/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

When have you had your expectations shattered by cruel reality. Whether it be while ordering a cosplay online, meeting your favorite cosplayer for the first time in person, or attending a Con you thought would be awesome.

Story Time!
I once stumbled across this really awesome armored cosplay (I didn't even know the character, but it looked incredible) while randomly searching the # for the convention I was attending. I was so blown away by the craftsmanship, so I followed them to keep tabs on the cosplay. The day they are debuting their cosplay comes, I see them across the lobby of the hotel and I'm so excited to see this magnificent beast in person... as I got closer I started to realize a few things, first being that the cosplayer himself had definitely shooped almost every photo of his face/body to make himself seem more attractive. His eyes were smaller in person, he was definitely fatter, and he had a layer of poorly applied foundation over his heavily acne infested face (on his Instagram every photo of him looked like his skin was flawless naturally). I then realized he must have photoshopped his cosplay too. There were seems all over his armor and hot glue visible everywhere! event the paint job looked incredibly different! I was so shocked I didn't even know how to react, I just stood there starring at everything on his body, because it all was all so bad! I don't know if he saw me staring (most likely, I was pretty close) but I finally snapped out of it and turned and walked away. After the con weekend craziness was over I decided to show my friends his Instagram and it was GONE! I don't know if he blocked me or if he deleted his page (he didn't have a lot of followers to begin with) because someone called him out on his obsessive use of shoop. Either way I wish I had at least taken his photo instead of running away in shock, and now I never trust cosplayer's photos of their costumes, ESPECIALLY if it looks too good to be true. it usually is.

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