Don't Make Pies out of Sloths

slothpie jellyfishtart's art/cosplay blog This is a blog where I keep my posts limited to my creations, cosplay/cmv updates, and cosplay photos. Upcoming cons: Anime Fusion, Con+Alt+Delete, Anime Detour

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For the sake of my sanity I’ve pretty much stopped using Tumblr.  I too a very long break from it and realised I felt a lot happier with it out of my life.  I still post my cosplays over on my Instagram (@jellyfishtart) though for anyone who is interested and that space is strictly image based, so you can finally escape my text updates.  Thank you so much to everyone who followed me here and supported me!  I will keep this blog up as an archive, but I don’t plan on coming back to it.

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I really want to try to film something at Detour.  Anime Fargo I had something planned, but it completely slipped my mind and I forgot until I was in the car on Sunday and Fusion I was so stressed a good chunk of the time.  Hopefully I’ll actually get myself together enough to do something decent, but let’s be real here, it’s me, it’s going to make everyone cringe.

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Maki photoshoot should be happening this week on either Tuesday or Wednesday! Photos should be up shortly after!

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Cosplay order got here Tuesday!  I had a mini freak out when I opened up my Maki cosplay and four buttons fell out, turned out they just sent a bunch of spares for the one on the bottom of the top (which is honestly the best way any company can win points with me).  

All the wigs look good, but I haven’t tried them on yet and I need to weft the new blonde wigs together for Heather M.  The wig cutting set (hair scissors, thinning shears, hair razor, bang level) looks really nice and I’m excited to try it out which I’ll have the opportunity to do once I get back to wig styling. 

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Now that it’s pretty much time for my order to ship out I’m feeling really nervous about my choice to not size up my Maki cosplay.  I didn’t go for XL because all my measurements are well withing the L bracket, but like cm does not offer much room for error.

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Finally got my shit together enough to place the first of what is sure to be many Taobao orders this year.  I ordered Maki and two wigs for her, one from Kucos, the other from CCKids, I prefer the look of the Kucos wig, but I know CCKids wigs are less prone to tangling, so it was kind of a just in case thing.  I also ordered another set of my default Sonia wigs that I’ll weft together to make my wig for Heather McNamara, getting a new Chiaki wig too (since I just wear that thing when I’m too lazy to do my real hair and I figure I should just have one for cosplay and one for irl stuff).  Also ordered a nice set of wig cutting tools and a new Kotori wig since my current one is getting a little worse for wear and I want a nice one for photo shoots.  I kind of ended up ordering a lot of stuff I wasn’t expecting to, but when I really think about it I feel like my purchases make sense for me and it’s not an amount that’s breaking the bank.

Now if I can just get myself together enough to tackle my Mercy wig and get some photos.

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I really need to get my Taobao order in.  I’m thinking I’ll order Maki separately to make sure I’ll for sure have her for AD this year and then order things for Rantaro and Dia later.

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I hope one day everyone can cosplay a character that shares their name.  Because it’s honestly just this amazing moment of pure confusion when someone calls your name and you look at them and have no idea who they are, but they’re super excited to see you and then it hits you that you’re dressed up as a character.

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Mini PSA for Houseki no Kuni/Land of the Lustrous Cosplayers

Do not coat false eye lashes in glitter to get them to be the colour you need.  No matter what you do to get the excess off throughout the wear time some glitter particles will fall off the falsies and get in your eyes.  Those little glitter flakes are sharp and can damage parts of your eyes (which are very soft) by cutting it, it’s not going to be fun (or pretty), so don’t do it!  

Instead please put your eye health first and buy false eyelashes that are the right colour online if it’s something really important to you.  Otherwise use coloured mascara or just do whatever you would normally for your lashes.  Please do not put your eyes at risk for a cosplay!

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I want to cosplay Monika for DDLC.  Just Monika.

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Not gonna lie I kind of want to cosplay Rantaro as well, but Maki is priority.

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I keep getting sties on my right eye, so I’ve had to hold off on anything cosplay makeup related,  I need to style my Mercy wig a bit though, I feel like the prestyled one was a bit better, so I’ll work off that one, I think.

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I feel like newer cosplayers don’t get a lot of important information about wig care and cosplay maintenance (when it comes to washing them).  I just kind of want to write a guide that covers all the bases that I wish I knew going into it. 

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My package got here on Friday, but I’ve been really sick since Thursday night, so I’m not planning to mess with anything until I’m feeling better.  After that I’m hoping I can get y’all some Mercy photos or at least makeup tests!

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New York is holding my cosplay package hostage.

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I hate painting my nails, but goddamn I hate painting my toenails even more. Fuck you open toe shoes.

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Now I'm finally starting to feel a little excited for this con. I had to put on my skirt for Harem Dancer Kotori to try on something under it and I realised just how much I love that costume and how excited I am to wear it, so I'll be wearing that tomorrow and probably Honne Onna on Sunday then. Please say hi and come chat if you see me during the con, I'm always down to meet people and make friends, just ignore my resting bitch face.