While most of us are asked to stay home as much as possible, you might be looking for something to do… How about reading cosplay making of blogs and watching making of pics? :D Here are some of the cosplay making of blogs I wrote in the past years. Some of them are completed, some […]
Originally published in the 2017-2018 Cosplay for a Cause Calendar, this Power Girl cosplay picture is now available on my store! Another set I built in my workshop a long time ago, when I made the costume in 2014. This time, the Cosplay for a Cause Calendar was raising money for a non-profit organization for animal […]
Marie-Claude Bourbonnais, French Canadian Costumer, Cosplayer and Model, promotes Montreal Comiccon. Global Montreal TV anchors’ reaction when they saw her was part of a bloopers montage.
An introduction to shoemaking It’s now time to talk about one of the most complicated parts of my Power Girl costume: the boots. Since I started making cosplay costumes, I always considered that the hardest costume parts to get or make were the gloves, boots/shoes and wigs. As skilled as I am as a seamstress, […]
Store-bought clothes look so good First, there’s one thing I want to make clear. I sometimes hear people say things like: ‘Have you done this part of your costume by yourself?’ ‘No. I bought it.’ ‘Oh, I see. That’s why it looks so good. It’s store-bought. It’s not like if it was handmade.’ Please, stop […]
A word about zippers It was now time to prepare the zippers. There are many types of zippers that I would put in 3 categories: nylon coil, plastic molded and metal zippers. The nylon coil looks like a ‘spiral’ that is sewn on to the zipper tape. It’s a very resistant zipper. Invisible zippers are […]
Torturing my mind So that was it. I would make a Power Girl cosplay. But I would make it in a different way. I never make things like everybody else, right? I HAD to find a way. But how the hell would I make a version of that costume that had never been done before? […]
Introducing Power Girl Most of you already know that I discovered cosplay in 2009 with the release of my tribute pics to Mortal Kombat where I was dressing up as Frost. I had no idea at this time of what cosplay was. It’s people’s reaction to those pics that made me wonder why they were […]