♫ I BELIEVE I CAN'T FLY ♪

Today we're going to have a photoshoot (in two hours I guess) so before wearing my newest costume (Nill, DOGS) I will tell you how it's done.

Well the dress is so simple and the blonde wig I have is just curled so they were not a problem. The actual pain in the ass were the wings.

Here is a little tutorial:

What do you need: (no pic this time, I forgot to take it:d)

- Feathers (bigger ones and tiny ones)
- Strong wire (I used an old, crappy hanger)
- Glue (wood glue was good, but I think that also decorating glue would do)
- Cardboard
- White (or whatever is the color of your wings) fabric
- Thread and a needle
- Strong tape (duct tape or some other stuff)
- piece of cushion (or something else to make them comfortable)
- String for the braces

So, at first you need to take the wire and shape it into something like this:



In this picture I've already composed some cushion there to be sewn.



Then I cut some cardboard to get them into wing shape. After doing that I covered them with fabric (second pic) and yes, I did use the covers of an old Phone book, just need to be creative!




The next step was a real killer. I had to cut all my feathers into a nice shape and then compose them into the wing.After composing them I marked each place carefully with a marker and then glued them. After attaching the bigger feathers I attached the littler ones and voila, the wings were done. Some pictures:






Then I took some string and made these straps. Here they are:



While I was doing these wings Poke was like "haha, you must be frustrated haha you look so annoyed hahaha IS THAT FUN? OH I FORGOT NO!" so this is for you Poke:



This is your next character right? What do we see in his back? THREE BIG PAIRS OF WINGS! now who's laughing? haha. *coolface*

Poke has already started this cosplay by making this cross (or whatever it is) out of sculpting mass:



Now I will start getting ready for the shoot...but first I will have to try one thing. *wears her wings and goes out to jump out from a tree* OUCH! I thought I could fly with my wings *sadface*

That's it for now, be cool, be bananas,be awesome & stuff..yea.

Momo.

COSPLAY PLANS AND FEATHERS

HELLOOO


Soooo.

I decided to update!!!!!

yay me!!!

I should be sleeping already since we are leaving to Iisalmi tomorrow morning but oh, I rather do some cosplay plans!!

Right now I'm looking forward to Cain Nightroad
I love his costume and I really like his personality and costume is difficult enough not to be done in few days...




I guess I will start with the armors because I've wanted to try doing them for so long!

Costume itself won't be hard to sew...but those little details and stuff. They. Are. Pain. In. The. Ass.

Not to talk about all those wings....gosh.

BTW, talking about the wings, we are about to do a wing tutorial! (but Imma let momo deal with that since they are her wings :D)

...back to cain.

Cain will not be seen quite yet because it takes a lot of time and stuff.

So I have another project!!! WEEHEEEEEEE

....oh crap.

I don't have anything else coming.

oh well, I'll figure out if there's any nice characters to do on short notice.. ;D

Maybe I should inform about momos cosplay plans too?

She's looking forward to Caterina Sforza from Trinity Blood :D



I can't really tell you more about Momo's project but oh, she'll do an update for you n__n

Momo also just finished nill cosplay...




WHAT IS THIS

Momo told me that she will have to stop cosplay for 8 months but as you see...
She can't!!!

hoohohohohohohooho

ok.

enough spamming.

nighty night

-Poke



PS. Sorry for my english, I'm too lazy to read this trough before publishing it..

SHIRTLESS MEN OF ANIMECON 2011!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SHIRTLESS MEN AND SORRYS

At first:

WE ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRYYYYYYYY THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN HERE UPDATING FOR YOU!!!!!!

We've been up lot,
we went to desucon and animecon and bakacon and....so much has happened...so many new costumes, ideas for tutorials and stuff- ANYWAY

and we've been abroad and stuff.

Animecon:

We had so much fun there!!

Two first days we spent dressed as kiryu twins



we made these costumes on short notice, but they look really nice for me :D

I just LOVE those wigs!!!

And since it was saturday night and there was a party @animecon we went there and we had a party time with SHIRTLESS MEN!!



And not to mention, we decided to take photo of every shirtless man!! and we found out that there was plenty of them!!¨

On our previous post you can see plenty of shirtless men!!!

http://bananascandoit.blogspot.com/2011/07/shirtless-men-of-animecon-2011.html#


anywayzzzz back to business.

on sunday we we're dressed as our own characters!

we call them camouflage twins!!



even though we walked with 12cm heels for the whole day, I totally loved this costume!

...and it was great for manhunt-..I mean taking photo of each shirtless guy ;D

Oh well off to Desucon!!

Desucon was great as always!!

we were cosplaying as Sasuke and Suigetsu and we took part to cosplay show!!

Here's the video!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebcbm45zufA&feature=player_embedded

starting 3:13 8--------DDDDddddd

Next day we were cosplaying as Bellatrix lestrange and Voldemort!!





Momo looked so epic with voldemort mask :D


well, Desucon has always been (and always will be) perfect con...so yeah.

it was perfect :D

WE have been in so many places and I'm awfully tired so enough for this time :D

I try to make some cool tutorials!!

I have plenty of ideas I want to share with you!!

Like tattoo tutorial and how to make wighead out of cereal box and shields and armors
out of plastic bags and oh so many things!!

JODLINYOOOOOOOOO

WL: Poke (and Momo)

PS: we promise to try to update more often!!

HOLY COW

HELLODELLOWELLOKELLOGELLOJELLO..*momos deathly stare*

ok. lets stick with simple hello.

At first, I'm sorry we haven't been updating for a while, but we have been quite busy since we have school to deal with, and as Momo mentioned I've been abroad lately ;O

Instead of telling you about my trip to Sweden (which was awesome) I'm updating some cool stuff here!!!

so, I have plenty of things to tell like cosplay and sewing and picnics and summer and..*momos deathly stare* ...Imma choose cosplay!!!

Ok, so as momo mentioned we used our Badou and Haine cosplays in tampere kuplii cosplay convention, whole convention was freaking awesome and we even had our great banana day!!!
We did some awesum photoshoot and here's some results!


This is me as Haine Rammsteiner, gotta love this picture ( (c) momo ofc editing by me lol )
and then momo..


Momo as Badou Nails ( (c) Poke this is non-edited picture )

Also,I had brand new experience as a make up-model! :O
Make-up they did was just original cosplay make up and I don't have pictures of it or anything BUT!! I got a great tutorial idea that I'm gonna make sooner or later ;)
IT'S CALLED *rums*

TATTOO TUTORIAL!!!!

ofc not real tattoo but you know...fake tattoos.

I'm dying to try it.

Bananas do hate waving kids.

Due to our studies we have been awfully busy lately.
Anyway, we were at convention 9.-10.4 and it was quite fine. We were cosplaying Badou and Haine on a first day and on a second day we were hanging as Bananas.

Wearing a banana suit at con is like wearing a Britney Spears mask at Hollywood - Paparazzis everywhere. Of course it is nice that people love our costumes and to me, being popular is definitely not a problem. There is actually only 3 problems with these fruity cosplay suits.

1. Heat. The suit is VERY hot to wear and theres completely no places to get fresh air inside of those:DD that's why we had to take breaks once in a while:D (someone said to us that we "peel ourselves")

2. Nobody recognizes you. I mean, we all know bananas. But oh, how many friends we have frightened with those suits. Anyway, nowadays they all know that it's us!
3. The biggest, the most annoying and the horriblest problem. Waving kids. Yeah, i know. "How can you hate them momo, how can you?" At first is quite nice that silly moms with their kids wave to you. But it really gets annoying when you have waved back to 34 kids in one hour. rowr.

yeah that's it about bananas. I actually had something nice on my mind.

I'd really love to tell you more of our con but there is a problem called no pics. yeah, we did take many pictures. BUT since poke is in sweden it'll have to wait. i'm glad to have my own camera too (though it is not Poke's supercool Canon EOS 1000D with extra flash and stuff..) SO i thought of making some tutorial on my own but then I got lazy and my dad promised to take me out and order me a meal--> momo is sold.

Umm..so actually I could introduce Poke to you since she already did an update of me.
SO what should I tell you..well. Here is Poke:



She is doing her favorite thing - eating.
Her other passion is photographing, whenever we pass a photography store she stops and starts to drool those..things.

Poke is also very fond of her looks. She spends hours making her hair every mornig -.-'

I know she is gonna say this isn't true but: she is a sasukeholic. Poke has cosplayed Sasuke's two different forms in at least five conventions! She also used to have sasuke hair and she bought sasuke toy and key chain and...yeah.
Here is Poke as Sasuke:



yeah, freakin' good picture! (taken by me :dd)

So now you know a little something about poke:)

With hate for waving kids,

Momo

You've got a perfect skin, with a Devils grin.

Hello there!


To my mind, skin is a very important piece of cosplaying. It makes any character look better - none of us have the perfect skin like an anime character!

Here are some instructions for YOUR skin to look perfect! There are three things you should know before we start:
1. You do not need to be a make-up artist of any kind, it is very easy when you have the right supplies.
2. Take your time, it can easily take 20 minutes to have a perfect skin!
3. Don't buy the cheapest foundation or eyeliner you can find, it only affects on your skin and eyes badly.

So, here are the supplies needed:


1. Foundation
2. A sponge for foundation
3. Cake powder
4. Concealer
5. Concealing brush
6. Powder brush
7. Mascara
8. Eyeliner (for mascara and eyeliner, prefer the waterproof ones!)
9. Moisturizing lotion




First use the moisturizing lotion all over your face. It makes the foundation and powder last longer and is better for your skin. (some powders make your skin very dry)



Next, apply concealer to your problem areas (such as pimples, moles, red spots etc..)
Blend it well with the concealing brush.



Then apply foundation all over your face (now, take your time, don't rush!)



finnish the skin with powder (use powder brush or a sponge)




It should be something like this:DDDDDDDDDd



Then apply the eyeliner. When cosplaying a guy, avoid having "a cat eye" lining since it probably is going to look too girly!!! Also use some mascara BUT JUST TO HAVE SOME COLOUR NOT LENGTH!!!

right? *momos deathly stare*

AND voila, you are ready:


(yes, that is POKE not me!!! just my wig:f)

To conclude..we did some photoshoot!


me as Badou Nails



And Poke as Haine Rammsteiner, both from DOGS:)

Take care,

Momo & Poke~~