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Jean Paul Gaultier Couture 2007 | Details

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Ragyo Kiryuin Wig Tutorial/Walkthrough

For everyone who’s ever wanted to make their own Disco MILF!  We got a ton of questions about my Ragyo wig, and fortunately I took a bunch of progress photos.  This includes a basic walkthrough of how I made my own wig, as well as a few extra suggestions for anyone looking to try it.

[More Ragyo photos at our KLK tag]

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New love letter and game controller phone charms added! ☆〜（ゝ。∂）

☆彡 www.kittywooddesigns.com ☆彡

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How to make sure what wigs sold on Taobao/Aliexpress look like in real life

You’ve maybe heard of Aliexpress. It’s an online shopping website where as a cosplayer you can find a big variety of wigs (among others), almost always cheaper than on ebay. Why is it so cheap? Aliexpress belongs to a Chinese company Alibaba that manages a whole lot of popular Chinese websites and applications, most famously Chinese biggest online shopping website called Taobao.

Thus, the wigs you buy on Aliexpress (their international shopping portal) come directly from China and are sold for much cheaper than on ebay. Consequently, the sellers you can find on Aliexpress you can also find on Taobao, selling exactly the same products.

Now why is this information relevant? When ordering something, you’d want to know if the seller is good and whether the wig actually looks the way it does on the pic. Problem is, many products on Aliexpress are not rated at all. BUT if you really want to be sure, you can go on Taobao and find the same product there, including ratings and maybe even pics of the product taken by buyers.

Few days ago we wanted to buy a wig that looked great on the photos provided by the seller. We double checked on taobao and found out by looking on reviews that the wig actually looked nothing like the seller suggested. Saved disappointment and time!

 The pics above show how to navigate taobao to find reviews and pictures taken by buyers.

One question remains: how to find the same product? That’s the trickiest part. There are tutorials explaining how to search for things on taobao. A few tips: if you’re looking for wigs, the Chinese word is 假发, then you can narrow down by adding the color (look it up on google translate) or the name of the anime and/or name of the character (you can look up the Chinese naming on wikipedia).

The process may be a bit time consuming, but it can really improve your wig shopping experience on Aliexpress!

If you’re interested in our cosplays, please take a look! :)

http://green-makakas.tumblr.com/tagged/cosplay

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Dress by www.chotronette.com

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This is the step by step on how to turn a terrible water pistol into a not-so-much terrible laser gun with all the charm of retro science fiction

Tools: -Scissors - X-acto knife Or modeling knife - Painting stuff (brushes, water…) - A piece of cloth -...

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Exquisite Japanese Floral Hair Ornaments Handcrafted from Resin by Sakae

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My cosplay wing tutorial is now complete!  I tried to cover as much of my process as possible for making feathered wings. I hope you find this helpful :) Facebook | DeviantART | Twitter

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Characters I want to cosplay.

Yagokoro Eirin, glasses version - Touhou

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If you are sewing a new costume, don’t fly blind! Simplicity/McCalls/Buttericks has some amazing patterns you can easily adapt, and most craft/fabric stores have frequent sales, coupons, or decent deals so you can get them CHEAP! I tend to stock up when there is a dollar...

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How did you make that sweet firey thing your holding?! I've been trying to figure out how to do that myself.

You’re that great Chandra cosplayer! :D Certainly!

This medium is lighting gel, a very thin, transparent polycarbonate that comes in a HUGE array of colors, and is used in theatre to change the color of stage lights. It comes in sheets of 20”x24”, around $6 a sheet. I used 6 sheets for this project in 6 subtly different colors. The base of the head is Wonderflex, molded to the shape of my own head (the wig head is smaller than my head). I got it to fit snugly enough with all my hair underneath it that I don’t need to even pin it in place! I cut the gel into graduating triangles, with the deepest orange at 12”x5” and the palest yellow at 4”x4”, and LIGHTLY treated it with my heat gun on LOW heat. The gel will melt if too much heat is applied, but if lightly heat-treated it will hold its shape. It’s rigid but not breakable - this actually got tossed around in the back of my car, and though it made a lot of crunching noises, the shape never changed. I then took the cones and hot glued them onto the goldenrod-painted Wonderflex dome, then finished it with the heat gun, tweaking the shape of the flames. The plasma blasts were created much the same way. However, I wanted my fists to be seen inside them, so instead of the opaque Wonderflex I used clear packaging tape. I took a small balloon inflated slightly larger than my fist and wrapped it sticky-side-out with packaging tape, then wrapped it again sticky-side-in. I popped the balloon, and though the shell was a little flimsy to begin with, once I hot glued all the cones on there it turned surprising durable. The scraps of gel I applied to the tops of my gloves and the tops of my boots, and saved the rest for future repairs.

Hope this helps! :)

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Chasseurs à cheval dolman belonging to the Portugese army, 1813

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FFFF01 // Futuristic Fashion Femme Fatales

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Skirt - $27.00 $24.30 with the discount code “mori-summer”

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The Crown of 14 Towers

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I’m feeling educational today! Here’s a tutorial on how I do sharp foam details on armour works. Enjoy!

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Casting clear gems with EpoxACast

Video tutorial

Short, written tutorial [video has more information, this is just a little summary!]:

Materials

Chavant NSP Medium

Oomoo 30 

Ease Release 200 

EpoxACast 690 Clear

Tools

Cutter

Scalpel

Spatulae

hotglue gun

scoops

ATTENTION!! Your health and safety should always come first! Please read the safety instructions that come with the materials and follow them!

The basic shape of the gem is cut from clay.

The facets are cut into it and smoothened with water

The silicone is being mixed. Attention! Please follow the safety instructions for working with silicone! Mixing ratio is 1:1 and you’re done mixing once there are no pink or blue stains in the silicone.

Only when all air bubbles have vanished (yet before pot life expires), the silicone is poured in a thin stream from the deepest point of the moldbox.

After 6 hrs the silicone has cured. Before mixing and pouring the resin, I used a release agent. When working with resin, you have to follow the safety instructions and protect your skin, eyes and respiratory system by wearing the necessary protection and working in a well ventilated area! Mixing ratio is 100 parts of epoxy to 30 parts of hardener. Use a kitchen scale to measure, stir carefully so there will be no bubbles, pour carefully.

After 24 hours the epoxy is cured and hard. You can now demold it.

Pro-tip: Put mirrorfoil behind it for le shine!

You can find aditional information about the materials and possibilities this technique gives you in my facebook-gallery on this topic!