Twin Trouble

Southern California Cosplayers We are a multi-fandom cosplay duo who happen to each share a side of the same brain. We call ourselves the Ectotwins, due to our uncanny synchronization. KILAYLA (windydarkcosplay) specializes in props, weapons, finding wigs and contacts, sass, planning shit, and thrift store/eBay sniping. RYOKO (nerdykitsune) specializes in patterning, sewing, wig styling, megane, thrift store sniping, and budgeting.She's also a devil with a tape measure.

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What happens when Ash Ketchum finally returns home from his quest to become the best pokemon trainer? Will the home he left be the same?

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Otabek was caught ♥

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We did a photoshoot on saturday of Anime LA and decided to recreate this comic by Nikkiyan which we both love!

Otabek: Ryoko Yuri: Kilayla Photos: Amara Edits and Gif: Kilayla

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Bonus!

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Otabek was caught ♥

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We did a photoshoot on saturday of Anime LA and decided to recreate this comic by Nikkiyan which we both love!

Otabek: Ryoko Yuri: Kilayla Photos: Amara Edits and Gif: Kilayla

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Photo! We're back! This was a fun casual cosplay we prepared for Ninja Con. We will be bringing them to AX as well. But for now, some cute selfies. Honey: Thunderstruck Tadashi :Windydark

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We decided to be Hiroomi and Akkey at ALA

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Rhyme: thunderstruckcosplay 
Beat: windydarkcosplay 
Joshua: alibaba-baby 
Neku: luce-ciel 
Shiki: sozettaslow Photography: rueli
Sho: unfragmentdecoy

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Rhyme: Me (ThunderstruckCosplay)

Beat: Kilayla ( windydarkcosplay)

Joshua: Nana (alibaba-baby)

Neku: Brandie ( luce-ciel)

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A few raw preview pics from the little mini photoshoot we did down at San Diego Comic Con last Saturday! (not actually in attendance of the con, but it was fun to be around it anyway)

Pictures of Ryoko's Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter are by me, Kilayla. And vice versa, of my Cid Highwind (which was kind of a test run for PMX).

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The Truth Behind Heroes Of Cosplay: New Orleans

The Truth Behind Heroes Of Cosplay: New Orleans

Heroes of Cosplay is a popular tv series on SyFy that showcases certain cosplayers at conventions across the US. But what you might not know about it is how this show treats the people at conventions… the ones that aren’t the “elite” few, the cosplayers and convention goers behind the camera. I never had to deal with them until they came into my town - New Orleans. I thought it would be a great opportunity to see this show in person but my opinion quickly changed.

The way they treated my fellow cosplaying friends and the way they took over our beloved costume contest was completely inexcusable. There were a few mishaps on the convention floor but a majority of the issues came around the time of the Costume Contest. This was my third time attending Wizard World New Orleans and usually the costume contest is done in 1-2 hours. This one took over 2 hours just to get through the individual category. It was clearly being staged because only certain cosplayers were being allowed to talk about their costumes on stage, everyone else was rushed off. I didn’t realize it at the time but the ones they stopped to chat about were mostly Heroes of Cosplay participants. They didn’t care one bit about anyone else. It became really painful to watch/participate when I saw beautiful and elaborate costumes getting rushed off because they weren’t one of the “elite few” from the show.

After the contest was over, my friends and I went on to enjoy the rest of the convention as much as possible. Some of us completely shut out the competition because it was the black mark of the whole show. I began gathering stories from my friends and fellow Wizard World convention goers. Then other people began approaching me with their account of what happened. Here are our collected thoughts:

Encounters on the Convention Floor:

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This happened Saturday around 2:30pm the Cosplay Circuit Digital Hall Awards photobooth, where they take your photograph and post it on the Wizard World site. Jesse Lagers tried to cut in line in front of me. The obnoxious camera crew’s goal was to cut the “Costume Contest Winner” into the line. I was sandwiched right between him and the AVP guys. The costume contest didn’t happen until later that night. They decided the winners for the contest before the show even started.

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I just want to chime in for a second here… I have always loved Yaya, she was always nice to me over the last 3 years and I really admired her up until WW New Orleans. Now I’m a photographer at alot of Cons and I’ve worked for Wizard World for years. This year I wasn’t working for them because I was working exclusively for a very well known website. When I passed by her just in walking around the con floor she pretty much stopped me and was like Oh you ARE going to take my picture now. I was crazy

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Slowly but surely

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Sewing for days

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Finished twinny’s Morgiana wrist cuffs/Household Vessel. Really really happy with how they turned out! Aaaah AX is getting so close >.<

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Gettin’ real tired of you, tumblr. I’ve been trying to upload photos since this morning and I’ve had to cut all the way down to one photo in hopes of being able to freakin’ upload this thing.

Anyway, here’s my Kenma Kozume wig! I finished it this past Thursday and couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. I had to flat iron, hot water straighten, cut a good half the wig off to get it to that length, and then I sharpied in the roots myself. But it was all worth the effort! I did it all in one afternoon too :D

Using my EOS New Adult contacts in brown with this cosplay :3

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Kilayla finished a thing the other day :3

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Some pictures of my finished Aoi Asahina wig! I’m really happy with how the ponytail turned out~  *･゜ﾟ･*☆ヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ☆*･゜ﾟ･*

A little hard to take selfies with this wig on, when the whole point is to get the ponytail in view :P

Using my EOS Fairy Blue contacts, my Asahina and Togami Byakuya contacts. (I really hate how the wig looks with flash but the contacts look amazing)

The random picture without the swirly is of the base wig out of the bag. It’s soooo cute <3 I’m probably gonna add it to my list of Remus wigs, when I’m not using it for Aoi. I trimmed the bangs a little, obviously.

It’s been awhile since I’ve cosplay Aoi, gosh~ I’m happy to be doing her again this AX.

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Kilayla's on a wig-styling roll~

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The Beautiful Suzuka: Nerdykitsune.tumblr

Shishiwakamaru: windydarkcosplay.tumblr

Photography: Nana-chan

Anime Los Angeles 2014

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This is why we never get work done