Sailor Pluto Saya custom completed~

Finished another pre-ordered custom mask. This time its for Sailor Pluto from the anime of the 90s~ Sailormoon. Hmm Sailor Pluto is one of my favourite Sailormoon characters too I recall, its a nice chance to be making "her"~^_^ Lacking her tiara, it looks a little short of Sailor Pluto, but I don't make costumes to go with the mask afterall. Tried photo shopping a tiara into the picture on the right. I'll leave it to the new owner to finish the rest of the work to make it come true I suppose.

More comments and steps in the mask customisation are posted in the related project forum thread. Do take a look and leave a few words if you feel like it. The mask customisation thread can be accessed through the URL below:
http://www.kigurumicosplay.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=10401#p10401

Of late I've been occupied it all kinds of things. I'm sorry for not being able to take more pictures and post them up, but I am really grateful for all my kigurumi cosplayer friends and visitor friends for posting their hard work and pictures or simply chatting. I owe you all one for making the forums so lively. Thank you so much~^_^ I hope you will continue to enjoy the place~

Something very distasteful happened to me just yesterday, I've been scammed of an iPhone 3Gs which I tried selling on Ebay. Sigh, its kinda regretable even though I've been with Ebay/Paypal for so long, I succumb to such a scheme.I kinda blame Paypal for being misleading and unjust. The payment arrived directly into my Paypal and I proceeded to send the item. Then I got an alert saying that I need to provide evidence of my shipping to prove that my transaction is valid. I then quickly posted the item and provided proof of my shipping as evidence. Then Paypal reverse the payment, I went wtf. Then they told me that I shipped to an address which is not the registered address of the payer. So the money got returned to the buyer(scammer now). Very unscrupulous indeed. Acting nice and asking deliberately for me to send an item and exploiting the silly Paypal flaw that money gets refunded when shipping address differs from payers registered address.

Yes I'm telling you out there how the scam is done. So be careful of this. Perhaps 101 or 1001 more people will get cheated this way before Paypal know they can't just return the money without having a better understanding of the situation. And oh, this is the address of the scammer:

Name: Do Phu Bao
Address: K245/56 Le Duan
City: Da Nang
State/Province: DN
Zipcode/Postal Code: 59000
Country: Viet Nam
Phone: 0925577462

I suppose there is no need to hold back against a jerk is there?
I ought to get in touch with some Vietnamese friends to get help. Anyone who can provide any info is much appreciated too~ Sheesh, what a day~

Happy Halloween 2010~

Angel or devil~ Gave Saya a new hairdo~ Have not decided on what to call her yet, considering calling her Aira~ Oh she's not from any anime, an original character.
Did a live show at 12 midnight on Halloween's day hehe~ Chatted with friends for a little while and then went off to take these pictures ^_^

Did the live in the black coloured attire only. I never planned on doing two shoots, but recalled that I have white angel wings as well as black so decided to do a angel and devil kinda thingy hehe.

So, what will you be doing this Halloween. As for me, nothing much, got time writing I wish to do and some mask making to complete. Wish you have the terrifyingly good time and a frightfully amazing day~
See you in the forums~^_^

New additions to completed works~

Two new mask orders are either completed or near completion. The two are the Esther mask and Misaka mask customised from the Saya and T-fa model respectively. The discussions in the forums can be found in the forum thread links below. For those of you who are not familiar with who these characters are, fairly detailed introductions and pictures of these characters are also found in the threads brought to you by their respective owners~^_^ Take a look, more new finished projects coming up real soon~^_^

Esther mask customisation thread:
http://www.kigurumicosplay.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=845&start=10

Misaka mask customisation thread:
http://www.kigurumicosplay.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=896

Akiyama Mio Saya custom

Just wanted to give a quick update on a new mask which was completed this afternoon. It will be shipped to the new owner tomorrow. Hopefully we'll be seeing more pictures of her again when the new owner does her up and bring her to life.

For people who are not familiar with this Akiyama Mio character, she is one o f a group of 4 main characters from the hit anime series K-ON! Probably the most popular among the 4 of them. Doe eyed, shy and firm in personality, she's like the elder sister within the group though she sometimes become so cute, she resembles a baby.

There has been a thread started for this mask project, I haven't had too much time to spend detailing about the project lately but I have updated more pictures of the completed mask in this thread. It can be accessed from the link below:

http://www.kigurumicosplay.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=10253#p10253

Do drop in and take a look, and leave your comments and tell me what you think.
I haven't included the indepth of the making process as the earlier tutorials has already covered the steps in detail and they are mostly the same. Hehe, a new feature has been added to the upgraded version of the mask though, I'll talk more about it next time~^_^

More projects within the mask production page will be completing very soon, so stay tuned in the forums and on the main page. Take care and see you again soon~^_^

Took a little break~

I had a little time from a previously full on schedule to do a little kigging and make rapid progress with some mask orders. Took Asuka has been kept away for quite a long time, and finally allowed her out to have some fun, and a pleasant live chat. Did manage to see Taka-san, and a few other kig friends on live chats in the irc chatroom, ustream and stickam.

Having donated the bulk of my wardrobe away, anything costume related are no longer with me. What are available are the casual style ones. I am beginning to appreciate the economy and ease of obtaining casual attire compared to cosplay attires. It makes bringing out kigs less time and cash demanding and they look hell damn trendy no less. Asuka wore a stretch halter dress with a pink mini coat and latex leggings in during the live chat.

I figured that I didn't have time to take pictures of Asuka, and rather spend more time letting Asuka catch up with her friends after the long absence. Therefore a video recording of Asuka playing around infront of the camera during the live chat is recorded instead of taking pictures. The video is attached below in my youtube channel. I hope you can leave a nice feedback of your thoughts and give a good rating~^_^. Not sure why some parts of the video came out a little jerky but its mostly fine~








Its halloween soon isn't it? As bought up timely by Kenshin, he has started a thread to discuss and even share any picture perfect moments in the thread here:
http://www.kigurumicosplay.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&p=10149#p10149

Have no plans in mind for the day yet, but I hope to see if anything can be done up~^_^
And as for the masks, I am looking forward to presenting everything with the first of the new characters very soon. Most likely some day in the early of next week.

Keep in view~ ^^