Instadump May - July

Instadump....=3=;; before I get super super super backlogged some more and this would be a good check point for me to remind myself what entries I'm still missing...welp...

I dont know if its fair to blame lazyness or simply just not having enough time to do /anything/ I feel I hear this/read this quite often from a lot of bloggers (those who aren't in the whole youtube vlogging deal and just doing this somewhat casually...I still have reviews to do too oops)

But I digress and admit that I've neglected this and a whole bunch of other photos sitting on my lightroom account waiting to be edited (I still wanna try and work on the Tidus photos too but ahaha....whut are those...and the beach shoots......and well con shoots too....goodgawdcanIjustnotugh)

So lets do a quick catchup and check point and hopefully in the next few months I'll be able to be caught up...I also still gotta work on a new layout or atleast a new banner ==;;; kinda getting sick of all the pink lol...jfc. I wish I invested more time in graphics lol...

First of all, I will not be attending J-expo, Yaoi-Con or AWA as I had originally wanted. Bro's getting married in October and September is a clusterfuck of preparation and I still have not looked into wtf i'm wearing and I'm supposedly the bestman.dontask.   I'm really sad and disappointed I cannot go and see friends uwu and with school starting mid August I'll just be thrown into a cluster of not having any time at all. I'll be schooling on Thursday afternoon to evening and then I'll be working on Saturdays and Sundays would be my only days off moving forward till the end of the semester which is in December. Most likely skipping PMX too since I just cannot deal with the lobby con venue...

I guess this is gonna be another comprehensive post going all the way back to May / fanime!?! wow have I really been /that/ far behind omfg QwQ I will try to post entries for each month or atleast for the cons i've attended......wow.....orz;;; this is getting quite ridiculous lmao....

HONESTLY. THANK GOD FOR INSTAGRAM OR ID PROBABLY FORGET HALF THE STUFF THAT HAPPENED OR IT'LL JUST BE LIKE BLURRRRR LOL
its kinda crazy to think we're already in August OvO;;; more than halfway through the year. wow another year another year! thats kinda crazy! Lets keep going!

MAY:

BIRTHDAY MONTH. GRADUATIONS. FANIME! OH MY. I think I did a May post lol but I don'tthink I went I don't think I actually went through and did a real fanime post yet, I'm stil debating on when or how I'll do that, probabl another giant photo dump. I didn't take much BTS photos as I expected or really did much since I didn't have a badge for that weekend anyway. It was still fun nonetheless. I flew up to San Francisco a few days prior to the con for my sisters graduation from UC Berkeley. Whoo. No photos LOL whut. I'll probably throw them on the fanime post lolol...I flew with Virgin America this time and wow didn't realize they had TVs on each seat woah woah woah lol and a really funny music video style informative intro.....lol...yeah...if you ever flew with them you'd know what I mean. But wow I've been spoiled by Southwets free bag check-ins! Oh well. I ended up flying Southwest back anyway so it was all daijobs.

these photos pretty much sums up my San Fran - San Jose weekend.  Maybe I'll be able to do a more comprehensive post on it later... /: ugh fanime post when will that happen...I'm soooo backlogged aha...didn't get much chance to explore SF as I had wanted. We did the graduation then dinner and boba then it was qucikly back to cosplay grind finishing up Popstar Ezreal for sisters bf )': we both were pretty much crunching it till the very last minute >w< but for the few free hours I had, cupcake took me around the city :o and when I mean city I mean Jtown /: and little shit got drunk off half a beer. Weakshit.

Jtown has a severe lackage of asian cosmetics and lashes. I was really surprised /:

I didn't get a chance to take much photos of the cosplayers that were at fanime coz I stayed in the hotel too long, took my time getting ready or was doing other peoples makeup that by the time it was time for me to do mine i was just...tired LOL.
the earliest I've made it out to the con was 2....ahaha...wow... orz

I mostly shot League of Legends and Dynasty Warriors for my sister OvO and her friends.

Checked out the gal gathering. Whoo pretty ladies. Photos to be up on my fanime post.

MET UP WITH TOSHI AS ALWAYS HOLLER. I potatoed most of the time at the con /: it was hotter than I had expected in SJ and I just couldnt...lol I was burnt out from school and etc that it was just a pretty chill con to me and having to meet friends again *v*
Went to some bar to watch some indie jrock cover bands play. It wasnt even a far walk from the hotel. More shots. Imprompt shoots and then flew back early Sunday morning (partly hungover lol as always but I alteast didnt end up in the tub this time)

Ended up editing some photos while waiting for my flight back to SD

it was a super quick flight, painless and easy. No crying babies! I flew early just to avoid all that!

Going through security wasnt too bad QwQ thankfully! It was memorial weekend so I was worried the lines were gonna be bad. I get anxiety flying LMAO or traveling only coz I'm too scared to miss flights shiet.  And I heard horror stories of flight delays with SFO ):

 

This pretty much summed up the most eventful portion of May lol 

hopefully I'll get through all my photos eventually and not forget stuff wow ):

After all that traveling I can pretty much say I want a new suitcase, one that rolls on all 4 wheels not 2 ahaha shit is annoying omg.

JUNE / JULY:

Back in SD I had to stock up on my favorite lashes intime for AX :o
one does not go to AX without an arsenal of lashes (not to mention $10 a pack for playgirl when their normally $15 ughhhh plzzzz and lets face it, everytime I go to a con and drink theres always lashes casualties ahaha. //rips them off and puts them on table and hope I find them again the next day...///

actually all those werent mine ahaha I wiiissshhhh I grabbed 2 packs for a friend as well. But best believe I'd be back for more lol....

the train didnt stop as soon as I got back from Fanime coz AX was just going to be arond the corner and I was determined to finish Dream of Doll WHICH I DID MAKE HAPPEN but welp ahaha she suckered me into doing Delphine too.....==;;;;;

Between Dream of Doll I was also working on K Project props! Well, I tried to but man thats sword was annoying till I found a relatively close looking one from the party store and painted it. Added that little craft foam portion on the handle. CLOSE ENOUGH.
I tried making the knives too but it turned out really that that I was just like. Nope. Not giving it to you. LemmeremakeitbeforeIgiveityoulol so no daggers for Fushimi at AX /:

I didn't book any private shoots for AX but imprompt photoshoots happened nonetheless.
Toshi surprised me at AX too since we were all convinced no show!!! whutttt

and yes I'm an otome game producer and boy band manager now lol

 

 COCO CURRY I THINK IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PLACES TO GO TO FOR CURRY EVEN IF IM TOO CHICKEN SHIT FOR THE SPICEY NESS. LOLOL IT WAS STILL SO GOOD. THAT OR I WAS  REALLY HUNG OVER AND TIRED AND HUNGRY ALSO CAN YOU NOT APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT YOUR GRUB IS SWIMMIN IN A LAVA FIELD OF CURRY LOL AND YOU GOT WARM RICE OMELETTE HOLLLLLLLLLLERRR. YOU GOT YOUR PROTEIN, YOUR SODIUM. YOUR CARBS AHAHA. Ok I get really excited over curry LMAO

June basically went by a blur honestly, it was all really just a count down TO AX and when AX ended it was pretty much like 'ok wtf, what do now!?!'

Didn't get to see K movie during AX due to some BS but they did a nationwide showing! Woohoo thankfully SD had a showing too but clearly it wasnt as epic as the one in LA uwu we didn't even get a merch booth or any posters to give away /: and wow it was $15 a ticket. hurt much aha....but gotta support the homo kings....from there went to PRIDE. What a hot mess. No one was fabulous at all LOL. I could go on a whole rant but nope nope nope.

 

Overpriced alcoholic beverages (Jaegger shots were like $10 each!?! I asked for Vegas shots and the bartender gave me Jaegger....without the redbull...and when I asked for rebull this is what we got LOL . NOPE. After this we walked some more around the strip and ended up leaving and going back to the land we know; Clairemont the land of Asians and bar hopped lol........

I was suppose to go hiking the following day to find a waterfall for a future shoot but that didnt happen.....==;;;;

 Tea station is a guilty pleasure but so gdamn expensive I had to stop going there and just brew my own tea at home;  currently my favorite brews are Jasmine Apple Green Tea with Lychee. Or just Lychee Green tea (sometimes I add slices of strawberry in there) Very refreshing for le summer!

 I thought about trying to finish Chunli or attempt to see if I wanna brave the con cosplay life again and did a trial run onChunli but it looks like Anime CA isn't happening for me and I cut my hair again (more like the top layers) so lol no Chun Li but iwas fun costesting her nonetheless. A goal!!! I'll cos this someday...gotta train those thundaga thighs though

speaking of cos test I filmed a tutorial that I scrapped and redid it to do a photo step-by-step tutorial for Reira Serizawa! Lots of pinks, champanges and etc but I haven't gotten around to editing them yet either....hopefully...I will get to it too uwu;;; I really gotta hand it to those people who makes tutorials. Its really time consuming and annoying to get the filming technique down; lighting and etc. And when you get that down, you gotta worry about BG music!?!

July proved to be a pretty crazy month in between Anime Expo and Comic Con....

I wasn't expecting to go to Comic Con at all even though its basically my backyard. I have a more comprehensive comic con posts coming up (expect it months later AHAHA seriously though)

I took the kids down there on Saturday and when I mean took them down, throw them to the curb and drive off only to come back a few hours later to grab them LOLOL!!! And I spent the rest of the day/evening to early morning sunday and I mean the sun was coming up early morning.....lol playing league. Check out my ghetto set up with the e-ternet cable running through the door. Thankfully no one tripped while I did that.... /: wireless internet is not reliable when your playing a stream game lol fffffff sister woke me up sunday saying she got me a pass to go so......instead of sleeping I crawled my zombie ass to the con QwQ;;

I STILL DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY BAYONETTA 2 IS COMING TO THE WIIU. WHY WHY WHY COME BACK TO XBOX BB YOU KNOW YOU BELONG THERE UGH.

I'll honestly probably end up playing it at someones console coz I'm not buying a Wii-U. 

I remember we bought a Wii years ago just for brawl and after that was over, I was over it.

 I didn't even finish the new Zelda game on it......shameonme...aintnobodygottimeforgames....

 NEW PROJECT! WHUT. AFTER YEARS I'M FINALLY WORKING ON SPIRITED AWAY AHAHA

REMEMBER THE POST I DID BEFORE RANTING ABOUT SPIRITED AWAY!?!

REMEMBER THIS SHOT:

BEST BELIEVE I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP AND ITS GONNA HAPPEN.

I ALREADY STARTED WORKING ON HAKU'S COSTUME HUEHUEHEU AND FINALLY FOUND A HAKU AND CHIHIRO AND A LOCATION.

WE *ONLY* HAVE TO HIKE LIKE...3.5 MILES UP AND ANOTHER DOWN LOLOL....

its ok, this is why we go to the gym right!?!?! lolol....

Before I did mention I cut my hair and babum:

 

 no I didnt shave the side of my head (though I wish I had the balls to do it lol)

and unfortunately my layers were still too long to do a proper fohawk ahaha but maybe someday!? so I ended up looking like a pomp..../: oh well

AUGUST! WHUT. YES WE STARTED AUGUST WITH A BANG

Fashion District trip, doctor appointment in Glendale and then back down to San Diego for a late afternoon/early evening Howl Photoshoot in the span of one weekend!

@w@! head is spinning ahaha so exhausted, getting too old for this yolo shit lol....

school starts pretty soon for me too so I am defintely on lock down from now till the end of the semester in December. No cons for a  while so I decided now would be the time to take on commissions! So I grabbed a few stuff at the FD to get started on a Project K uniform commission and a *another* Howl's moving castle commission. Photos to come soon~ I got a few more commissions to tackle as well and my goal is to finish them all before the end of the year wow...@w@;; with that being said, no cons for me for the rest of the year but lets hope Katsucon might happen??? If not.......oh boy.....matsuri....I'll....be.....back....fuckyouwithathousandsuns....onlygoingcozIwannaseemybabes

ok wow this post took me a while to compile and finish up @w@ so hopefully I can scrub through the rest of the stuff I need to work on and hopefully we'll see more content here.....

AND HOPEFULLY SOMEDAY A NEW LAYOUT OR BANNER AHAHA SOMEBODY HELP. AHAHA IM SO UNCREATIVE LOL OR MORE LIKE I STOPPED GIVING A FUCK.....

and my current jam as I edit photos and just through work:

I downloaded the discography and just have it on shuffle so far OvO;; I think I needed this since i was having some major Uverworld withdrawals and needed some new jams too.

Dream of Doll Cosplay Notes!

I don't see alot of people doing cosplay write ups anymore that or I'm simply become so lazy and socially inept that I dont care or just cannot keep up. That or everyone just buys alot of their costumes nowadays QwQ I see alot more prop blogs popping up and bless them though~~~
and IDK maybe I just really dont keep up with alot of cosplayers nowadays since basically I'm in and out of the scene but I feel I'm slowly getting back to it (wowI say that) but I really am not as hardcore in terms of busting them out as I use to...its a fun expensive and rewarding hobby I guess but I digress as always!

This post is meant for me to basically ramble and do notes on one of the dream cosplays that I've been planning for *years* and am glad that its finally done and I need to patiently wait  for the day we can reshoot or when Ruiki can reshoot it with another photographer or SOMETHING and get some good photos~ I was somehow dragged / suckered into doing Delphine as well. AHAHA POTATO Delphine sobs.

The pattern for Ducan was all drafted using flat pattern technique and draping. Mostly draping though since the model I was working with is not any where near me and I was too scared to YOLO it too much so I actually admittedly remade the white collar piece 2-3x coz I was just not happy with it. Its an odd shape/look??? And I had to take liberties on how it would look, keeping in mind I was trying to keep the construction and look of it somewhat realistic or plausible...

 

The vest pretty much is a no brainer in terms of drafting 

but as you can tell from the photos of the cosplayer below (oops. I made it too short)

but its ok, coz Godbless my model is fabulous AHAHA

becauseyouknowhatIamokwiththis

The coat pattern I drafted from scratch. I started with the basic silhoutte and did the slit circle skirt technique to get the full effect on the bottom of the coat and attached them together to make one big pattern before transferring everything to the fabric. It may not make alot of senses in terms of what terminilogy I'm using but if you want me to draft you an idea of how the pattern looks, I'd be more than happy to. Its a very similar pattern I used for Ky Kiske and other coat cosplays that require a big bottom that gives you the 'vampire swoosh' effect or so I like to call it :D....

 

I took some liberties with the costume and the best part (imho) is the lining and you probably can't see them in the photos here but I used a heavy twill fabric for  the overall coat, I had originally contemplated on using a full leather or pvc but I'm glad I went with the heavy twill instead and I used a black rose brocade fabric as inner lining. Why use such fancy material for the lining? For the sole reason for when the cosplayer walks and the coat FLIES in the air of course! AHAHA

All photos and editing done by me. I'm really hoping to get better shots of this costume in the future and hopefully then we'd have elf ears with us a curling iron so we can curl the wig! AHAH The straightener trick just wasn't cutting it...

I am /very/ happy with the results and how she embodied the doll Ducan quite well in my opinion *w* I'm looking forward to making more costumes in the future~

Now to move onto potato Delphine. Tbh there isn't much to touch on hers as she was more or less 'yolo' mode ahaha..so I'll just leave it at that....wedidntevenshootogetherahaha....but heres my cosplay tests and photos OF Delphine I guess....ish!?!!

The only thing I can tell you is that I wore way too much makeup for Delphine and ahaha it worked. Layer on that Mehron is what I say :DDD

NANA makeup post 2!

ahaha whut. Heres another NANA dump photo posts!?! I tried making a tutorial for this look before but just utterly failed. How do people make makeup tutorials anyway ahaha sooooo much effort I just couldnt!

I also got a new wig (not in the photos) which I was gonna wear to Fanime but I ended up not wearing NANA to Fanime or AX at all aha coz...packing!?! idk =3= I'll be able to cos this forreal someday...uwu

  Makeup used: I used a burgundy eyeshadow and dark purples from Inglot. I dont have the exact name of the shadows I used but those two colors are usually my go to for makeup looks >_>;; especially with NANA so I guess you can just look at how I applied the color???

Lashes worn are Pa and Diamond Lash lashes *w* I dont remember which ones either...
Lips I used Melt Six6Six! lovelovelovelovelove it even though it cost more than a mac lippie! Lenses I used were the princess mimi in brown
  Oh look, I tried to be gei and try my hand at Reira too AHAHA  coz my friend Ruiki was gonna try Shin but Idk if I even included the photo dump here looo   For Reira: I covered my brows with Nyx crayon in pink and over that I applied a dusty pink eyeshadow (the ones you can find at Naked 3. I used an individual color from Pixel called dusty rose)

For the eye makeup, which you probably can't see very well I went with the color palette from Naked 3. A wash of peachy pink on the lids as well as a dusty rose color on the outter corners. A frosty pink eyeshadow on the inner corners. For lips I used my YSL rouge lip in 35(?) and a shit load of contour.

As always the foundation I used for my makeup tests are all Mehron. I use 2-3 different shades to bring my tan butt to a lighter shade *w*;;