Final Fantasy x-2 recap

The x-2 costume was really fun and easy to wear. Making it was another story. Make-up was messed up in most of these pictures so excuse the fact i haven't had time to learn how to use photoshop and edit them... Lol. It was hot, and i was sweating.

The earring I reused from the x costume. The wig I ordered from cosplayandwig.com and had to put another layer of extensions in it because of everything listed in the yuna x post. I thought flipping it up would be easy but I should've done it before the day of the con because just using gel wasn't good enough.

The hood pattern we stole off of an old cape pattern that we had laying around and then altered it for size after it was on there. Bought a little snap to keep it onto my neck and then attached the tail to it.The tail I dyed when we were doing some of the rikku costume scarf stuff. I just stuck part of the canvas into the red dye and splashed it up with my gloved hand to make the gradient and then sewed it into a little pocket.

I hacked a pony tail sized extension off and folded it in half and put a rubber band around it and then electrical taped it to the tail itself. This was covered with the canvas and then tied with a piece of black string I had lying around. The actual tail was made out of a thick rope cut to size and a red ribbon. My friend braided it for me (because I got frustrated) off of a YouTube video.

The shirt I made by making pretty much a normal halter shirt and cutting a giant triangle down it. We then cut off the bottom piece from about the breasts down and sewed a ribbed material to it to give the illusion of a skinnier waist (cause what girl doesn't want that?) The zanarkand symbol was made with hot glue. We cut a triangle the size of the one in the shirt and drew the symbol to this scale. My boyfriend put a giant thick layer of hot glue built up on top of where the symbol would be and then we shaped it and smoothed it with a sodering iron and a scalpel. Painted it with black leather paint.

The shorts were just some short booty shorts that i got from jcpenny for like $13 bucks. The bag was made from a scrap of vinyl found at some fabric store because i couldn't find a suede piece the right color. It's tassels were actually a ribbon that i found at joannes. The silver things on the bag were pre-packaged at jo annes, but we drilled two little holes in them so that we could fasten the little turquoise bead. Then we cut off the bottom of some brads and glued those on the bag for the little buttons.

The skirt was made from a simple gradient die. Each strand (for the tie) is a piece of the same colored piece of fabric folded over with a zig zag stitch over top of it. Then we added lace to the white part of the bottom of each layer of the skirt. The boots were just boots i got from target, they happened to have a little strap over them but i figured it wasn't that big of a difference. :S

Then the guns... Lol. Guns were made out of wood. They were annoying. Azure found a tutorial on how to make them, and it basically consisted of finding a picture like this. I cut apart each piece separately and then my mom cut them all out (cause i shouldn't be allowed around power tools). We sanded a whole lot, and painted them :D. The designs on the side were just done with sharpie.

I think that's everything... ;>> if you need any help with anything and want to copy me on anything, feel free to message me on facebook (Sugar Blossom Cosplay) or shoot me an e-mail at Acronymsoup66@gmail.com.

Happy Cosplay! :D and here are some group pics to follow up the mini tutorial.

Feature Wakka and Tidus

Featuring Auron

Featuring cast of X and X-2. 

If you have any questions of any of the other characters in my group... Rikku, Paine, Gippal, Elma... I would be glad to get you in contact with the cosplayers, or i probably know myself. :D So feel free to message! :D 

Final Fantasy X recap

Le Finals :}

So Just In-case you wanted to know what happened with each of these costumes in the final weeks-- this is going to be a wrap up of how I made everything, and how everything finally got done. I will start with X :D Since it was the first game.

I bought the wig from a place called cosplayandwig.com. The wig was extremely easy to style and was nice and thick. However, it seemed like it was styled to a head that was smaller than the size of mine. Some of the cuts didn't line up correctly, so I ended up having to add another layer of wefts at the bottom. I used some bond a weave, to bond the wig fibers to some bias tape, which really didn't work all too well (I really need a wig heat gun thinger). Then I put the wig on my head and sewed the wefts into place.

The earring was made using a combination of glass beads from a Michael's set that i paid $5 for, and some sculpy. I used the sculpy for the abnormally long piece, and the tear drop piece. To make the tassel, i took some of the rope left over from my obi hibiscus and combed it out to become the tassel. I then attached them to an earring because I happen to have three piercings on my right lobe, which ended up hurting a lot by the end of the day.

The white "shirt" was made from just a piece of fabric in a long square with a hem around the whole thing. The jewelry I ended up buying online from Ebay. The sleeves though were also pre-made. <<; I'm a little bit of a cheater. Then, i took a very thin purple rope, because it was all that I could find and braided it to form the sleeves. Painting the beads for all of it was a pain in the butt, as they slipped out of my fingers.

The obi was a little bit harder. We made the the "bow" part as two squares, and then put a little rectangle piece around the middle of them to give the scrunched up appearance. Then the wrap around the middle was jsut that-- a wrap around the middle. For the color fading flowers in the middle, I glued fabric to hard paper, and then glued that onto the fabric. However, i found out soon at otakon that the adhesive that i used to keep the fabric on the glue was not the best ergo some of my pictures are missing my middle flower.

The pattern on the embroidery was hard as fuck, and me and my mother made all of the patterns and then put them into an embroidery machine, and lined them all up perfectly. We did the same thing with the circle in the middle, except around the light blue pie pieces, we had to actually hand embroider (and my mom did it all for me because she's awesome and i have super weak wrists due to carpel tunnel).

I guess this is the best picture i have of the hibiscus in costume. Wow. Sorry, this is shuyin guys out of costume... Um. Yeah, for the hibiscus, i never posted normal pictures of it so i guess i'll post some out of costume.

I dyed the blue cotton rope as I said above, cut out little foam pieces and spray painted them gold, then cut out each individual piece of the hibiscus in foam and made little pillows out of fabric to stick these pieces of foam in. On the back of each of them are little tiny stitches, because I hand stitched it all, and actually made two of them. The triangles were super easy. I just took material and cut it into a small triangle and then folded it on itself to give it the dimension. The fabric i used for the hibiscus were just quilting squares which i got for like 2 bucks each. I picked a dark, medium, and light fabric.

Made the beads out of sculpy, made the tassel the same way as i mentioned above. Painted the beads the same as above. Then I cut the sticks out of some craft dowels, and drilled mini holes in the end just to stick the string in and glued it there to make it look like the string goes all the way through. Just DO NOT use gorilla glue. That is all. Back to the general costume...

Made the skirt, without a pattern. Mom figured it out. I don't know how. Made the flowers in the same cheater way with the embroidery machine. Took regular machine with a tight zig zag stitch around a pattern that we made out of chalk. Put a hem in the skirt after the fact. Forgot to measure the skirt with the cosplay boots, which made it about an inch too short. Shhh. I hate that in some pictures ergo, i don't show them. :D

The staff was made with a resizing program, to make a giant version of the round part that I then traced onto some wood after cutting out with a scalpel. Did the same thing with the dark blue parts, which don't look dark blue in this picture... I spray painted it gold. Painted the rod red and blue with some painters tape, and then wrapped the areas that were gold on the stick with some electrical tape that i had from guard. I then taped that off and spray painted it too-- actually boyfriend did most of that.

The silver part was made with a giant bolt, that was somehow magically cut, and then we used some pieces of pvc to screw onto both the pole and the staff head itself. The round part on top was honestly just the end piece of some pvc pipe, that we cut and spray painted silver. Then we glued it on.

Well. I think that's everything about the costume, other then the fact that elma did a wonderful job with my make-up and making me beautiful.

Here are some spam pictures:

Overall, I'd like to repeat this costume with a crew, so that it gets some more recognition, because I worked really hard on it, and other than a few flaws, I think it was a beautiful costume, and mighty fun to pull off. Um... I think that's it. If you ever have any questions about any of my costumes feel free to message me at Acronymsoup66@hotmail.com, or look me up on facebook (Sugar Blossom Cosplay).

:D Happy Cosplay!