1st Cosplay journey: Kuriyama Mirai

For the photos from the shoot click here!

Haii~~★~(◡‿◕✿)

So I mentioned on how I wanted to talk about how I made the cosplay and all that jazz so here it is ^^;

I think it was around last year december that I wanted to do cosplaying ^^ and especially prepare it for a manga con that was in March hehe...thought of a lot of other characters initially but decided to do Mirai as she was do-able and cute (*^◯^*)




I ordered the wig last year November, this kickstarted the cosplay initially as it felt like I had something to work towards you know? Saying "I wanna do it" wasn't good enough for me and I felt the need to actually do summat first to prove that "I'm gonna make it happen" to myself, if you are ever in doubt of whether to do something; Just Do It, like the Nike slogan.

At the start of the year I made a plan and followed it. I started to make the sword first...I looked at many tutorials before making it, and I have learnt that ridges of the cardboard should go UP and NOT ACROSS...ok, just a note for me in the future... 
Then I moved onto the costume,  and worked on it everyday. I learnt a lot from costume making, fyi, I do sewing so I did know where to start ^^;; however, I learnt a lot of things I didn't know, like the thing about bias bindings and how sticking them down with fabric glue was a little messy...anyhow! Lesson learnt! (´◠ω◠`) the pleats on the skirt too, I know now not to do pleats that are TOO large XD



I guess accessories I got next, mostly free because of a gift card for Claires~ (an accessory shop) gold ring and whatnot.

Needless to say I got my whole cos finished for March, was so happy~ It was also amazing at the con!!! First time ppls wanted to take pictures of my work (my cosplay) and was really happy that hard work paid off ;~; 

Though, I thought the makeup could've been better XD looks really bad in this pic, I was an beginner at this XDD the sword bent in half too T~T was still use-able ☆〜(ゝ。∂)
dat eye makeup tho XD

Then it was only a few months later that I had my shoot, it took a while because of school work and all that, but thank goodness the weather was pretty good that day! Wanted to add, I changed the makeup so that it looked better hehe X3

And the photos came out great! I want to thank my cousin: @akarimochi0523 (on instagram) for taking the photos ^^ Very pretty some of them~

Here are two really good offtakes she took (੭ु ˃̶͈̀ ω ˂̶͈́)੭ु⁾⁾


So that's basically it ^^~! I think I'll add that I need to look at the amount of cloth I need before buying because I bought waaay too much, budget calculated to a resonable price tho (´・ω・`)

 Oh and one more~

Thanks for reading~!★~(◠ω◕✿)

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