New In | Totoro shirt

A couple of days ago I received this cute shirt with Totoro! I got it from shirtpunch.com, where they sell shirts for only 24 hours! At least, that's what they say. And since I just believe it, it makes this shirt a bit of unique I guess?

I've always wanted a Totoro shirt or hoodie, but the only ones that I know are grey with Totoro's belly on it. I've never seen a shirt with a print like this, so I thought this would be a great buy! I like the fact that the shirt is blue. Most of the time I see black shirts with a print of it. Nothing wrong with black though, but sometimes something different is nice. :)
Anyway, I love this anime shirt, just like my Sword Art Online hoodie. I hope to buy more anime related clothes in the future.

Stay tuned!
Bweyo,
Li Hao

New In| My own professional camera!

 I'm back with another New In, and this time it's about my own camera! I'm really happy that I could say that I own the Canon EOS 600D! In the past, I used my friend's camera for filming, such as the cosplay video's I make. But for me, it's more special to have my own camera.
I feel such a noob when it come to technology, and I have no clue how this camera even works. I know the bases because of the my friend's Canon, and for now that will do. What I like about this camera is that I can film for a long time with it. It has a standart kit lens with zoom function, which I really like. And I can also buy other lenses to put on it (which I won't do any soon because I'm kinde broke by buying this camere hehe). It also has high quality shooting, even when the manual focus isn't 100% as I want to. But what I like the most, is the screen that I can turn. Now it's easier to make video's about making cosplay or make-up tutorials.

I've never had such a huge camera.

the screen which is real handy!

I'm really excited to try this out as soon as possible! Of course I already filmed a bit, but I wonder how it will look on youtube. :)

Stay tuned!
Bweyo,
Li Hao

New In | Tohka Cosplay Wig

It took two months (!!) but it finally arrived. I have my wig and now I'm getting even more excited about my cosplay for this June! I got scared a bit when I saw the colour, it's just so purple! Tohka has a dark purple hair colour,  and this wig is more purple-purple in my opinion. But that is in day light. When I'm inside it pretty much looks the same as Tohka :)

I know that this character has long hair, but I didn't think that the wig would be that long as well! I wonder how I'll be able to wear it without getting it tangled too much. This wig consists of two parts: The long wig itself and one tail to put at the top of the head. The tail makes to wig so heavy, so I think my head will hurt at the end of the convention haha. I still need to trim some parts, but I'll do that later. :)

Look how long!
Too much purple for this pic though.

Anyway, stay tuned!
Bweyo,
Li Hao

Real Life Pokémon - Google Maps April Fools

It took some time, but this is the final result!! I feel very lucky to be in this short film! As I let you know before, my friend wanted to make a short film about Google Map's April fools. I hope you like it, and don't forget to subscribe his channel!! :)

Bweyo,
Li Hao

New In | Purple Tule for cosplay skirt

Today I received the purple tule I've been waiting for so long! I actually ordered it just a couple of days ago, but it was real hard to find the right colour! And I'm still not very in love with the colour I have, since it's not the same as Tohka's skirt I wanna make.

It's more of a soft lilac colour, which is nice. But the colour I needed was more between lilac and soft pink. Furthermore, I need the ends of the skirt to be white, but as far as I know you can't bleach tule. Anyway, a piece of tule is in a bucket with bleach right now, so I'll see. :)

Stay tuned!
Bweyo,
Li Hao

Tohka Cosplay | Part I

Today I began on the cosplay of Tohka, from the anime Date a Live. Since I'm still waiting for some tule to make the skirt, I thought it was a good idea to begin with the side parts of the hip-armor. Believe me, this cosplay is going to have a lot of 'making-of' parts. Way more than I normal do! Anyway, I used my brother's box where he got his desktop in. If you notice you can see the 'decoration' from his birthday-present haha. Tohka has five of those sideparts, so it was quite some work.

It took some time to unfold it!

I began with measuring. I believe that took most of the time. Sometimes it wasn't even or/and long enough. It was hard to make one big enough. The upper part of it is smaller and around 1/3 of it, it comes at it's widest point. To make sure those pieces were measured right comparing to the lower part was pretty hard. But once I had the right measurements, it all went fast.

Not very good visible, but you can see the lines.

 So once I got the outline of the sidepart, I began to cut if with a knife. This carton I used is pretty big so I had to go over it a couple times. Ones the first one was done, I placed it on another piece of carton en started to ouline the first piece. That's way easier than measuring it all over again!

After a couple of hours, I now have the five pieces I need! I need some special paper that will make this partst stronger and that will hold the purple paint.

The first one to cut.

The five pieces, all done!

Stay tuned!
Bweyo,
Li Hao