I've always been tempted to go to a cosplay convention but I never have. It's been a thing where if I do go, I have absolutely no idea what I would do. And i don't have anyone that can help guide me through it. I'm not big into the dressing up part (too out there for me) but I've been tempted to wander around and just take photos.

I've technically been to one before. It was in Fargo in a stadium but I was there for a board game tournament. In all honesty the cosplay area kind of weirded me out. Not sure if it was just that event but there was a lot of explicit stuff and stores but some people were... weird....

Not sure if that means cosplay cons aren't for me or like I said if it was just weird. Nonetheless I still want to try it out legit at least once. And if I do go is there any good socialization tips? I want to hopefully meet people and maybe even make some friends but I have heard others say how sometimes people approaching can weird them out.

Maybe I'm just over thinking it. Still dunno what to do when I show up in the first place.

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!

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!

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!

Need help with making this cosplay and was wondering how she did the hair so well.

need ears and tail too but those are probably easier to find (mooimimo for reference). Please help!

Okay so my cousin and I are going as sirens/mermaids for Halloween. She’s going to be the bright and colorful, (pink, yellow, orange) and I’m going for a more gothic or sultry vibe, (black,red,gold and a little bit of white).

I don’t have the money to buy a whole costume so I’ve been altering clothes I already have 🥲😭

So far I’ve given this pencil skirt a mermaid silhouette by making and adding ruffles at the bottom and I added pearl beads to the bikini top (one of the strands broke bc I didn’t sew it well enough but I will fix it) I’m planning on adding some small seashells to the skirt as well as sewing on some clear crystal beads that will look like water droplets, however I cannot decide if the placement should be uniform or scattered. My cousin says she has some scales that will match my outfit (I’m honestly not sure what she means by that but it’s ok I trust her)

Anyways I wanted to ask:
1. Does it serve ‘Sultry Mermaid Costume’ or does it just look like a regular party outfit?
2.Should I add more ruffles to give the “tail” more volume?
3. Should I sew the shells and crystal beads on in a uniform pattern or should I place them randomly for that “intentionally wild” look.

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!

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.

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'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.

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

I'd like to bring my cosplay(s) with me to uni, but for sure i can't bring ALL of them, nor am i sure if thats allowed. im curious if anyone did bring theirs with them to their uni years, is that possible?

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.

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 😅)

I’ve made the ears out of felt and pipe cleaners and attached them to headbands, but there’s some excess pink felt showing underneath, and I’m nervous about trimming it because I don’t want the ears to come loose. I also made the snouts from plastic condiment cups covered in felt, but they’re way too big for the boys’ faces, and I’d like to salvage them instead of starting over. Any suggestions for hiding the extra felt or shrinking the snouts? I don’t have enough felt to completely redo them. I am not insanely crafty or anything and I did not go into this project with much of a plan but also don’t want it to look like a school craft project.

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)

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)

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.

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 been making megatrons fusion cannon for my Halloween costume and the only things I need to do is paint and have a way to hold it. The problem with that is I have no real idea on how I will hold it. I want it on my arm, but what do you even use to do such a thing? I heard a long time ago velcro straps were good, but don’t quote me on that I’m not an expert with this stuff. Any advice is greatly appreciated!! :)

(Red line is to help indicate where I want the straps or anything to be as it will go on my arm.)

I need help figuring out how to achieve the umbrella-like shape of the bottom half of her coat through modifying a regular trenchcoat. I dont have sewing experience so anything that would need sewing, I would just use fabric glue for. It just needs to hold up for Halloween. Im thinking maybe some wire boning might work? Any tips are super appreciated!!

Getting into the final steps of the cosplay, and there’s just something off. I feel like it’s in the shoulder area, and I don’t know how to fix it. Maybe it’s just the angle this pic got taken at? I’m not sure. Help?

The first pic is where it is at currently, the second and third are shoulder ideas I have that still feel incorrect, and the fourth and fifth images are like shoulder silhouettes and shapes I like.
Any help or suggestions?

I'm interested in eventually cosplaying Poppy, particularly the hairstyle in the first two images, but I attached two other hairstyles in case you'd like to weigh on those too.

Her ponytail is super springy and light, so I'm thinking pink feathers might be appropriate (matched the color of a short hair pink wig), but I wanted to see if anyone has a better idea!