Quickly following the Fire Emblem shoot we did, the girls quickly got out of costumes and switched to RWBY and League of Legends Heart Seeker Ashe but by the time they wrapped up and changed the sun had already set on us. This was a big learning curve for me to have to be forced to shoot in the dark. Again thankful to our helpers Trish and Anthony of Bits Photography for teaching me a thing or two about shooting in pitch darkness! 

C/N: xXSnowFrostXx 

We had to use our phones and flashlights to light the way for the shoot and use it to light a focal point in the cosplayers pose/costume and target our cameras at that, pray and hope we got the shot we want ahaha...trooper again to Cindy for climbing that tree trunk in heels!

I dont have any BTS to show for this one since it was nearly impossible to get any since everything was pitch black. We had 1-2 sets of slave flashes to help illuminate the set. 

 

Fire Emblem Awakening Cosplay Shoot

Its almost the end of the year and I'm trying to play catch-up to all the entry back logs I have...

Also yay updated the layout. Let me know if its annoying/bad since I know it does the pop-up thing now per page...But I digress, lets flash  back to the 'beginning of summer' LOL AKA July right after AX when my Florida bbs came and stayed with me for a few days and where we managed to do some on-location shoot for a few of their costumes. Yes!

All props and Costumes done by the lovely cosers!

Sumia - Cindy (XxSnowFrostxx @ Facebook)

Tiki - Mari  (Puri Puri Cosplay @ Facebook)

both fan-pages are linked on my FB album :D

Persona Cosplay Shoot

Notorious for backlogs coz I'm just awesome at that, lets flash back to July when we did the impromptus Persona Shoot where I managed to drag newly made friends to a dark sketchy parking garage with me to shoot lOOO

I'M PRINTED!!!

 

 

I'm pretty sure I speak for everyone (ok, maybe not) that their dream as a cosphotogapher is to get their stuff printed and recognized right? Well, some of us just dont quite have that luxury.

Some of us dont have 10k LIKES on Facebook or big social media presence to really warrant doing a photo print book - but I question, why not? Why not just do it to do it!? Ok, maybe it sounds really stupid but I cannot express just how amazing and gratifying it is to see your work on print. Wide or small distribution or not, the idea to be able to tangibly see your collaborative project on print is just too exhilarating.

 

Hair post: Getting your hair grey/silver & maintenance

Here we go! The post I had been procrastinating on for months loooo I finally sat down long enough (on a friday night nonetheless) and wrote this up. Including ample amount of selfies coz why not.
This is your basic bitch guide on how to get dark grey hair and maintaining it. Welp. And nope, you don't need to be a level 10 blonde - pale afk blonde to those of you who dont know hair levels....to get the same gunmetal ashy grey charcoal shit my dead locks have been rocking. Lets get to it.

AX 2015 RECAP

Forever backlogged on entries! I'm not sure how long I've put off putting this entry together only to realize I don't really have much photos to post from AX lol...since I don't think I did as much as I thought I did or just didn't document as much of it...sy sewing and working on projects, Hopefully I'll be able to que up some entries of them. I have locked myself in the house for weeks ahaha and have skipped a few summer cons LOL (worth) gearing up for big projects to come tho!

But onto the entry~

Card Captor Sakura Wallet

Wow some of the photos turned out pretty dark but you get the idea :x

 

I'm honestly not one to buy wallets on a regular basis (and I mean like, you know how some people go through several wallets through their lifetime just like how most goes through purses or something) but really, I'm just not the type to wonder off to the wallet section of stores thinking 'oh I need a new wallet' unless my current one is dead or dying or just impractical for use lol...

 

but with that being said, my current one has been taking a beating and before it goes through more of a beating I figured its time to let it take a break for a while so I was in search of a new replacement. One that I wont cry over once it starts to fall apart....but also be cute afk coz why not.

 

This design came out a while ago, probably about a year ago.

I have mixed feeling about anime oriented designs tbh but glad that in the recent years

they've released more and more items designed for the anime fans but not so much as it screams cheap weeb status.

 

So with that said, took the plunged. Finally got a new wallet.

I got mine off eBay but you can get them through taobao and other US sellers.

 

The parcel came in after a few weeks (well, considering I got it for less than $20 vs other stores. I would wait) it was well packaged. I was surprised that it even came with its own box.

normally sellers would just wrap it up in a envelope and ship it to you wrapped in bubble wrap.

but  glad to know the wallet came with its own hard box and inside the hard box it was wrapped in  paper to protect it from chaffing as well. Wow. good job!

 

 The wallet comes with a wristlet strap incase you want to wear it as a clutch
Sturdy textured material
lots of pockets on the inside
I didn't note it there but the zipper is a nice metal zipper with the Sakura's wand on it.
A lot of compartments and separators in the inside of the wallet with a coin holder inside too.

Size wise, its a good sized wallet. Pretty big but if your a person with a lot of cards and etc
I think this works well. I put a size comparison on the photos as well, its basically the same size as my Vivienne Westwood wallet. Its definitely the type that has to be put inside a purse lol...or I mean you can put it on your wrist.
Theres enough room for you to put your iPhone inside if you want to. It fits my HTC Desire Eye phone (if I take the case off if not it still fits but can be bulky)