Prep For 20th MCM Expo

I am very excited for the MCM expo as today my latest cosplay is officially FINISHED!

I still have to brush the untidy wig and think of some makeup ideas but the initial tries looked pretty good. I'm thinking of using false lashes. I don't normally wear them as they scare me slightly and I'm always being told my lashes are long anyway. I'm happy with the way how the dress sits and looks when I am wearing it. The character I am trying to portray is Holo from Spice And Wolf (see picture).

This is me wearing it (covered in spots and looking (and feeling) like I haven't slept in a week.)

Also I now have business cards! Both professional and fun ones :D
I can't wait to give the fun ones to people. Last Expo when I got asked for my email/facebook/mobile number I felt a bit awkward, but now I have sites and pages specifically for this so I can talk to like minded people safely :)
I'm staying at Hotel Ibis this year - it's going to be amazing. I love free toileteries!

Whilst I'm at it, I'll go through my other outfits and cosplays that I have (14/10/2011).

My first ever cosplay was Holo from Spice And Wolf in her first outfit (after she put some clothes on XD). I didn't like the ears so had them remade for her next dress.

I have two lolita dresses from Bodyline (as it's the only thing I can afford T_T) and one from Baby, The Stars Shine bright which I won in The Kawaii Star 2011 Finals. I wore my Shiro Lolita dress to my college Leavers Ball to get a bit of diversity in there. It was a great succuess and many people loved the style. I love lolita fashion and would love to own enough pieces to be able to wear it often. I <3 the big bows and bonnets :D

Not the best pictures of them... oh well. The bottom one is me having a boogie onstage at KSOTY 2011, Hyper Japan with my watering can handbag in the background ;) I also got two lovely blouses and a pair of drawers there in the 2nd hand shop for next to nothing! I have a picture of my Baby dress on a previous post. I now have a list of lolita items I want. When I win the lottery and become a millionaire maybe...

Seth Nightroad from Trinity Blood has one of my all time favourite costumes. I also want to cosplay Esther (Nun Version) one day, but to make the props I'd need to master modelling materials first >_< I'm looking foward to trying.

Hopefully I'll get a better picture of the full length costume this Expo! I came 1st in a cosplay performance competition wearing this and dancing to Pink Ladies' UFO. My headpiece is like an Unidentified Object so I thought it was appropriate. My prize includes a signed CD, signed original manga work and a slot at London College Of Fashions Catwalk on the Bunkasai in November :) Exciting stuff.

Dancing with my friends has meant that I have a Japanese Style High School Uniform for LDN48 and a Maid Outfit which I wear for fun, whilst being part of a Maid Cafe and dancing with my friends (our group is called Hazumi Mimi at the moment. Or something).

Some members of LDN48. That's me front centre. ^^^^

Dancing :D

Here are my friends and I posing with The Enterta-minator who you might recognize from Britain's Got Talent. I'm the one crouching with the smallest gun. My friends look too happy holding their big firearms XD

I have so many cosplays I want to do - Lucy from Fairy Tail, Ookami and Rao from Ookami, Esther (Nun) from Trinity Blood, Orihime from Bleach, Haruhi(s) from OHSHC and TMOHS, Yuki from Vampire Knight and Alice from Alice In The Country Of Hearts to name a few. (Plus with Alice and Lucy I get to try being blonde XD And a red-head with Esther.) Speaking of red-heads, I want to do a Shirayuki cosplay (Akagami No Shirayukihime) but I doubt anyone would recognise it. Oh well XD