cosplay marathon.

Last weekend, Lullaby and Requiem came to town. We stayed at Symphony and Fantasia's place, where there was much wig brushing, fangirling, eyebrowing, and general mayhem.

While I can't show any official photos, I have plenty of photos from my phone, taken with little or no artistic sense. So here they are in all their noisy, unedited glory...

5 music videos.

In all honesty, I don't watch many music videos. I never really have. The bulk of the videos for songs I listen to mostly involve the group in question dancing/singing/playing instruments, and not much else. It's such a shame because a lot of the time it's just wasted potential. There are so many possibilities but nobody seems to seize these obvious opportunities.

However, here we have music videos/MVs/PVs or whatever you want to call them, that have some sort of story to them, or at least a development of the ideas and motifs used. For this simple trait, they are all flippin' epic.

(By the way, the picture above is the best part of the Monster MV :D)

5 sweet tunes.

While I'm still in a lovey-dovey kinda mood, let's list some wonderful lovey-dovey songs!

Funnily enough, no English ones. :O

instant abs.

I have a reputation for being excessively lazy, especially when it comes to exercise. I hate sports (with the exception of dance), I've set foot in a gym only once in my entire life, and when it comes to jogging... I went a few times but ended up walking 90% of the time anyway. I've never cared much for having a bikini body, since I don't have nearly enough boobage to fill a bikini anyway. But since I became a member of The Lost Aria, it has come to my attention that a lot of the cosplays I want to do will require, at the very least, a toned abdominal region.

Thanks to Lullaby, who provided these links for a fantastic tutorial on open-chest binding and makeup, because really, I don't know the first thing about makeup contrary to popular belief...

testing testing.

So, I'm quite unmotivated when it comes to getting stuff done. That's why it takes ages for me to finish writing stuff, watching dramas/anime, study...

However, I do like to dress up. Even if I'm not going anywhere or doing anything else. I get sudden spur-of-the-moment urges to wear a flashy outfit, or do my makeup, or even try on my newly-acquired wigs.

In this instance, I wanted to try out my Kagamine Len cosplay. Just for kicks. I did have contact lenses on, but they weren't the right colour...plus it was an overcast day so the green didn't show up in photos... But ah well. Here are a couple of the better pictures I took. Largely unedited, just upped the contrast to make the yellow yellower.

Unfortunately since the wig is a bit small, my natural hair sticks out the side...It's not noticeable if I angle my head correctly, but it still sucks. :( And I'm really not sure how to remedy the situation either. *cry*

I still haven't had a chance to practice open-chest binding yet, but I'll get around to it soon! Since Lullaby and I have a lot of open-chest cosplays in mind....

The other day I thought of how many cosplays Lullaby and I have planned to do together, and I was highly amused by the number of plans that involve us being shirtless/nearly shirtless guys. Looking forward to it. ^^b

a rather hairy acquisition.

This post has been a long time coming. I got some new wigs a couple of weeks ago, and was waiting for a chance to take some halfway-decent photos wearing them. And once I did, I needed a chance to actually upload them...

So these wigs are just a continuation of my blonde frenzy... I had hoped for them to be rather versatile, so I could cosplay several different characters with them, but alas, they are, 1. not at all good for any other characters I want to cosplay, and 2. a tad too small for my ginormous head. But ah well, here we go.

So this one is intended for a Kagamine Len cosplay. Unfortunately, because it's too small for my head, a little bit of my hair peeps out around the back and side... Hopefully I can find a way around it, especially if we're going to be shooting more videos!!

Oh, and excuse the mess in the background.

I feel like a dork when taking camwhorey photos like this one...but it really suited the style of the wig... Now that I think about it, I really don't know what to do with this wig. It's a bit light for a Amane Misa cosplay. I can't, for the life of me, think of who else I could be...

Oh! And this one I bought off Nocturne! I really like this one - I wore it out in public that day (since I had wig hair) to meet mai waifu, and he didn't recognise me. orz

Melt omake

I'm back home after spending the weekend with Requiem, Nocturne and Lullaby down in Studentville. For two nights Nocturne had to put up with me sleeping on her floor and making a mess everywhere... But she was so lovely about it all, makes me feel like a slob. orz

vocalomania.

I'm spending the weekend in Studentville. The kids at the School of Pharmacy have taken the baton from out of my hands, and are holding the second ever Pharmacy Revue. Wonder if they'll do as good a job as me and my people did?

...なんてね。They'll probably do better than we did. I sure hope so!

Anyway, seizing this opportunity, I'm going to meet with Nocturne, Lullaby and Requiem to shoot some photos!

Probably due to my relative height, I'll be cosplaying Hideki from Chobits, with Nocturne as Chii. I can't wait - she'll make the most adorable Chii! I believe that she's going to make her own ears too, for which I wish her luck...

Afterwards, Lullaby will be my Miku (yes, MY Miku) in what will hopefully be a Melt PV, with screenplay by Requiem! (Co-written with Lullaby, I understand. :3)

I'm actually relieved that these are going to be casual cosplays...since I don't currently have any costumes of my own. orz

I have recently applied for a debit card so I can stop relying on other people to buy stuff online for me...just set up a paypal account and bought a wig for a Kagamine Len cosplay. Hooray for a step forward! (J 'o')J

KyAaaaAAAaaAA can't this weekend come any faster?!?!?!

Magnet omake

When I was going through the photos I took for this con, I realised that 90% of it was useless random crap I took on a whim... And so I'll share some of those here, while I leave the pretty pictures to our expert editors.

Also, I haven't included pics where you can see the other girls' faces, since I haven't asked their permission to use untouched pics of them... So my apologies, but you'll have to bear with staring at my ugly mug. :P

Fake lashes and pastel makeup...neither of which I'd used before! D:

Even Vocaloids need cash, you know.

We were in the local newspaper too... D: With a friend of ours, who also required cash.

Had only bubble tea and a little bit of Ballade's meal for lunch...otherwise I would not have been comfortable in that dress. Dx

Ballade was originally in this picture, but for the reasons I mentioned above, I cropped her out.

It's not just because I'm an attention whore!

Aaaaaand finally...the Rhapso-razzi strikes - Nocturne just looked so adorable...especially with Rin's bow and the coat and the backpack... She looked like a little schoolgirl~

I can't wait to see her Rin look again!! xD

Magnet

Draw me close to you, just like a magnet

So that even when we're separated, we'll reunite again.

~

As I mentioned, earlier this year, Ballade and I cosplayed Hatsune Miku and Megurine Luka, Magnet ver. Believe it or not, it was my first time putting on makeup properly and wearing false lashes. It was also my first time wearing such a revealing dress in public... But while I was in public, I was being Luka-nee-san, so everything was fine~

The next day, Ballade became Luka, and I had a go at crossplay, being 'that guy from the Just Be Friends PV'. I don't think he has a name, so we referred to him as 'Mr JBF'...

We caught up with Nocturne too, and convinced her to cosplay Kagamine Rin's Meltdown look. She was so cute, I had to stop myself from pinching her cheeks or just squeezing her to death.

You'll see, in my next post.