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5 Habits to Boost Self Confidence

Confidence is a tricky thing. Some people naturally seem to exude confidence, while others struggle to have any. And some of that is just who you are, some are naturally shy and others are naturally loud. However, there are times when you need confidence. For example, meeting new people, giving a presentation or starting a new job. Confidence can be really useful and helps you to feel calm and assured in a situation where you might normally be panicky and flustered.

I am the first to admit I am not a confident person. It was always me that had trouble putting my hand up in class, leaving the comfort of my mum to actually go to school and talking in a group of people. I was always aware from a young age that I was shy. My Mum would introduce me to someone, I wouldn’t talk and my Mum would say ‘oh Ash is just shy’. Which made me believe I could never be confident, because shy was my default. But shy people can learn to be confident, so Psych2Go shares with you 5 habits to boost self confidence.

1) Asses yourself

Instead of staying in the fogginess that is lack of confidence, take stock. Forget thinking you need confidence, instead focus on what is it you want to achieve. Any time you feel a bit wobbly and sense yourself falling into ‘I’m hopeless, I can’t do it’ territory, stop and take a breath. Detach yourself from your emotions and analyse where you are, where you need to be, and what you need to learn. Keep assessing yourself. It’s important to….

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Hey! I'm a big fan of your guys' work ever since you started a youtube channel! (Began with the avengers: age of ultron cosplay) and still adoring your content to today! I also admire the dream daddy cosplays because they're /SPOT ON./ anyways! I had a question and browsed through the FAQ list and the kits but i couldn't really find it-- (and i'm dearly sorry if this question had already been asked before.) But where did you buy your Robert Small -wig ? I've been looking for one since forever!

Hi there! Thank you so much, I can’t believe you’ve been with us since our first video! Wow! Thank you for sticking by us through it all :)

Robert’s wig is just a random lacefront I bought from a pharmacy near our old house. It started as a long brown curly wig (about butt length) that I cut, straightened, styled and coloured myself. However any lacefront will probably do! The IMStyle one we have listed on our Kit is our favourite base wig (so far it’s Regulus, Steve Harrington, Eric Lensherr, Trish, among others I can’t think of right now) because it’s got a fantastic hairline and is thick enough to cut into any style so we’d highly recommend it. It comes in a huge variety of colours and styles too.

To be honest we never buy short wigs - we always cut long ones down, because short wigs tend to be thin and aren’t easy to restyle. So that’s my best advice! Best of luck with it!

/Nyx

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My Star Guardian Lux cosplay from League of Legends

Really fun cosplay to wear, love it

Give some love to my FB page and my IG 

You can also support me on Drawcrowd for upcoming cosplays!

Photo&edit: FB

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Posing 101 for Cosplayers

Tutorial by:  Elite Cosplay Tutorial Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgeYCPRMGlM

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I'm putting together a Lady Sif costume for my girlfriend and am doing some research. What did you use to make it and how did you get the details on the armor? Thanks in advance for any info you can share about your process.

Hello, Anon!  Firstly, I must apologise for the incredibly late reply on this.  I absolutely refused to answer your question when my own Lady Sif costume was not yet complete, but now that my time with making her has come to a close, I can answer your question properly!

NOTE ON PATTERN AND PATTERN-MAKING

            First and foremost, I made all of my patterns from scratch!  Therefore, you cannot purchase any part of the patterns anywhere. 

            To make my patterns I had wrapped with plastic wrap, and then taped with masking tape the section of my body that required a pattern being made from.  From there, after having been freed from my bondage, I would (with pencil first) trace out the shape of the pieces I needed to create, outlined with sharpie, cut them out, pinned them to muslin, drew seam allowance (I use 1cm) and then cut out my final muslin pattern.

            However, sometimes you will have to wrap a section of your body multiple times if there are pieces of your pattern that overlap each other so that you can create them individually.

            *Please note that sometimes this does require the help of a second person.  I found that bribing my siblings with Starbucks coffee is a highly successful method in accomplishing this.

SKIRT:

The skirt was…quite annoying as I actually made three before I was remotely able to get it to look anything how I wanted!

I started off by drawing out the basic shape of the skirt and the panels, cut it out of muslin and did this until I created the right size, but I did not cut each panel individually!  I used upholstery vinyl and backed it with casa satin and cut out the “hemming” and glued everything together.  I then cut out individual strips for the raised stitching 0.5cm tall and 1cm wide.  I cut a thin slit on each end of the strip for every “stitch” and wrapped embroidery floss around it, tucking it into the slits to hold the fake stitching in place before gluing it down onto the panels as my skirt was way too thick to actually stitch and because it is made from vinyl, even if I did stitch it, it would have been flat and not raised like Sif’s screen costume.

BODICE:

I drew on the shape and seams of the bodice on my tape-form, cut it out, translated it onto muslin adding 1cm seam allowance and then cut it out on a stretch pleather.

*I ended up using different fabric for the bodice, but this is what the front of it looks like!  The back has one seam down the middle.

COLLAR:

I drew on the on my tape-form, cut it out, translated it onto muslin adding 1cm seam allowance and then cut it out on the upholstery vinyl. 

I then glued the two sides together, as there is no stitching on these parts of the costume.

Then let it dry!

And then I trimmed the edges and coloured them in with a Berry Sharpie marker.

BOOTS

First and foremost, the base shoes I purchased were Cilo-11S Round Toe Wedge Pumps from Discount Women’s Dress Shoes for $24.99!  These are the exact same shoes I wore for my Thranduil cosplay.  If interested in looking at more detailed/complex boot tutorials (as Sif’s was super simple), please take a look at my Thranduil Cosplay Tutorial!My height, in these boots, is almost 5′ 9″ or about 1m75cm.

Using the same exact pattern making as mentioned earlier, put on the base shoe you will be wearing and wrap that and your leg in plastic wrap and then tape. 

From here, I drew  on where the seams would be, and for this boot in particular, I had one seam from the top of the middle front, all away around my leg/boot, up to the top of the middle back. 

After cutting this off, I traced it onto muslin, adding extra room for seam allowance and also I made the top wider (as her boots are not form fitting).

I also made a pattern for the over-the-knee extension of the boot separately, after adjustments had been made in regards to the width of the boot.

I sewed in interfacing only in the calf area and over-the-knee bit, as well as zipper on the inside.

 ARMOUR:

All armour is made from craft foam, coated in 5 layers of Gesso on the right side and backed with muslin and school glue to help stiffen it.  It was painted with Krylon Metallic Silver [Gold for the circles] gloss spray paint and weathered using FolkArt Metallic Gunmetal Grey #667, sealed and then coated in EnviroTex Lite [Pour On] High Gloss Finish resin.

All detailing was carefully drawn first and then traced over with Tulip Mettalics Dimensional Fabric Paint in Silver.

The pauldrons attach to the collar via heavy duty snaps, the chest, mid and back armour attack via side straps (the breastplate and back also have magnets on the inside and their opposites glued to the bodice to help keep it in place and the breastplate has a strap from each side that snaps in the back like a bra to also help prevent it from sliding).

BRACERS:

I am pretty sure I cut up an old pair of gloves to help me get the pattern right for the glove portion of the bracer which I sewed in between two layers of vinyl (that go around my forearm).  The armour on the bracers is backed with two layers of vinyl as well which is sewn into the forearm piece with the armour glued on top.

BOOT COVERS:

Whilst wearing the pumps to be worn with the costume, I wrapped my leg AND shoe using the tape method before drawing out the pattern.  The armour is attached via heavy duty snaps.

On the bottom of the shoe, to prevent the fabric from ripping as I walk, using Contact Cement, I glued on soles made from black craft foam and stuck on no-slip grips.

CAPE:

I literally took the entire 2 yards of rectangle green fabric and hemmed the edges.  I took one of the short ends, took some thread (knotting one end) and made large stitches for how large I wanted the pleats, pushed the fabric down towards the knot (so that it bunched up) finished off the stitching and top stitched it on a machine so that the pleats stayed in place.

The fur, I took two rectangular pieces, right sides together, sewed along the edges (keeping the middle of a short end open) turned it inside out, sewed the cape to the fur piece and sewed on hooks to clip onto the D-ring’s that I sewed into the collar piece.

[Photography by In2thereview]

CHAINMAIL:

I purchased black fishnet and spray painted it silver…because I did not have time to make legit mail.  One day I will make actual mail for her.

SHIELD:

The base of the shield has poster board in the middle with craft foam on each side and then cardboard on each side of that. 

On the inside of the shield, I sewed in a slot to put my sword and straps so I can hold it.  I glued it on using Contact Cement before putting the outside vinyl on.

First, I drew the knotting on to poster paper and cut it out with an X-ACTO knife, traced the knotting onto the craft foam, and cut it out with the X-ACTO knife as well.  

The shield itself is a few layers… 

There are two small V-shaped layers at the bottom.  The bottom layer has no knotting and the middle layer does.  

Then there is the top section which is also made up of numerous layers.  There is the base with the outside knotting on top, the middle section has large, flat pieces of foam with knotting on top of that as well.  

Look at the many layers of foam!

And now it is time to paint the shield and then gloss it!

Because I was extremely proud of how well my shield came out, I decided, that for this piece, I would do European 4 in 1 chainmail for the mail on either side of the shield armour.

The final height and with measurements of the shield are (at the tallest and widest points):Height: 51.5cmWidth: 33.5cm

Please view my video tutorial on how I made the shield as it is a LOT easier to understand by watching the video!  Beware, it is long!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wndpoVkwjFA

SWORD:

My amazingly beautiful sword was commissioned by a dear friend, Eric, Coregeek Cosplay & Creations and definitely check out his Facebook Page!

[Images are by Eric himself.  These are the ones he sent me of my sword before shipping it to me!]

WIG:

Dany in Natural Black from Arda Wigs, brushed out to get rid of some of the volume and the lace front trimmed.  

http://arda-wigs.com/products/dany

Unfortunately, this wig ONLY lasted me two days!   It became horribly knotted and matted.  Yes, it is salvageable, but all of my wig styling tools are back home in the States, and I had no access to it while in the U.K..

Here are some photos of the wig while it was still lovely: 

[Photography by Valentin Offner]

Due to how terrible the wig had become, I had to order a new wig off e-bay for 13 quid from Manchester in the colour 1B or Natural Black.  This wig was INCREDIBLY easy to brush through and didn’t knot nearly as much as the Arda wig!!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/291422513039?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Here is are a couple of photos of the new wig:

[Photography by Mikael Buck from an article in the Daily Mail.]

[Photography by Martin Siggers]

Featuring Loki of London as Loki!

[Photography by Ultimate Cosplay | Roku Hebi]

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Hellooo! I want to start cosplaying, but I know absolutely nothing about fabrics, stitching, wigs, all that good stuff. I was wondering if any of you guys might have some tips on how to start, books I should read, any other useful information? Thank you for your time! ^ ^

Hey there! First off, congrats on starting to cosplay!

You should definitely check out @mangosirene’s Cosplay 101 series on YouTube. She’s an amazing cosplayer (one of our favorites) and her series goes through everything from styling wigs to basic makeup.

Look at websites like cosplaytutorial.com for links to tutorials for sewing, wig styling, making props, etc. It’s a great place to start looking at different ways to make things and their Resource page is AMAZING and super organized.

For wigs, look at Arda Wig’s tutorial page and YouTube channel for styling tutorials. Same goes for EpicCosplay. Both are great stores to buy wigs at.

Some of my favorite cosplayers who have a lot of tutorials on their YouTube channels or answer cosplay questions on their blogs are:

@aicosu@courtoonnetwork (Her YT has lots of makeup tutorials)@hellosachie (She’s the Cosplayer at Geek and Sundry vlogs and has a lot of videos explaining wigs and worbla over on their YT channel)

My best advice is just to choose a character you want to cosplay, look at how other cosplayers have made that cosplay, RESEARCH!!, and then just do it!

YouTube, Pinterest, and CosplayAmino are all great places to look for specific tutorials.

Have fun! Remember, if you have any questions, feel free to ask us!

- Mod Gigi

EDIT: Also, if you don’t know how to sew, check your local Joann’s or fabric store for beginner sewing lessons! Those will teach you the basics and give you practice!

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hey ive seen your cosplay videos!! theyre soooo cool!! i wish i could pull it off :p i wanted to write a fic based off on your cosplay vids!!! or write about a pairing you really like???!! x3

Hi, Thank you so much! I’m sure you could do it it just takes a bit of effort and finding the time to do it. Each video is a little better then the last! :D Depends what the fic is about try not to go to hight rating or explicit (not saying you would but need to forewarn). But sure go for it, maybe even link it to us (the group) and we may read it! Thank you again for taking the time to contact us! -Rebecca (SuperSushiProductions) (even though this comes through on my personal blog aha) :D  

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Ua8cAxM90)

Well would you look at that. Our YouTube channel now has a trailer of some of our Cosplay!  Any advice on making it better (the trailer) is welcome! :D 

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"I'm not a hero. I'm a scientist." Carlos the Scientist - Welcome to Night Vale

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PAX Body Paint - Don’t Use It On Skin

Up until recently I suggested PAX, a mixture of acrylic paint and pros-aide,  as a skin-safe body paint specifically when using Liquitex acrylic paint. This was based off a variety of sources that recommended it for use on skin including cosplayers, makeup artists in forums, published sources and a SFX makeup wiki. Some of these sources specified that Liquitex was the only skin-safe acrylic paint option and the MSDS mostly supported that. Even the pros-aide adhesive website recommended PAX for use on skin! While I do my best to post accurate information, and promote safety, there is always misinformation and room for human error. 

Last month I recommended PAX in a post and I had several people message me that PAX was not safe for use on skin. I would like to thank them all for bringing it to my attention, especially arkadycosplay​  who pointed it out first. Some of those who messaged me were qualified SFX makeup artists and I really did value their feedback, but it was important for me to get responses from the companies themselves. So I e-mailed both Liquitex and Pros-Aide to see if I could get an official response. 

Below the cut:

Liquitex’s Response / Pros Aide’s Response / Apology / Cosplay Tutorial’s Next Steps  / Thanks

TL;DR:

Liquitex does not recommend their products be used on skin. This disputes the claims that PAX is safe on skin, or safe on skin if Liquitex acrylic paint is used. PAX body paint is not recommended as an option for body painting and Cosplay Tutorial will not recommend it any further. 

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"Stay tuned next for the sound of future becoming the present – becoming the past – in no time at all." Cecil - Welcome to Night Vale

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Cecil Palmer - Welcome to Night Vale

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Carlos the scientest - Welcome to Night Vale

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The opening title for Super Sushi's upcoming/in progress Welcome to Night Vale series. Check it out for a hint at what is to come.

"A friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep.... Welcome to Night Vale"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBy29qhbQDA

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Alexis’ amazing guest post about lingerie and cosplay a few weeks ago got me thinking. Though I’ve never attended San Diego Comic-Con, I do attend Dragon*Con and Emerald City Comicon and Portland Comicon pretty regularly. And while I don’t think of myself as a “cosplayer” (in my opinion, that implies a level of skill I …

For anyone who needs help with underwear for cosplay! Also covers socks, corsets, and catsuits! A great resource and guide.