/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9189274
You can get them on Aliexpress. I just bought some for Halloween

>>9189274
2nd story

>Friend cosplaying Cidney from FFXV
>Cosplay has a thong peeking above her shorts
>But who has the time to wear a thong anyway
>Buy a cheap thong, cut the straps off
>I'm pinning thong straps onto my friend's shorts

>>9189274

The only one I could come up with was making a giant sling shot out of PVC Pipes, Duct Tape, and Ace Bandage for a Gijinka Angry Birds cosplay back in 2012, last minute

>need rare fabric for cosplay
>oh look a store in nyc has it!
>no online orders
>store has apparently not joined the 21st century
>wat do

>days later, get crazy idea
>find cheap plane ticket to new jersey
>let's do this

Well, I always wanted to go to New York anyway. It took a cosplay to motivate me to actually do it.

I'm female and have the normal amount of facial hair a white female would (aka, just a few thin blonde hairs) but I shave my entire face before photoshoots to create a smoother surface for makeup. Also shaving the back of my neck for wigs that are up or short in the back

Wearing a tampon with an overnight pad because you can't trust a fucking period at a con.

>>9189321
Get a menstrual cup. Seriously. It won't tear up your vagina the way rayon fibers in tampons do

>>9189315
Before you go to NYC try Halsey Fabrics in Newark, NJ! idk what kind of fabric you're looking for but they do have cheap stuff. NYC is going to be more pricey of course.

>>9189320
Seconding shaving my neck. I was getting my hair cut a week or so before a con and asked them to shave my neck for a wig. She gave me a weird look but did it anyway.

>>9189324
The NY trip actually already happened, but I appreciate this advice! Next time I'm in that area I'll check it out.

I have a habit of buying things just for one tiny bit that I need for a cosplay.
The only example I can think of at the moment is buying a notebook just because the cover was made of a type of plastic that I really needed.

>>9189335
Haha I thought I was the only one who cannibalized notebooks and plastic folders. Once I needed a small bit of fur so I bought a teddy bear from a dollar store and chopped it up.

>>9189362
I do that too, buying second hand/cheap soft toys is so much cheaper than buying fur material.

>feel kind of mean for chopping up lil cute plush animals though

I just bought 3 screen door meshes for a cosplay. It's a full head helmet that has the front a solid piece so I can make the eye slight inconspicuous. And cover with screening to make more depth. Dude at Home Depot just stared at me completely confused with I piled it with some more Big Gap Foam Filler and a bunch of PVC piping. Granted I'm 4'11 and at the time was dressed for the beach.

>>9189323
>>9189321
mfw I haven't had a period for over 3 years, the last period I had was in the inter-rum between IUDs.
My skin is perfect, and I don't have to know what the fuck a menstrual cup is.

>>9189570
>IUD
do you have a copper one or a hormonal one?

>>9189570
Please don't make this a period thread.

>>9189315
pics of fabric

>>9189274
White falsies always make me think of cum stuck in eyelashes.

>>9189570
>tfw I also have no period anymore since getting nexplanon IUD

I still get the stray acne, but for the most part im golden and I have tampons that have been going to waste in my bathroom

Feels so good.

I've plastic wrapped my arm and then masking taped it far too many times. And also on one occasion I plastic wrapped my head and Vaselined my eyebrows so I could make a helmet that needed to cover the top half of my face. Somehow I have never learnt to have someone in the house when I tape up my arm though, so I have to cut it off with my free arm and try not to cut myself in the process.

>>9189570
I haven't had a period in six years, but my acne is horrible
What kind of iud do you have?
Sage for off topic

>>9189626
That looks nothing like white falsies.

>>9189626
have you had sex before? do you even know what a penis looks like?

Bic razored my head, my hair was down to my navel.

>>9189703
I agree with her actually.

>>9189605
>>9189671
Mirena.
This is my second placement, so I've had it for 8 years in total.
I have acne in my first 5 years, so that could easily be from coming out of puberty. I also take much better care of my skin now.
Polite sage for ot

I've made a weight-bearing corset out of garden fence for a costume once. People asked me how I made my wong harness and when I told them they couldnt believe it. I love weird solutions!

I once hot glued ribbon to my legs to achieve pic related.

Probably super tame for what you guys do but I recently shaved my arm pits because of body paint.

Guys need to appreciate their bae's, because that was a fucking hassle and I can't imagine doing it every day.

>>9189816
Have you never heard of sock glue

>>9189703
Have you?? She's kinda right

>>9189816
>I once hot glued ribbon to my legs to achieve pic related.


what is wrong with you?

>>9189820
I had a lot of issues with this cosplay, had to make a new tail at the hotel out of a belt and scraps. I was pretty young too but still pretty happy with how it turned out. If I could do it again I would fix it to sheer hosery.

>>9189829
you fucking hot glued something to your body, are you insane?

>>9189832
Is this thread not about the weirdest thing you've done for cosplay? It doesn't take much to hold it together, anything just above the calf will hold up on its own if its wrapped firmly enough.

>>9189274
One of my ex-friends shaved her eyebrows off so she could redraw them to cosplay....Light from Death Note. Because eyebrow accuracy is super important for Death Note cosplay.

>>9189758
>>9189823
I remember when I got my first facial and my eyelashes got dyed white

>>9189846
>shaved her eyebrows off so she could redraw them to cosplay

This happens more often than you think.

Made an entire cosplay in the back of a car on the way to a con, because ex-friend was seriously stroking out with tantrums due to not having anything to wear.
>She had 9 months of paychecks until the con and no expenses to worry about
>Waited until we packed and IN THE CAR to start freaking out.

It came out really well, all things considered. She didn't even wear it. I could have cried.

>>9189949
*Until we were
>never post before coffee happens

>>9189626
That's why they were being sold at a sex shop

>>9189816
Doubt

>>9189274
Sorry, I must be dense, but how do you make these work with regular black eyelashes?

>>9189969
White mascara

>>9189320
Same.
I'm a guy with long hair though.

>>9189969
This>>9189979 , but white mascara can be pretty hard to find. You can buy mascara primer(which mine is white, so it helps lighten your eyelash color in the first place) an then sprinkle some white eyeshadow on your lashes. It works pretty well.

I fucked 2 of 3 judgues in order to win the cosplay contest

>>9189274

With the image and the beginning of the story, I was sure it was going to end with you painting black lashes white and getting junk in your eyes. Thank you for not being insane OP

>>9189816
I know a girl that used rubber cement to hold her stockings up for a cosplay once. I guess it was all she had on-hand.
She got chemical burns, as you'd expect.
I told her about sock glue and I hope she actually bought it, jesus.

>>9189979
>>9190030
Wow, well that wraps it up pretty nicely. Thanks!
I can't say I've ever seen white mascara anywhere around here so maybe I'll give the mascara primer/eyeshadow method a try.

It felt kinda weird trying to paper mache a throw cushion because it had the exact shape I wanted. Also got some weird looks from my family.

https://youtu.be/oHt9kTWXgdI

I cosplayed while wearing Kawaii Goods clothes because I love Kawaii Goods too much to not wear them, even if it makes my cosplay less accurate.

>>9190121
i literally can not even believe this

just

wow

>>9190121
i need to post 2 reaction images to this

>>9190125
Kawaii Goods is going to become the next ArtsMoo if you keep this shilling shit up.

>>9190121
This is my favorite

>>9190125

This is the best KG post I've seen yet, 10/10 lel anon

>>9189949
You're too nice and you need to drop this friend she sounds like cancer.

>bought mid-weight metal chain for dress straps.
>Frankensteined buckles together the perfect canon design.
>wondering if I can use the control box of a broken bullet vibe to give different patterns to some LEDs.
>obligatory glued something to my leg (acetone based glue).

paid north of $250 for this Jeremy Scott jacket for a cosplay I didn't/don't expect anyone to recognize

>>9190121
Oh fuck me, it wasn't for cosplay but...

I was playing a devil for drag kinging and my spirit gum was late in the mail, so I super glued my horns as well...

>Super shame now
>At least I won the contest and got $50
>Nail polish remover gets rid of super glue fyi

>>9189570
>had a Mirena
>loved it. No periods.
>started getting huge ovarian cysts, biggest was the size of a tennis ball.
>had to get the IUD taken out and go back to the pill.
Fml.

>>9190315
anon are you cosplaying Trapeze?

>>9190121
WHO SUPERGLUES THEIR SKIN? Half of these stories are just ultimate stupidity.

>>9190389
>Half of these stories are just ultimate stupidity.
I feel like that's the point. It's like going into a weeb horror story thread and wondering why seagulls stay friends with people like that.

>>9190389
>WHO SUPERGLUES THEIR SKIN

Homestuck fans

>>9190036
Uh huh.

Blew a guy and let him finish in my but to get him to make a big 2 handed cosplay prop.

>>9190434
There's a difference between doing something kinda weird and gluing eyelashes to your face with superglue or something. OP's post is a good example: it's a funny story and kinda odd but not idiotic. If that was the case, it would've been called the stupidest thing you've ever done for cosplay.

Glued macaroni noodles to a motorcycle helmet for a Kraft Punk cosplay.

>>9191996
>Kraft Punk
10/10
Any pictures?

3 years ago I forgot my chest binder at home, and at the time, duct tape was the next best option.
It worked in a pinch, but my friend had to cut me out an hour later when I couldn't breathe - felt like my tits were being ripped off with the tape.

>>9191996
>Kraft Punk

>>9189754
why tho

>>9189323
I have a worry that those things will tip over on me and it'll be like Carrie.

>>9192119
How fucking loose is your vagina that it would tip over???

>>9192125
You have to pinch them weird to get them in. If you don't do it right they don't form a seal and can leak. Dumbshit.

>>9192126
>this mad about your Grand Canyon of a vagina that you have to insult anonymous strangers

>>9191998
Sorry for crappy pic, I couldn't put my other glove on because I couldn't work my phone with it on lol.

>>9192119
Anon if you put them in correctly they have almost no chance of 'tipping' or leaking. Once you get used to wearing it youll understand, it kind of suctions and seals itself in you, but you can't feel it at all, it works for hours, too. I've worn this thing while travelling cross country and did not have problems--theyll stand up to almost anything.

>>9192148
Can we cool it with the period talk? Like this isn't really the thread for that

>>9192150
Anons loose vagina is the only reason we're talking about this.

>>9192119
It goes against ye cervix, ya scurvy dog!

>>9192182
10/10 would chortle again

>>9192139
Madman

>>9192139
>not wearing black or getting the helmet shape remotely right
I'm triggered

>>9192201
anon, they both wore red for a long ass time...

>>9192201
Anon it was on a skit from the Eric Andre Show.

>>9191996
THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING IN THIS THREAD, PLZ DELIVER PICS

>>9192275
Calm the fuck down newfag. They already posted pics.

>>9192275
Stop.

>>9192125
I've never tried one before, but it sounds like a cup could tip over. What if I'm exercising? I feel like nothing could be that sturdy and still come out easily.

>>9192106
Cosplay

>>9192462
If your cooch wasn't as loose as a drunk college girls morals you wouldn't have an issue with it

>>9192462
Your muscles hold it in place, and when you get it open there's like a little air pocket inside. It's shaped so it's not going to pop out on you, and it really does form a suction.

>>9192472
Only reason it would pop out is the worlds loosest vagina

>>9191996
If you were at dragoncon, I saw you and let out a hearty chortle

I was using resin on my balcony and my neighbours cat kept on bring like "what's going on" so I had to lock her in my house so she would get hurt by the fumes or ruin my props.
I also had to get gas while cosplaying on my way to a con. That's just weird, man. You don't really expect prince Zuko to be filling up a tank

>>9192609
I've stopped for gas in Lolita and cosplay. Worst was when my card wasnt working and I had to actually step inside dressed for all intents and purpose like a cat girl. I had to wear my sunglasses in because I was so embarrassed.

>>9189949
There are times where it should really, really, REALLY be legal to just up and punch a person in the face.

13, cosplaying sailor Mercury. Thought it would be fun to not wear panties, 30 minutes into the con and while sitting down my mom sees. She drives me home and screams at me the whole time in the car. I'm 19 now but Jesus I'm still terrified.

>>9196284
That's lowkey hot af

>>9196294

>>9196284
why in the ever living fuck did you do that?

>>9196303
Horny 13 year old weeb

>>9189907
Only if cosplayer is an idiot

>>9196284
Sounds like something I could do. 10/10

>>9196303

Lets be honest, I think we've all done some pretty stupid shit in our time. She got it over and done with early.

>>9189816

>My second big con ever, no parents
>Me and my friend were on a bit of a last minute costume construction bender on the friday night
>I'm weathering some bandages for my scarecrow costume
>Shes making these huge craft foam scales for a dinosaur themed costume
>Saturday morning rolls around
>Bandages won't stay on so I hot glue them to my trousers
>The dodgy wiring in the hostel has short circuited my glue gun so it's operating at approx. 2.5 times the normal temperature
>Hot enough to melt all the plastic around the nozzle off and fuse it into my suitcase lid
>Have to glue down bandage with trousers on
>Even through 2 layers of thick ass fabric, it hurt like a bitch
>This is when my friend realizes there's no way to attach the scales to her legs
>Spend the next 25 minutes hot gluing the scales to her bare legs
>It was painful for us both
>Room still smelled like singed flesh when we got home
>Also, Scarecrow doesn't wear shoes
>So I went from new cross gate to the excel center and back with no shoes on

Ah, to be young and foolish

This was the same con that I nearly went blind at, so if anyone would like that story I've got caps of the last time I posted it

I once didn't want my dad to see me in cosplay and be like wtf, so I left dressed normally, went to Walmart, and got ready in the bathroom there.

there are stories of people who can't afford circle lenses or don't like contacts so they put food coloring in their eyes.

>>9196424
Oh we know. Bottlecap lens guy is a painful reminder.

>>9196424
Oh god someone post the picture of the person crying food colouring, I need this.

>>9196284
what the actual fuck
you had issues as a kid, anon

>>9196284
I mean, I pretty much don't wear them if I'm wearing something that covers. Don't think I'd do it at 13 though.

>>9196424

BOY DO I HAVE SOME GIFTS FOR YOU

>>9196635

AND MORE

>>9196638
Ive heard this was a hoax

>>9192464
BUT WHY

>>9196642
I have some lenses that I'll be throwing out. I can test it
(not in my eye, obviously)

>>9196652
Well I mean anyone who has worn contact lenses (esp prescription ones, since you wear them most of the day) could probably attest to this not being true. No cooking while wearing contacts? There's no way that, out of the thousands of people that wear contacts every day, every single person takes oout their contacts to cook breakfast in the morning or dinner at night. If contacts melted in our eyes at just the heat from a grill or oven I think we'd be hearing about it more.

I mean maybe this would be true if this girl had her face like 3 inches from the grill for multiple minutes but if she's stupid enough to do that then she shouldnt be surprised that she went blind.

>>9196635

LASTLY

I said earlier I'd post this, enjoy my suffering

>>9192092
This reminds me of the copy pasta where some girl used duct tape as a chest binder and ended up ripping skin off her breast and nipple.

>>9196691
Fuck I cringed just reading that

Story?

>>9196678
This is honestly why I'll never wear contacts.

>>9196635
I'm going to fucking scream because I know the company that makes that walrus prosthetic and I recently bought a prosthetic from them for Halloween and I thought their stock photos looked a little familar when I was on their site
>it's actually an excellent quality prosthetic but apparently the owners are stupid

>>9196678
Oh my God I just died

>>9196678

>>9196387
I wanna know

>>9196678

>come into thread to hear some funny cosplay stories
>it turns into a horror stories thread about periods, bad eye hygiene and gluing objects to skin
>realize this is what I should have expected because the majority of this board is either underageb& or doesnt cosplay in the first place

c'est la vie

>>9196663
As a contact lense wearer this is bullshit, heat dries them out. If it were true I'm pretty certain it would be common knowledge with people who wear contacts daily.

>>9197117
The period thing is because /cgl/'s predominantly a girl board. They physically cannot not bring up their period shit in any stories threads.

>>9192201
pal that's kraft punk

>>9196648
For the cosplay, he had a shaved head, so I cut it all off.

Spent three days designing, printing, painstakingly cutting out, and taping tiny labels to individual pieces of candy to give to people at a convention.

Then running up to random people and saying "Hello, my name is Sakurai Yuuto, please remember me!" before giving them a handful of candy.

Kamen Rider fucks you up man.

>>9196678
they should make cateye/slit lenses like they do astigmatism contacts were the bottom is weighted sightly more than the rest of the lense so blinking a few times realigns them.

>>9197128
I mean, when something is a huge part of your life, bugs you for 1/4 of every month, then you'll want to talk about it.

>>9197207
They do, actually!

>>9189274
I layed flat against a slanted window so someone could tighten my corset all the way, and in the process, flashed about 15 people cosplaying from Kamen Rider.

>>9196678
i remember this and i still cringed and writhed in empathic agony

>>9197276
Not that anon but where can I get some? Lookin to do a lizard kinda cosplay and that sounds perfect

>>9197314
No idea, sorry. A friend of mine had them for a bill cipher cosplay, I can ask them later, but maybe 9mmsfx?

>>9191553
There are two kinds of people who make people do this: people who are fucking desperate and people who get off on the power.

>>9196706
Everyone knows about the company - NorthFur (in before YIFF YIFF YIFF JANITOR PLEASE NUKE THESE POSTS). But this is the first I've heard about the owners being stupid. Please fill my head with gossip.

>>9197418
No this is the first time I found out the owners thought it was ok to wear homemade contact lenses. Here's a stock photo of the walrus muzzle (won't let me save it) from their site with the homemade contacts visible.
Excellent prosthetic makers (I don't have the walrus one, I have a different animal but it's beautifully detailed and is the best one I could find for the animal I wanted) but they make bad decisions regarding their eyes apparently

>>9197416
You forgot Type III: Horny opportunists.

>>9197426
.. the walrus guy works for/runs NorthFur?

>>9196503
Who

>>9197767
Apparently

>>9198024
Guy who made contact lenses from the little nubs at the bottom of a soda bottle
I think it was the guy with the walrus mask but I'm not completely sure.

>>9192139
BLESS YOU

>>9198063
I thought bottlecap guy was the one who dyed them red and blue with food coloring?

>>9197393
Preciate it, checked out 9mm sfx but theyre way above what I'm willing to spend for no rotation. Amazing contacts though

>>9196691
>>9196697

Oh boy I think that was me.
I've told this before on cgl: when I was 15 or so I used to bind with duct tape as I didn't know better and it worked fine.
After spending the whole day with my tits covered in duct tape, I went to take it off and ended up ripping a layer of skin off the side of my breast and nipple.

It hurt like a bitch and I spend a couple months with a tiny scar but it ended up fading as years went by.

More like weird shit that's happened to me:
>cosplaying Asajj Ventress
>wearing bald cap
>full head and neck painted white with purple tattoos
>a bald, freaky white alien
>driving on the freeway, minding my own business
>three times - three separate incidents - cars pull up beside me so the passengers can take a photo
I'm used to chatting with pedestrians when I'm in cosplay and footing it, but this seemed kind of reckless.

>>9196638
>>9196642
Regular lens wearer here. Once I was hanging out at a friend's place and he had a fire going on in a pit in his backyard. It was really smokey - we kept throwing stuff in there for giggles and were sitting close to it. (and I may have stuck my head into the smoke once because I was young and dumb). Went home, took my lenses out, went to sleep.

Woke up the next day, popped my lenses in, go about my daily business. About three hours in, they start burning like no other (it felt like my eyes were drying out). I ended up chucking the lenses out (they're ones that normally get replaced biweekly). Likely smoke and particulate junk got stuck on the lenses and were messing the hell out of my eyes.

Also - I woke up the next two days with itchy red eyes, until I realized that I'd gone to sleep with smokey hair. Wised up and threw the pillowcase into the laundry. Wash your hair before going to sleep if you've been around a fire!

How did this thread die all of a sudden

>>9201480
We ran out of weird cosplay stories.

>>9198292
This is a lot more common than you think.

>>9192098
its from a show

>>9189279
why buy a thong at all? You could make strings out of anything lying around... don't even have to buy fabric unless you have nothing at all you intend to throw out...

Honestly I don't know why I am complaining, a cheap thong is like, $3. Less than the time and effort it takes to even make one... I just think it was weird.

>>9202116
why even reply