Tamazuki (youkai version) from Nurarihyon no Mago


i think this must be the most recycled cosplay ever. and by that i mean using all kinds of recycled items i can find. for e.g. the hakama was from my kendo, the purple top modified from kimimaro's top, the wig from my shio+gwen cosplay... and of course the cloths - i have so many leftover colored cloths i didn't really need to buy any ><

so who is this demon fox...?





his broken mask



his bbq sword







and his eye..!



also compared it to the manga version, and i decided to make the manga hair on the anime body. haha.





youkai battle!



this is his human form, just for the heck of it. this was after he got slashed by rikuo and his mask broke, hence the scar.





so what exactly did i make then??

started with the cloak first. actually made an inner layer as well (since i have so many leftover white cloth... why not).



put on the star painting and accessories...



then the collar



the inner top was modified - i cut short my kimimaro top and added the sleeves and collar. easy.



but the patterns were a killer. i bought the white felt to cut all the patterns, because the acrylic white paint i had just didn't look sharp enough. think i spent the whole day cutting, pasting and watching secret garden at the same time. not bad. (and then i cut the wrong shape on the cloak, and had to redo =.=)





then i worked on the grotesque bbq char siew sword. was done with bunches of newspaper masking taped to the shape, then painted with red shades. mom was wondering what the ugly thing was for several days, and i really want to throw it away soon. ughh





with some shading



the hilt thingy was made out of acrylic, which i sun bian cut since i was using the machine anyway. the holding part was wrapped with bandages i used for kimimaro.



then the mask. cut it from foam (shouldn't have, but it looked pretty flat...) and acrylic painted + white spray paint it. cracks when you fold it, and the painted features weren't bright enough... but oh well!





then is the wig. modifying shio's wig is hell... i really dislike that exploding bombastic wig. it didn't look good in photos either. thank goodness he has long hair so i could just put another wig below. needed special angles so the hair don't look so bombastic. pfffft.





last is the belt. i got about 10m of gold cords, twined them around each other, then twined the double rope around metal wire to get that shape. just barely able to put them on myself when i wore the costume, securing them using safety pins. really not a good method.



fox ears very easy, just a triangle pouch, and i pasted on the pink triangles. secured with hair pins. didn't even bother taking pictures. oops.

late september, i managed to go thailand for a translation job xD all expenses paid!
no i don't speak thai (and i still don't now. really hard to figure out those letters =.=) i was actually translating japanese.

25th Sept

so anyway i was really excited because i got to take SIA for the first time in my life!! took a noon ride, it was only 2hours long unfortunately, so i was literally ascending... eating... then descending.



time passed by too fast.. grrrr. but at least the food is awesome! it's pork and potatoes. love airplane food. i was very happy with the wall's ice cream (i was fooled into believing it was haagen daaz because of the packaging, but nevertheless...)



i was staying at a rented 3 storey-ed apartment. my room was huuuuuuge. it feels so good to have all the space around me! i love the room T____T i want a room like that in singapore too.





my cupboard



my toilet



mine mine!



we had a mini grocery shopping trip before we went for dinner. it was fish porridge and satay, but the porridge is not the sticky gooey kind but more of rice in seafood soup. nice! (i was too embarrassed to act all touristy and take photos =.=) so i only have leftover food which i took when they went for a smoking break heehee



ok don't look appealing. OH WELL.

26th Sep

2nd day was work day. woke up around 8+ and got off work at 5+. oh, snapped a photo of the street i was staying at.



and this is our apartment - awesome, no?



was actually a very tough time for me because i was stuck in a room with 3 smoking men. you'd think i'd have gotten used to all those smoke but...

so anyway dinner was great as we went to this restaurant to eat curry crab! it's shangarilla. thought it was shangri-la. so nope, no connection to singapore's hotel.





nice tools, but a tad dirty. and they have a bad smell lingering around. was told it was due to aircon... but it seems to be in a lot of thai places. hmmm.



so here's the fantastic dishes!! and i think we ordered waaaay too much for 3 person, so much i think i ate the share of 2 man. grrrr.





and they peeled the 大闸蟹 cleanly for you. woah





the buns were small and cute! (and they come in 2 stacks... wowie)



there was another noodle that came later on but i was really too full, so that went on the take-away. i think i seriously ate too much. even my employer was awed at how much i ate .w. after dinner we shopped a little and even went ktv (for research purposes of course)! it was a little weird to be entertained by thai hostesses, and i wondered if she felt weird entertaining me. and we were communicating in japanese, which was even weirder. but it was fun nonetheless. our client is really good at singing!!


27th Sept

time to leave on the last day, but as my flight was pretty late, i had a half day work before going... shopping!! dropped by my employer's warehouse to pick up some ben10 and other warner bros' merchandise for my little cousins too. he was clearing his stuff and almost gave me a boxful of stuff! whee!

we then went to a mall to shop and i virtually grabbed anything awesome i can find, since i was walking by myself (the others were just eating at toastbox). i also spent all the thai i changed (which is only $50. didn't need to include food since it was all paid for).

we ate a quick lunch, a small bowl of noodles packed with many 料, and i drank this coconut ice-blended thing. mmm-hmmm. very spicy, but unique and shiok!



since there was some time left so we stopped at A&W and continue eating (desserts). root beer! nostalgic! i immediately thought of 000, who didn't like root beer. haha.



then it was time to head to the airport. my employer gave me some thai baht to spend in case i was hungry (yes yes i do eat a lot but i'm sure i won't get hungry so fast right... heeeheeee still it was nice of him!) and i went to buy this guava they recommended and a sandwich. couldn't resist a crab and prawn roe!



walked around the area before i boarded the airplane.





SIA was really not functioning well, my area's tv wasn't working!!! as such i had to shift to another area to finish watching my 小倩. and continued to start bad teacher. and the stewardess were really weird (and not very pretty, and probably much older than me). they had SUPER thick make-up (i think it's rather comparable to cosplay), and one of them, wearing green (which i suppose is the senior) looked really scary. like scary mad. you can sort of see her swimming float also. that extravagant blue eyeshadow and green uniform just looks horrible together.

but oh well, at least my dinner was nice, as usual! chicken and potatoes. cake was only so-so though. and that's white wine!



and i landed in singapore. it was said that thailand was rainy, and it did rain - but i was kinda sheltered all the way being driven around. heehee. short and sweet trip, hope i have more opportunities like this in the future :>