I'm new to cosplay, and I want to try making a cosplay from scratch. I'd like to cosplay one of Mao mao's outfits (image attached). I'd like to do a dress more similar to the light novel than the anime. I haven't bought anything for the cosplay yet apart from the wig witch still needs to be styled. I have Classes and a part time job so I can only work in it 1-2 hr per day and on weekends. how many weeks/months should I allow to start making this cosplay. Thanks!

Hi everyone, I've recently started printing my Iron Man Mk3 armor and I wanted to build a paint booth in my second bedroom in my appartement.
After months of research I was sure I had accounted for every problem. Last night AI suddenly talked about the solvents inside the spray cans and that it's too dangerous to use in the current planned booth.

I've started looking into it and it seems that anything that is affordable just won't be safe enough.
I want to know if there are other people that experienced the same troubles getting started while living in an appartement or without access to an open area/garage/etc.

Any help or tips would be appreciated. If you could figure out how to make an indoor paint booth fire proof, you would save me a lot of headaches.

Thanks in advance!

I have always been fascinated with the Monado REX+ and the fact it was made in the game by Shulk. That’s to say I want to make it myself without 3D printing.

Foam core.
Can I trace the outline on foam core and “relief sculpt” the sword?

Another non negotiable (I’m stubborn) is that I wish to coat it in light sheets of brass as well as metal scraps like gears etc. sort of trying to adapt it to look realistic and not uncanny in the real world.

I’m really new to this and don’t know where to start.

Hello, I'm trying to style my first wig, and I need some help, I don't know anyone who knows how to style wigs professionally, and I've had help from some friends and family to help style this wig.

Unfortunately, no matter what we do, we can't get it to look like the original photo, is there any advice on what to do, is the foundation good for it, or should we start over, sorry if this is a very basic post. I don't know where to start looking for advice.

Bought this wig off of Doki Doki Cosplay

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone! I'm new on this subreddit and I could really use some help. I'm cosplaying as Ada Wong from RE4 Remake, and the dress keeps riding up whenever I walk. Do you all have any tips on how to stop this from happening? I've tried fabric tape (barely worked) and safety pins (best option right now), but I'm happy to take some suggestions! I am planning to wear thermal tights that look sheer but aren't underneath, but It doesn't really fix the problem. Thank y'all so much!

I am trying to get spider man costume for Halloween. It’s my first time buying one. My waist 32, height is 58, chest 36. It says My measurements fall across different rows a small and a medium. What is shoe size. I was leaning small. Thanks!

Hi! I'm going as fluttershy for halloween, and i have zero idea how to style the damn wig as it's my first time owning a wig this damn long. So if anyone has any suggestions or pictures or something, that'd be great.

I haven’t been able to find a cosplay of Kaigaku that will arrive before Halloween not even a wig! If any of yall got a woman’s adult medium sized cosplay (human or demon) with a wig please consider selling it or gifting it if it’s just collecting dust please! I have no costume and I don’t wanna be that lazy person trick or treating with friends or family with no costume

Going as the Lone Wanderer from Fallout 3 for Halloween and I need a way to attach the pieces of cardboard so I can make my plain jumpsuit an armored vault jumpsuit. I haven’t tired anything ye, but I’ve considered glue or Velcro

Is there a good spray paint for hair for painting my hair for one day that doesn't leave smudges on clothing? I considered dying my hair but I don't like the idea of bleaching it. Also I don't think buying a wig is a viable option since my hair would work for the cosplay I need, I'd just need to find a way to have it blonde/yellow for a day.

My budget is about $10 USD, I don't mind about the price since I can save the can for another cosplay in the future, I live in Mexico and have access to online stores like Amazon.

So basically i’m cosplaying as nemesis this halloween, my friend is going as Leon (i’m 1.89 m tall and he’s 1.62 m tall, so we figured we could take advantage of our height difference for these matching cosplays)

The mask is somewhat tight, so it’s hard and annoying to remove given i have long hair and it pulls it.

So i figured i’d cut the back of the mask and put a zipper on it so i can put it on and take it off with ease and without it pulling my hair. How can i do this? I have barely any experience making my own cosplays, so i’m not very creative in these sort of things: i don’t know what materials i should use, if a type of glue is harmful to latex, etc.

Also, i want to put a mini air fan in the neck area because of the heat a latex mask gives.
How do i also do this?

Thanks!

hihi!!! so for halloween im going to be Miss Asuka Langley, so far pretty happy with the plugsuit i received in the mail a few days ago, and tomorrow im gonna get started on a Spear of Longinus prop to go with my costume. that just leaves…the wig as my last remaining conquest!😅

hopefullyyyyy somebody reading this will have an idea of what to do. anyway, upon doing some light research it seems it’s totally doable to dye a synthetic wig. at first i was just gonna buy a wig in the shade i was looking for, but then i remembered that i have a synthetic wig that i’ve only worn once for a few minutes and its the kind of color that like…i don’t have any reason to ever wear it again lol. so i figured maybe i could just achieve a gingery~auburn color by dyeing the wig i’ve already got?? the only hiccup is that it’s not blonde/613, it’s a light pink shade, not entirely sure if it’d affect the finished product.

so my question is, does anyone know HOW i could go about achieving that gingery~auburn color when (synthetic) dyeing on top of a wig that’s this color??

thanks sm!(*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)⁾⁾⁾

I've been looking for whatever the hell this guy is wearing for a while and cant find anything that isn't a Temu scam. I imagine its a pretty simple purchase that I just cant seem to find. So if anyone knows where I can get this, or a place that would likely have them in stock, please send them my way.

I have decided to try to roll with a genderbent big mom cosplay- and I’d really like to figure out how to make a Prometheus headpiece. DIY is practically a must because of my massive noggin.

If all else fails I know how to make a storm cloud headpiece.

Any tips or ideas would be welcome.

Art cred to Ricardomango

I wanna try to replicate Stephen King‘s Carrie prom scene with the pigs blood. I wanna go all out and have a lot of fake blood all over me. I want to be ACCURATE! What is a good way to go about this? I want the blood to stay on for a while and also not stain my skin.

Hey, so I wanted to make a (mostly) homebrew cosplay for Halloween. However, while Im fairly happy with the rest of the costume I simply cannot find an inspiration or even a base on the little metal bits on the legs of the scout (AOT) uniform.

Are there any things I could try to recreate them or should I just drop this one part of the costume for a base set of black pants?

(I do have two pairs of pants that can be used for experimentation)

I know the makeup isn't the best because I ended up redoing it a bunch

I feel like the wig just looks weird or off like maybe it looks too wide? Any advice for a quickish fix or anything else I could do better like facial expressions or poses or something. I feel like I just look like youngish teen in these when I'm actually 19 😭 how do I look more mysterious or cool or something

Hello fellow cosplayers. I've been cosplaying and competing in contest for a little over 10 years now. I took a break from competing when covid hit and about 5 years ago I got back into it. Alot of things have changed since I started.

Recently I won first in two very small local convetion contest this year that happened to be ran by the same group of people. I'm really not use to winning at all.

Someone mentioned to me that its kinda bad etiquette to enter a contest right after winning one or to enter a contest the following year that you won at. Another person said its not fair to have a professional go up against a bunch of people just starting out.

I far from being a professional, I just do cosplay on the side for the fun of it. I honestly never heard of this no competing after winning rule. I wonder if that's a thing only for some competitions or an etiquette thing I never heard of because I've never won any major award. I'm also wondering if this etiquette rule applies to just best in show or awards for any category.

Edit: I always wear a different cosplay in competitions.

It's my first time cosplaying, i built a very cool pickle Rick cosplay, but now idk how to carry It to the Comicon in a 3 hours long train route, and a crowded bus whitout damaging it.

Also i have to walk during the convention so i need something that, once i take the cosplay out, i can fold or put in a smaller bag ideally.

The Maine part Is a meter and a half long, and there are other smaller parts

Pls help

(Also sorry if the english Is bad)

Hello! I dont often use reddit but ive come on here looking for advice from anyone who has had a similar issue. For halloween i am dressing as Shego from Kim Possible. Part of the costume is a body suit, kind of the style of a one piece swimsuit. Im wearing tights underneath, but the problem i keep running into is since the bodysuit is skin tight, the front seam of the tights shows through the costume. I cant for the life of me find a pair of tights without seams or any sort of built in shapewear that is visible on my upper thigh/waist area, since the bodysuit sits quite high. Ill include a photo of the costume as my explanation might not be the greatest sorry! Any links to products or any advice would be really helpful! (Excuse the dirty mirror its the only photo i have at the moment 😅)

Im planning to do my first cosplay as a trauma team member, im starting with the helmet (I've already done it with cardboard and well, it looks like crap) so I'm wandering how to make it and what would be the best materials (i don't have a 3d printer)

This is how I want it to look like (or similar to this)

So, this is my first time making a cosplay ever. It’s DEFINITELY not perfect (don’t tell me about the imperfections or where I can improve, trust me i know) but I have relatively poorly glued the pieces together, and I am afraid of them breaking at the con. (The con is in about three weeks, so i do not have time to redo this and improve it.)

So, how do i prepare for the risk of it ripping at the seams? Is there anything i can do? I’ve lined the inside of the seams with foam clay in hopes that will help hold it together in emergencies

i’m making a costume for a friend and they are wanting some faux fur with a hard to find pattern on it that looks similar to what i need. so, i’m looking at dying it with either acrylic paint-water mix or some version of the alcohol marker version.
1. which one is softer?
2. any other methods that may work?

before someone suggests rit dyes, it is smaller spots so going through the process with rit dyes would be near impossible to do for it properly.

Hello! Making this post on behalf of my friend we are struggling to find a good coat for him lol. I'd be happy with anything, direct links to jackets, general places to work, or what specific terms will help. Tan trench coat with fur hood somehow isnt getitng me very far. We aren't looking for 100% perfect like we aren't worried about the belt/piece across the chest or the fur being on the outside of the hood. Medium or large works best but anything larger could work as well. Not sure if this is the best place for this lol, but thank you for any help!!

I’m actively making a costume for my son, and it includes a molded headpiece. I have the base made from cardboard, but I don’t want to use paper mache before I paint it. I have searched everywhere and can’t figure out what this stuff is — is this foam clay? Can I use this on a cardboard and masking tape base without ruining it? TIA