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Natural Beauty

She was Delicate, spellbinding, and a little girl with dreamy eyes; but she was obsessed with politics.

hello bloodborne side of tumblr i am here to claim the title of ultimate micolash mutual with the long-awaited Cosplay Reveal:

And of course one of my favorite images ever taken of me, the one I like to call Let's take ibuprofen together vs Give Me Your Fuckign Ibuprofen:

The funniest thing is that neither of us planned to match poses, we just both looked at the camera and the "cosplayer reach" instinct kicked in LMFAO

For those of you that are new here, I made this entire cosplay in two weeks flat, all of the seams are finished (French seams, since I don't have a serger), and I landed my first film job because of it LMAO

More in-depth discussion and detail shots under the cut!

As I said before, I made this costume from scratch except the eyeball ring, the shoes (which are antique), and the pants, which I weathered with a cheese grater in areas of high friction (thighs, backs of the knees, etc.) and near the hem, and painted and stained the hem to show wear. The cloak was a thrifted red bedsheet I dyed black (well, it was meant to be black, but it's more of a dark to medium brown depending on the lighting), and the cord is one of my college honors cords (which is why it's gold instead of white). The undercoat was a set of heavy curtains from the thrift store, the vest was some brand-new red denim lined with an extremely old floral cotton I had lying around, and the buttons were all hand painted and glossed. I handmade and hand-stitched the bias tape around the neck of the cloak, as well as all the buttonholes, and carved the insight symbol to emboss the velvet of the hood from a dense foam floor puzzle piece (like you'd find in a daycare, also thrifted).

I chose florals both for the lining of the vest and for the jacket because they make me think of Byrgenwerth, and the cloak itself has very faint vertical stripes that you can see even through the dye job, which made me think of the Mensis cages. I think the symbolism of the eye buttons, eye embroidery, and insight embossings are self-evident LMAO

The cage itself is a mix of upholstery foam, EVA foam rods and sheets, thin wooden dowels, two plastic chain links from Spirit, googly eyes for the rivets, and coffee grounds and hot glue for the rust and cobwebs. I attached everything with contact cement (reinforcing the wooden dowels with hot glue, both to emulate welded metal and give them extra stability, since it presses against my head in the back and I didn't want anything breaking apart), and needed about four cans of plastidip before I felt it was primed enough to spray paint without the foam getting eaten away. It is actually quite soft and comfortable at first because the block base is upholstery foam, but after six to eight hours at a con you Will have back and shoulder pain and a killer headache the next day LMAO I actually made a mistake in cutting the head hole to my head measurements, without accounting for the wig, so whenever I take it off it pulls the wig off as well. Whoops! The wig itself was an old Sebastian Michaelis wig off Amazon that I cut and curled.

The bottom of the cloak is cut ragged and stained heavily with paint, coffee, and coffee grounds to emulate caked-on dirt and mud; the undercoat and vest both have coffee stains around the armpits and back to emulate sweat stains. Maybe a nightmare corpse sweats, maybe it doesn't, but I wanted to make him as horribly dirty and grimy as possible. He's doing nothing but running, after all. Regardless, I was harangued by wasps every time I went out to paint and stain--they wanted that hot coffee like nobody's business.

(ft. a little Damian cameo! <3 )

I also embroidered and beaded the red panels (made from the same bedsheet as the rest of the cloak, but left undyed) near the top, slowly making the embroidery more ragged as it goes down until it's nothing but long hanging threads, destroyed from the wear. The eyes on the sleeves are functional, serving to make the sleeves look fuller by bunching them up near my elbow since I'd miscut them originally. There are snaps behind the lapels and in the center back of the cloak to keep the costume from shifting as I move, since once I have the cage on I can't see anything directly below me or about two feet in front of me looking down.

All the blood is from Pale Night Productions, my absolute favorite blood brand. It dries looking wet, you can toss clothes with it in the wash, and it doesn't peel off solid or cloth surfaces (it can flake over time, but that's only if you handle things roughly).

The costume is Extremely warm and heavy, I'd say it's anywhere from seven to ten pounds of fabric for the main garments and then another two to five for the cage. The white collar is a sleeveless tank from Forever 21 that I got when I was sixteen (which I intend to eventually replace with a dickey), which means that without the coat and cloak Micolash is entirely sleeveless. It's very cursed LMFAO

Now, onto the glamour shots!

And these photos are from when I'd freshly restyled the wig; I like it much better now:

If you got this far, thanks for reading! Have this madman's knowledge as a gift before you go. <3