Finally, I painted the soles to match my pink fabric. The wings and clovers on them are stuffed with fiberfill. I added a zipper to the back and a loop of wire around the opening to help the shoe keep its shape. I was then able to build the rest of the shoe atop that frame using various fabrics from the rest of the costume. I ended up cutting off a large part of those boots, keeping basically the sole and just enough of the heel and toe to firmly hold my foot. I bought a pair of low-heel ankle boots to use as the base for her shoes. The feathers get bent easily when walking around in the costume, but they are just as easy to bend back into place, which I thought would be preferable to accidentally poking people with them. The feathers on the side of the skirt each have a skeleton made from lighter 18-gauge wire directly attached to the bottom rung of the hoop skirt. I made each of the rings of the hoop skirt using 12-gauge wire. The hoop skirt has an elastic waistband at the top, and has velcro along the outside of the bottom which I use to attach it to the bottom of the skirt, keeping the two aligned. The pink trim, which forms a heart shape in the front and a flower shape in the back, is also sewn on, though the streamers going from those shapes to the wings hang loose.įor the underskirt, I made a five-layer hoop skirt. It has a waistband, usually covered by the bodice, with a zipper in the back. The three layers of the skirt (cyan top, blue middle, and white bottom) are all connected as one piece. The tie is directly sewn to the front the blouse (no part of it wraps around the collar). The tie has a layer of vinyl inside to make it thicker and keep its shape. The navy piping on the bodice is some cotton rope that I sewed on. The blouse has a velcro closure in the back with a space in the middle for the pipe to stick through, whereas the bodice has a full-length zipper and has a low enough back for the pipe to come out from the top.
The blouse and bodice were a little tricky because they had to fit over the wing harness. The main fabrics that I used were polyester satin in blue (for the middle part of the skirt and the tie) and in cyan (for the bodice, the upper part of the skirt, and the tops of the stockings), peau de soie in white (for the wings, the blouse, the bottom/inside of the skirt, and the feathers) and in aqua and purple (for various details), polyester spandex in navy (for the stockings and accessories), and polyester poplin in pink (for the trim and hearts). The details of the wings (a pink heart and purple clover on the front and an aqua wing on the back) are appliqued on. The piece of pipe extending from each wing connects to a t-piece, then to a vertical piece of pipe that runs down my back and attaches to a corset, distributing the weight of the wings to my waist. I basically built a pillow around that skeleton to make the wings look soft and rounded. The core of each wing is made of eva foam, which is glued to a piece of ½" pvc pipe. In line with my reasoning for starting with the wig, the next things that I made were the wings.
#Yu gi oh cosplay mod#
I also used some blue felt, some wire for the hearts, and a ton of Mod Podge and hairspray. The base wig is a Jaguar from Arda Wigs in Electric Blue with two matching ponytail clips and additional wefts in Electric Blue and Pistachio. Fortunately, it came out even better than I expected. Because I wasn’t confident that I could pull it off, I started with the wig so that I could easily bail on the project if I couldn’t make it work. It was a pretty big stretch of my skills, as the only really drastic wig styling that I had done before was for Rosalina, and I wasn’t especially happy with how that one turned out. The first part of the costume that I made was the wig. Blue Angel’s intensely cute character design, with its heart motif and blue-and-pink color scheme, felt directly targeted at me, so it was immediately clear that I should cosplay her. Then, in 2018, I got addicted to the Duel Links mobile game, and that led to me checking out the current anime, VRAINS. I also never played the TCG because my friend group and I were already heavily invested in other card games.
#Yu gi oh cosplay series#
I liked the original anime series quite a bit, but I didn’t follow through to any of the spinoffs. Yu-Gi-Oh! is something which I recently got back into after many years away. Blue Angel (Aoi Zaizen/Skye Zaizen) from Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS!Ĭostume made and worn by me.