Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

Just three girls who love to sew, to tinker, and bring dreams to life with costumes and photography. We tag our own pictures with "stardustcosplay"; reblogged cosplays that are not our own are always tagged with "awesome cosplay" <3

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     “The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”   

Picture by the wonderful photogrpherfox

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"I don't mind waiting for people. Because the longer you wait, when you do meet... You'll be more happy."

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“ Goodnight, night vale, goodnight.”

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Credits: Photo | Background | Editing

Cosplayers: King Thranduil | Legolas | Unnamed Queen

I really loved this photo of our “family” shot from Colossalcon! I thought it would be neat to work with it a bit and do a background replacement. For not being very experienced with it, I think it came out pretty nice! Also, click the image for better quality~

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I’m literally sobbing.

So my friends convinced me to wear my Princess Tiana cosplay to Walmart. Considering I wasn’t at a con, I was surprised with all of the happy kids and parents begging to take pictures. In light of this, I ended up driving to Toys-R-Us just for fun. 

I’ll never forget this little black girl who asked to take a picture with me. As she walked away with her mom, she exclaimed how happy she was to see a princess that looked like her in real life. 

THIS IS WHY REPRESENTATION IS IMPORTANT. I can remember all of the times I wondered why none of my favorite Disney characters, or video game characters, or even anime characters had the same dark skin as me. Or the same wide nose as me. Or the same thick lips as me. Or the same coily hair as me. 

When Princess Tiana was introduced, I nearly cried. I waited until I was a young adult to have a Disney Princess who had my features and was seen as beautiful. And seeing children so happy –showing them that their dark skin, wide nose, thick lips, and coily hair are beautiful– moves me to tears.  

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“Oh my God, did you see those leopard print jeggings??!”

This is it.  This is what I have been training my entire cosplay career for.  Fru Fru the Snooki Shrew from Zootopia is the best thing I’ve ever made, and nobody can tell me otherwise.

♕ Fru Fru | Cowbutt Crunchies Cosplay ♔ Photography | Pyropi

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My last shots from LBM, it’s almost been a week already… The Star Wars was strong at the con this year!

Rey: @moirarty Fem!Poe/Jessika: @tiny-steve BB-8: @the-illusion-of-sanity Leia: @darkmistandodddreams Kylo: @now-where-was-i

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Some pictures I took at MCM Hannover this weekend. The zootopia group are stardustcosplay and the crashed X-Wing Pilot is MilatierCosplay on Facebook Jack Frost is Cage Cosplay on FB If you know who the other people are, so I can tag them, please send me a message.

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*____* Danke für das Bild. Ich freu mich gerade ganz arg <3!

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“ Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, playing pranks on the other counselors. These kids had no idea just how crazy a summer camp could be.”    ―    Rick Riordan,          The Mark of Athena    

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“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.” 

~ The Night Circus (2011), Erin Morgenstern

I felt like reposting some of our Night Circus cosplay pictures, because this is such an amazing book and we had so much fun creating both the costumes and the props for the photo shoot. Thanks again to our friends who made the 100 origami cranes - you’re amazing!

Girls - I know we have like 30 or so costumes planned this year, but could we squeeze in more book cosplay? I want more book cosplay.

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This is not a really cosplay-project, only something I done for the cold days of the year: SOME UNICORN-SLIPPERS! I love unicorns - and warm feets!

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One of the biggest projects we had to tackle early this year were the wigs for our Ever After High costumes, Maddie and Kitty. Though we only need them for a convention in the summer, we knew the wigs would take a lot of time and energy and decided to get an early start.

For Maddie, I dyed three different wigs in shades of green, turquoise and lilac (because it was nearly impossible to find a wig that came close to Maddie’s haircolour(s)), and sewed them together into one fluffy mass of hair. I didn’t use any curlers, I just wrapped the hair around my fingers and secured it with pins. I used a hair-dryer to really heat up the hair (twice), and when I took out the pins - voila.

I hadn’t hoped for the result to be this curly, and I’m absolutely in love with the result. And I hope Kitty’s wig will turn out equally great - but I wont’ start with that one before March.

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Jareth: “I move the stars for no one.”

We did this this cosplay almost seven years ago. David Bowie and especially this movie meant so much to me as a teenager.

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Best sidekick

I love this cosplay so much, I can’t even express it. Ron is such a fun character to play! How can you not love a cosplay that contains ugly boxershorts and a naked mole rat!? :D

Photographer & Editing - Halbzeit Fotografie - DeviantArt - Animexx - Facebook Model - @misurichan - DeviantArt - Animexx - Youtube - Facebook

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“After all I had done for Percy Jackson, I expected delight upon my arrival. A tearful welcome, a few burnt offerings, and a small festival in my honor would not have been amiss.

Instead, the young man swung open the apartment door and said, “Why?””

We both didn’t expect our love for cosplaying anything Peter-Johnson-related to last this long, but after reading the excerpt from Trials of Apollo (seriously, is it May yet?) another Percy-hoodie felt like an appropriate Christmas present.

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Winter greetings and best wishes for the new year from all of us <3 May it be filled with warmth and happiness and quests and friends and mythomagic games!

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“It was a constant source of amazement to Alexia that the only thing she had ever done in her entire life that pleased her mama was marry a werewolf.       

(Changeless by Gail Carriger)

The pictures are four years old, but i thought about this day today. I love my girls <3