First off, let me just say that this blog HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE!
Been so busy with school for the past few months that I had to go on hiatus for a little while.

Anywaaaay, in my previous post Horny Girls, we had a little photoshoot showcasing our below P100 DIY costume which won in our Fine Arts - Mindworks costume parade. Haha.

And as promised, I will be showing you the DIY Tutorial I used as guide to make my horns + my DIY on how I created mine. And how timely, Maleficent the movie is coming up!

SO HERE IT IS:

Horns tutorial by MonkeyNumber5 

Initially I had planned on making the horns out of a wire armature + paper mache. But I imagined it would be heavy and I didn't have the time and patience to work with wire; the parade was in 2 days, bub. So I looked for a lightweight alternative and ta-da I found this clever tutorial!

So I followed the tutorial, adding my own design to the horns.  I wanted something that looked tough, like the horns of a Taurus or the Chicago Bulls. But I also wanted it to be feminine at the same time. So I gave my horns 2 body curves and a sharp tip.

The bigger segments were easier to do compared to the smaller ones. When the curve got sharper, I had to do trial and error until I was contented.
This is the result:

                                          Best part is they're hollow and lightweight!
                                     

And then I painted them with a black latex base.

The bulk of the time making this was spent on trial-and-error ing the angle of each segment.

  Total work hours estimate: 3 hours

If you like your horns that way, you can stop there. But I wanted to add texture to my horns so it would appear to blend in with the hair. So I cut some fiberfill (stuff used to stuff pillows) strips and glued them on each segment. 

Tried a different editing style with this photo. 

So after I layered the fiberfill, I spray painted it black for the final look.

The color and texture is intended to imitate hair. 

Now you can sew them unto a headband if you have the time. I didn't, so the quickest thing I could find at home were tie wires. I tied them tight into the headband. 

Much better though if the wires were the same color as the headband. But it didn't bother me since it was going to be covered with hair anyway. 

And yes, that is a headband that is shaped like eyeglasses; pretty advantageous for this improvised design, so the tie wire has more to grab on. 

And that's it!

The method is pretty simple and the possibilities are limitless with what you can create.

Next time betches,

Shari

Liebster Award

Yay finally blogged my liebster award nomination! The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of work and academic stress. ho ho 

I would like to thank LUPUS HEARTBEAT and ESSIE for nominating me! :D I am truly so touched.

So What is this Liebster Award?

The Liebster Award is given to up and coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. So, what is a Liebster?  The meaning: Liebster is German and means sweetest, kindest, nicest, dearest, beloved, lovely, kind, pleasant, valued, cute, endearing, and welcome. Isn't that sweet? Blogging is about building a community and it's a great way to connect with other bloggers and help spread the word about newer bloggers/blogs.

Here are the rules for receiving this award:

1. Each person must post 11 things about themselves.

2. Answer the 11 questions that the tagger set for you.
3. Create 11 questions for the people you’ve tagged to answer.

3. Choose 11 people and link them in your post.

4. Go to their page and tell them.

5. No tag backs!

 Ok so here goes

11 Questions 

(reused some because these are such awesome questions)

1. Favorite Dessert

2. Favorite Singer

3. Favorite Actor/Actress

4. Tattoo or Piercing? and in which body part?

5. Marvel or DC?

6. Explore deep sea or outer space?

7. Your style inspiration

8. Biggest beauty mistake

9. Skater skirt or skinny jeans and why?

10. Your guilty pleasure

11. If you weren't you, who would you want to be?

11 people i tag
check them out!

1. http://irisstar95.blogspot.com/
2. http://www.ouihui.blogspot.com/
3. http://kirstency.blogspot.com/
4. http://thebindicator.blogspot.com/
5. http://tinytootsietootums.blogspot.com/
6. http://words-that-whisked-away.blogspot.com/
7. http://whateveroneechan.blogspot.com/
8.http://marelity.blogspot.com/
9. http://velvetpencil.blogspot.com/
10. http://kalapalette.blogspot.com/
11. http://thestyle-o-meter.blogspot.com/

ps: some of these blogs are of my friends who don't update much anymore. hopefully this tag will encourage them to blog more :)



I'm off to tell these bloggers now!

DIY Corpse Bride Cosplay

Yoohoo!

I am quite happy that I am finally posting a DIY of my cosplay. I was not able to post my previous OtakuFest Scarecrow cosplay DIY (which had even more pieces than this) because I was too lazy. And when I finally got to it, pan.os na sad kaau.

Making a costume ensemble is a considerable amount of work, and throughout the whole duration of making, I had only myself to talk to. It's summer break now, so I don't really get to see my artsy classmates and friends. I know it sounds somewhat OA, but having no outside opinions or advice was worrisome for me. I wasn't sure if what I was doing to the wig was right, I wasn't sure if I got the right shade of blue, etc. etc. and all the possible "not sures". So i got a little stressed and this is my reliever. kapui sd baya. *smiley face* ahahaha

.... and i like making pretend tutorials, makes me feel important. HAHAHA. But this isn't really tutorial grade, just for inspiration on what cheap alternatives to use. I don't have much step by step pictures because i kept procrastinating hence, cramming. 

So, I like to call this Budget Cosplay. Mostly Do-It-Yourself and inexpensive material, save money leh! 

DIY FLOWER HEADDRESS

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Materials: headband, fake flowers w/ wire stem, blue fabric dye

Just twist a lot flowers into the headband like there's no tomorrow. They will eventually form that. Then leave them in blue dye bath for few hours.

DIY PAPER ROSES

Materials: Crepe paper, wire, glue

Fake flowers were out of my budget, and since I would only use them once, I made my own nalang. Hooray for broke, no choice.

Crepe paper is only like 10 pesos? So cheap and you can already make so many flowers.

  

Can't really demonstrate how to make the roses if not in video form. So if you want to make paper roses, go find a tutorial in youtube. everything is there :)

STYLING THE WIG

The wig I ordered was straight and a tad too long (reached thighs) I was prepared to trim it. bahala na. 

How to trim your wig:

The same in salons, divide the hair into sections using a tail comb, start from the bottom.

 

(left) use the comb to hold the hair in place while cutting 
(right) make vertical snips to feather the edges for a softer and more natural look

Curling the wig

The corpse bride has curly hair.

Section the hair into rollers. Then soak them in boiling water until it cools, let dry afterwards. 

This method is proven and tested, go youtube it.

So the epic fail wasn't really in the wig styling process itself. It was in my plan: to not curl the whole wig. The wig is originally straight and I did not want to damage it, as curly synthetic wigs easily tangle and are harder to manage. The parts i curl, i must straighten afterward. (wig is not real hair, it wont get  frizzy with heat styling, at least with me it didn't)

So i decided to just curl the hair I would put in the font.  The straight back hair won't be seen anyway with the veil. Bad move sis. 

I didn't pin the hair in place, so with constant moving around, the straight hair from the back eventually went over my shoulders, came to the front and mixed with the curly. No time to separate it. 

That's the story why my corpse bride has straight and curly hair at the same time. 

whattafail. but i didn't care na.  

whatever.

DIY VEIL

My favorite part because so easy! Just use an old organza curtain and tatter the ends. Gradually dip tip in blue dye for gradient effect. Attach it to floral headband w/ glue gun. 

GOWN DETAILS

Sorry no pics of actual gown dying, I was already cramming when i did this part. 

My original plan was to find a white gown in the ukay-ukay. But after walking around Colon for hours, I couldn't find a reasonably priced one. Tag 900 -1,500 ilang gown sa ukay2x, wth!?!? So after days of thinking over, I decided to have it sewn. With the cheapest possible cloth: Curtain lace, alfagena, and textured satin.

With whatever gown you have, just make sure to tatter the ends, make jagged cuts and gradually dip the ends in dye for a faded effect. 

See the dyed edges. As if you waded in a muddy forest.

Also for the lace corset, dye the edges blue and glue gun some pearls.

For the makeup:

There are lots of awesome makeup tutorials in youtube! For me the best is the one by clittlecosmetics.

The face paint brand i used was Snazaroo. I mixed white with very little blue, I like it paler. Used a damp sponge and carefully dabbed it on my face down to arms. It looks even on camera but it is actually very UNEVEN in real life. It's either I suck at applying it or it's just plain bad paint. And it's water based so if you sweat, it fades.

You know what, I woke up 7 am to do my makeup but because it would never come on evenly I had to keep redoing it, until 2 pm. I arrived at JCentre, 3 pm. The event started 10 am. How many hours late? HAHA. Nevertheless it was fun.


I hope this was somewhat informative :)

Twala!

DIY flower headband

Bonjour!

Yehey for my first DIY post! 

Last May 4 i attended a cosplay event as Emily the Corpse Bride.

And for the cosplay, I made the whole costume. So here is how I made the floral headband.

SUPER EASY, MUST SHARE. This is one of the pieces of her costume which i was so relieved about since everything went smoothly.

My bestfriends during the project:

long nose pliers

cutting pliers

scissors

Assorted fake flowers. I got them at Cebu Fashion House in Colon. I chose to use smaller ones.

Let's begin!
So this is no rocket science. The flowers have wire stems, so start twisting them into the headband. To  make them tight, use the long nose pliers. I like to apply them one color at a time with spaced intervals.

And just keep adding more flowers until they get crowded

And keep adding and adding.

Since this was for the corpse bride, the flowers have to appear dead and blue. For the last step, I bathed the headband in concentrated blue fabric dye for 2 hours. These fake flowers were made out of fabric anyway.

Finished result with costume:

This was at Cosmaze Carnival, J-Centre Mall. 

Japanese cosplayer Reika was also there!!!

That's all :)

Twala!