@eatthemice (Angel) and I decided to go as Spinels to Comic Fiesta 2019!
It was super fun doing a cosplay with a really good friend of mine and the memories were all great! We are happy that there were plenty of people were excited and asked for pictures. Everyone we met was thrilled to talk about Steven Universe and SU the Movie.
We also met one other SU cosplayer, Steven Universe himself! @mudo_rika
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When Angel and I decided to be Spinels together, we sat down and collected references and discussed how we wanted the costumes to look. I drew the mockups of the costumes as a reference for the tailor (Pictures below!). We commissioned a cosplay tailor to make the clothes for us.
We went for velvet, cause fancy, and mesh on top of the pants for extra fancy(doesn’t really show in person, sadness).
I wanted to add the bow, cause again, fancy, and my inner Pearl is coming out 🤣
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We also styled the hair pieces ourselves. Our ponytail bases were made of polystyrene(plus paper cones in RevengeSpinel’s). The hair strands were glued and hair sprayed to shape.
For RevengeSpinel, the ponytails were heavier. Angel decided to use big screws attached to a plastic hairband and screwed/slotted the ponytails in place. Two screws were used for each ponytail to keep the ponytails upright.
For InnocentSpinel, the hearts were quite lightweight so I shaped some wire into a pokey thing with a base to sit under my wig. I added white ribbons to the base of the heart hairpieces as extra bits I can pin onto the wig for stability.
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Finally, the Spinel Heart Gem! (Oh boy I finally could use my skills!) I used references found online on the Spinel gem and modelled the heart in Blender. I unwrapped the model and printed out the UV map. Angel used iridescent film layered ontop of a dark pink film, cut out the facets and taped them all together. She likes to say that it wasn’t as easy to build as it looks. It was time consuming... 😆
It was sometimes chaotic but it was fun. 10/10 would do another cosplay with Angel.
More pictures to come if there is more pictures! ✨
me: it is 97 degrees. i do not want my hand to be dripping in sweat by the time we let go. satan himself has cursed this day with this heat, i'm not going to feed his hunger with my pain.