop photoshoots in 2009. I wanted to specifically recreate the Sally Jupiter "pin-up" art from Watchmen, and brought the idea up to my photographer husband. He thought that sounded ...
cosplay questions... everybody's favourite... my favourite to blog and everybody else's favourite to skip reading! 1. One of your best cosplay memories? I know it says "one of" but here's a few... my first DragonCon (mind blowing!), Disney group with my best friends/meeting Chase in 2005, almost running into Stan Lee in 2010 then him giving me a hug in 2012, our tipsy moms dressed as hobbits at Dragoncon 04, finally convincing my husband ...
It's been a while since I had a FAQ Friday to post! Today I wanted to talk about something I initially did not think was important, but now would never skip it - the test run. When I first started costuming, finishing a costume was often at the 11th hour, and since I often shipped my costumes to the hotel ahead of time, half the costume (the part that was ...
There's this whole notion built into us as a culture surrounding two girls showing up to prom/a dance, wearing the same dress. When it happens in movies or tv shows, cattiness ensues. Then you get the whole "Who Wore it Better?" blurbs in magazines when two starlets have worn the same dress at one point or another. Oftentimes with a poll at the bottom so viewers can vote who ...
So, I did a post on Body Paint a while back, but it was basically an overview of things I'd tried in the past, and what I do now. I thought for today's FAQ Friday, I'd go into a little more detail about my process. 1. Ben Nye As I mentioned in the last post, I use Ben Nye Magicake Aqua Color. The thing I love about these is that they ...