Fresh start!

I was not sure that I would actually restart my blog, however with fixing my phone so it can take photos, and all that has happened in the last month I think it is now time 🙂

I will stick to health and costume updates alone.

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This shows the newly secured vinyl floor in place (just boot weight until I can get hold of firmer) and the old floor (that is all resin splash over or paint on the floor! Not worth getting it cleaned but it may be worth replacing the flooring anyway as the fibres are brittle.

Back left corner is now tidier!

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Maleficent is back on my to finish this season pile 🙂 I got excited about finally finding products I want to make the wings and then I realised I need to bring this project back from the UFO pile 🙂

Made all of that from 8.5m of fabric! In two pieces at that!

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Both of these are remake projects- the red gown with black borders a remake of my CLeves gown 🙂 I have the wool and linen dresses in good condition so really wanted the fancy dress to match 🙂

 

The construction and shaping are both so very different that I am enjoying the challenge of going from one to the other, and is even inspiring me to work on a project I had also left alone for many years 🙂

 

maleficent wig hacking

MALEFICENT WIG HACKING

by admin, January 24, 2015

So this happened…. I still need to sew the wefts together at the back. But I also have to file down the sides of the horn base- they push my ears out.
Way too hot to wear these but hey. Good practice.
Might glue the horns in place which means… Yep. Gonna have to cast a new set for wearing with the helmet (which has been cut up the middle front but otherwise left intact.)

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Malefiselfie

 

My poor camera is straining at the sides, it is resetting and the camera decides to not focus and to incidentally not zoom. Oh it shows as having zoomed but the actual photo? No. I may just reboot the thing.

From my motel room last weekend.

As for the costume- I want to do the full train (now confirmed to be a full train- not sure why it was CG’ed in to a cape and robe) and narrow the shoulders and shorten the back. Also, because I wear it over the spine, I will need to do a little stay tape across the top to hold the collars in place. I have just whipped the pleated collar to the gown anyway (I’ll get photos of my engineering exploits as I redo these parts).

But I love my bird ring. It is a really nice piece of jewellery.

And super happy about not wearing prosthetics, though I will do a more careful pull at a later date. I will remold them with proper channels for run off and carefully paint a super thin layer. And may actually get them back on my head cast, just be more precise about shapes.

Catching up- make up post

Catching up- make up post

It took a few days of forced sleep and a bit of support but today felt like a real day finally.

A proper wrap up later but for now just a few notes, tiny ones but that made  big difference.

Wigfashion on ebay. Recommended. Highly. Super highly. Small note though: definitely get the wigs with the tiny widow’s peak. Even if you don’t have one it balances the whole fake hairline better. In photos by others the hairline smooths out anyway.

Do clip as close as possible to the wig hairline (or if you ventilate the front a bit more to account for it.) I did about 5mm. Perfect when actually glued in place (I had time for Fauxriel, not for the others.) And mostly hidden when I was able to put securing pins in the front.

Also the hairline itself is quite deep. I had to fold the edges under to pin near my ears- so yes, these wigs are adaptable to high or low hairlines. I’ll need to cut my wigs to shape as the weight pushes my ears out (as per my Carlotta escapades!)

Circle lenses. OMG. OMG. I know there have been horror stories but as a veteran wearer of lenses they are no worse than the monthly lenses I had prescribed for years. Treat them as you should and with the right fitting and proper care and especially with regards to hydration (do not ever wear lenses straight from the bottle! Use lubricating drops not lens solution on your eyes!) and fit (these are larger so you must have the right base curve) and they are about the same risk.

I have had lenses tear on my eye. One tore right in half as I took my first blink. And they were purchased from my optician. So lenses are a risk to begin with.The lenses are thicker than the new generation of lenses- my eyes prefer them, but I am potentially in the group that benefit from bigger lenses (sclera lenses potentially.)

I won’t go as far as recommending them but I was wearing the Geo Mimi Princess in apple green all weekend (with appropriate care and using my eyedrops.) The base curve is superimportant. Super important.

Eyeliner. Note to self: The reason your liner was crap and was behaving like your very old liquid liner is because it was your very old liquid liner. Stop putting pens away at the same time as make up and this may not be an issue again. That goes for your liquid lip pen as well.

Argan oil is the shiznit. Okay so it is in a carrier of linseed and that is probably all you need but hey. Oil is finally your friend.

Silcon adhesive. Works for eyelashes and wig lines. Faster setting than PA and more flexible than.. the other stuff. Which I don’t use. Thingy. Spirit gum! And you can carefully pull the glue off the lashes. Yes the glue is solvent based but the speed of drying means that has evaporated off before you get to your eye. I used a cuticle tool (shortened bamboo skewer type) to dip in to the glue and sweep across the underside of the lashes. Seriously super fast. Only one issue where I tried gluing over a patch of skin that was still covered in moisturiser.

Skin prep is key. I did nearly nude make up for Fauxriel and Christine. It would have worked really well if I had my liquid lip base (as in lip stain) and proper eyeliner.

But I think we can call the “Photo Ready” line a success. I used the colour correcting primer and transluscent powder.

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