Tifa Progress Post { o1 }

The boot bottoms have been painted black, and then sealed with Pledge floor wax. I'm a little bummed it's so shiny but hopefully that'll go down over wear and tear! The metal bits have been cleaned up so all that's left is to put in the black shoe laces and the armor piece.



On another note last night I opened my Tifa wig at last! It's a Delilah in Black from Arda Wigs. Akwardly I've had it for a week, but I've been terrified opening it imagining all the horrible things that could go wrong within seconds of opening it, that would all ensue in a rats nest of wig that would require weeks and weeks of detangling eventually leading to me despairing and just buying a new one. Overdramatic much, right?

Anyway I womaned up and finally opened it. Thankfully none of my horrible premonitions came true, and I spent the evening detangling it in preparation for later :). It took four hours, so I have now learned to do this during the day rather then starting in the middle of the night XD. Anyway here are the pictures in progress.


Straight out of the bag! Not too bad :).


Halfway done! And it's looking pretty good. At this point I was thinking that next time I should totally watch a show while doing this ^^;.


All finished and looking nice and detangled.

Anyway now its braided nicely and sealed away for later styling purposes ^3^.

Painting Shoes: Leather

Alright world,

This is going to be my first official post, so bear with me and my awkardness ^^;. I've decided to post about the project that I've been focused on for the past couple days: painting shoes! As a cosplayer it's something that I've never attempted until now, and it was a little bit nerve-wracking. I've been wanting to try it for awhile, and finally found a project that required the skills, Tifa Lockhart.

Armed with a wonderful tutorial located here, and some boots I dove into the experience! After agonizing for a long time over what base boots to get for Tifa I finally decided on Dr. Marten's Dark Brown Sorens. I felt they gave a good base structure for the look Tifa really has in her shoes--and they were all leather (not to mention at the time I was lucky enough to be ordering right when they were having a promo on sale items ^3^). I had decided to go with leather shoes because I was too chicken to try all the tutorials I found for painting shoes made out of synthetic materials, and wanted to ease into the experience with paint made for the purpose of painting leather.

Anyways, I HIGHLY RECCOMMEND this! It worked fabulously, and I pretty much followed the tutorial I linked above for fantastic results. I'll be posting my own kind of mini-tutorial on this later too (with some tips and tricks and things I found out during the process).

Here's a picture of my shoes before I painted the bottoms black, and tidied up the metal bits :3.

p l a n n e d ♥

Here's the section for all the cosplay's that I have planned for this year. They're either costumes that I have not started on yet, going to complete later, or gone on hiatus.