Status Update..

So things have been a bit crazy around here, given school started and everything, plus the older sister got married recently (Congrats to them!), so we haven't really had time to post. But we've definitely been working on stuff, when we can.

Halloween is coming, and that makes a cosplayer's life SO MUCH EASIER when you can go to almost any store and find endless amounts of costume stuff. Most of it is pretty cheap, as well.
This also means there's wigs for sale. Our city doesn't have a Party City for some dumb reason, but Saver's is selling wigs for $7.99.
I picked up a bright blue wig at Saver's today. And it's surprisingly not as bad as I thought it would. Like my Quicksilver wig is. And the platinum blonde wig I bought for my Draco Malfoy crossplay.

Sigh. This is the problem with being poor and having to buy cheap wigs that are all shiny and icky with weird partings.
But this one isn't bad, and works really well with the colours.

So I like this one quite a bit. Doesn't need any work. (It looks mint green in the pictures, but it's actually aqua.)

Lainee's wig is another story.
We laughed so hard over how bad it was.
Also from Saver's, I believe hers was called a "Hippie Wig"? Yeah. It's as bad as it sounds. It's like a curtain of hair, it's all exactly the same length. And it's shiny. With a straight, stiff center part.
Yeah.

So I'm trying to fix it. Since it's for her Scarlet Witch costume, it obviously needs to look like her natural hair, so I'm soaking it in fabric softener to take the shine out. (I'll do separate tutorials for the wig styling/care/fixing.)

*By the way, Lainee, I'm still laughing over how bad that thing is...*

Other projects have mainly been working on Lainee's Harley Quinn costume. I made a ruffle out of some plain cotton scraps, but was stupid and didn't think to take pictures of it. But I just cut the fabric into 2 inch wide strips, folded them over to make ruffles, and sewed them up. (After managing to break the sewing machine five stitches in..) Then I turned the skirt inside out and sewed the ruffles to the bottom hem with black thread. It ended up sticking out about an inch and a half below the hem.

Next project is making Harley Quinn's collar, and I'm just making it up as I go along, so.. We'll see how it turns out.

~Michelle