I costested Plant Mom™ the other day and I have so many selfies I don’t know where to put them lol
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I costested Plant Mom™ the other day and I have so many selfies I don’t know where to put them lol
“I had never seen anything like it in my life. Sure, it was a little scary, but still... I could feel a strange kind of gentleness from it.”
Yuna: xjungggg
Valefor: mee-shellmabelle
Photo: MK Sola Photography
BOOP! The Retribution event is live and I'm living for Sombra's let-me-speak-to-your-manager do lol
How many okaarins does it take to hoagie a morflark? FINBAR!!
I started working on Keith’s BoM suit this week and welp. Here’s a photo dump of my current suffering lol
Stop attacking other people for looking different than the character they’re dressed up as! We need to be nice and accept one another! ‘Cause in the end, we’re all just a bunch of nerds, looking to have fun, right?
If I ever stop rebloging this, assume I’m dead
yes, but if you are white and are cosplaying a poc, please dont use makeup to darken ur skintone/change your eye shape/etc !!! thats pretty much brown/blackface which is disgusting. overall please just cosplay the character, dont cosplay their race. thanks have a nice day folks
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Hey friends! Long time no post to this blog! Real life's been kickin me in the pants lately so cosplaying has become a rare occurance for me, but since I had a little time to post this small tutorial to my IG, I figured I'd also post it here too! I've had a lot of people ask me how I did my Widowmaker arms (bc yknow fuck body paint lol) so here's a mini compilation of the process ✨ 🕷I started off with some seamless nylon gloves from eBay. They're about $11-15ish depending on seller and come in white, black, and nude. They're teeny tiny (see mini Deadpool hand lol), but amazingly they stretch? like A LOT??? Lol 🕷Not shown is the dyeing process, but it's pretty straightforward. I used RIT DyeMore in royal purple and super diluted it until it gave me a pale purple color that matched my face paint. 🕷After they dried, I put on the right glove and lightly marked out where and how large I wanted my tattoo. 🕷I found a large enough image of Widow's tattoo online and printed it out to the size of my arm, taped it in a tube, and stuffed the tube with extra fabric I had laying around. 🕷CAREFULLY stretch the glove over the tube and arrange it so your marks line up with the template and secure each side with rubber bands. 🕷Paint over those tedious-ass designs until you feel death come for you. I used Jacquard to avoid texture and the shiny look, but any fabric paint should do. 🕷Let the paint dry and then carefully peel the glove free from your paper template. 🕷Et voilà! Purple arms! If you wanna be really extra like me, paint some fake nails and glue them into the fingers for that natural dead goth spider-lady look lol
Hiya there! I was wondering if you and Otakorner will be going to wondercon this year??
Hello~!!We don't typically do a full Wondercon weekend, but we were thinking of going at least one day, possibly Saturday? I'll have to talk to her about it lol 😊
“With each hit she gets stronger and she uses that energy to fight back– that’s what makes her special.”
Yang cosplay made and worn by me :3 Mee-Shell Ma Belle Cosplay
KEITH COS PROGRESS PHOTO DUMP!
Not sure how useful this will be to anyone, but I always find myself taking a ton of cosplay progress photos, yet never enough to make a tutorial or anything out of them… thus, this photo dump lol!
Fabrics used are all stretch vinyls with the exception of the lion lining fabric. (If anyone decides to go the route I did, do yourself a favor and use a teflon foot and be prepared for top-stitch hell!!) Again, not sure how helpful any of this will be, but if anyone has any questions please feel free to ask~!
That one time Lance managed to get Keith into a purikura machine 🦁🦁✨✨
Lance: @otakorner Keith: @mee-shellmabelle-cosplay
(Pls excuse the absolute shit quality that comes with trying to scan itty bitty pictures lol)
That feel when you're trying to take a good space selfie and your idiot boyfriend gotta ruin everything Lance: @otakorner Keith: @mee-shellmabelle-cosplay
"It... smells like him" Had so much fun running around as Keith at Anime California yesterday and just UGH OMG ALL THE KLANCE GOODNESS excuse me while I post all our disgusting selfies at one time lol
“Strike me down” “Take my life” “Soon... Eternal Rest”
Yojimbo: Garp Stavo Sauce Cosplay Bahamut: Polarbearseatbabyseals Valefor: Mee-Shell Ma Belle Cosplay
Photos by Blizzard Terrak Photography
“The fayth are people who gave their lives to battle Sin. Yevon took their souls, willingly given from their still-living bodies. Now they live forever, trapped in statues. But when a summoner beckons, the souls of the fayth emerge once again. That's what we call an aeon.”
Yojimbo: Garp Stavo Sauce Cosplay Bahamut: Polarbearseatbabyseals Valefor: Mee-Shell Ma Belle Cosplay
Photos by Blizzard Terrak Photography
Feudal Japanese style RWBY
Original fan art by mojojoj27827860
PC: Toshi Studio
Yang: mee-shellmabelle-cosplay
Sorry for the silence on this blog guys, but I haven't had much time for cosplay lately! I recently got together with the amazing @mantou-cosplay girls to make RWBY cosplays based on a fanart piece by mojojoj27827860! I wasn't able to finish samurai Yang to full completion, but it was still a ton of fun to wear and I look forward to the next time we can get together as a group again!!
Open Front Hoop Skirt tutorial
We’ve all seen it before: The scandalous, daring anime skirt that is completely open in the front, yet manages to defy gravity and remain obscenely poofy. Now, usually the fluffy skirts of anime girls everywhere can be handled by adding a hoop skirt or a petticoat underneath, but what are we to do about the open panel? No one wants their hoop skirt or petticoat to be seen, but without it, you lose the gravity defying poof that gives the character their signature silhouette.
Fear not my friends, for the open hoop skirt tutorial will now grant you a solution. To begin, I will say that I started my own open front hoop skirt following this tutorial here(It’s great and if you’re doing a full length hoop skirt, definitely check it out). The reason that I decided to make my own tutorial is because I picked up some extra tricks to make it work when you don’t have bendable plastic. Here, we will be modifying a hoop skirt rather than making one from scratch. First, grab your reference picture, and determine what shape/how long your need your hoop skirt to be. In my case, I was making Saber Nero’s cosplay from Fate/Extra:
Because her red skirt only comes to mid-shin or so, I knew that I didn’t need a full length hoop skirt. However, because we are taking out a section of the hoop skirt, I would recommend getting a long hoop skirt with a lot of hoops, and to cut off the excess. This is what I started with:
It’s a 6-hoop skirt from amazon, way too long, and completely the wrong shape. This is all fine, because we’re going to be reconstructing it. The first thing that I did was cut off all the excess after the 4th hoop. Take out the hoops, and serge the edges to stop the fraying. Don’t throw away the extra fabric and hoops–they will be used later on in the tutorial. This step is optional if you plan on keeping your hoop skirt long, but know that you might have to buy some extra boning for the last parts of this tutorial. Also optional, but this makes it a lot easier to handle the hoop skirt: Insert an elastic waistband instead of the ribbon tie on top. In my case, I had to seam rip the casing because it was too small for my elastic band, and sew down a larger casing. This was necessary for me because the skirt was going to sit very low on my hips. (And I just plain don’t like the ribbon ties.) Next, put the hoops back inside the skirt:
Now, the fun part! Mark where you want your hoop skirt to start. I used a tape measure to get it even on both sides. When you are satisfied with how it looks, cut away! (Don’t cut through the actual boning tho!) When you are finished, you can take apart the hoops and remove the panel that you have cut through.
It will look roughly like this! Don’t cut any of the boning yet, remove it from the hoop skirt. Serge all the raw edges.
Taking some heavy duty scrap fabric (I used a type of flat braid I found at Joanns), sew it to the edges of your hoop skirt to create a casing. Note: I actually left gaps between stitches on the inner layer so that the original hoop casings going perpendicular to the new casings weren’t cut off. That way, the new casing is giving extra support to original casing. Also, I didn’t show it in the diagram, but please remember to close the casing at the bottom of the hoop skirt. Optional: I took the extra fabric that I cut off from the hoop skirt, serged the raw edges, gathered it a bit, and sewed it on the halfway point around the hoop skirt and at the very top. This is solely for the purpose of hiding the hoops so that they don’t show through your fabric over the hoop skirt. Put your hoop skirt back on the dress form. Cut little holes right outside of the new casing you installed, and slide your hoops back in. If your boning is sharp, I very much recommend wrapping some tape around the edges to make it as dull as possible because there will be pressure applied to the fabric that the hoops hit. Once you have the hoop completely in place, cut a little bit past the point of where the hoop skirt ends, and tuck the edge into the casing (Don’t forget to dull the edge of the boning). Apply fray check to the holes you made and sew it up. Depending on the quality of your hoop skirt, you may have to do some hand sewing if the hoop casing is coming loose when you originally cut out the front panel. So, now your hoop skirt probably looks like the picture on the left:
How do we get that extra poof? Well, take your leftover boning, and insert it into the new casing you made like so:
The two blue pieces of boning will help create a strong end point for the hoops going around, while the orange piece will channel the blue ones and make them poof out. The longer your orange piece is, the better. As a result, your hoop skirt will now flare out a lot more! (Thank you lovely engineering boyfriend for this wonderful idea)
Now, your open front hoop skirt should be all set! Go forth and impress the world with your remarkable, floofy skirt! Please feel to message me here on tumblr or on my cosplay FB page (Istoria Cosplay) if you have any questions!