Friday, January 31, 2014

Hatsune Miku Magnet Headphones. . .Convention Sized :)

Hey guys! So here's my tutorial for convention sized Magnet Miku headphones. These will be a lot less bulky and will be easier to keep on. Hence why they are called convention sized. ^w^ They're also a bit easier to make and you don't need as many materials as the full sized set. It's essentially just smaller and there's no headband. :) So please enjoy this awesome tutorial!

STEP 1: Reference Picture! XD

STEP 2: Gathering Materials:

  • Templates (see the other headphone tutorial for templates)
  • Craft knife or sharp pocket knife (optional)
  • Hot pink card stock or craft foam (they can actually be any color that you want and/or have if you follow my version, here is the link: Magnet Headphone Tutorial)
  • Elmer's liquid glue
  • Scissors
  • A stack of heavy books
  • A flat surface
  • Hot glue and gun
  • Random scratch paper
  • Two alligator hair clips
STEP 3: First print out your templates. They can be as big or small as you want/need. Make them so that they are about half to three quarters the size of the original headphones. Then cut them out and line them up so that you can see if they are proportionate to each other, trim them down if you need to. :) Next you can cut out the designs inside of the butterfly templates with the craft/pocket knife. You can do that or just color the designs whatever color you want them to be.

STEP 4: Now you'll smear glue on the back of the butterfly template and glue it to the card stock/craft foam then glue the earphone template to the butterfly template. You'll want to place a paper on top of it so that when you put the stack of books on top, so you won't glue the paper to your books. ^^;

STEP 5: When the glue is completely dry take off the stack of books and glue the Alligator hair clips to the backs so that when you clip them onto your hair/wig they will be in the right place over your ear.

Yey! Now you're done! ^w^ I wore mine to Anime Banzai 2013 and I can say with complete confidence that I am very happy, and I mean VERY happy, that I had made a smaller version of the Magnet headphones for the con. :) So if you're planning a Magnet cosplay for a con I would recommend that you either buy the headphones or you make a pair of these. :) So yeah! Well Happy Cosplaying! XD

Friday, January 17, 2014

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Random Tip # 3

Yey! The third installment of my random tips! XD This specific tip is for more of the beginners. :)

When you don't know who to cosplay as, pick a character that has common personality traits with yourself. Like if you you're younger, outgoing, and generally happy but everyone seems to ignore you; do some research on Sealand from Hetalia. :) Most of the characters from Hetalia are fairly easy to cosplay as because they have a more regular style of clothing. For a lot of characters you can probably find a more 'casual' form of their original cosplay.
Take Miku for example. Miku is a Vocaloid with long teal hair pulled up into two pigtails. This is her default cosplay:


It's made up of a sleeveless gray collared shirt with teal trim, a teal tie, black arm warmers with teal trim, a black skirt with teal trim, thigh high socks with teal trim, black boots, and her specific set of Vocaloid headphones. This cosplay can cost you up to $150 online (at least that's as how high I've found it to be). This whole cosplay cost me about $20 - $30, not including the wig. It was a combined effort with my friend who sewed the trim on the shirt and skirt, made me the headphones and bought the tie for me.
My boots were a pair that my mom was going to throw away, I renovated and fixed them up so that they would look nice enough to look only slightly used. :) My grandma bought me the fabric to make my arm warmers and I sewed them by hand. I have yet to buy and make the socks.
I got the wig off of eBay for $27.99 + free shipping and I got a free wig cap with it too. :) You see, you want to go through all of the results of your eBay search before you choose one because my friend told me that she bought a England wig for $15.99 then found another for $10.99 + free shipping.

Wow I got really off topic. ^^;;; Now back to casual cosplay. :) Casual cosplay is really easy to do. For a Miku casual cosplay, I got a girly gray tee, light blue skinny jeans, and black boots. See? Easy-peasy. :)

And another tip, I got this from the YouTube vid series Cosplay 101, become a hoarder! You'll never know what will come in handy some day! ^w^ I guess that's it for today! :) See you next time! :D

How to Make a Con Survival Kit

Hey guys! The following link is a link to a sight of a fairly good description of what should be in a con survival kit. http://danganronpacosplayhelp.tumblr.com/post/72672248587/making-a-con-survival-kit I really like this link and it's fairly accurate and such. Though you can probably not take some of this stuff if your cosplay wouldn't be in need of that kind of repair. Of course I would take everything just in case. :) Here's the pic that was posted on the link:

Vocaloid Love is War Tie

This tutorial will be for the tie that you see the Twins and Miku wear when they're wearing their Love is War outfits. It's actually quite easy. So easy that I'm not sure if I should post this tutorial. You can also use this tutorial for other tie needs for other cosplays. So here you go!

STEP 1: Reference Pic!

STEP 2: Gathering Materials:
  • Paper
  • Pen/pencil/marker
  • Scissors/fabric sheers
  • Sewing pins
  • Sewing machine/needle and thread
  • Vocaloid colored fabric
  • Vocaloid colored thread
STEP 3: First you're going to want to draw up your pattern. The shape should be a rectangle shape that is however long you want it to be but should be at least 20 inches long. One end of the shape should be 4 inches wide and the other 1-2 inches. Make sure to add 1/2-1 inch of extra fabric for seam allowance. Next, the shape needs to taper off evenly so you don't have a weird shape. :) After you draw up your pattern cut it out and pin it to your fabric. Then cut out the pattern so that you have two copies of your pattern.

STEP 4: Take the two pattern pieces, pin them together and sew them. You'll want to not sew the thinner end first or else you'll have a weird looking tie. ^_^; Sew the other three sides first then turn the tie inside out, tuck in the ends of the open end, and sew it closed. 

STEP 5: Try it on, see how it looks, and make any adjustments that you need. And then you're done! XD

Thanx for viewing my blog and I hope to have more tutorials for everyone soon! Right now I'm in the process of trying to post all five of my tutorial vids that I've got stored on my computer to YouTube. ^_^;;; See you soon!!! :D

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Kagamine Rin Love is War Skirt

Heys everyone! This tutorial is going to be for the oh so elusive Kagamine Rin Love is War skirt. I keep finding Rin's cosplay with the shorts for less than the cosplays with the skirt. Of course if you find a link somewhere that proves me wrong then please post it in the comments below. :3 You can use the Miku tutorials for the shirt and armband with the difference of fabric colors. :) Now onto the tutorial! XD

STEP 1: Reference Pic!

STEP 2: Gathering materials:
  • A yellow skirt of the desired length, you most likely want it to go to mid-thigh
  • Yellow fabric, about 1/2-1 yard depending on how long your skirt is
  • Sewing pins
  • Sewing machine/needle and thread
  • Yellow thread
  • Flexible measuring tape
  • Scissors/fabric sheers
STEP 3: You can pick up a skirt anywhere. Like a DI or thrift shop. It won't matter what shade of yellow the skirt is because you're going to sew strips of fabric over it when you make the ruffles. The skirt should have an elastic waistband and no decorations of any kind anywhere on it. You might want to get a skirt made out of the same fabric as the fabric for the ruffles you're going to add on later. So a cotton blend or something around there. :) I wouldn't recommend using a super thick and heavy skirt because it will be hard to sew together later on. : / The skirt's shape should be loose fitting, not something like a pencil skirt, so that you can move freely.

STEP 4: When you have your skirt, measure the length. This will determine how many ruffles you want to sew on. For example; if your skirt was 20 inches long you might want to have five 4 inch wide ruffles or ten 2 1/2 inch wide ruffles. 
PS when you're doing the ruffles you'll want to hem one side and leave the other side raw. The raw side will be hidden under the ruffle above it. 
When you sew the ruffles to the skirt you'll want to leave at least an inch in between each ruffle. If you have space at the bottom then sew another ruffle on until you cover the whole skirt with ruffles. :D

STEP 5: The ruffles should measure to be however long you want them to be and whatever your skirt's circumference is plus another 10 or so inches so that you have enough fabric for each ruffle to be, well, ruffle-y. Cut out as many ruffles as you need, pin them to your skirt, and start sewing! :D

STEP 6: Sew the first ruffle just below the elastic waistband and the last one on the hem of the skirt. There should be at least 1 inch of space between each ruffle like I said before. :) Make sure to try on the skirt every time you add another ruffle to see if there needs to be any adjustments.

When you have sewed all of the ruffles on put on the skirt and adjust it wherever it's needed. :) Then you're done! This is an awesome skirt that you can use for both cosplay and regular use. :) Either way it's a really cute skirt. :D Thanx for viewing this post I hope it helped you with your Love is War cosplay needs and please spread word of my blog! It would be awesome! XD I will try to get a video up soon for this tutorial and others. ^^; I know I keep promising that but this time I'll try to actually get them done and posted!

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Random Post :)

Hey guys! I randomly found this while surfing around on YouTube and I thought that it was really funny. XD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmQbmEUW3r8

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Kagamine Rin Meltdown Gutiar

Hey guys I found this tutorial while surfing the net. It seems fairly simple and inexpensive so I thought I would share my findings with all of you. :)
Kagamine Rin Meltdown Gutiar Tutorial

Happy New Year's Everyone!!!!

Hey guys, it New Year's Eve and I'm hoping that you'll stay with me for another awesome year of cosplay tutorials. :)