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Hey all you Katsucon girls and boys. I finally have all the photos edited for lighting and posted on Flickr. (Took forever!) Please stop by and see if there's anything you like or makes you laugh. To save hit the magnifying glass for a larger version.

Katsucon 2008 Report




I hope everyone has made it home from Katsucon. This was my first Anime Convention outside of the Midwest and it was spectacular. The whole weekend was filled with cosplay, photography, great food, meeting amazing people, and of course… cookies and alcohol.

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http://angelicdream.com/cosplay/costumes/emma.html
http://images.cosplay.com/gallery.php?cat=87813&member=3330


I've done this twice now! lol My hair is backwards. D'OH! I hate the collar on this dress. I will redo it some day. But I need a break from it and the fact I'll have to redo the entire top of the dress.

I'm proud to say that this costume also has a corset, chemise and corset. Yay for the fun little bits! And yay for almost the same pose as Amalthea!

http://angelicdream.com/cosplay/costumes/ladyamalthea.html
http://images.cosplay.com/gallery.php?cat=87687&member=3330


I officially have photos of my Lady Amalthea costume now! Thank you to my wonderful father for taking the time to go to the park with me and being photographer. I know I smile in too many of the photos I picked but I hate how I look in most of the unemotional ones. *le sigh*

Holy PALE SKIN Batman! Ben Nye does the job but being that pale photographs harshly.

I would love help in making pretty LJ icons. *bats eyelashes*

I just have to take up my petticoat a little more and I think I'll style a wig instead of using my real hair. Yay!

I realized that I never posted photos of my final project for my theatre makeup and wigs class. We had to create prosthetics, wigs, and a costume for a character from a play or of our own creation. The class produced some really amazing pieces. I created a mermaid-ish underwater princess type character. I made scales our of foam and added latex scales for my hairline. Prosthetics were hand painted before the test. The dress I pulled from the costume shop stock but I did sew the sheer cape/coat thing. This project took over my life! lol The scaly ear/fins are celophane singed with incense. The wig was a quick pick up at the shop where I would buy my makeup. I happened to have a can of blue hair color spray and just went at the wig with it last minute. I know all cosplayers gasp in horror, but it worked for the look. I just wanted a tint. The crown was a freaking tacky ugly mess.






SCARY FISH WOMAN!

Creepy that we open on Friday the 13th. lol
The show has been great these past two nights at previews. It's so much more fun in front of an audience. Tonight Kelly, Jeff, and my parents are coming! It's a special opening with art and music on display in the lobby along with yummy goodies.

This makeup was designed after the Dior fashion show that was based on Japanese kimono and Geisha makeup. That damn eyelash wouldn't stick to her lash!!! We were timed and had to do these in 40 minutes. Tough when you want an even application of Clown White makeup. Eyebrows were waxed out.

Using both latex and a foam latex mold method we created different prosthetic pieces. Most people just did a nose. I did a nose with Star Trek inspiration and horns. I used liquid latex to make the bumps on my face. They were NOT very successful. I "futzed" with them too much. They were modeled after a National Geographic photo of tattooing and self scarring.

I'm not very happy with how this makeup turned out. We realized HOW HARD it is to blend prosthetics. You need to get the edges very very very thin. But hey, first-ish try. I had to cast my face 3 times to get a proper mold to model off of. (Long story for another time.) The first horns didn't fill all the way with the foam, it set too quickly. Last horns broke the mold because it dried out in the oven.

ps - The foam latex process smells like CAT PEE!


( One of the few photos I will share of this. )

Our characters had to be from a play. “The Skriker”, written by Caryl Churchill, was first performed at the Royal National Theatre, London, on January 20th, 1994. Skriker, the character, is described as “a shapeshifter and death portent, ancient and damaged.” Skriker has the ability to journey from the Underworld to the present world above, and is as damaged as the Earth currently is. She heads a group of other faerie type creatures.
At one point Josie arrives with Skriker in the Underworld to a feasting table of lavishly dressed people and creatures. This is all false glamour and clothes appear to be rags, the food becomes twigs and beetles, and beautiful people have claws and scary faces. The Skriker is now a “fairy queen, dressed grandiosely, with lapses”.
I won't post my WHOLE explination paper for you. lol


Give me your child.

Churchill or Shakespeare... both provide awesome characters to design.

I was the only corpses during our Blood & Gore lab, most everyone else survived their wounds!

( Cut so not to scare or disturb! )

I'm finally posting some of my work from over the semester in my Makeup class. I'm sorry this photo isn't better. I only got one good photo of the makeup and she kept tipping her chin up. Let me pose you like a doll! lol





I made the braces out of jewlery wire and pieces along with fabric paint, glued to a set of false teeth. I'm damn proud of those. I also made her the Betty "B" necklace to wear along with the glasses and wig. Yay for props helping your makeup presentation!

Today's makeup lab was focused on turning ourselves into a celebrity or famous character. I picked the ever-popular Marilyn Monroe. I had been running around town since Monday looking for a wig. The shop walking distance from my appartment was closed due to the owner being sick. Then the places I wrote down and looked for no longer exist. Tuesday I found a wonderful shop with the most helpful owner ever. Wednesday my wig came in and I picked it up at the store. Then I fought with it for an hour trying to relax curls, get fibers to go in a different direction, and just make it look sort of like Marilyn!

But I think it turned out well. Ignore the goofy grin. When I tried for parted lips I looked scared. How did Marilyn do it?! But it was really intersting trying to draw my lips like a totally different person's.

Today our makeup lab was to create a period makeup and hair look. We could choose any time period. I picked the 1960s because I think the hair is hilarious and the eye makeup is fun. We were allowed to use wigs from the shop. I picked out a scraggly red synthetic that hits the shoulders. I curled it with various rollers, a steamer, and the steam from an iron. (I actually liked the iron best. Probably because we had a dangerous incident with too much water in the steamer and that boiling water SHOOTING out of it!) Yesterday I spent all morning in the shop teasing, pinning, and spraying the wig until I came out with this spectacular do.

The finished wig with a picture of what it originally looked like.



My makeup was pale with shadows under the cheekbone. Pale shimmery lips, Eygptian inspired eyes, fake eyelashes, and bright green/blue eyeshadow to match the ridiculous ornament I put for decoration on the wig. I could have jumped out of the movie "Hairspray"!!

"What gives a girl
Power and punch?
Is it charm, is it poise?
No, it's hairspray! "



( And Another Photo )

The whole class was spectacular. The other students who styled wigs were just as sad as I was when we had to wash the wigs out at the end of class. *sigh* All that work!