Hello, all! As I write this I am wearing one of the strangest pairs of somethings in the girl fashion world: fake eyelashes! And why, may you ask, am I subjecting myself to this totally voluntary torture? BECAUSE OF CHASE CON EXPO!!!!
There is a great many new things I am trying out for this anime/gaming/anythingtodowithcoolthings convention. One of them happens to be the use of fake eyelashes, for which my costume would be incomplete without.
And now I'm back after sneezing one of them off.
This cosplay WILL be worth it! For those of you who don't know what cosplay is: COStume PLAY. You dress up in your favorite version of your favorite character from, well, anything [shows, movies, cartoons] and go to a convention to show off your stuff. It's a nice way to get a chance to be someone else for a day and it not be Halloween {not ALL of us celebrate that}.
Some more torturous items that my costume will be involving is a beautiful pink wig and circle lenses. Again, for those not in the know, circle lenses are contact lenses in the color of your choice that happen to be a bit bigger than the diameter of your iris. This gives you a look of a more anime-ish person, in most cases causing your stare to be more like a doll's or alien's. I am going for the former.
I shall be donning a sweet Lolita dress with dolly Mary Jane shoes with a distinct doll face makeup to complete the look. I have watched the tutorials, bought the items in question, and now commence with every day practice. I freaked out my in-laws with the contacts.
The wig is relatively easy to handle and I've already had practice with circle lenses from another cosplay. It is the soft, unassuming, eye dressings that seem to be causing the most trouble. For one thing, professionals make it look easy, but getting the darned things on is a talent for which Simon Cowell might even stand for. Then there is the ever present feeling that something is on your eye. I had actually gotten one to the point of feeling comfortable, but the other simultaneously was stabbing the corner of my eye and also falling off constantly. The sneeze was the finisher.
I'm sure {or at least, I HOPE} that with practice, I'll get better at putting and keeping them on. Which means for the next few days I'll be stabbing my eye with tweezers because the con is this weekend. Ha, ha. [Cue nervous sweat.]
IF any of you out there have suffered for your art, so to speak, let me know. I'm sure I won't be the only one who will have a semi-awkward but amazing time at the con. Hope to see some of you there! I'll be the one blinking furiously.
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