- for beginners that is
COSPLAYING 101
1. To do cosplay you first have to ,no dur, pick some character to cosplay as. It sounds easy but it can be quite hard deciding between thousands (ok maybe only a couple hundred) amazing cute or cool (or both) anime characters (or any) to cosplay as. Although if your a beginner you might want to start simple. Like me i started with Hatsune Miku and even that was a handful . But on the other hand i did sew it. Unless you are very experienced on sewing you might have to buy a costume. Or even if you can't do that you could always work with what you got *shrug*.
2. 2nd is to just do some research. You can't just go all crazy and do all of this stuff and then realize you did it completely wrong. You've got to figure out how to cosplay (good job your here) and what exactly the character you are cosplaying dresses, talks, looks ect.
3. Then is the fun part , actually starting! Yay! Say your cosplaying as Sakura from Naruto . You gotta get the wig. That may sound easy butthere is all different colors ,cuts ,and lengths for
the wig some are good some (*) . (*) not so much.
And even some are cheap and others deffiently not. You also have to be careful on the things you buy off the internet if you do. But i recomend www.ebay.com .They have some bad ones but other can be really good.
4. Then you gotta get the costume, decide between if you are gonna buy, make or alter a costume. If you buy then try to find the best quality you can because most of the ones you buy online are not very good quality nor are they cheap. If you are making or altering make sure you get as close to the actual character's clothes as possible.
4.5. an add on for 4 is circle or colored contacts. It may sound crazy but you may need it, say you have brown eyes and the character you are cosplaying as has blues eyes or vise versa. Also if you pile on false lashes your irises will look small and creepy (Niki Manaj) yeah so lenses help!
5. Last step is makeup. Even if your character you are cosplaying as doesn't wear makeup they will most likely have those huge eyes and perfect skin. Unless you have both of those things you probably need makeup even if you are a guy. Compare these two pictures:
Which one looks better? Yup now which one did you think followed all of these steps? Yup ok so there you go!
Extra: now just some easy beginner cosplay character ideas:chi(chobits)
kagome(inuyasha)
any kind of school girl:
Thats it so TA-TA please follow these guide lines!!!:))
