 Hello friends! I have an important announcement! I'm CHANGING MY NAME. Well, my cosplay name. Not my real one. I'm going from 'Ginger Liz' to 'Ginny Liz'. It's not a huge change (just a few letters, really), but I want to make sure ya'll know! Why? I have a few reasons. They're pretty simple:
What's Changing? Mostly, just the physical addresses where things are located. I'm still going to be posting cosplay content and ere are all the new, fancy social media links: Website: http://ginnyliz.com (http://gingerliz.com will also work for 2 more months) Facebook: http://facebook.com/msginnyliz Instagram: @msginnyliz Twitter: @msginnyliz Twitch: http://twitch.tv/GinnyLiz Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyTJ37Fd_EFD-CxLtkIN7HA (yeah, YouTube is a mouthful, but I can't get a vanity URL until I hit 100 subscribers. So... go sub? :D) What do I have to do?
Well, nothing really! Just commit the name change to memory and enjoy the ride! I'm working on updating all URLs, and they should be fixed within a week. If you come across a broken URL, please let me know and I'll get it fixed ASAP!
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Much like Obi-Wan, you may have sensed a disturbance in the cosplay world this week as a hundred thousand voices cried out and continued to cry out over a certain convention's social media fiasco.  Accurate depiction of my face throughout the weekend As entertaining as the whole blowout has been from a spectator standpoint (I've been likening it to watching a slow-motion train crash develop into a mag-lev pileup), I'm not here to talk about the specifics of the Sante Fe Comic-Con debacle or the many, many cosplayers it antagonized. My opinions on the matter are fairly irrelevant, seeing as I'm an east coast cosplayer and I hadn't even heard of SFCC before last weekend. However, it has spurred interesting discussions both on the page and across the Web on the topic of the validity of cosplayers as convention guests. It has been enlightening (and sometimes infuriating) to see the smorgasbord of opinions from across the world on the comments of the initial post and the conversations that followed. So I thought I'd throw in my two cents.
I'm getting to my Katsucon recap a bit late due to MAGFest directly following it (and the fact that I stupidly decided to start and finish a cosplay in between the two weekends). Katsucon is my favorite convention; it's so full of amazing costumes and passionate fans and incredible locations, as well as all-day, all-night programming -- if you can find time to attend in between your booked photoshoots! I spent a lot of time gawking over the incredible cosplayers and giggling at the acrobatics of photographers trying to get the perfect shot, hanging out with some of my closest friends, and generally looking adorable/pretty/frightening, depending on the day. I apologize in advance for this recap being pretty much "I hung out with friends, took some pictures, and did a bajillion photoshoots" but tbh that's exactly what happened. I made it into Artist Alley once and didn't make it into the dealer's room at all! And forget about panels... Next year I want to fix that.
 Happy (almost) New Year! As we finish up our holiday celebrations, I just wanted to take some time to reflect on 2016; explore what went right, what went wrong, and what to expect from me in the future. So first of all, the TL;DR version:
I'm back from NYCC, lazily typing this up as I lay in bed with a heated blanket over my sore legs and aching feet. New York Comic Con is a departure from reality for four full days, spanning everything from comics to manga to HBO to sci-fi to kids shows to almost anything you can think of. It leaves you exhausted, but never quite fulfilled. The con is so big that you see barely a fraction of a percent of what is happening, and it's so easy to be swept away with the tide (sometimes literally, given the crowds of people). I apologize for the long write-up, but it was a big con, and a ton of amazing stuff happened! In case you don't want to read the whole thing, here's the TL;DR version: 
 If there were only two cartoon shows I could recommend to anyone, no more, no less, my choices would be Avatar: The Last Airbender and Young Justice. Very different shows, but both have an interesting world, a compelling storyline, and incredibly fascinating characters that develop very naturally as the show progresses.
I can understand why Young Justice was canceled (although I’m still not happy about it). It got really dark near the end of the second season; it became a teen/adult show, rather than the target audience of the channel it was aired on. But the darkness and character growth is so fantastically written and voice acted and the ending… just… feels. If you haven’t watched Young Justice yet, go watch it. I’ll wait. ... All caught up? Excellent, we can continue.  So I'm trying to consolidate some of my sites to one convenient hub. Wordpress is... difficult to customize, at best, and Weebly has pretty much everything I need: galleries, a blog, and gorgeous intefcace. Maybe someday I'll even use their domain name option. Someday.
Along with this new shiny blog, I've decided I'm going to take my blogging in another direction. Rather than trying to do a complete write-up for each costume I make, I'm going to focus on one or two aspects of each costume and make a nice, well-rounded tutorial with lots of pictures and instruction. I also want to try blogging about more things in general, not just tutorials. Cosplay thoughts, rants, convention reviews... whatever I feel like talking about that week. The Wordpress blog will no longer be maintained and will probably vanish once I port all of the salvageable tutorials over.  I pulled Regina out of storage today only to realize that one of my cats had mistaken her for a litter box. Ew. I decided I might as well turn lemons into lemonade and make a quick tutorial out of the incident. This tutorial works best with feathers that have been very securely fastened down. It was incredibly nerve-wracking to wash one of my most beloved costumes, but the price was either that or have people wrinkle their noses every time I was near them in cosplay. So I gritted my teeth and put my Regina coat into a laundry bag (the mesh kind with all the holes) and put the bag into my washing machine on a delicate cycle using a detergent specifically designed for delicates (woolite for delicates in my case). As soon as the cycle finished, I removed the costume from the washer and hung it on a hanger with the feathers facing me. **ONLY USE YOUR WASHING MACHINE IF YOU DO NOT MIND THE FEATHER DYE BLEEDING A BIT **
First things first: use your fingers to gently pull the fluffy bits of the feather away from the quill. Make sure you’re not pulling too hard or you might pull them right off! I had bunches of 3 feathers so I finger floofed them individually.
Then all I did was hit the feather bundle with the hair dryer for about 30 seconds! I used a warm setting so I wouldn’t burn my hands, and used my fingers to manipulate the feather bundle so the hair dryer could hit it from all sides, paying particular care to the angle from the tip of the quill all the way down to the base to tease up any bits of fluff that were still sticking to the quill.
And that’s it! My feathers were once again happy and full, probably even fuller than they were before washing!
Note: this tutorial was transported over from the old Wordpress site, which is no longer active.  I went into Frozen with absolutely no idea on the main plot. The only thing I had to go on was the recommendations of others and the teaser trailer with Olaf and Sven. Needless to say, I was completely blown away by the film, characters, and, of course, the costumes!
As an older sister and as someone who has struggled with imposter syndrom in the past, I really identified with Elsa. I decided to make both of her major outfits: her coronation gown and Snow Queen gown. I’m in the process of making the coronation gown, but the coronation cape has been done for a while, so I decided I might as well write a post about it! This post will cover the making of the cape. Note: this tutorial was transported over from the old Wordpress site, which is no longer active. I read the Hunger Games books about three years ago. I enjoyed them quite a bit; they were a quick read with page-turning intensity. The world Suzanne Collins created captured me, even if her writing style was not quite to my taste. Then the movies started coming out. It’s a very rare occasion that I enjoy the movie adaptation more than the books, but when it came to the world of Panem, oh boy did the creators of the film do it justice, and then some. I was completely blown away by the acting, cinematography, directions, and of course, the costumes. In particular, Cinna’s extravagant yet tasteful Capitol designs. I love how they were able to blend futuristic fashion with cinematic effects to make each of Katniss’s outfits captivating yet still on the verge of possible. I was doing a re-watch of Catching Fire about a month before the premiere of Mockingjay, in particular, the Quarter Quell parade scene. and something possessed me and I thought, I could totally make that dress. You know, the one that looks like glowing embers.  Yup. Totally doable. |
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