Minamicon Cosplays

Back in March I attended MinamiCon and not surprisingly, cosplayed! This time as Regina The Evil Queen, from ABCs Once Upon a Time, and Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager.

First, Seven of Nine

For the full shoot, please visit my lovely photographer Pouncy's flicker set.

Next up - Regina. Again not going to go through the full step by step of making this costume, but I will leave you with 7500 beads, or 13meters of beading!!!

Borderlands 2 - Mad Moxxi Warning! Photo heavy post!!

Last weekend, some friends and I went to Ayacon and as an event that includes cosplay, we naturally obliged!

Myself and my friends Carrie and Liam decided to make costumes from 2kGames' Borderlands 2, Myself as Mad Moxxi, Carrie as Tiny Tina, and Liam and Mordecai

We entered the masquerade, and Carrie won a prize!!!! (Walked straight out of a video game award) We had some amazing shoots with these costumes that weekend, and I've added a few of my favs below.

Moxxi was a relatively simple costume to make, velvet base, with fabric paint stripes. The buttons had to be hand painted, as did the swirls on the black and white collar&cuffs.

Speaking of which, those had to be hand crafted to look right, so the pieces were cut from white fabric, traced onto paper, cut up to give the exact right shapes and colours, re-cut in the back and white fabrics and stitched back together again (then painted!) Sounds complicated, but really only took an afternoon to do the whole thing.

Right now onto the photos! All credits go to:

• Andrew Reid http://www.flickr.com/photos/redkun/
• Luke Caines https://www.facebook.com/PharaohShoots
• Jonathan Cullinane http://www.manylemons.co.uk/)

Costume modification

Back in October I made Disney's designer Aurora for an awesome full group of princesses. In two weeks time I'm running race for life with a friend and we decided to do it add Disney princesses (again! 2011 we dressed as Cinderella - ball gown and Ariel - pink dress), this year as Aurora - pink dress and Ariel - mermaid.

I decided the easiest thing to do would just be to modify the designer version, while it's not 100% accurate and also not perfect (well the update did only take about an hour and a half...) I'm still pretty pleased.

I will do a proper post about the original dress soon I promise!