Pink. Everywhere.
Aug. 10th, 2012 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dotsandlinesToo brain-dead after work to go to game night, and played a bunch of Minecraft instead. I'm better now. Turns out they mapped out the next several weeks of games tonight, which is OK by me. I am not familiar with any of the systems yet, so I wouldn't have had much to add to the discussion.
With 2 weeks left until the con, cosplay preparation has entered the farcical stage. Last night I spent a furtive ~15 minutes crouched in the backyard with a spray bottle full of rubbing alcohol and Sharpie ink, spraying the far-too-light Rarity wig and hoping that I wouldn't be seen by the neighbors or, alternatively, be eaten by their scary dogs.
Today a bunch of bright pink ink rinsed out of it, and it's drying now. It's still shedding a bit of ink, but I had to stop somewhere. Once it's dry, I'll see how the color turned out - every shade darker than the starting point is a plus - and make sure it's relatively colorfast. My outfit for this thing is white. Asking for trouble.
After that, uh... well, the original simply defies physics, so I'll at least try to curl it a little bit.
Meanwhile, Vinyl Scratch's wig turned out pretty cute.
This is Vinyl Scratch/DJ Pon-3:
And the wig results:
That's this plus this plus a tutorial on wefting that didn't really work in this case. I ended up cutting sections of the weft, sewing them in between the layers of the original by hand, and trimming trimming trimming until it looked OK. Then spiked it a little with freezing spray - I wanted it to look a little spikey, but not out of control porcupiney. I'd also gotten hair glue, but I haven't used it (yet?).
The goggles are Jay's, and I think I'll need to wear them up that way to keep the bangs back.
I'm happy with how it turned out, considering that I've never modded, styled, or dyed a wig before. It's always fun to try at least one new technique with a project.
With 2 weeks left until the con, cosplay preparation has entered the farcical stage. Last night I spent a furtive ~15 minutes crouched in the backyard with a spray bottle full of rubbing alcohol and Sharpie ink, spraying the far-too-light Rarity wig and hoping that I wouldn't be seen by the neighbors or, alternatively, be eaten by their scary dogs.
Today a bunch of bright pink ink rinsed out of it, and it's drying now. It's still shedding a bit of ink, but I had to stop somewhere. Once it's dry, I'll see how the color turned out - every shade darker than the starting point is a plus - and make sure it's relatively colorfast. My outfit for this thing is white. Asking for trouble.
After that, uh... well, the original simply defies physics, so I'll at least try to curl it a little bit.
Meanwhile, Vinyl Scratch's wig turned out pretty cute.
This is Vinyl Scratch/DJ Pon-3:
And the wig results:
That's this plus this plus a tutorial on wefting that didn't really work in this case. I ended up cutting sections of the weft, sewing them in between the layers of the original by hand, and trimming trimming trimming until it looked OK. Then spiked it a little with freezing spray - I wanted it to look a little spikey, but not out of control porcupiney. I'd also gotten hair glue, but I haven't used it (yet?).
The goggles are Jay's, and I think I'll need to wear them up that way to keep the bangs back.
I'm happy with how it turned out, considering that I've never modded, styled, or dyed a wig before. It's always fun to try at least one new technique with a project.
