Book of Fables: Chapter 80 – Holiday Masquerade

Finally, I’ve been planning this tutorial in my head for the longest time, but only was able to actually start on it about two weeks ago. I saw the mask at a local store a long time ago, thought it looked amazing and so took it home with me to use for cosplay purposes one day. In the end I decided to re-create a simplified version for a Book of Fables chapter.

The tutorial may be only 5-6 mins long, but just putting the makeup on took close to two hours. Not including styling my hair, and of course the dress! Ah the dress 🙂

I suppose one of the perks of being a cosplayer is being able to throw together simple gowns quickly, not to mention having all the fabric you could ever need on hand. I couldn’t think of anything in my wardrobe that would suit the look I was going for, and I wasn’t prepared to spend any money buying a dress I may never wear again, so I rummaged through my fabric collection and found some beautiful red fabric that would be perfect.

This is what my dress looked like two weeks ago. I managed to sew everything together in an a few hours, I made sure to line the bodice, and if I had the time I would have lined the skirt too. I’m strong believer in always lining your clothes, as it gives them a “fuller” more professional finish, I think this is a important step most junior cosplayer miss, but it really shows and you can tell when a costume isn’t lined to one that is lined.

The dress wasn’t as flowly as I had liked it to be as I ran out of fabric in the end, so I made sure to do most of the gathering at the front of the gown to give it a fuller look. Hehe, cheap tricks 🙂

I know I will likely not be using this dress again, in fact like most dresses I make for photoshoots I’ll take apart the fabric to use again for another costume. (recycle!) So I didn’t see any point in taking great care when I applied the glitter to the top of the bodice.

It was all done by hand and is not at all “pressed” or “set” so throw this baby into water and all the glitter will come off. I tried to give the glitter a gradient effect, concentrating most of it at the top, didn’t work out as well as I wanted, but meh.
Honestly at this point, I don’t think I’ve ever dedicated so much time to a single video, but if you’re anything like me, you’ll understand why. I’m anal, and when you have a very fixed vision on what you want the look to be like, sometimes you need to bite the bullet and just do everything by scratch yourself to achieve the right look.

Okay that’s enough rambling, hope you enjoy the video! 😀

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