Happy New Year everyone. New fanart added~ ^_^

Its the last day of 2008 and this post marks it. It has indeed been a rather fast but exciting and eventful year for me and my kigurumi activities. How have yours been this year?
This year marks only the second year I've been doing kigurumi and I'm looking forward to more fun and creativity to share with everyone in the next.
There has been many modifications to this website and the layout which you're looking at now is already version 3 of Live Wear Yu. Sounds like an odd name, but I have a reason to stick to it hehe...~^_^

My wish of making acceptable looking masks has also been met. I'm kinda glad that it turned out well. In mask making you sometimes don't know what to expect the outcome to be. I hope to encourage more kigurumi cosplayer wannabes to try making their own mask or buy one if they couldn't. At the same time I'll try to make my masks more and more beautiful so that english speaking people can get access to professionally made masks with ease. Hehe... I will keep trying to earn that standard I hope. Hmm plans do change... but I'll keep going as long as I can. Oh, won't anyone want to try making a mask or have already done so, come on, post your mask pictures in the forums. Its always interesting for me to learn new ideas and adopt them if possible.

The number of costumes accumulated over this time has been fairly big. 20 people can come to my place and I would be able to offer them each a different costume to cosplay in. Hehe... I'm just a student, it does feel unusual for myself to have such a collected. I don't even remember how I end up with so many. If you can see my averaged sized room, you'll be surprised how I manage to put them aside and still keep the room tidy... hehe. Hmm ok... thats odd talk. The point is, I think I've too large a collection to properly play in any particular outfit for a prolong period. Thats something I need to think about.

Oh thank you Satomi chan for another wonderful and professionally drawn fanart. Its a fanart of Yu in her school uniform shoot.

Actually I got this picture from Satomi chan about 1 week ago. I really didn't have time to post it up and also I didn't want the updates to come in too closely together. I am kinda occupied in packing my stuff for a long holiday which I'm planning ahead.

I'll be in a different place for about 2 months. Not sure if I will find time to make masks during this time but I intend to start a new design soon. Hehe... if I actually manage to set things up to my needs I'll inform everyone that I'm open to orders once again.

Yeap, meantime I'm sorry that I had turned down some requests but I don't want to make promises that I can't keep... or have to make you wait a long time for. But hehe... I promise that the next one will be better yet. I actually can't wait to start again. From the experience gained putting in all my effort into making the last two masks I learnt a few things myself. I'll take those as trade secret... but if you ask me I might just share them with you ~^_^ (if you're a mask maker~)

Anyway, have a hapy new year everyone. Is there going to be fireworks where you are at? I'm not sure where abouts is there near me but I'm going to find out.
Take care and play safely~^_^

Merry Christmas 2008~!!! Santa Girl CC gallery opened

Merry Christmas everyone~!!! Its Christmas 2008... phew~ its the second Christmas that I've been kigurumi-ing now. Is everyone having a relaxing holiday season? Well even if you're working, you can still feel the mood~ ^_^~

As promised, I've opened the Santa girl CC gallery today and it has a video as well.

Please do drop in the gallery to take a look, I hope you'll like it~^_^
If you visit the video, I also hope that you'll leave some comments and rate the vid too ~^^

I noticed something really exciting... well for me that is. Its my 25th video this time and today is the 25th Dec 2008~^_^ Wow isn't that a very cool coincidence?~ I did took away some of my older videos, but I had taken them off since ages ago and I never planned to have this video become the 25th one...

Well another good sign for the following year of kigurumi I hope~^_^
P.S. if you haven't answered the poll on the right, why not take a second to choose your screen resolution. Its ending soon, well the results are quite clear now anyway, just poll for fun ^_^

Oh I'll be going on a long long winter holiday. Hmm I'll try to keep the site as updated as I can, so don't worry about not finding new things here okie^_^?
Who knows there may be more to talk about here than before.... hmm
Well I forsee that I'll be back in March but I'm always contactable on MSN and definitely my forums~^_^

Once again, Merry Christmas and a Happy New year everyone.
May you Christmas wishes come true... Oh and if that happens to do kigurumi... I may just be able to help you out~^_^ hehe.

Merry Christmas dear visitors and friends~<3

It is that time of the year again where its very cold in the northen hemisphere and very hot in the southern hemisphere. I happen to be somewhere in between... well rather hot. Has everyone been enjoying your holiday breaks? Or is your holiday plan about to begin?
I've taken a photoshoot today and I'll be releasing it to mark Christmas 2008~Wooo~!!!
I'm compiling the images and creating the gallery for this festive attire. There is also a video which I'll upload in a few days time~^_^
Hehe, the preview shots shown above does say alot about the nature of the shoot doesn't it. I made a simple hair clip that matches the festive season made with two bells, a small cherry bush and red lace. I also realised that the CC mask is alot easier to do the hair into ponytails than the Yu mask hehe.All the pictures taken will be opened to public on Christmas. Probably a couple will be posted in forums here and there, but do stay tuned. Time to do some last minute Christmas present shopping?

Yu in black skin tight gown gallery opened

As the title suggests, the gallery is opened for the black shiny wear which debut a few days ago. Its a full gallery and I assume most have seen the video which was showcased earlier this month.
Nope the picture on the left isn't two Yu-s, I just placed two pictures side by side and I didn't meant for it to look like anything other that... just two preview pictures.

I've also touched up the mask sale page and added most of the things I wanted to say in there. Have a look if you're interested in getting a mask.

The Christmas season is in full swing, not sure about you, but I've gotta finish writing all the cards I want to send and send them in the next couple of days. Anyone of you planning a long vacation break? Its that time of the year you know? Well I have some plans myself and probably would disappear after a while for some time. Hehe, won't gonna say when but... I'll try to ration the updates I took in advance to cover the period when I'm away so that everything seems normal... hehe
Do hang around~<3

New CC Black Knight uniform test shoot

Before I talk about the post, I will like to give acknowledgments to gfcdanny for his generous christmas donation. Thank you Danny, and I wish you a Merry Christmas and a fantastic 2009 new year~^_^

For the Christmas period, check out the offer I just posted today

Fans of Code Geass should have seen CC in this uniform. It is what she wore in most parts in the second season of the anime.

Its a sexy figure hugging black dress with 4 tails and a number of belts around her waist and arms.
Hmm, CC has a thing with belts as accessories on her clothes doesn't she.

Its a test shoot as I'm not sure if everything I wanted it to look like is going to turn out properly. Hmm perhaps I might try having Yu cosplay as CC for a trial too. CC poses with cheese kun for the first time here, now u can take a good look at how does cheese kun look like being squeezed and hugged~^_^
Cheese kun is actually quite large. How does it look? Cute isn't it lol ^_^

I've posted the nicer pics in the small shoot I took below.
Hmm a little about the costume. The main part is made of lycra, I actually iron on the Black Knight Crest onto the costume by myself. Yeah the tailor isn't confident in making a design like that which is accurate to the original art, so I told them to just make the main dress and I'll sort the crest out myself.

Might as well talk about how I did the crest.

First I measured how large I wanted the crest to be and then I drew the crest in Photoshop according to scale.
Then I printed the crest out on an A4 sized sheet of normal paper.
Placing the paper on a sheet of "Iron-on" adhesive material, I cut the shape of the crest out on the Iron-on material.
The Iron-on material is a sheet with plastic resin on both sides and a protective paper strip on the other for Ironing on. Well look it up yourself if you're interested.

So anyway, I place the cut out of the Iron-on material on silver foil fabric and ironed the adhesive onto the "wrong" side of the fabric.

Then I cut the shape of the crest and the foil fabric which are attached together out and it is ready to be iron on. Just had to adjust the positioning properly on the costume and iron on the foil through a piece of paper. The paper is to prevent the foil from melting and sticking onto the iron

After ironing the crest onto the suit, the crest is permanently afixed. Once its cooled down properly, it is ready to be worn ^_^

Below are the pictures taken today~^_^
Click on the word "Here" to see what the costume should look like if you've never watched Code Geass before.
They're just for fun~

New video of Yu in black skin tight dress added~

Hmm... I've finished most of the black dress gallery but just a little bit left to go. I finished editing the video and I've posted it up this afternoon. Please take a look. You can see how body hugging the attire is. I really like how the dress gave off a shiny appearance on Yu. It was really fun cosplaying in a gown like dress for the first time.

Its already the 2nd of December this year >_<
Argh time really flies fast. Its the time of the year again for holidays and fun.
What sort of fun are you having these days? ^_^

Black shiny club wear?

Did another full shoot the other day in this attire.
Its a full black club wear sort of dress.
Not sure if this attire is actually called a club wear or evening wear anyone know for sure?
I thought a full black attire would fit Yu better because of her dark brunette hair. Would it have been better if CC took this photoshoot instead?

Well a little about the costume.
Its not really a costume, just a fashion wear. It is made of black foil lycra, a little like CC's white pilot suit but black in colour.
I especially like its wet look and it kinda resemble PVC a little. The dress is rather tight fitting and I had to tuck my tummy in properly when taking the shots hehe >_<...
Think its my first formal/elegant type of attire ... is it? I was rather surprised that how Yu looked in a posh type wear. Not sure how to describe, she looks quite mature compared to the other costumes she wore, mostly cute or anime related.

Got a new pair of boots too, its alot more comfortable than most of the other shoes Yu has since its heels are not so high >_<. Well, more preferably, I hope this pair of boots will go well with costumes I might get in the future.
I'm still making the gallery right now, with the site building coming to a pause for a while.
I tend to have too many things I want to do and end up not completing all of them @_@
Think I'll post the gallery up a couple of days later... stay tuned~^_^

What is it that I'm making?

Hmm, can anyone guess what I'm making?
Its finished, but I'll wait a while before posting the pictures up.
Well, the clues are in the image below.
Looks like I'm not really concentrating on finishing one thing before starting on another >_<
Hehe... take a guess~^_^

New video of CC (C2) posted on youtube page~

Did a short shoot today and had a little live session for a while. The costume is the same as before, just that this time, CC herself is wearing it. I've included some images below from the cosplay session.
Kinda occupied with all sorts of things lately... didn't have much time to touch up the mask a little more.
A couple of items for the CC cosplay and mask hasn't arrive yet and I'm still waiting. I think its going to take a while before I finish the CC project >_<... hehe. I've decided to refurbish the CC original mold. So that future masks made from that mold will have a sligthly improved look~^_^ Oh another thing, is anyone here a web designer? If you are, I'll love to commission you for some work on this site~^_^

Yu cosplays CC

I've taken a slack off the site building routine and took a little venture into the Yu mask's versatility. She cosplayed as CC and looked really into it. If you're familiar with the CC character, this attire is one of the official attires. Its worn under the black coloured version of her Black Knights dress~ Its just what CC wears when she takes a break away from the troops and relaxing her quarters, and probably enjoying a slice of pizza~^_^

I've just finished making the profiles page and realised what a bunch of irrelavant stuff I wrote on there. So I took it all off and is in the process of rewriting something more interesting~^_^
CC (Yu actually) did part of the design today for me... hehe~

I've posted some of the few pictures I took during the fun shoot today. I've got several more I'll like to post them up, but probably in the forums later on.
Meanwhile, its just about time for me to get dinner once I finish writing this.

Oh please take some time to answer the poll on the right~^^

New site update

Ok don't want to spam on my own blog, just appending it with new messages.
I think the main part of the blog are mostly completed. A new layout and the new links I needed.
By the way, help me out if you can by polling your screen resolution on the poll on the right. This way, I can best judge what screen size I need to design the page to cater for the most optimum number of people. I personally am using a resolution of 1920x1200~^_^

I'll be occupied with working on the blog for the next day or two. I'll try to touch up the links page. Phew at last its being updated ~>_<... Sorry for the long wait and broken links. It will all become a thing of the past hopefully after I install the realtime updating links system. (if I can find it) >_< post="">>
Phew, took me a whole 5 hours to redo the whole page. I'm using some of the old sub pages in the meantime, but I intend to make most of the pages new in the latest version. It'll be a while longer before all the pages are back to normal. Until then, please stay tuned~^_^

Work work work~...

CC preliminary preview.

Yeap, as usual I can't help let the cat out of the bag and spoil the surprises. The C.C. mask and costume looks completed but its actually more like 90% completed. There is something missing from the costume and the hair for CC is still in a mess. But nevertheless, can't help taking a test run in the new white pilot suit worn by CC from the anime Code Geass.
I reckon the character might be rather unfamiliar to most of you assuming you don't have access to the latest showing series. Code Geass is very recent, only finished about just over 3 weeks ago I think. And the character I'm cosplaying is from this anime. The picture below is how she should look like in anime.
I really like the while pvc like pilot suit worn by CC as well as all her other costumes actually. But due to limited funds, I thought perhaps I'll just pick a few I like best then cosplay in them. I only took a very small number of pictures, I've posted a few of the more decent looking ones of my CC experience~^_^
What do you think of this costume? How many people have seen her before?
Well if you haven't then I strongly encourage you to watch Code Geass as it is definitely the best anime this year, well probably won't even be superceded by the currently showing Gundam00. Let's talk about it in the forums perhaps?

2 new fanarts added~

Good things do tend to come together don't they. There hasn't been a fanart update for a couple fo months now, and now that there has been an update, two were given to me at once. Thank you so much dxman and gfcdanny~^x^ I've added them to the fanart gallery thats in the galleries page. Don't forget to drop in to take a look~^_^

As for the C.C. mask, its completed, but I'll be touching up some things still... and still waiting for her costumes ~_~

I'm currently trying to find some time to make a new page from scratch. This would be version 3 of the livewearyu website. Well... that disclosed, lets see how many months I take before its actually done hehe >_<... I'm so lazy @_@~ >_<

Non official C.C. test shoot.

Hmm... test and non official even... What I'm trying to say is that, this is just a trial. Its not a real debut, there are problems which I realise and I intend to fix them before doing the official debut of the mask. Tried it on just now, don't really have much costume which would fit C.C. like in the anime, so I just wore some apparel, white ones of course. Realised that I need to adjust the paddings inside the mask for better positioning of the eyeholes infront of the eyes. And I think the hair needs a little extra touch too~

Well there is still time anyway, to wait for the costumes to arrive. I suppose meantime I can take a break from all the non stop work on the mask. I took some pictures just now, I've posted them below for a glimpse... The costume is soo unofficial, please do not take them as the actual final results. Read the forum thread for more updates~^_^