Disney at STGCC Day 2!

thank goodness we moved the team appearance to sunday if not i'd have to attend both days.

phew! so our pitiful disney team only had me, jes and vic as the rest were mostly overseas or had other plans T_T

in any case, we managed to find some other disney people so it was great!

and so.. that's me!!

and my very chui rose

i can't do angmoh make up. i thought i had my eyebrows arched but it appeared straight in photos. yes i have the extra feelers to cover the sides of my face but i don't careeeeeeeeee who wants to look accurate but fat right. why, bu shuang with me is it?!

ok back to proper selfies. - aurora and mula 8DDD wheee so pretty and they all got ready by 1pm when we were supposed to meet at 1pm =_= had a huge struggle with my wig...

and here's the other unofficial members we saw~ i snipped all this off some random instagram and stuff so the picture is very small T_T

selfies with the other members! starting with belle and belle

sabby as snow white and matt and ariel

i realised i didn't take with the rest... ooops. but there's neptune by Xin who was supposed to be our gown ariel and her friend as uranus, who will be our cinderella. so bling bling so nice nice

we then had a mini shoot and took these lovely photos~

and a group pic with snow white toooooo

i had to go off around 430 cos i was also the judge for stgcc. took some photos with the guests pugoffka, a photographer/cosplayer, as well as handsome king. and my hair is so irritating the front keeps showingggg.

there was semi judging and finals, where the contestants walked on stage. basically the contest was more on craftsmanship so there was no performance, just posing. some contestants made the posing interesting though. my favourite was green goblin, he made a mobile ship to slide around on, which looked really cool! he might have gotten it if the contest didn't have such strong focus on the craftsmanship. oops, forgot to take a pic of his spaceship.

the winner was aeri, a really skilled craftswoman in philippines. her armour is forever amazing and i forgot to take her pic. dammit.

second was abraham with his bling armour - all those crazy lights and stuff

third was a 49yr old samurai uncle. his armour was really detailed!

and that's all i have for the competition. i left straight after for dinner with aurora and snow white heheheh. fa moola why you bangsehhh...

Belle WIP

i practically redid the whole of belle's dress since the last time i posted. it was just hideous and i even re-ordered new yellow cloth (i now have like over 50m of yellow cloth in various tones and patterns, ughh).

so here's the second attempt at ruffling, with my super long cloth.

after evening out the bottom. it was a good idea to use soft satin cos it was just lighter and easier to ruffle them. after putting up the dangles, it looked decent!

the problem was, i made too many panels. T_T if you look at belle's dress again it only had like 6-8 panels x_x

so dammit................. i had to redo again.......... so this is my 3rd attempt:

it appeared to be shabbier than the 2nd, but that was because it was still WIP. finished the whole cutting and ruffling in like 2hrs on a weekday night. with the drapes, it looked pretty good?!

added some mini crystals but they don't seem very visible...

brief comparison between 2nd and 3rd attempt. does it still look like more ruffles = better?

i tried to vary the bottom layer too with rose pattern overlayed with sparkle cloth. seems to be better than just plain yellow satin?

and then i redid the corset like for the 4th time also. the 3rd time i cut the cloth too short ughh.

inserted bone on the chest area, and overlayed chiffon on satin. looks decent, but the inside work is shitty. T_T whatever.

and the headband.. looks duh...

in any case here's the completed piece with the different bottom later! my lighting sucks but oh well.

Belle WIP

started on a project for disney princesses for belle. there's actually quite a lot of versions of her but here's the original one:

with added jewels and designs on her top

just plain sparkly

and this is actually the one i'm going for:

but i'm at a loss now. after having researched on the many pretty belle cosplays out there, i feel like i probably can't do any better with my current skills. look at all these awesome belles.........!!! i really love how they made the dresses,

my favourite is this, i think she really nailed it!!

i kinda like how firefly path made their own version of it.

my cake-layered dress is a complete flop. and i think i kinda lost the motivation to fix it. on one hand it's because my glitter chiffon is causing such a huge mess. every time i bring it out, it literally sparkles my whole floor. ughh. i tried to do a 2 layer approach and it looks like a messy cake now.

it was so hard to attach the glitter chiffon to the edge so this is how it turned out after trying to roll it

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh i feel like i may have to redo the whole thing. but never mind at least i have the top done now... at least. i bought a bunch of cloth from taobao to experiment with the mix and matches

and i don't know why but i really wanted to use that color changing cloth but after i cut and pieced them together i went... ok it's orange.

ughh yeh now that i look at this, it is orange color dude. so i redid it. 

and adding on the glitter cloth.

doesn't really look particularly fantastic but sighs.

i think i might have to rebuy all my cloth and start again. zzz.