Morrigan & Lilith, Darkstalkers

My friend Ariellah asked med if I was interested in cosplaying Morrigan with her as Lilith from Darkstalkers for an upcoming con. My answer was SURE! I've always loved the character designs from the old school fighting games as Streetfighter and Darkstalkers, so this is a challenge I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on.

My cosplay productions always start at the same place... E-BAY! The only place to go to get good quality wigs for a decent price. In Denmark we've only got a few costume/wig shops and they´re expensive. One could easily spend 100$ on a wig, and on a students budget, it would mean I have to live of pasta for the rest of the month.

As I took up the task of creating both cosplays, I also agreed to just buy what we needed and Ariellah will pay me afterwards.

I found a wig for each of us and a pair of pantyhose for each of us as well.

• Lilith wig: 12$ incl. shipping
• Morrigan wig: 9.46 £ incl. shipping
• Lilith pantyhose 2.49 $ incl. shipping: 
• Morrigan pantyhose 2.58 $ incl. shipping:

I received the Lilith wig first, and it is perfect! the color and quality was as good as it gets, and I'm very happy. But then i got the Morrigan wig.... omfg! The picture did not at all live up to the picture on e-bay. It was very plastic like and VERY green (it kinda resembles the one on the right).. on the pic it clearly looks a shade of aqua/bluish-green, but it was not...

This has never happened to me before, but I have to return it! I hate half ass cosplays and I'm not gonna compromise my dignity by wearing crap like that. So I guess that's the next big "TO DO" on this cosplay; order a new wig for Morrigan.

The above, are the pantyhose I ordered for both of us. the blue for Lilit and the purple for Morrigan. I received them yesterday.... and they are WAY to dark  -_- damn! But these I'm keeping to use myself for everyday wear. Anyways, I've just ordered two new pairs of pantyhose with a more sheer look to get the right light tone. 

AND! I picked a differend color for Morrigan - I chose sheer pink for her. It's goin' to look better next to the blue, and it is the color from the oldest of the character designs, and that is cool with me. I'd rather have a broader pallet of colors, than just purple and black :)

I am really looking forward to getting startet for real on these cosplays, and especially the wings! 

about the wig problem, I'm right now trying to decide between these two:

• the green one for 19.29 $ incl. shipping
• the blue one for 19.99 $ incl. shipping

The green seems to be of better quality, but if I'm going to stick with the design above it has to be more blue-ish... I think I'm going to look for a third choice - maybe I can find a color in-between these two.  

"I am your FATHER"

Darth Vader ear rings

My friend invited me to this John Williams concert in TIVOLI , Copenhagen. I was all exited about this! the symphony orchestra would play music from some of my favorite movies and it was goin' to be AWESOME!!!

! The awesome concert poster :D !

I immediately thought of what I was gonna wear and how I could nerd it up because I can't help myself being a fan girl for harry potter and star wars X) SO! I went for the black, Darth Vader groupie look, and I needed some jewelry to go with my fandom.

I decided on trying out a material that I haven't worked with since freaking elementary school. I don't know the english word for it, so I'm gonna hit you with a lovely direct translation: shrink plastic!?

It's this thin plastic sheet you kan draw on, put it in the oven for 4 min. to make it shrink and harden to achieve an acryllic look.

these are the materials I planned to use

but I only used these:

• shrinking plastic, see-through.
• pencil + eraser.
• permanent marker, black.
• pigment liner 0.5
• scissors.
• darth vader print

the see through shrinking plastic has one shiny side and one rough. You draw on the rough side.

I used a pigment liner which isn't ideal for this work, 'cause it kinda blurred out and the edges didn't get as sharp as I wanted them.

Because of that I actually only made one of the earings with this technique, for the other, I just went straight for the permanent marker - this required a steady hand, as the tiny lines was like a third of the thickness of the markers tip.

The result when filled out looks like this! pretty neat IMO!

I made a pair and cut them out like this. I also needed holes in the Vader masks to make them able to dangle from my pretty ears, and I made them with a regular hole-puncher you would use for making holes in paper. I made the hole right at the top of the helmet.

Here comes the hard part! The baking of the shrinking plastic! dun-dun-duuuuun....

The basic guideline is to heat the oven to about 130 ̊ celcius (260 ̊ F) put in your shrinking plastic - colored side up - for 3-4 min.

BUT!! I just want to ad some pointers to that:

• make sure you are placing your items on a clean surface (in the oven), grease and other stuff will burn into the surface and make it less shiny.
• keep an eye on your items while they're in the oven - they will curl up a bit, but mos times they will straighten out again
• when they won't straighten out completely ('cause they won't) you wan't to have a clean surface and a flat clean object to press the items between RIGHT after you take them out of the oven.

And that's it!!!

Here they are all done. I connected two metal hoops between the earring and the helmet.

There were several very cool cosplays at the concert <3

Derpy me in my outfit with the lovely storm troopers.

It was an incredible concert with a lot of great moments from E.T., Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Harry Potter and a bunch of other movies, but the greatest thing of all was that they played the imperial march TWICE!!

Thats all for now ! BYE !