Not necessarily a good memory but I was cosplaying Oneesan from Battle Royale to an event on Southbank in London. In those days I used to travel in costume and I ended up walking through a remembrance Sunday parade in tiny shorts and covered in fake blood! I was hiding under a friends jacket but still looked like some kind of dissident DX
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Blaire (from Soul Eater - ed.) is my favourite. I went
through a phase of doing very frumpy costumes and I really wanted to do
something sexy. I saw her character design when I was out shopping
one day in Japan and fell in love with it - particularly since it
doesn’t have shoulders (I’m so bad at sewing sleeves onto the torso!).
It came out way better than I thought and it’s so comfortable! Now
I’m cosplaying CC (from Code Geass - ed.) to
The Grand
International Cosplay Ball and I’m slightly sick of sexy
costumes. Next up will be more frump ;) Q: Have you had any cosplays go wrong/encountered problems whilst making cosplays? My CC costume for the ball is going horribly wrong. I don’t want to talk about it >_< Q: Have you ever regretted cosplaying? I had a moment a few weeks ago
when my boyfriend accidentally stepped on a white
sleeve I was working on for my Pierrot (from
Yakitate!! Japan - ed.) costume for
Auchinawa 2008 (my fault for filling his
flat full of fabric). I knew I would need to
make it again and I just had a ‘why do I bother’
moment. The fabrics for the costume had cost
around £40 and I was thinking about what I could
have bought with that money instead. When I
realised the mental shopping list was mostly ‘wigs
and that overlocker I want’, it became obvious it
was just a moment of passing madness ;) Q: Have you ever done group cosplay? If so how did you find that experience?
My fav group experience was the Yakitate!! Japan group at
Auchinawa 2008,
mainly because it wasn’t stressful - it was a cool group of people and
there was lots of croissants. None!! Its quite a release! Although I’m
making Medusa for a friend and there’s a few I would like to do if I
shape up a bit. I want to make the Blood Elf costume (from World Of Warcraft - ed.) I’ve been planning for several years. However, I’m being picky over it and I want to make the armour pieces so shiny that you can see your face in them. If anyone knows a material that might be suitable, let me know! Q: Do you have one piece of advice that you would give to cosplay virgins? Cosplay is an obscure but fun hobby, try not to take it too seriously. Don’t take after me and find yourself sitting up all night doing accounts and sending out tickets for the latest cosplay event you thought would be sooooooo easy to put together. And try and finish your costumes with at least 4 days to spare! Then you have time if it all goes wrong and you don’t end up hanging from the ceiling, trying to iron bias tape with your teeth. Q: Do you have an account with the website Cosplay island/other social networking sites? http://ravenmocara.deviantart.com on DeviantArt and I’m Mocara on Cosplay Island.
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