Carbon Costume

…ch parts you haven’t covered yet. Continue until your leg pad is sufficiently and evenly warped, such that it maintains its slight arc when you remove it from the object you are using to shape it. Repeat this step for the other leg pad. Step Three: Follow a similar process for your shoulder and knee pads, this time with something evenly round, such as a softball. Place your pad on top of the object and once again fasten it down. I had better luck…

…for this step, but in the long run using dye means you don’t have to reapply it after washing. Apply the dye to the pants cuffs too. He’s generally pretty dirty. Blazer Recreate Yamanbagiri’s pin stripe blazer by grabbing a yardstick ruler and tediously making every single line. He sports thin double striped lines with a space about an inch or two away from each couple. I used a white sewing pencil, but the fabric marker I also added to the suppl…

…work just as well. If you’re using a wig for your costume, you could probably glue these foam candies directly into the hair, but if you’re using your real hair or don’t want to glue the foam onto the wig, you can glue them onto bobby pins. You will want to use a generous amount of hot glue to keep the foam from falling off the bobby pins. Finally, seal in the foam using some gloss finish Mod Podge. And that is all! I hope you found this tutorial…

…ditional trim. I made a last minute run to Joann’s, where I found this lovely ⅜ inch silver and black reversible trim! Sadly this isn’t available online, but a similar trim will work just as well if you aren’t able to make it to the store. Measure your cuff and collar lengths, and cut your velvet ribbon to fit. For the mandarin collar I altered the ribbon in two places to fit the curve, so don’t be afraid to cut the ribbon into more pieces if you…

…to Baby Yoda’s face and hands. You don’t want to apply the paint too heavily, only lightly coloring his face. I added some pink around his eyes, in his ears, around his cheeks, and a little around his mouth and the tip of his nose. With the dark green and brown, you want to paint in the places where shadows naturally are, like around his fingers and the grooves on his head, as well as around his nose and below his mouth. Step 7: The next step is…

…r to insert the pink antenna pieces. Apply a dab of glue to the base of the antenna pieces and attach it to the inside of the gray fabric. Take the gray balls and attach them to your black head ribbon. Finally, apply pink face paint in triangle shapes on the cheeks to complete Hanna Song’s war paint look. Enjoy your completed costume! Here Baby D.Va is suited up in a Fisher Price mecha. Tweet…

…ro tolerance for such ignorance. PortiaDDoesStyle: To be fair, it can be a bit difficult to decipher who exactly is “in” the cosplay community and who is just a random observer on the Internet. I would like to believe that most of the racism that Black cosplayers experience come from random observers and not within the cosplay community itself. But if I’m wrong, what I believe we can do better is to realize that this is dress up, it’s like Hallowe…

…the complexity that makes something recognizeable… My friend and I… actually, funnily enough it was Gail, who I mentioned earlier… were at Balticon. This was many years after our first foray into Jedi costumes. I was wearing my Leia Bespin costume that I’d spent 9 months embroidering and was about as screen accurate as you could get. Gail (for fun) was wearing a Princess Leia costume her mom had made her in high school. The white dress was not sc…

…ake. It’s time to glue your cabochon gems down with your E6000 glue. The only thing I can really say about this part is that your tape measure is going to be your best friend in making sure that each gem is placed equidistant from each other and from the top. You can do as many or as few gems as you like, in as many rows as you like. I put a pillow under the bodice to give it a nice curve, which helped a lot on making sure my gems were in the righ…

…Emma Woodhouse (played by Anya Taylor-Joy) may be handsome, clever, and rich, but she can also be a bit naive and spoiled in the latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel. Throughout the film, Emma wears an array of colorful and intricate period costumes, providing ample opportunity to explore the regency era and create an outfit with colors and textures that speak to you….