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Hello! I'm planning a cosplay of Judal from Magi (maybe) and I was wondering - How would I bind my chest or something for support? Like, usually under most of my cosplays I wear a sports bra, but I don't know how it would work. Would a strapless bra work, and then have bandages over it or...?

Don’t bind with bandages! They’re the most dangerous method of binding. If you can’t afford a normal binder, some people will buy a few sports bras (or sorta-stretchy bandeaus if you need strapless) in a size smaller than they’d usually wear, but you need to make sure that they’re not too tight and that you can breathe. Layering is important for that method of binding if you have a medium-to-large chest. If you can’t afford an actual binder and need to bind any more than that or can’t flatten without discomfort or extreme tightness, it’s healthier to put the cosplay on hold until you can bind properly.

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Anonymous asked:

Hi! Ok,so this year i really wanna be something from Steven Universe, but im 5'3 and 14. I already thought about connie, but im Caucasian, and i dont wanna make people angry. Any advice if who i can be?

Cosplay Connie! Just don’t darken your skin. Peridot would also be really cute imo. Cosplays are personal though, so I think what you want to wear should be up to you before anything else! If you want to be Connie, go for it.

((This is probably more of a nitpick than anything else, but Caucasian doesn’t mean white. It refers to a single region of the world that was presumed to be where all white people evolved from, but the region itself is mostly brown and the way the term came into existence was pretty racist. I’m from a family of brown Caucasians (as in from the Caucasus), so I’m a bit more nitpicky about it than most people, but it’s not big enough to get upset about or anything.))

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Anonymous asked:

i need supplies for cosplaying in around a month but my parents won't let me buy anything and im 14 so i cant do anything about it any advice??

I’m sorry! My parents used to be kind of like this so I relate. There’s really not much you can do aside from using clothing you already have, convincing them to buy you stuff at thrift stores, or getting clothing and supplies from friends who have them. Good luck with your parents, it took my parents forever to warm up to the idea of cosplaying

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Anonymous asked:

Hi I've recently dyed a wig for my hanayo Koizumi cosplay and after it dried the wig started to get wavy, I assume due to the heat, and got very frizzy in certain parts, do you have any advice to how I can defrizz and straighten it before the con I'm going to in 2 weeks. Thank you so much for any help you can give me. I really appreciate your blog for helping other cosplayers out. Have a nice day/night!!

What fiber is the wig made out of? If it’s made out of a heat resistant fiber like kanekalon, you can flat iron it on the lowest heat setting. A lot of wigs are good up to heats of 400 degrees. Giving it some spritzes of a little conditioner diluted into a ton of water helps the wig from building up static, but definitely make sure your wig can handle it+heat on an unnoticeable chunk of hair as a test beforehand. If you want to be really safe, you can also use a brush and a blow-dryer held a reasonable distance away from your wig. Blow on the strand you’re brushing through (after putting the conditioner mixture into the wig) a few times and it should straighten out. This gives you more control over the amount of heat being used on the wig.

A lot of people also use hot water for styling, but I would only really recommend it for styles you don’t want a lot of control over like curling or crimping braids, or for wigs that can’t handle higher amounts of heat. If the idea of putting human conditioner on a wig scares you, some people also rub down their wigs with dryer sheets after straightening but I’ve not personally done that for anything other than shine removal so I can’t really say much about its effectiveness.

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Anonymous asked:

I have a question. I am a cisgender female. I was considering cosplaying the character Poison from Final Fight. If you're not familiar with the character, the most important thing you need to know for this question is that she is a transgender female. Is it okay for a cis girl to cosplay as a trans* girl? I am not trying to erase anyone's identity, and if it's offensive, then I won't do the cosplay. I just want to know, since I really like the character.

I’m not a transgender girl, but my girlfriend is. Thankfully she can help me out with this in specific. Here’s her input;

Also, think about how many cisgender Grell Sutcliff cosplayers there are. Grell is canonically a transgender woman, and you don’t often see people raising hell just for cosplaying her.Just like any character, don’t make your cosplay a joke or stereotype based around a character’s race/sexual identity/gender/etc, and you’re golden!

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You all asked for it…so here it is! A Sans head tutorial. Original credit for the Sans mask goes to Squigglydigg, whose tutorial can be found here: (X)

#undertale #tutorials #this is for some of the asks in my inbox right now

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Anonymous asked:

So, I noticed that there are a lot of people berating others who cosplay characters of color when they aren’t of color themselves? What are you supposed to do if you wanna cosplay a character of color? Do you just not? Cause we get yelled at if we don't and then yelled at if we do?

General disclaimer that this is free for follower discussion as long as it doesn’t get out of hand, and I myself am West Asian so I can’t really speak for everyone obviously.

This is a hard thing to answer since not everyone agrees on this subject, but I think as long as you don’t try to change your own appearance through black/brown/yellow face, you should cosplay whoever you want to.

Think about it like this; Most anime characters are Japanese. Most anime characters aren’t ‘white.’ When you aren’t Japanese and you cosplay these characters, you aren’t trying to ‘look Japanese.’ You’re showcasing a character’s distinct design on your own body! Feel free to showcase whatever character you want to, it just shouldn’t turn into a racist caricature in the process.

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It’s finally here, my walk through on how I made my clown mask from this years Halloween!

First we’ll need some supplies, this is my first time working with this as a medium so bare with me. Right here we have some plaster casting, a bag of modeling plastery stuff by Sculptamold and a medium and fine sandpaper sponge. You’ll probably need some help with this one, but if you feel like you’re a super pro and can plastor your own face, by all mean go gung-ho on that shit.

I have saved you the horrifying nightmare fuel that was my face while I had this on by adding these sweet shades. Believe me, you’ll look like you’re straight out of Goodnight Mommy. You’re definitely gonna wanna put on some Vaseline before applying the plaster otherwise it’s probably gonna feel like the plasters ripping your skin off after it dries. Basically all you do here is just cut up some of the plaster casting and dunk it in a bowl of water and apply it straight to your face. I made about 2 - 3 layers on my face, and it dries pretty quick. You can cover up your lips too, I don’t really suggest covering up your breathing holes or your eyes though.

It’ll look somethin’ like this after you take it off your face, you’ll wanna leave it for at least a day to dry. as for how long you leave it on your face for? Not very long it dries as you go along probably like 10 - 15 minutes.

I decided to add some more plaster on top after and covered up the holes and such since I was doing something a little different for my eye holes and mouth. You’ll wanna let it dry again.

After that I drew my lines for what I wanted my face to look like and then cut them a little with an xacto blade. Then I started piling on the scultamold it’s gonna look a little lumpy after but that’s okay cause we gonna sand it after it dries.

After sanding this bad boy with the medium sanding sponge my cut marks kinda got covered up so I re-cut them.

It’s pretty easy cutting the plaster actually in case your’e worried. (Don’t forget to make nose holes so you can breath).

I have this handy lil’ mini sander thing I got off ebay, sadly it’s heads are really shitty and don’t do much so I had to tape some sandpaper onto them… It worked way better after that. If you don’t wanna get something like this a nail file will work just fine for evening out and smoothing the holes in your mask.

After all that sanding I realized the eye holes were literally RIGHT in my eyes so I had to re-wet them and push them out a bit. This is the back of the mask by the way, I sanded it a bit as well so it wasn’t as ugly and not rough on my face when wearing it.

It actually gave it some nice eye dimension after I pushed them out so it was fine.

Continue sanding until you feel that it’s smooth enough to your liking, you use the fine sand sponge after you got most of the high ridges down with the medium. Getting it completely smooth by hand is sort of impossible. You’d need a electric sander for that.

Lookin’ good!

Here is where I started having some fun with mediums these are optional depending on what you want to do with your mask. I used a crackle medium to give my mask a bit of a old antique look.

After that I decided I wanted to do water colours so I put down an absorbent ground for the places I was going to paint.

Now we get to do the fun part, painting!

After I finished painting it all I added some glitter on the cheeks and eye for a fun sparkly effect. I also added in the string holes here with my mini sander and blade (I just jammed my blade into it and spinned it around), you might wanna put them in a bit earlier if you don’t have one of those so you don’t end up cracking your mask (if you don’t know where to put them view below). Once the paintings all done I sprayed it with a super high gloss sealer for extra shine!

Now we gonna add some string in the holes I didn’t take a picture of for some reason, this is so your mask actually stays on your face. There’s two ways you can do this, around your head or behind your ears. I like to do behind the ears because then I don’t have to worry about messing up my hair with a band around the head. I measured my elastic around 14 inches, you might want to do your own measurements with the string first tho.

Had to take a picture of how I did it on my eye ball mask since I don’t have my clown mask currently with me. There should be two holes that you tie the string on it’ll look like that. Here’s a less confusing picture:

Now you are complete, time to go be a creepy clown!

Hope this is useful for everyone!

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Thank you to everyone who followed during my haitus! As 2015 ends and 2016 begins, and as I’ve very graciously been blessed with a lot of followers, this blog is going through a great transformation. The theme will be better tidied up, a FAQ will be created to answer some quick questions that I get a lot, I’ll begin regularly reblogging some really helpful tutorials from other blogs, and my attention will finally be placed on creating some actual tutorials of my own.

I’m still going to open up a mod-spot or two, but due to health issues and my own personal life, I haven’t been able to do it properly yet. It probably won’t happen for a little while longer, but I’ll get the applications together regardless and we’ll see what happens.

If you know of any great cosplayers here on Tumblr, any other cosplay help blogs, know any great tutorial-makers, or have any ideas for the blog, feel free to let me know! I want this to be a fun and helpful place for everyone.

As of right now, I’m planning on having every day of the week carry a different theme (Great cosplay, common beginner mistakes, possibly a day of just submissions, etc) but it’ll take a week or two to properly get into that more. If you have any theme suggestions, that would be lovely too.

Have a great holiday season, everybody!!

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Anonymous asked:

Hello! I'm going to be cosplaying Kyle the Conjurer (from Fanboy and Chum Chum) for my next con, and I cant seem to find a shirt that would fit me! Any ideas/advice?

I could help you look a little for something online if I had some sizing and price-range information. = >

Whenever I need specific clothing that seem like something common for a cosplay, I love to hit thrift stores to find them! If your town has just a big ol’ thrift store, it’s worth it to skim through the shirts since red-and-yellow striped shirts aren’t hugely uncommon. The very very worst case scenario is getting a red or yellow shirt and painting stripes on it with fabric paint, but I would try to shop around online and in some thrift stores first, since painting clothing can be really hard to pull off effectively, especially with a pattern as unforgivably precise as stripes. (Not to mention the potential of the paint cracking when it stretches.)

Unrelated, but Fanboy and Chum Chum! Wow, I haven’t even thought about that show since middle school! I just looked it up again and I had no idea it aired new episodes in 2014. You learn something new every day!

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ezrudine asked:

Lovely day to you! :) I just have a question that I've been mulling about for a couple of days. Is it Cultural Appropriation if I decide to cosplay a character that depicts Chinese Empress? (Feferi from Dynastystuck) I really don't want to offend people if I do choose to make this cosplay D: If it is, is there some way for it not to become an example of Cultural Appropriation?

I’m so sorry it took me a long time to reply to this message. It seems like you really care about appropriation, which is really good! I’m not really qualified to answer this question unfortunately. Some people think that it’s okay as long as it’s part of a characters design, but some people would probably say it is appropriation. It’s not my call since I’m not Chinese.

I’m West Asian, and my knowledge of appropriation is mostly West/Central Asia/ Middle East-centric because that’s my culture and my upbringing. (though i am other stuff, im most familiar with the culture of that part of the world. I also have a basic understanding of appropriation of other cultures but I can’t really speak for any other culture. I would find blogs centered around Chinese appropriation and ask for their opinions.

Good luck regardless!

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macaronitrash asked:

hello ! im cosplaying mettaton ex from undertale and im having a bit of a tough time finding wigs and quality wig websites. any good ones you can suggest? x

Websites or wigs? I’m going to take my time this weekend to answer all the wig asks I’ve gotten, but to be honest... I just get wigs off of really high rated ebay sellers and modify them myself! Maybe I’ll do a series of Undertale tutorials since it’s been something I’ve been really really into lately. I’ll look for some wigs and post a short list later.

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Anonymous asked:

So, uh. I'm attending a con in less than two weeks, and I may be using the same cosplay for two days straight. That being said...I do tend to sweat a lot, and this is a multi-layer cosplay. Is there any way you can suggest to keeping the cosplay from smelling on Day 2? I just don't want to be one of those "ew body odor" con-goers.

Chances are, anyone else in cosplay will be in the exact same boat as you and nobody will judge it. Wear a strong antiperspirant, carry some cool water, and bring a pocket fan to fan yourself off when you’re resting.Short of actually washing it, any smell that accumulates will be hard to get rid of. If you notice the cosplay smelling on day two, spray it with a little febreze. If it’s not a super dark color, brushing some baking soda on the inside will absorb some odor as well.

- Rose

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Anonymous asked:

I ordered a wig off of Amazon. It's everything I want, but I was told the box would have minions on it. I don't want anyone to see those monstrosities and its already being shipped. What do?

The only ways you can be saved is if you just happened to order from a seller that isn’t fulfilled or sold by amazon. They typically package their own boxes and you will be saved from the slow yellow death that radiates from those shitty smiles. The only other way to be saved is having someone else intercept the package and open it for you. They may not make it out alive, but it’s a small price to pay to not have to look at them.

- Rose

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Anonymous asked:

I'm a (CIS)girl crossplaying as Dirk Strider, but I'm a bit nervous to try binding, as A) It feels like I'm insulting trans people, and B) I have no idea how it'll affect me. Are there any alternatives?

It’s not an insult to trans people. Neither Mod Lily nor I are cis, and the only upset I’ve heard from other trans people is when cis cosplayers enter binding giveaways meant specifically for trans people that can’t really afford their own binders.

And as for how it’ll affect you... Even mild binding can cause crushed ribs, bruises, it could hurt or collapse your lungs, among other issues. These issues are typically associated with binding too aggressively, or with leaving a binder on for way too long. This isn’t to scare you because it’s possible to bind harm-free if you’re aware of the safety precautions and heed them.

The only other alternatives are surgery, which you probably don’t want to do just to cosplay Dirk Strider, and not binding.

If you do decide to bind, however, keep some stuff in mind;

DO NOT

Bind with bandages or tape. Even though normal binders have all the same risks associated with them, and even I’ve been guilty of trying more dangerous stuff, it’s a lot easier to overbind with these things.They’re not really breathable, and it’s a lot easier to accidentally collapse some organs in the process.
Buy cheap china-made binders for like 2$. A lot of skinnier, flatter people can get away with it because they don’t have a tremendous amount to bind, but these binders are not super stretchy or breathable and can be just as bad as using tape.
Wear your binder for more than 8-12 hours at a time or bind 24/7! This is the easiest way to do some serious damage.
Wear a binder that is too small for you. If you have anything above a B Cup, most binders will not typically bind to complete flatness. The solution to this isn’t necessarily to wear a binder that’s smaller. I have a 34 E cup, and in order to bind to where it’s not super noticeable, I have to wear a tight sports bra under my binder. This probably isn’t even that healthy, but it’s not as tight or hard to breathe as super small binders are.

Make sure you read reviews for the binder you’re looking at buying made by people with your same chest size! Specific binders could work wonders for someone with one cup size, but be the worst binder for someone else.
Invest or save up a little for a good binder. It’s not worth it to hurt yourself because you don’t have enough money to bind properly.
Stop binding if you start wheezing, are unable to breathe, feel lightheaded, feel pain in your ribs. It’s normal to feel some pressure and general weirdness but as soon as you start feeling uncomfortable about things, stop.

- Rose

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cascadingseas-deactivated201602 asked:

To the previous anon wondering about which wig to use for Ellie, Jennie would be a good choice, as you can always leave the clip in ponytail out, and have a regular sized ponytail.

Yes! Thank you for pointing that out, I didn’t even notice that the actual ponytail was pretty long-ish separate of the detached ponytail. Jeannie is the best choice

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We’re 80 followers away from our next thousand, and I just want to say thank you to everyone who’s stuck around through multiple hiatuses and that being able to help you all is a blessing and makes my life a little more complete. I’m sorry to people who I haven’t been able to respond to yet. It gets kind of hard to sift through them all sometimes since there are a lot and I try to be as thoughtful as I can with my responses, but I’m trying to respond to as many of the messages as I possibly can and I’m not ignoring anyone. <3 Have a great weekend, everyone!

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