And with me, I don’t do store bought costumes unless I modify
them. I think the best costumes are the ones you make yourself. The ones you
add personalization and characteristics that are specific to you! Make it your
own design by adding your own flair and style. Whether you change the characters
hair color or add jewelry, there is always something that you can tweak to make
it original. I mean, let’s face it, no one likes going to a con when everyone
around is in cookie cutter versions of the characters.
Now if I can start from scratch and build up from just a
couple items of regular clothing, I’m definitely going that option. One of the
first things I ever had made was a long, hooded cape. I bought the materials
and had them shipped to a seamstress I met in eBay who sold me a piece she
replicated from the Star Wars movie of that time. To this day, it is one of my all-time
favorites. I could build so many costumes around just that one piece. But enough about that…
Lately, my passion has geared towards steampunk (pun
intended). Where the future meets the past, where creativity and functionality
clash in a gloriously beautiful mix. Gears, skeleton keys, bronze-stained
colors, and your ideas of where the future could take us combine to make some
really amazing mixtures. I got a steampunk costume for a review. It is cute.
But it is lacking. So I have decided to expand its amazing horizons by creating
weapons that would match its genre.
I picked up some Nerf-like weapons and some
Rustoleum paints with my boyfriend, who is working on turning his Nerf ax into
a zombie-hunting accessory to his Umbrella Corps cosplay.
I also have a couple
guns I’m doing for the Lara Croft look I’ve been planning for ages!
And I gotta
say, I’m super excited about them so far. Especially after running into a
friend of mine who’s dad has a bunch of skeleton keys he might part with…
You know what they say is true, if you put work into something, it is worth more to you.
ReplyDeleteI agree with that!
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