Ohayocon 2013 was January 18th through 20th; this is my second attendance, my first being 2010 for Saturday only, and this was Taka's first Ohayocon experience! For class and badge pickup that Friday, I dressed as Isabella Yamamoto from Paradise Kiss (Live Action) by raiding my closet and wearing one of my newer wigs while Taka did a thrown together Ruki of the GazettE look - we wanted to be comfortable but still feel personally cool lol. Saturday and Sunday were the days we wore our planned costumes, Flandre Scarlet and Patchouli Knowledge from Touhou 6: Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil. We would have had a Remilia Scarlet, but our friend who had begun to commission us for the costume (and even purchased the contacts and wig) couldn't afford the costume nor the badge price so the poor dear couldn't even attend. I think I would have enjoyed being Remilia had our friend not planned to, but I'm still happy that I was Patchouli.
Despite enjoying the cosplay, I had some issues with it that had me panicking last minute and/or have me bothered even now. First issue I have is the stripes - the underlayer of the dress I did, I had sewn the stripes and skirt pieces together but found it to be too tedious so I tried fabric spray paint. Needless to say, it bled and caused me a lot of stress which led to taking the light pink fabric and dying it to a purple that was darker than the overcoat. I nearly cried because of how awful I thought it looked, but when I had it on the dress form and took a photo, the stripes didn't look nearly as bad (I recently acquired my dress form and am hugely thankful for it, especially after working with Patchouli's dress). The second issue is the sleep bonnet which merely bothers me because I feel it's too small (while Taka feels hers is too big lol). I've been thinking of ways I can make it larger with the fabric I have left and I have an idea in the works, but we'll just have to wait and see - the friend who attended the convention with us took these photos and wants to get better ones when spring comes around.
Patchouli took 14.5 yards of lace, 11 yards of fabric for the bonnet, overcoat, capelet, and boots, 7 yards of fabric for the dress and a foot or so of ribbon (along with random bits of elastic and felt lol). Taka thrifted the blouse and already had the white skirt/petticoat beneath the red skirt from a previous project. I believe she purchased 6 yards of red, 3 yards of white and a yard of yellow? (I used to know, but now forget lol). The wings are set on a backpack harness and made of wire, Christmas lights [oh yes they do light up!], and glossed/painted tissue paper while the gems are made from plastic folders and acrylic paint. Her father helped her with the wings and I think they did an amazing job - so many people stopped her, even those who don't know the series.
Some singles in which my face is covered because my wig and face were being goofy lol
In more recent events, I finally went ahead and bleached my hair - I had decided on doing my hair and makeup but it took me a week or two to actually get around to it. The photo pictured was taken Thursday February 7th
FIT 110 and a mix of halloween white cream makeup were used for the foundation
Maybelline cream liner, black shadow and black pencil liner were used on my lips and eyes
a Maybelline palette was used for contouring my nose and brows
teasing brush and nylon brush with a flat iron to flip out some layers - my hair had slightly fallen for this photo but it was the best shot of the makeup
I'll try to get back into the swing of things and work on more projects <3
Thanks for reading,
Hachi
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