Happy Friday and Happy New Year! To ring in the new year, let’s take a look back at our Feature Friday cosplayers for the last quarter of 2020. I want to thank everyone who has submitted to be featured. Below, you’ll find all the featured cosplayers as they were posted on Instagram and/or Twitter. Enjoy!
Continue reading “Feature Friday Roundup: 2020 Q4”
Have you ever used one of my cosplay builds/tutorials to help you make a cosplay? Whether it was a cosplay build post or a youtube build video?
Continue reading “Get Featured on the Blog!”
I’m going to be a guest on the Podcast “Kigu Talk” on Friday, December 18!
Continue reading “Ashweez Cosplay Guesting on the “Kigu Talk” podcast!”
I wrote this out as a Twitter thread for a cosplay mutual and realized it could be its own blog post. This is for any cosplayers who are looking to start writing their own cosplay builds/progress/tutorials. From someone who’s been doing this for all her handmade cosplays since 2015.
Continue reading “Pro-tips for Writing Your Own Cosplay Builds”
I’ll just come out and say right now that I didn’t make anything in my Kaori cosplay. I bought everything. So this’ll be less of a step-by-step process and more just background on the cosplay and dropping links for other Kaori cosplayers!
Continue reading “Classical Music & “Making” My Miyazono Kaori Cosplay”
Last week, I reviewed The Meya Store’s “Luxury Wig Storage” Wig Hangers for Part I of the “Wig Product Reviews for Cosplayers” series. Today’s post focuses on The Renatural and their product, the Wig Fix.
Continue reading “Wig Product Reviews for Cosplayers: Part II”
With the recent surge of support to Black-owned businesses due to increased coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement, I came across two companies on Twitter who sell wig-adjacent products. That is to say: products used with wigs, but not wigs themselves. These companies were The Meya Store and The Renatural. Both companies are Black-owned companies based out of the UK. A few cosplayers were recommending online that we go support them. I don’t think either company realized just how much support exactly they would receive from the cosplay community, one that has very quickly become a target demographic for any wig-related products.
Continue reading “Wig Product Reviews for Cosplayers: Part I”
Welcome to the first ever Feature Friday Roundup: a place where all the cosplayers featured for the quarter of Q3 of 2020 are showcased together. (This first post will be a little longer than future posts because it includes the extra month of June!) Here, you’ll find their bios and cosplays as they were posted on Instagram and/or Twitter. Enjoy!
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Back in August, I entered the Rooster Teeth #RTXatHome cosplay contest. It seemed fitting considering I had planned to attend RTX in Austin before Covid went and ruined all my plans. It was my first online cosplay contest that wasn’t simply a “Photo that gets the most likes on Facebook wins” contest.
Continue reading “I Won Best Workmanship During the #RTXatHome Cosplay Contest!”
Late July, I applied to the September issue for Cosplay Realm Magazine, a magazine with monthly themes that accepts submissions from cosplayers and does both digital and print versions of the magazine. The September issue theme was Nintendo, so I submitted my Detective Pikachu cosplay.
Continue reading “Ashweez Cosplay Featured in a Magazine!”
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