make up

I tried different styles of make up today, even though ( friends have pointed out) the grey would stand out more, I'm almost certain I won't be doing that. mainly out of practical reasons but also because it looks cool aswell with my own skin tone. (I know the editing was sloppy also my wig is a mess atm.. so plz look past all that XD)

I ordered my "zombie white" lenses yesterday :P from some obscure internet shop. I wonder when they'll get delivered to my house. I'm hoping before the end of next week I can't wait to try and see what they look like.

helmet 99%

all there's left to do now is to glue some fabric to the inside of the helmet and maybe add some pillow stuffing XD. I made one terrible mistake O-o I misplaced one eye and removing it left some ugly spots that can still be seen (I'll live though :P). The photo quality is crappy so you can't really see any details. I roughly put on some make up to kind of show you my idea. I was wondering if maybe I should forget about the whole "painting myself grey" idea. It would be hot and a hassle, expensive and I'm not sure I can make it look nice. It really needs to be worth it and I'm not sure if it would be that much cooler if I did. Maybe if I didn't use the grey paint I should use lighter colored make up. I don't like dark lipsticks on me XD. What do you think?

helmet 80%

this is as far as I have gotten yesterday. I had no glue left :P. It seems that my fabric glue works best on this. It's expensive but worth it. You can still see the lumps and bumps from the paper maché, but I don't really mind it. I don't like the fact that the middle line on the beak is off centre at the tip. that happened when at first I wanted to make the beak out of one single piece. It started to wrinkle so I had to cut it into two pieces.

Most parts are simply glued on but the lower part of the beak and all the spikes were sewn first.

I planned on buying more glue today to finish the helmet, but I feel like crap. I think I'll finish it tomorrow :) Maybe I'll even upload a pic of me wearing it ;)

helmet 60%

I'm done paper maché-ing (lawl is that a word XD?) the helmet and have started on the faux leather cover. this is going pretty fast and *if* I would, I could finish it in about 2-3 hours I think. I wanted to coat the inside with black cotton but I don't have any so I'm not sure what I'll do. maybe I'll just leave the inside bare for the time being.

Imperia crimson.

Over the past few Days, Kels and i have done some great work on her costume " Imperia Crimson" .
Check out her blog " www.wheneveritsnows.blogspot.com "

Skirt

Ok so, it still needs some tweaking and it's far from perfect. But since this is only my second costume ever I'll accept the flaws. I did not expect the waist band thing to wrinkle like this. I don't like it and I'm not sure I'll be able to fix it. Ah well. There's plenty of time 'till the EFF

Boots

The skirt is 99% finished. it needs a few finishing touches and then I'll upload a pic of the result.

When I first put it together I thought it was really cool. Now I've gotten used to it and it doesn't look that special anymore. I really do hope I'll stand out at the EFF'. I'll have to wait and see.

Also I had an epiphany today. I found a pair of old boots in my closet and decided that they would be the perfect base for my boots. I'll have to repair the heels. It'll be a temporary solution, but as long as it looks good at the EFF it's fine :P