Black Rock Shooter photoshoot with Bryan Regan part1 Insane Black Rock Shooter

Hi guys, no time no post...>.> but today's post is pretty awesome!  I'm here to share with you guys some photos from our Black Rock Shooter photoshoot with Bryan Regan, a local professional photographer who we had a wonderful opportunity to work with.  

Below are photos of me as Insane Black Rock Shooter for Animazement 18.   Remember, you will see a bigger photo if you click on it :D

we took these pictures near the train tracks about 10min away from the Raleigh convention center.  The location was great, but Bryan's lighting skills are even better! 

I'm really happy that this photo shows the blue streak in my hair.  It took me a while to sew them in ^.^

Close up of my face........wahhhhhhhhhhhh =_=;

and here are some outtakes:

my hair and shoulder piece fell off >.>

dude, I'm trying to say something here!

The broken Insane Blade Claw Q_Q

Many many many thanks to Bryan Regan for dealing with our ridiculous personalities!!  Stay tuned for more awesome photos from Bryan of Black Gold Saw and MZMA.  I promise there will also be crazy photos from Katsuya Weller coming soon as well!  :D

Mimi

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt photoshoot part 4: Stocking Anarchy

Hi all!  I know you guys have been dying for this...(lol not), I'm finally going to post my pics for our PSG photoshoot by Jack Liu.  My character is Stocking Anarchy, she is "Panty's younger sister, Stocking is a pink and violet-haired goth girl. She is generally more level-headed and intelligent than Panty, although she can be just as rude as her sister when provoked. Stocking has a gluttonous appetite for sweets and doesn't gain weight from consuming "normal" sugary foods, allowing her to eat them to her heart's content — on the other hand, she despises spicy food. She becomes enraged whenever someone tampers with her sweets or calls her overweight." --> according to wikipedia.  (I thought I'd provide a little synopsis about the characters since there were some confusion with certain individuals who made a huge deal out of our photos.  </drama>)  Of course, I'm nothing like Stocking, okay, maybe just the appetite for sweets and doesn't like spicy food part...all else is pretty true.  Q_Q


I confess that I have cheated for this cosplay, I didn't make that dress, it was altered from something I bought off of certain website...that may or may not start with the letter B and rhyme with "decline".  Why is it such a taboo anyway to buy a dress and alter it?  For those who I have offended by doing so, I apologize >.> it might happen again when I'm lazy.  


Onto the photos:

Honekoneko...no stitches on his head >o< I'm sorry~  

The carpet in Katsucon is so pretty!

Stocking is abusive towards both Honekoneko and Chuck

This one is my favorite!  

This was supposed to be the "moe" shot lol  Jack said that "some people like the knee" <.<;;;;

 That's all~  we are working hard on our costumes, so there will be updates coming soon~  btw my stocking wig is from Cosplay Wigs USA if you are interested.


Mimi

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt photos are HERE! Part 1 - Group photos

We have JUST received a note from Jack Liu (= awesome photographer) that our PSG photos are ready!!! Yay!!!  I'm so happy with these photos not just because they are beautifully composed but also my skin look glorious C(✪ܫ✪)D Bwahahahahaha!  Anyways, onto the photos!  I'm splitting the post up to four because 1.) it's a lot of photos and 2.) that way I can feature everyone.  The first batch are the group photos (they are really good quality, but you have to click on it to see that!)!  


Series: Panty & Stocking wither Garterbelt
Characters: Panty (Kathryn), Stocking (Mimi), Chuck (Stuart)
Photographed by: Jack Liu
Location: Katsucon 18

Panty, Stocking and Chuck

Bad DOG!  (poor Stuey)

Panty + Stocking

If you are careful, you will notice that I forgot to put the stitches on Honekoneko's head.....Q_Q


Anyhow, ENJOY!


Mimi


PS.  The wig coupon giveaway is still going on!!!  Check HERE for details. 

Updated Soul Eater Photoshoot!

Elysia of Fenyx Design posted a couple of new pictures of our Soul Eater cosplay photoshoot! Here they are:

Eruka being choked by the sinister Medusa :O

Mimi as her ultra cute Eruka~

Here's the link to our previous Soul Eater photoshoot photos with Elysia. We will update everyone when she posts the rest :D.

-Stuart-

Sneak Peak of our Soul Eater photoshoot with Elysia!!

Elysia from Fenyx Design is awesome!  She has posted four photos from our Soul Eater photoshoot and they are looking amazing!  Here's a sneak peak of Stuart as Stein and Kathryn as Medusa.

The background looks like...blood O.O;

The other photos can be viewed HERE.  Many thanks to Elysia for shooting/editing/posting the photos!
In case you are wondering, our first batch of photos taken by ourselves are HERE.

Mimi

Insane Black Rock Shooter: Progress 2

So here is a quick update on my costume~ :D
You will see that I'm super ADD when it comes to making costumes and I like to work on everything at once...without finishing anything >.>

Anyhow, first up are the shoes!  Shape-wise, I have pretty much finished the very bottom part of the boots, the wings need to be reinforced and the entire thing needs to be either painted or covered with vinyl (have to decide what to do...)

I have also made one piece of the knee part, it needs a lot of calculations that I have no patience for right now.

Second, the bodice of my armor~  Since Stuey made that body form for me, I really wanted to test it out.  I dug out some old patterns and made a preliminary shape for the bodice armor.  It will become thicker eventually.

Front view

Side View

Back View

The taped areas are places that I want to insert a buckle-type thing for so that I could  easily put on/remove the armor.  Now that the body form has been sitting for a while...it has gained a ton of fat rolls O.O;

Last but not least, the claws!  I have a pair of gloves that have a small hole on it.  My dad bought me some replacements for them, but I'm still rather attached.  It is made of really soft leather...anyways, the point is that I don't want to glue anything onto my gloves.  I made "knuckle rings" as claws to put on my fingers.  I haven't made the very bottom part of the gloves, which will cover up the flower motifs.

The big piece is velcroed at the palm area to hold it.  Anyways, I might glue the claw parts onto the gloves eventually...or not...we will see.

That's all!  Let me know if you have any questions!!
Mimi

Katsucon 18 Lolita meet-up

Lolita fashion is awesome!  Puffy dresses, cute hair, and lots of ways to coordinate.  I have been to ONE local lolita meet-up in 2011, but despite all the rumors regarding how self-centered lolitas can be, I loved everyone of the girls that was at the meet-up.  The same can be said about the girls I met at Katsucon couple days ago, although I spent most of my time talking to about three people total, I still had lots of fun socializing and looking at people's coordinates.  I think one of the most important thing to do at a lolita meet-up is to be open-minded.  If you go in thinking that everyone else is going to judge you because you are not wearing burando, then you will not have a good time.  The whole point of going to a meet-up is to make friends, why would you go if you fear judgement?

Anyhow, here are some of the lovely pictures Stu took for us.  He was stuck with a fixed lens, so he had to hide in a corner to take pictures XD.

Stu's self-portrait

Me~

Cute Derin!! LJ name: Irohamomiji

Kathryn and Stu

Sweet girls

More sweet

Less sweet but more elegant girls

Everyone 

Heart~

Dawen Huang with his awesome awesome digital camera.  

  A collection of all the photos from the lolita meet-up can be found at my flickr account HERE.  Please credit to this blog if you are taking photos to post on other places.  Remember, not everyone wants to be identified >.<