Here's the Finished Flame Princess costume! Photos taken at Animazement 2012
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
Flame Princess and Adventure Time Makeup!
Animazment was the first time I wore this costume, so I greatly underestimated how long it would take to put on all that makeup.
It took around 1 hour and 45 minutes, but we were all helping each other. Well, Ktar was putting on makeup for Ice Queen, and my sister was putting on makeup for Marceline, and we did each other's backs.
I was the only one who had the makeup to test it out before the convention, so I was the only one who had it down on what to do to get it on evenly and to make it stay put.
I didn't' have any problems with it coming off for several hours, and only then it was minor. I didn't put any on my palms to start with so I didn't have any problems with it coming off there anyway.
We used Ben Nye creme liners for Flame Princess and Marceline, and Ktar chose to use light blue Ben Nye creme foundation.
We bought all of our suplies from Frends Beauty Supply online, but the shipping was really expensive for what we were getting, so we all bought it together and split the shipping.
Link to Creme color search
Link to Final Seal
Link to Colorless Powder
For Flame princess, I mixed 2 containers of Goldenrod, and 1/4 of a container of Red. For Marceline I mixed 1 White and 1 Grey container.
I used Haanyan's Homestuck makeup tutorial to get the idea on how to use this sort of makeup.
I contoured with red Creme Liner for Flame Princess, black eyeshadow for Marceline, and Ktar used blue lipstick and eyeshadow for her lips and contouring.
To seal it we powdered the heck out of ourselves, which we should have photographed, which was a party and a half in itself….
After powdering it, we sprayed ourselves with the Final Seal, and we were on our merry way.
Ktar and I were Rooks in this year's Cosplay Chess, on the side character's side, and we both made it until the end of the match, helping the side characters win, haha
We wore the Adventure Time costumes from about 9am until 6pm, and we still looked really good by the end of the day, makeup wise. We got up at 7 to start putting on the makeup and didn't really start until 7:30 and we didn't finish until around 9 or 9:15…So if any one is thinking of doing something like this, start far in advance!
It took around 1 hour and 45 minutes, but we were all helping each other. Well, Ktar was putting on makeup for Ice Queen, and my sister was putting on makeup for Marceline, and we did each other's backs.
I was the only one who had the makeup to test it out before the convention, so I was the only one who had it down on what to do to get it on evenly and to make it stay put.
I didn't' have any problems with it coming off for several hours, and only then it was minor. I didn't put any on my palms to start with so I didn't have any problems with it coming off there anyway.
We used Ben Nye creme liners for Flame Princess and Marceline, and Ktar chose to use light blue Ben Nye creme foundation.
We bought all of our suplies from Frends Beauty Supply online, but the shipping was really expensive for what we were getting, so we all bought it together and split the shipping.
Link to Creme color search
Link to Final Seal
Link to Colorless Powder
For Flame princess, I mixed 2 containers of Goldenrod, and 1/4 of a container of Red. For Marceline I mixed 1 White and 1 Grey container.
I used Haanyan's Homestuck makeup tutorial to get the idea on how to use this sort of makeup.
I contoured with red Creme Liner for Flame Princess, black eyeshadow for Marceline, and Ktar used blue lipstick and eyeshadow for her lips and contouring.
To seal it we powdered the heck out of ourselves, which we should have photographed, which was a party and a half in itself….
After powdering it, we sprayed ourselves with the Final Seal, and we were on our merry way.
Ktar and I were Rooks in this year's Cosplay Chess, on the side character's side, and we both made it until the end of the match, helping the side characters win, haha
We wore the Adventure Time costumes from about 9am until 6pm, and we still looked really good by the end of the day, makeup wise. We got up at 7 to start putting on the makeup and didn't really start until 7:30 and we didn't finish until around 9 or 9:15…So if any one is thinking of doing something like this, start far in advance!
Flame Princess wig progress/information
I've had a few people ask me about how I did my Flame Princess wig, and honestly, I made it up as I went.
I started with:
a Cosplay Wigs USA Pumpkin 90cm long curly wig. (it was a lot lighter than the photo)
Clear Elmer's School Glue
a curved sewing needle
thick strong thread
clear thread
foam brushes
lots of bobby pins (to hold it in place as you glue it)
The curls made it harder to work with, but if I made it again, I'd still use the curly one, just because I really loved the curls that came set into the wig. I used the same wig in green for my Jadesprite costume.
First off, the orange wasn't the color I wanted it, so I dyed it a bit darker orange.
I used this method (click for full resolution)
But instead of putting it in a tub to soak, I put my dye in a spray bottle and sprayed it in sections all over my wig. I actually WANTED it to not be 100% even in color. I thought the variances in shades of orange would make it look a little bit more realistic.
After it dried overnight, I loosely braided it before I washed out the extra dye, so it wouldn't get quite as tangled. Its going to get VERY tangled through the whole dyeing and rinsing process.
Red and orange dyes never really wash out 100%, so I gave up after about half an hour of washing it in the tub, under COLD water.
After rinsing, I made a solution of lotion and water in a spray bottle and shook it up really well until it was a could water. This makes a good detangler, which will smell like whatever lotion you use.
I just sprayed it all over a tangle and started working it out gently, starting at the BOTTOM of the fibers.
It took longer to detangle it than it did to rinse it.
I let the wig sit overnight again to dry throughly, and I sectioned it out into a lot of equal sections before I started to style it.
I carved a block of green florist's foam into a rough cone-type shape, then covered it with a red-orange craft foam, which I forgot to take a photo of before I sewed it into my wig with thick button thread.
I sewed it to the vertical elastic in the wig, in the position I wanted it. I didn't remove any wefts underneath where I put the cone, since it wasn't super large.
After I made sure the cone was where I wanted it, I used the foam brushes to spread glue all over the cone and started to use small sections of hair from close to the cone to cover it. I spread out the hair evenly and made sure to really saturate it with glue, since this was the base coat of fiber and you wouldn't see it anyway.
I made up the wrapping pattern as I went, and I needed to add some more volume to the base of the cone, so I pulled out some small sections of hair and teased and back combed it until I had a nice fluffy tangled mess, which I rolled up and sewed into position with the clear thread.
it looks kind of nasty and really messy at this point, but you cover it all up int he end, and this was a lot easier to me than to try to make a pad out of foam or batting, since it was soft, and exactly the same color as the wig.
I didn't have much of a plan on how I was going to wrap it up, but I knew what I kind of wanted it to look like in the end.
I would take bobby pins and pin it in a way to see if I liked how it looked, and I would un-pin it, use the foam brush to burst a little bit of glue on the fiber in sections, starting nearer the roots, placing that where I wanted it, and pinned it where I wanted it before eI move on further down the section of fiber.
Almost finished:
I don't know what else to say about it, except that it took over 15 hours (nearly straight!) of styling, and about 2 and half days of just dyeing it and rinsing it out.
I just kept wrapping and pinning and unpinning and gluing and pinning it again.
Once I got to the outermost layer, I didn't coat the entire section of fiber with glue, I kind of put a line of glue where I knew it would be pinned and made sure the section I was glueing was really stuck down.
After I had the whole outer layer pinned and glued down, I let that dry for a while.
After it had all dried, I used the curved needle and the clear thread to sew into my wig to hold down all the little curls and to make sure the outermost layer didn't budge.
The wig is REALLY back -heavy, so I got a couple of toupee clips and sewed into the front, right about where the hairline is above my eyes.
And that's it.
I didn't use any hairspray on this, since I dyed it with alcohol, and hairspray is primarily alcohol, which would have ended up with the color being stripped out or running if I had used it as my primary adhesive.
Here's the finished product!
I started with:
a Cosplay Wigs USA Pumpkin 90cm long curly wig. (it was a lot lighter than the photo)
Clear Elmer's School Glue
a curved sewing needle
thick strong thread
clear thread
foam brushes
lots of bobby pins (to hold it in place as you glue it)
The curls made it harder to work with, but if I made it again, I'd still use the curly one, just because I really loved the curls that came set into the wig. I used the same wig in green for my Jadesprite costume.
First off, the orange wasn't the color I wanted it, so I dyed it a bit darker orange.
I used this method (click for full resolution)
After it dried overnight, I loosely braided it before I washed out the extra dye, so it wouldn't get quite as tangled. Its going to get VERY tangled through the whole dyeing and rinsing process.
Red and orange dyes never really wash out 100%, so I gave up after about half an hour of washing it in the tub, under COLD water.
After rinsing, I made a solution of lotion and water in a spray bottle and shook it up really well until it was a could water. This makes a good detangler, which will smell like whatever lotion you use.
I just sprayed it all over a tangle and started working it out gently, starting at the BOTTOM of the fibers.
It took longer to detangle it than it did to rinse it.
I let the wig sit overnight again to dry throughly, and I sectioned it out into a lot of equal sections before I started to style it.
I carved a block of green florist's foam into a rough cone-type shape, then covered it with a red-orange craft foam, which I forgot to take a photo of before I sewed it into my wig with thick button thread.
I sewed it to the vertical elastic in the wig, in the position I wanted it. I didn't remove any wefts underneath where I put the cone, since it wasn't super large.
After I made sure the cone was where I wanted it, I used the foam brushes to spread glue all over the cone and started to use small sections of hair from close to the cone to cover it. I spread out the hair evenly and made sure to really saturate it with glue, since this was the base coat of fiber and you wouldn't see it anyway.
I made up the wrapping pattern as I went, and I needed to add some more volume to the base of the cone, so I pulled out some small sections of hair and teased and back combed it until I had a nice fluffy tangled mess, which I rolled up and sewed into position with the clear thread.
it looks kind of nasty and really messy at this point, but you cover it all up int he end, and this was a lot easier to me than to try to make a pad out of foam or batting, since it was soft, and exactly the same color as the wig.
I didn't have much of a plan on how I was going to wrap it up, but I knew what I kind of wanted it to look like in the end.
I would take bobby pins and pin it in a way to see if I liked how it looked, and I would un-pin it, use the foam brush to burst a little bit of glue on the fiber in sections, starting nearer the roots, placing that where I wanted it, and pinned it where I wanted it before eI move on further down the section of fiber.
Almost finished:
I don't know what else to say about it, except that it took over 15 hours (nearly straight!) of styling, and about 2 and half days of just dyeing it and rinsing it out.
I just kept wrapping and pinning and unpinning and gluing and pinning it again.
Once I got to the outermost layer, I didn't coat the entire section of fiber with glue, I kind of put a line of glue where I knew it would be pinned and made sure the section I was glueing was really stuck down.
After I had the whole outer layer pinned and glued down, I let that dry for a while.
After it had all dried, I used the curved needle and the clear thread to sew into my wig to hold down all the little curls and to make sure the outermost layer didn't budge.
The wig is REALLY back -heavy, so I got a couple of toupee clips and sewed into the front, right about where the hairline is above my eyes.
And that's it.
I didn't use any hairspray on this, since I dyed it with alcohol, and hairspray is primarily alcohol, which would have ended up with the color being stripped out or running if I had used it as my primary adhesive.
Here's the finished product!
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Animazement progress update
Animazement is in less than a week now. I've made a lot of progress, and I'll make some new posts soon about my new costumes, since I haven't forgotten to take pictures this time, haha.
As far as new costumes go:
Flame Princess:
- dress = about 99%: I've got to adjust the shoulder a tiny bit and I'm done
- wig = 50% : I've only got a little more to do and I'll be finished :)
- makeup = 100% : I've done tests and I think it's going to work well :)
- shoes = 100%
Jadesprite
- dress = about 99% : some minor fitting on the arms
- wig = 100% : I didn't have to do anything but trim the bangs
- makeup = 100% : tests done and they looked good :)
- shoes = 100% : I need to paint them, and they'll be finished
- ears = 50%
I'll be wearing Jadesprite Friday afternoon/night and Saturday night.
Flame Princess will be most of the day Saturday. I'll be in cosplay chess with it :)
If I can find them, I'll wear Sophitia and Team Magma as well. Moving and losing things really sucks.
If anyone else is going, let me know! We can meet or something :)
As far as new costumes go:
Flame Princess:
- dress = about 99%: I've got to adjust the shoulder a tiny bit and I'm done
- wig = 50% : I've only got a little more to do and I'll be finished :)
- makeup = 100% : I've done tests and I think it's going to work well :)
- shoes = 100%
Jadesprite
- dress = about 99% : some minor fitting on the arms
- wig = 100% : I didn't have to do anything but trim the bangs
- makeup = 100% : tests done and they looked good :)
- shoes = 100% : I need to paint them, and they'll be finished
- ears = 50%
I'll be wearing Jadesprite Friday afternoon/night and Saturday night.
Flame Princess will be most of the day Saturday. I'll be in cosplay chess with it :)
If I can find them, I'll wear Sophitia and Team Magma as well. Moving and losing things really sucks.
If anyone else is going, let me know! We can meet or something :)
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
It's May already...
As of today there are 24 days until Animazement.
So, I've started work on Flame Princess, as well as a secret costume.
I've gotten everything for Flame Princess, and I'm about halfway done with the dress! The darts are giving me a lot of trouble, as I wanted to avoid having darts under my bust, but I think I'm going to have to cave in and add them so the fit will be how I want it to be.
The wig for Flame Princess is a little beyond intimidating, but I'm going to give it a go, regardless.
I plan on taking a lot of photos of my endeavor (I think of the Pokemon move every time I use that word, haha), so hopefully it will be a good learning experience, as well as more content for this blog.
I apologize for not having much progress content, but how i go about sewing things is really not that exciting... Plus I'm not sure anyone actually reads this...
My secret costume has been called stupid by 2 out of 3 people who know what it is, so I'll just keep it secret until Animazement, where I'm sure I'll be called stupid by all of my friends except for the one who is cosplaying the same series. Whatever, I'll do what I want, and I'll be ridiculous and fabulous and have a lot of fun.
Anywho, I've gotten the wig and everything about 90% finished for the secret costume, so there's that.
I dropped Fi from the lineup, but I hope to have it for Dragon*Con, that is if Ktar and I are even still planning on making Zelda costumes. I don't know what I want to make anymore :|
I was thinking of trying to put together another simple costume for myself and my boyfriend for Animazment, but I'm not sure what I can do with little time as well as something super cheap.
I was thinking something Pokemon, but I guess we can wear Team Magma, for like the 4th year in a row, haha. I love those costumes so much, they're amazingly fun and easy to wear.
I have been wanting to make Team Plasma's costumes, but I never did play Black/White so I feel a little bad making the costumes for something I never played...
Hmmm.... I need some ideas.
So, I've started work on Flame Princess, as well as a secret costume.
I've gotten everything for Flame Princess, and I'm about halfway done with the dress! The darts are giving me a lot of trouble, as I wanted to avoid having darts under my bust, but I think I'm going to have to cave in and add them so the fit will be how I want it to be.
The wig for Flame Princess is a little beyond intimidating, but I'm going to give it a go, regardless.
I plan on taking a lot of photos of my endeavor (I think of the Pokemon move every time I use that word, haha), so hopefully it will be a good learning experience, as well as more content for this blog.
I apologize for not having much progress content, but how i go about sewing things is really not that exciting... Plus I'm not sure anyone actually reads this...
My secret costume has been called stupid by 2 out of 3 people who know what it is, so I'll just keep it secret until Animazement, where I'm sure I'll be called stupid by all of my friends except for the one who is cosplaying the same series. Whatever, I'll do what I want, and I'll be ridiculous and fabulous and have a lot of fun.
Anywho, I've gotten the wig and everything about 90% finished for the secret costume, so there's that.
I dropped Fi from the lineup, but I hope to have it for Dragon*Con, that is if Ktar and I are even still planning on making Zelda costumes. I don't know what I want to make anymore :|
I was thinking of trying to put together another simple costume for myself and my boyfriend for Animazment, but I'm not sure what I can do with little time as well as something super cheap.
I was thinking something Pokemon, but I guess we can wear Team Magma, for like the 4th year in a row, haha. I love those costumes so much, they're amazingly fun and easy to wear.
I have been wanting to make Team Plasma's costumes, but I never did play Black/White so I feel a little bad making the costumes for something I never played...
Hmmm.... I need some ideas.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Animazement Plans!
So, I've been talking with my friends, and I am 90% sure we're going to do an Adventure Time group.
the breakdown is:
Flame Princess - me
Ice Queen or Princess Bubblegum - Ktar
Finn - my boyfriend
Marceline - my sister
Human Jake - my sister's boyfriend
I'm pretty sure that Ktar and I are going to be making some Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword costumes:
Fi - me
Zelda - Ktar
As for things we've already made, we're going to bring our Soul Caliber costumes and Weeping Angels.
I'll probably bring Team Magma for myself and my boyfriend, since they are fun and easy to wear costumes :)
On the topic of new costumes:
I've planned out the logistics of my Flame Princess costume, now all I need to do is get to work on it. It shouldn't be too difficult.
I've started toying around with ideas for how to do Fi. The wighat and mask method is old news to me, so I've been focusing on the wacky tights and what I'd do for them. I think I'll get spandex and make my own shoepants... we'll see
I've also started trying to figure out the armor shapes for my and my boyfriend's Monster Hunter Armor. I think he wants to do a Rathalos Blade Master and I am going to do the Rathian Heart Z Blade Master
the breakdown is:
Flame Princess - me
Ice Queen or Princess Bubblegum - Ktar
Finn - my boyfriend
Marceline - my sister
Human Jake - my sister's boyfriend
I'm pretty sure that Ktar and I are going to be making some Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword costumes:
Fi - me
Zelda - Ktar
As for things we've already made, we're going to bring our Soul Caliber costumes and Weeping Angels.
I'll probably bring Team Magma for myself and my boyfriend, since they are fun and easy to wear costumes :)
On the topic of new costumes:
I've planned out the logistics of my Flame Princess costume, now all I need to do is get to work on it. It shouldn't be too difficult.
I've started toying around with ideas for how to do Fi. The wighat and mask method is old news to me, so I've been focusing on the wacky tights and what I'd do for them. I think I'll get spandex and make my own shoepants... we'll see
I've also started trying to figure out the armor shapes for my and my boyfriend's Monster Hunter Armor. I think he wants to do a Rathalos Blade Master and I am going to do the Rathian Heart Z Blade Master
Rathalos is on left, Rathian Heart Z is on Right, with males on left and females on right.
these shouldn't be too difficult, right? RIGHT?
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Next con: Animazement!
So, I've been terribly busy with the end of the semester, but I'm finished now!
In approximately 3 weeks is Animazement, in Raleigh NC! It's my "home" con :)
I don't know if I will be making anything new for it, but I plan on wearing:
-Sophitia
-Weeping Angel
-Castle Crasher Knight (at cosplay chess)
-Castle Crasher Princess ?
and probably Team Magma
If I do make anything new, it would be Team Plasma for me and my boyfriend, from the newest Pokemon games :)
Does anyone read this, and is anyone going to AZ? Let me know and maybe we can meet up? :)
In approximately 3 weeks is Animazement, in Raleigh NC! It's my "home" con :)
I don't know if I will be making anything new for it, but I plan on wearing:
-Sophitia
-Weeping Angel
-Castle Crasher Knight (at cosplay chess)
-Castle Crasher Princess ?
and probably Team Magma
If I do make anything new, it would be Team Plasma for me and my boyfriend, from the newest Pokemon games :)
Does anyone read this, and is anyone going to AZ? Let me know and maybe we can meet up? :)
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