Animecon 2015, Finland
Photographer: vuorikettu
Chaarcters (models): Shirazu (?)/Mutsuki (?)/Yonebayashi (?)
If you recognize yourself, please let me know so I can credit you~
The challenge, making a non-pigtail wig into a wig with poofy pigtails. No wefts to use either.
First thing to do was to cut the hair to make into pigtails, since the glue takes a while to dry. Here's a good tutorial to the technique I used.
Then I trimmed the back of the hair and the bangs to a better shape. The back ended up pretty poofy, but that was luckily fixed later.
Added the pigtails by putting the fabric part of them through the holes in the wig and then sewing it in place in a way the hair is pointing up from the fabric part. I didn't use any hairties like in the tutorial, so it will be more comfortable to wear.
The pigtails however needed more support for the poofiness-to-come, so I added little pieces of EVA foam hardened with glue under them, and glued the most bottom hairs of the pigtails on top of that.
Then the teasing hell started, I separated the topmost part of the pigtail, and started teasing the upper part of the rest of it in small layers. (note to self: still need to buy more hairspray)
It was already nearing the poofiness I wanted, but by trying to put the top layer on top of the teased part I noticed it didn't cover it properly and looked pretty ugly.
Luckily the layered look of Yagyuu's pigtails saved me, because I could cut a bit away from half of the pigtails and get extra fiber.
And that fiber was just enough to cover up the teased parts on both sides, so the pigtails looked way neater when the top layer was put on top.
Since the glue was clear drying and the top layer was thick enough to cover it, I ended up with a pretty neat poofy pigtails!
After that there was just the final modifications left, I started with layering the pigtails more.
And then curling them for a little bit by rolling the hair around the toilet paper rolls and heating it with a blowdryer.
Annnd here's the finished wig! Wouldn't really recommend making a non-pigtail wig into a poofy pigtails wig, since the technique works so much better for thin pigtails, and modifying clip-on pigtails to be poofy is so much easier, since the clip already adds some volume, and the hair amount is usually more too. But it isn't impossible if you're in a hurry or something and only have a non-clip-on wig! (Though if you're in a hurry, note that this wig took me a few days, and glue drying times are a thing.)
How to procrastinate on posting about a costume for like 2 months
And I only have progress pics of the top...
It was made with a shortened yukata pattern, can't link to the exact guide for patterning it, since I printed it yeaaars ago and it has now disappeared from the internet (also it was in Finnish). But I guess there's a lot of guides for yukata patterns. I wasn't first sure if the fabric was gonna work for this, it was quite... flowy... but the flowiness looked nice on the sleeves so it turned out better than I expected!
The black part of the skirt is actually the same petticoat I used for Rui, so I only made the yellow overskirt. Which due to a patterning error ended up being too small and uncomfortable. I'll redo the skirt sometime so I can do a better photoshoot with this costume.
The tail was probably the most time consuming part, and it made me hate the smell of hot glue a lot. It's felt triangles glued on a steel wire (two triangles glued together, sandwiching the wire inside). The tail is attached with a belt. It's also my favourite part of this costume, damn did the tail end up looking good!
TL;DR: I'm really happy with the top and tail, but need to redo the skirt before photoshooting happens.
It's nice to get to use the wig I styled for Rui to something else too, since a lot of work went to that, the bow is also made from leftover fabrics from Rui's skirt.
Commission for a friend of Clear's coat from DRAMAtical Murder, haven't actually played that myself and almost didn't know the coat had pockets, but luckily I was reminded.
Didn't really make that many new ones and mainly rewore old ones but Iäm still satisfied and feel like I've challenged my skills enough and gotten at least somewhat better!
There's still Shivan, which I made for Desucon Frostbite, but didn't get to wear and then kinda forgot to photoshoot it later that winter. And then I've been waiting the whole summer for winter to get to photoshoot it and there's no snow yet.
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