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RE: Costume help and advice sought! - Brave - 10-09-2013
I can relate to barely playing lately too ><
I had a 51 hour work week this week. Thankfully I can access the forum while at work and it isn't shunned =D
But I can't play games. Â So it's like... torturing myself >< lol
Some guildies of mine (who joined the game AFTER I did -.-) went to Balmung though and are trying to rope me over there. Â I might go there just because it seems Gilgamesh events seem to be mostly on Weekends and I don't ever get to go to them /sigh
Either way, the community here is great! Â Conventions are AWESOME! Â And so is cosplaying =P
RE: Costume help and advice sought! - Leencat - 10-09-2013
I wonder if I could benefit from hopping over to Balmung, because I am only level three anyway and I can't tell where the majority is hiding.
RE: Costume help and advice sought! - Brave - 10-09-2013
I'd recommend perusing the linkshell area as well as just seeing if there are characters who you think would be interesting to RP with.
A lot of us took what we could get server wise at first because things filled up crazy fast >< Â I can say that the Gilgamesh community has been awesome. Â They're really friendly and helpful and the OOC channel that Rock/Amaare has set up is just great. Â It really lets you find the other interesting RP folk easily.
In regards to Balmung, I have noticed some real interesting characters over there and it obviously has Legacy characters around too. Â Meeting with the Veterans of the game has always been something I thought would be interesting to do.
I know I couldn't pull my guildie over to Gilgamesh because he found a great LGBT LS group on Balmung. Â So really I'd strongly recommend looking at the LS section and just mingling like you already have been.
To bring things back into the costume aspect of this post though, have you discussed what you'll cosplay at the Con you're going to? Â Planning early is great, and to Echo Torn Sky, couples cosplay is adorable ><
RE: Costume help and advice sought! - Leencat - 10-09-2013
I vaguely mentioned in a previous post I'd bring in this same cosplay or doing something from Adventure Time, specifically Marshall Lee, but part of me has a subtle interest in being Princess Bubblegum in her lab outfit.
So, at the present moment, it's a tad undecided. I don't know if my boyfriend wants to go, or if he has something couple-related in mind if he did. I know my friend is talking about being Chell from Portal.
Total lack of certainty at the moment.
(Also, I rolled a Conjurer version of my character on Balmung and spent the last hour trying to figure out the game more, and I think I like Conjurer just a bit more than Arcanist already, so I might stick with it.)
RE: Costume help and advice sought! - Leencat - 10-12-2013
Bumping this silliness again, because I'm excited still about this costume thing to the point I need to babble about it and keep this updated. I got the wig, I love it, it seems to fit nicely (I'm pretty stupid with hair nets and figuring things out, so it was an honest learning process for me).
I didn't like the tattoo sleeves. Keeping them because I'll probably find some reason to be a dork and wear them, but I then ordered henna to try out and that should arrive in less than week (a tube of dark pinkish/purple was only five bucks). And I did a bit of searching on it first to know what to avoid in terms of unsafe chemicals; as far as I read the kind I picked should be fine, and I'm pretty excited about it.
Otherwise I'm just waiting for the headphones and shoes at this point in the mail. Still plenty of time left to pick up last-minute things, I suppose. I put on some of the stuff I have already and my boyfriend said I looked "androgynous" with the wig and clothing, which I'm perfectly okay with. I didn't necessarily want to look incredibly masculine or feminine.
Blah blah, anyway, that's it, if anyone here has personally used henna before and wants to talk about their experience with it, please feel free. I've otherwise just checked out some video tutorials to learn a bit about it and see what it does.
RE: Costume help and advice sought! - Tobias Nightbringer - 10-12-2013
Are you using a hair net or an actual wig cap? From what I understand, wig caps do a better job keeping your real hair hidden and in place. Also, not sure if you already know this or not, but using bobby pins to clip the wig to your hair and wig cap will ensure maximum hold. Careful though because if you get TOO good at doing that, you MIGHT have to end up taking mild pain killers because when I was cosplaying with wigs, my hair was pulled so tight to hide everything I got headaches xD
Umm, and not sure if you are using contacts for your Cosplay/costume, but this is the site I go to for most, if not all, of my contact needs.
http://www.pinkyparadise.com/
Also a quick coupon search on Google can help you save a little more on your purchases.
Unfortunately no experience with Henna, sorry D:
Oh, one more thing about drawing stuff on your face. Hairspray. It fucking SUCKS when you first spray it on your face and feels NAAASSSTY (to me at least) but it REEEEAAAALLLY helps to keep any stuff from smudging and/or rubbing off from accidental bumps or a little bit of sweat. Like even when I was BALLS DEEP in heat at Anime Expo, everything pretty much stayed in-tact.
RE: Costume help and advice sought! - Leencat - 10-12-2013
I do have contacts, thank you!
I have a hair net, but that bit about pins to clip the wig to my hair might help quite a bit. I just noticed slightly in the back, if the hair is lifted you can see the outline of the contrast of my black hair against the blond wig, but then again, the wig is just long enough in the back to really avoid it being any sort of issue, I think. I mean, the wig is comfortable.
RE: Costume help and advice sought! - Brave - 10-12-2013
I'm going to second Tobias here with the wig cap recommendation/bobby pins. Â They're pretty great =P
Also do you have someone to apply the henna tattoo for you. Â Doing it yourself will probably hella tricky ><
Previous cosplay issues I've heard horror stories about are not giving it enough to dry or accidentally smearing it etc. Â I knew someone doing an FMA cosplay where they didn't allow enough time and completely botched all the hard work of the artist. =/
Anyway glad to hear your cosplay is still coming together well! Â When you're a girl cosplaying a boy, Androgynous is the best kind of compliment.
RE: Costume help and advice sought! - Leencat - 10-12-2013
I made sure to note in the videos that you want to be careful, or if drawing yourself outline a design with a white eyeliner pencil or something first. I'll at least be smart enough to give it a good hour before I put a costume on and probably apply it in junky pajamas or something. I mean, I do a good job of messing things up even when I'm careful, but I guess half the fun will be figuring it out (?).
That's me trying to be optimistic.
RE: Costume help and advice sought! - Leencat - 10-21-2013
UPDATE: I don't think I like henna. I got it in the mail about four days ago and tried using it. It feels like it's easy to mess up. I like the vibrant, dark pink color, though, but I think I am opting to go without arm tattoos/drawings.
In other news, my boyfriend has not yet acquired a lab coat, but my mom is promising a friend of hers can spare one by Saturday or Sunday, and on one of those days, we're supposed to all gather in costume at a friend's house. I was hoping to go out for Halloween on the actual day of, but I am pretty sure I will have to work, bleck.
Either way, maybe I'll have pictures after this weekend? I hope so. If nothing else, I have learned so much about cosplaying basics from the help here. I am pretty set on taking this same costume to Genericon in 2014 with a friend, and in the time I'll have until then I might think of ways to make improvements or explore other methods of doing things (like the arm tattoos). I may even look up different wigs and things like that.
It's been really fun though. On a recent day off I put on my entire costume just to entertain myself and it's fun to wear, since it's fairly simple, comfortable clothing. The wig feels awkward because I'm not used to it. The contacts are especially fun. I can see why people love cosplaying and I regret having never looked into it sooner instead of just considering this for Halloween.
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