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Re: Cosplay

Postby FieldMarshalFry » Fri Oct 09, 2015 12:28 pm

reallifegirl wrote:I'm idly considering the idea of doing a female version of the Wendigo from Hannibal for a convention in about a month. I'd wear basically a black pantsuit/dress shirt/tie, and wear a headband with black antlers. And maybe carry around a tray of fake food with me.

The part that I'm getting myself anxious over is that I'd also need to body-paint my face/neck (probably grey) and temporarily dye my hair black. (I'm not wearing a wig. My hair is thick and wigs are my mortal enemy.) I've never done body paint or hair dye before, and I'm nervous about those aspects making this into a trainwreck. Does anyone have any good recommendations for that kind of stuff?

I dye my hair if I have the time to before going to a con, did it back in October, didn't have time to in May, my advice would be to get it done at a hairdresser's, it will cost more than doing it yourself, but at least you're far less likely for it to go tits up
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Re: Cosplay

Postby sunglasses » Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:04 pm

You can't temp dye your hair black unless you're using hair chalk or the colored hair spray.

I learned this the hard way.
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Re: Cosplay

Postby reallifegirl » Mon Oct 12, 2015 5:16 pm

FieldMarshalFry wrote:I dye my hair if I have the time to before going to a con, did it back in October, didn't have time to in May, my advice would be to get it done at a hairdresser's, it will cost more than doing it yourself, but at least you're far less likely for it to go tits up


True, but I didn't want it to be black when I went back to work in case it came out wonky. Then again, they might have been fine with it, since black is a natural hair color.

sunglasses wrote:You can't temp dye your hair black unless you're using hair chalk or the colored hair spray.

I learned this the hard way.


I wound up using hair chalk. It was a pain in the ass but it did the job for the first day. By day 2 it started flaking. But the cosplay went over really well, so I can't complain too much. I'll just have to swing for real dye the next time.
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Re: Cosplay

Postby LaChaise » Fri Dec 18, 2015 1:30 am

My girlfriend cosplays. Her friends finally got her to make a facebook page.

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Re: Cosplay

Postby Matthew Notch » Fri Dec 18, 2015 1:36 am

She's pretty cute!

I wanted to dress up for the Star Wars premiere, I really did. But the only fat guys I could think of were Jabba the Hutt and Porkins, and neither of those guys got any respect. :( In the end I opted to dress like a terrible hipster, and that was fine because I had a nice heavy coat to not freeze my arse off in while I was waiting outside for an hour and a half to get in. My wife is a sadist; she said she was sort of hoping someone would show up in a slave Leia costume and be stuck in the cold. What a mean way to be :(
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Re: Cosplay

Postby FieldMarshalFry » Sat Dec 19, 2015 8:15 pm

LaChaise wrote:My girlfriend cosplays. Her friends finally got her to make a facebook page.

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the correct response to this is "you lucky bastard"
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Re: Cosplay

Postby Deathclaw_Puncher » Sun Dec 20, 2015 11:53 pm

Gurl With Red Hair does some pretty good cosplay
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Re: Cosplay

Postby NathanLoiselle » Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:24 am

Hey, wait a cotton pickin' minute! Are we sure that girl in the middle is Asian?
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Re: Cosplay

Postby FieldMarshalFry » Fri Jan 22, 2016 12:47 am

well, decided to go and make myself a Facebook page for my cosplay, and pictures I take at cons and shit, I'll probably update it twice a year
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Re: Cosplay

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Re: Cosplay

Postby mancityfooty » Mon Feb 22, 2016 7:35 pm

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Halloween is the closest I get to cosplay. This was a year we all dressed like TPB.
Guess which one I am.
And yes, black hair dye is hard to use. Especially on beards as I've learned twice now. Don't use too much or it stains the skin.
I've also gone as "Joliet" Jake while the wife did up as Carrie Fisher's character, complete with fake gun. I dressed as Lemmy a few years ago (easy since I already had the chops), and I went as Walter Sobchak (Big Lebowski) before that.
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Re: Cosplay

Postby AboveGL » Sun Mar 06, 2016 5:55 pm

This is awesome.

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Re: Cosplay

Postby FieldMarshalFry » Tue Mar 08, 2016 11:40 pm

speaking of D-Piddy... I'M IN HIS VIDEO! 0:46, John Constantine, the Belle and Iron Man are friends of mine

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Re: Cosplay

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Re: Cosplay

Postby BROWNRECLUSE » Wed May 11, 2016 12:03 am

You're on the Chive today in the Daily Afternoon Randomness section.
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