Skip the Cake, You Cosplay

ardawigs:

Chibi in Baby Pink 163
Styled: My friend and I took the wig in a little first to fit my smaller head. Next my mother and I put the pigtails in foam curlers and dunked each pigtail in a pot of boiling water. Once they were dry we took the curlers out, I teased them with a large toothed comb and shaped them into puffs by tucking the ends under. We also cut the bangs straight across.
Photo: Winter Wish Photography

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This is so crazy cute!

LET’S DO THIS

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Astrid from “How to Train Your Dragon”

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neil-gaiman:

<3.

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I FEEL A PRESSING NEED

TO HAVE A TARDIS IN MY BATHROOM

I’ve been really crazy with work, and getting used to actually getting up in the morning, so I was dead tired.

And I got stranded at my friend’s place last night in the crazy freezing rain and didn’t get home till midnight.

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:D

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I don’t work today so I haven’t decided if I’m gong to be incredibly lazy, or try to get some cosplay work done. I need to work on my Midna costume.

I have the black part of the legs cut, but sewing is not really my forte. I’m much better at making other things… And I’m kind of lost on how to proceed.

I’m also making this costume at an insane level of bargain, as in noooo money, at all, so I need to make this from things around the house and I don’t really have the right materials.

I’m basically scrapping clothes I don’t wear and my old pair of leggings for this.

Someone I follow mentioned a little while ago being tired but hungry, and then I saw a bunch of food porn, and it made me hungry too.

Not eating after 8, or anything like that, is a myth. Most people try to avoid eating after that time because that’s when they get all their cravings for munchies (me included) but as long as you have a sensible snack it’s fine. In fact, not eating after 7, or 8, or whatever, can actually be bad for you, because you won’t be as restful because you’re hungry, or you’ll wake up starved and load your empty stomach with food.

Usually, if I’m really hungry before bed, I eat about a tablespoon of peanut butter (the just peanuts kind as I said before, you don’t want all that sugar) Peanut butter is recommended by a lot of places as a bedtime snack. It’s a slow digesting protein, so it won’t give you a rumbly stomach in the middle of the night, and it’s also full of healthy fats.

It’s also okay to eat half a peanut butter sandwich. The carbs in the bread make it one of those “sleepy foods” that will help you go to sleep, while the protein helps keep you full.

Of course, you don’t want to eat anything, and then immediately pass out, you want to try and take at least 15 minutes or so to settle down, if you’re eating right before bed. If you feel like you might be getting a bit hungry in the evening, it’s best to try and eat your snack an hour before bed.

I ate my spoon of peanut butter, drank some water, and wrote this blog post, so now I’m ready for sleep. I don’t work tomorrow so I’ve stayed up waaaaayyy too late.

Goodnight everyone!

idiotfag:

WHAT THE FUCK IS A RAPESEED

This is the extra junk that’s in “creamy” peanut butter. The second ingredient is sugar! This is why I buy the “just peanuts” kind. The oil separates while it sits in the jar, so you just have to stir it up every time.

I even like the taste more. It’s nuttier, and stickier, and just has more of all those things you look for in peanut butter, without being a big jar of sugar.

I give up

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And here is the final product! Again I apologize for the poor photos. They come out even worse because the metallic paint makes it look so shiny.

The snakes on the front are made from air-dry clay, the eye is made from more yoga mat foam, and the rest of the shapes are all craft foam. It looked pretty silly before I painted it because everything was all random different colors.

I ended up making it have more of a metal look than stone, because the only paint I had on hand in the right color was metallic silver, and it turned out to actually be a really nice shiny metallic paint.

I was kind of hoping it would be cheap and crappy and it wouldn’t be so shiny xD

But in the end I like it! I painted it all over with the paint, trying to make sure it got it all the nooks and crannies so no green would stick out (there’s still a couple weird angle spots where you can see green but they’re sneaky and hidden) Then I darkened and shaded it in to make it look more shadowed and interesting.

All in all I’m very proud of this helmet. It’s my first time making any sort of prop like this, and it turned out really well.

It took probably three days of work to complete. I made the foam helmet in a weekend, and it took another full day to paint.

I’ll post some good pictures of it on my head once I have them.

Firstly pardon the horrible photos. My camera has a broken lens so I had to take these with my laptop eyesight.

Here are some work-in-progress shots of my Midna helmet. It’s made from a foam yoga mat, which I already had in the house (and used maybe twice) which means I didn’t have to buy any material, and it’s also softer on my head that it seems the foam from the video would be, though it also seems a bit heavier so it was a trade off.

The square spirals are just made of craft foam. I picked the color I would be the least likely to actually want because I knew I’d just be painting it anyway.

I stitched up the back to make sure it was nice and secure, using some scrap yarn and a great big sharp tapestry needle.

You can see it took me a million tries before I got the horns to the shape I liked.