This is YtkaMatilda, a Russian girl now living in Moscow and feeling interested in anime, sewing, painting, photoshop and photograph. You can visit her on her website. Guilty Gear, Kingudamu Hatsu, God of War, Maps for Heroes of Might and Magic 4 and 5 are her favorite games. But this picture shows you her cosplay of Vocaloid Kagamine Rin, which was taken by Ellie. This costume was made by Lenny Anzaru and performance with it really astonished so many people, certainly including me, XD.
Do you remember our cosplay tutorial about How to Make Fake Wounds For Cosplay-Scars And Scratches , Today we will show you another amazing cosplay makeup tutorial by Nanu from Deviantart. It’s nice of her to do this for cosplayers. With Nanu’s approval, I’d like to share it with our friends here.
Equipment needed:
– two shades of nail polish (white and silver)
– base make-up (in this case very light cream)
– white powder
– eye-liner(liquid and pen)
– lash-glue(not in pic)
– plastic fake-nails
Painted and cut nails. Remember to make the pieces small enough. If they are too big, it doesn’t look convincing. Depending on your character, you can change the colour, but I recommend white as the base.
Put the base make-up on. At this point you should also put the shadings if required. To make your appearence more cold/wet you can mix a hint on white to your foundation/powder and add it to above your eye-brows, nose and cheekbones. (I skipped this,since I was only testing)
Start adding the scales. Just put a bit of the glue to a nail-piece and stick it to your skin. Instead of starting from low and going up, I started from middle.This way it is much easier to see how the result will be. It also makes the surface appear more scaly, since the pieces are lifted a bit when you add pieces under tham.
Add more scales, try to keep the shape of the scaled place irregular, but also keep in mind that snake and fish-scales usually are horizontally and certically in liner. (You should google referance-pictures.)
Another scale-spot. You can see the scale-color is few shades darker than my skin color. You can always try to match the shades if you want to, it’s easier if you go green, blue or black…or something darker.
And ta-dah! I added some eye-liner to my eyes, added some random wig and i’m semi-presentable snake/emo. Depending on your personal likings, you can add more scaled-spots, add some to your hands, chest and such. I let them be for about an hour, just to test how well they stay. You can live quite normally with those on (even eat, drink and smoke!) Removing was also painless operation (but then again, I’m not very hairy person, and I didn’t try adding them to my hands tec …so I recommend shaving before you decide to play snake.)
Author bio: This tutorial is made by Nanu, a cosplayer from Finland. You can visit her at deviantart.com.
Holding a deep interest in anime-like styles of art and loving cosplay, illustrations, make-up, this is Ayami08, another pretty girl we found on Deviantart just now. Here comes a photo of her Shiki Megumi Shimizu cosplay, which was taken at the C2AGE event by Nizam MRani. Stunning, XDD, right? In her words, she’s invited by her friend into cosplay as Megumi and really loved the whole costume plus the most comfortable wig. Ayami, thanks for showing us such a wonderful cosplay performance.
Along with the increasing number of cosplay activities in China, and especially the sharply climbing popularity of China Joy Cosplay, this performance art is known by more and more people. Below, let’s take a closer look at the history of cosplay in China.
It’s reported that cosplay was first introduced to Hong Kong, China in 1993. There is another saying that cosplay first appeared in Taiwai, China in 1995. But no matter which saying accords with the truth, cosplay in China began at a time that’s much later than the origin of cosplay in some western countries.
At that time, cosplay shows were organized by a small group and popular only in a small scale. In Taiwan, most of cosplayed characters were from video games. An organization in Hong Kong, named 400 feet, cosplayed the Allied Forces in Legend of the Galactic Heroes in 1993. With climbing popularity of cosplay, Hong Kong Cartoonist Association held a cartoon show which was a real visual feast for cartoon fans in 1998.
Girl from China Joy
Compared with Hong Kong and Taiwan, cosplay in the mainland of China has a shorter history. It firstly emerged in mainland in 1988 and gained a skyrocketing improvement since cosplay in Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong developed in a fast pace. In August 2000, the first cosplay competition in the mainland was held successfully.
In the wake of this funny & fantastic show, a series of cosplay competitions were staged, sponsored by some famous websites in China like Tencent and China Joy. As above picture shows to us, splendid cosplayers like this one seem rather stunning! In 2011, Cover Coser competition definitely stirs up a new trend in China.
As a hot spot drawing most cosplay fanatics’ attention, Cover Coser Competition is sponsored by China Joy and organized by Howell Expo. The jury members are from all circles like Tencent, Posts and Telecom Press. On January 12, cosplay fanatics were pouring to upload their cosplay pictures to China Joy. The list of winners was published on April 22. According to the report, participants this year showed better performance what cosplayers of previous years did.
The picture above is the artwork from the champion, named Xiao Meng. He started his role playing life in 2003. During these years, many terrific characters were cosplayed by this young and handsome boy. Besides, he wins a bundle of prizes for himself. This time, he cosplayed the character in Yasha Kisouden and won the first prize. Stunning?
The runner-up is Zhao Jing whose English name is Rayna. You can also call her Maru. She was born in Nan Jing, Jiang Su Province in China on August 7, 1988. In this Cover Coser competition, she cosplayed as Lightning in Final Fantasy XIII. Her terrific cosplay drives me crazy!
The bronze medalist is Lalaax. He studies at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. His Bleach Murus Hierago cosplay helped him win the bronze medal. In this competition, he tried something new and exceeded the limit.
From these wonderful cosplay works, we can make a conclusion that cosplay in china has stepped into the right track. Just as the jury of Cover Coser said, the strength of contestant had a dramatic enhancement. It’s totally believed more excellent performances will be released in the China cosplay world.
An American girl called XsKiRtZx shows us Nintendo’s Mario series Princess Peach Cosplay here, seeming stunning with blond hair. As a cosplay devotee and member of Deviantart for 5 years, she has received 21,279 comments for her wonderful performance. Fanart pictures such as Pokémon, Disney, and Nintendo cosplay can be also found on her Deviantart gallery.
