RB's motivation: FINAL THINGS FINALLY (PUPPY CAT)

So Daisho was where I debuted Puppycat and he has been my go to casual cosplay since. He was a surprise hit there and I just love him quite a bit. But for sure at Daisho I kept thinking, I don't have the right ears, or even a tail this is not right at all.

So with the new handy dandy sewing machine that got fixed. I used the old pattern of the ears Lulu game me, some brown fabric loaned to me by my roommate Shawna from her old art project (like flannel but thicker, try the material used for moccasins that's like dried animal hide)  , as well as the pink fabric the bell originally came from. Also clips bought from Walgreens and hotglue

Tail was really simple, same brown fabric as well as the flannel I never got to use to make the jacket originally. And  belt that is useless on a dress I own but has found new purpose just for this

Just basically rectangle sewn together, turned inside out, then a brown open rectangle sewn together then turned inside out and put on the tail portion. I rather hogtie the top then sew it on to get a nice crisp line. As well as a thing to attach it to the belt 

I tested the ears on my roommate first for adjustments. She wanted to know what i was doing here so i let her know

Here was the final look

As well as all the Sunday selfies. I really liked the way the lighting made my eyes look weird here so I went with it. Also new method for the eyebrows, clear brush on eye lash glue. It's made to be gentle so it's a real clean break off for clean up later. No pain and no weird residue

Also this was running on no sleep me, waiting outside a coffee shop

I got ignored by a Bee cosplayer sitting here, I asked for a picture, I told her I was puppy cat, she kept walking......like she was gonna find another one at all on a sunday of the con. GOOD LUCK GIRLY YOURE GONNA NEED IT

Good thing I have my Bee (lulu) 

Till the season starts once again/ I have a job and income/ schools not crazy/ we can fix things up again

-RB out!

RB's motivation: LIVE NOTEPAD LIVE C'MON

Okay so I did this beautiful test run of the final mock up of the headpiece, drapery, and wig coloration. Because at Daisho the main pieces here, went crumbling down, and were not up to my personal standard. SO just more fixing up again

I was feeling good about it, because this was the day I heard Monty passed and everyone was saying just do something creative and here I was.

I stayed in this shit for twenty fucking minutes, just walking around my dorm so comfortable with this extra two pounds on my head

Homes tucks from Daisho again gave me the idea, Magnets. I couldn't do strips or anything smaller but instead had to sew a 3 quarters thick magnet into the wig and then this giant block thing onto the headpiece.

I also had to put this toothy thing into the drapery so that it will stick into the wig effectively. I have to really dig it in, so that it does;t pull the wig down as well ( which happened). I had all these preparations and plans working so well in the test run

And still the outfit was pissing me off. No recognition again, was just looking for a regular notepad form earlier. But I learned from the trial and error that the headband needs some real digging into the wig to stay. And since the magnet in the wig is round, the head piece kept rotating upside down. SO just more magnets next time

BUT THIS TIME I WAS SMART AND MADE HANNAH HELP ME DOCUMENT

It seems ritual now that if I take off Notepad early and I'm still energized that I wear the makeup for the rest of the night

Through a night of panel jumping, werewolf card games and arguments, bonding, friends nearly crying, hearing about shitty people owing money, no food, and all out strange nonsense at a convention in general, the cherry on top was I almost get locked out trying to search for Hanna for my phone charger at 1 am before she leaves for the bus and I mistake this skinny guy in shorts taking a smoke in 1 degree weather instead of her. And my face is this

It's so ridiculous I just ask, CAN I TAKE A SELFIE MAN? SO I DID

Gorgeous Saturday. It never even ended. I had to pack like crazy and watch out for peoples shenanigans so I didn't get to sleep till 2 pm on sunday and then that final night

-RB out

RBs motivation: Itty bitty ruby rose details that give me anxiety still

So I felt okay about my ruby rose at Daisho, i was one of the few there surprisingly BUT the one thing that constantly bothered me was my fucking belt. It was incomplete and IT KEPT DOING THIS SHIT ON ME

I really wanted it to just stay like this, like in the show but it didn't so I figured out a way to try and replicate that effect.

VELCRO (stick on precisely) Just stick some on the belt as well as the waist cincher and there we go. Work to comfortable level and use amount to desire though 

Also her pack. I had had this idea for a while but only got around to it two weeks before AMKE. Old pencil box here

 Now cut into pieces. I only need the button part so ic ut off the bottom of the pink. 

 But I also need the bottom and the top of the clear part, so I cut out the middle. Here we are snug as a bug. But there is also the scare of the top flying off so pully system

hot glue string parts to clear and pink part so when I open the top it catches and I can remember to push it down immediately.

Spray painted it, and attitude it with hot glue and more velcro that way when packing away I can detach it easily. Same went for the flower

NOTE; I only had an art store to go to with nice fancy spray paint so IT SUCKS for actual props. For a silver color, use a PRIMER because it sticks and that's what it's made for. Plus that's probably CHEAPER. Go to the hardware store for spray paint, never art stores

So last i was really upset about was I didn't have bullets so i ordered some online. They are plastic toys

So they are light weight, but really cool was they were detachable so I could take out the excess easilly

As well as be able to spray paint them individually. Now again, MY STUFF WAS SHIT for what I needed to do. So I had a hard time, waiting for the stuff to dry as well as later that night trying to fit them back into their carrier

I had to shove them back in. The spray paint again made a second skin too thick for the carrier and it flaked all off. I had to go in and just repaint while the shit was in the carrier, exactly what I wanted to avoid. But it looked okay for the con, no one called it out. Plus now I didn't have to worry about them falling out

As soon as I got them attached my worries melted away for a good while. It was the very last thing for the whole convention and I was just ecstatic. Two straight weeks of just cosplay work had finally paid off. There was school but yeah I was a little free finally

Also nice selfies. Emma did my makeup! For no reason! She was a cosplay mother that day

And here was our group for the RWBY meet up which I thought was AMAZING. 

Emmie was having some serious sensory and fandom uncomfortable overload but I was real happy we got this nice little ladybug selfie in.

-RB out

RB's motivation: Elsaba hair, tease and braid for your life

Alright so Elsa's fucking hair was the part I was most excited about, and probably the most tricky part for sure

SO this was my loose french braid, okay but no volume or length at all

So I needed assistance of hair extensions on my side. I could only get 14 inch for my budget at the time, for anyone that can actually afford always go for the 20 inch or longer. The pack I got provided quite a few/ lot more than I needed so yeah. Don't forget to buy your clips to sew in as well!

So here's my hair when I started, it's pretty voluminous, wavy and damaged so yeah, start with that and build onto it 

I have grown out bangs so this is super idea for this tutorial/process. Tie them away with a clip or hair tie first.

Put in your extensions by how many layers you want. I parted my long hair into two layers with the first set of hair extensions on the bottom, like under all my hair completely, then one extension layer above the bottom layer of hair. Then brush and blend together. Then start french braiding, or get your friend to do so. 

I know how to myself and none of my roommates want to do this for me. Once you got your braid, stretch out parts to get more volume. 

Now the fun part is hairspring all your bangs back. I used a mix of freezing spray and got to be hair gel. I was really obsessed with eh concept art work

And I was really into trying to get actual frozen spikes but I just didn't have enough volume in test runs

Really loved the side braid when it was working though, I was really stressed out and couldn't fully tell when it was working or not. Just more of lie, okay i know the process now, I think I'm done for the night

Also I was kind of just blind spraying to make certain ends stay down

First time testing out the green makeup. This is the shitty party city stuff. Their quality depends on color, greens are always the most concentrated I feel, just green straight out of a tube is always gonna be super pigmented so I used barely any and it STAINED ME. Like I was stained for days after the convention. That's cuz that shit is oil based go damn. But I knew I had to out it under the sleeves because it looked like a very weird transition without it

But good thing Homestucks educated me about SNAZAROO water based face paint that stays on so good, seals well, and DOES NOT STAIN YOUR SKIN

On the day of I was putting on makeup for probably a good hour or so, being green. It was a weird feeling literally, like the makeup was a very strange sensation when sealed. Like I didn't feel anything but other people felt my hands and they felt very very weird they said. I used the oil based on my chest, arms, back, and hands just to try and get full coverage but it was layered so thick that I actually almost got stuck putting on my costume from the tight sleeves, as well as the second skin forming from my stupidness

I was pretty pleased that day with the hair

I never got to do a makeup TEST so that was a fun experiment in stress, con day of.

But look at all these beautiful selfies during a not very interesting panel 

I was trying to document and their faces just couldn't resist phtotbombing. Overall I had a really stressful friday night but atleast I felt fabulous and will say I will wear it again for sure 

shitty picture on my phone at the end of the night (1-3 am is)

MAYBE I CAN TRY A MORE WESTERN CON, SAY COMIC CON CHICAGO HMM??

hmmmm??? -RB out