Can confirm this! When Sofia had initially brought up the sixsona project and sent over the vinyls I immediately asked if I could do B/P. I didn’t care particularly strongly on any of the others (minus bronze, which I’d actually worked on a full year before this sixsona project idea even came up), but had so many ideas right off the bat for it. And that one is perfectly my personal tastes and style, way more than any of my other sixsona designs, so it’s always felt like the no-brainer for me to cosplay if I ever got around to making one.

Out of all of the sixsona alt costumes you and @sixcostumerefs made, which one would you possibly try to make a cosplay costume of?

Yellow. It was my first design, and technically the first sixsona to be made even if instagram tells you otherwise. So that will always have a special place in my heart. Also I love all the small details on it.

@sixcostumerefs would make emerald. Because thats her favorite design (and there is this whole thing with it feeling right as an alt costume without being a principal costume recolor). Also her favorite color since I showed her the early vinyl selection.

prayer circle for a triple silver show starts now

Six accept you need another cover challenge

Six accept you need another cover challenge

Dreamcast: US Rehearsal Alts Edition

Hey y'all! A while back someone had asked me to make a dreamcast of rehearsal alts who hadn't yet debuted. I really enjoyed working on that, and now with Alizé Cruz joining the Boleyn Tour I thought it would be fun to do another in that vein. I realized exactly ten US-based rehearsal alts hadn't ever done an on-board contract, so for simplicity's sake I just did a US-style cast with those 10. I also generally factored in the covers that each rehearsal alt prioritized during their time with NCL.

Aragon: Jaelle Laguerre Boleyn: Chelsea Lorraine Wargo Seymour: Alyssa Gianetti Cleves: Adrianna Glover Howard: Kate Zulauf Parr: Jasmine M. Smith Alt A/B/S, DC: Kristina Walz Alt A/C/H: Emily Rose Lyons Alt B/S/P: Lois Ellise Alt C/H/P: Brooke Aneece

remember the days when you could remember all the emergency covers that six had had off the top of your head?

IRL Sixsona Designs Pt. 2: Makeup Edition

Hey y'all! This is second in a series of a few extra sixsona posts that @lightleckrereins and I are doing this week. The first post is here, showing the real-life vinyl inspirations we used!

This time around, I'm doing yet another hypothetical: what makeup would be used for each sixsona design!! My list of makeup recommendations for Six cosplayers is probably the post I'm second-most proud of (after sixsonas ofc). When I was initially working on that I kept seeing makeup that would be perfect for some of our sixsona designs, so because I have absolutely zero chill of course I had to figure out the full makeup plots for each.

The basic rules were - one glitter - one eyeshadow palette - and two additional products to fill in any gaps, as needed (this included fun stuff like an extra glitter or liquid liner, but also practical things like additional eyeshadow shades when needed or a liquid base for more sheer colors)

White (swing): Colourpop palette in Cloud 9, NYX Metallic Glitter in Lumi-Lite, Danessa Myricks Colorfix Matte in Lift, Urban Decay Moondust Liquid Eyeliner in Pyro

Yellow (A/B): Nicka K Pop Neon Palette in Oh Honey, With Love Pressed Glitter in Pineapple, MAC Dazzleshadow in It's All About Shine, Glisten Cosmetics wet liner in Bananas Cream (A/S): Beauty Bay (42), NYX Ultimate Glow Shots in Come Thru Coconut, Colourpop Super Shock Shadow in 3rd St, Colourpop Super Shock Shadow in In Harmony Bronze (A/C): BPerfect Cosmetics in Compass of Creativity North Skintones, Lemonhead Spacepaste in Dirty Penny, Haus Labs Hy-Power Pigment Paint in Copper Shimmer, MAC Dazzleshadow Extreme in Objet D' Art

Mint (B/S): Nicka K Pop Neon Palette in Lucky Charm, With Love Pressed Glitter in Mint, Haus Labs Hy-Power Pigment Paint in Mint Matte, Colourpop Super Shock Shadow in Life Coach Coral (B/H): Kimchi Chic Palette in Citrus Queen, Slayfire Cosmetics in Peaches & Scream, Danessa Myricks Colorfix Matte in Phoenix, Glisten Cosmetics wet liner in Rose Quartz Emerald/peacock (B/P): Cozzette Beauty Palette in Blue-Green, Designer Dust Co in Water Country Flakes, Danessa Myricks Colorfix Metallics in Firework, MAC Eye Shadow in Carbon

Amber (S/C): Colourpop in Rock On, Danessa Myricks Infinite Chrome Flakes in Hot Lava, Danessa Myricks Colorfix Liquid Metals in Hot Fire, Lemonhead Spacejam in Rainbow Road Peach (S/H): Colourpop in Sweet Talk, Lemonhead Spacepaste in Mulholland, MAC Dazzleshadow Extreme in Kiss of Klimt, MAC Eye Shadow in Shell Light blue (S/P): Colourpop in Blue Velvet, Designer Dust Co in Carolina Bae Micro, Danessa Myricks Colorfix Foils in Mermaid, Colourpop Super Shock Shadow in Ice Dream

Magenta (C/H): Beauty Bay in Berries (16), Designer Dust Co in Bubblegum Bae Micro, Colourpop Super Shock Shadow in Roy G. Biv, MAC Eye Shadow in If It Ain't Baroque Maroon (C/P): Juvia's Place in The Berries, Lemonhead Spacepaste in Wine Safari, MAC Pigment in Gold, Glisten Cosmetics wet liner in Bloody Mary Lavender (H/P): Juvia's Place in The Violets, Barry M Biodegradable Body Glitter in Hypnotic, MAC Dazzleshadow in It's All About Shine, Glisten Cosmetics wet liner in Amethyst

Some credit info: Designs for white, yellow, cream, mint, amber, peach, magenta, maroon, lavender + all sixsona art featured here by @lightleckrereins. Original designs for bronze, coral, emerald/peacock, and light blue are mine. I did most of the sourcing work for the makeup, but Sofia created the inspiration + made final decisions on the makeup for all her designs.

Sixsona designs can actually be made irl part 1

The whole project started when I made this post where I was trying to hypothesize what new color could be chosen for a fifth alt costume (yes fifth this was before silver swing existed) that worked with the rest. A few months later we started seeing silver previews, but those were all monochrome. And since we didn't know the color or that it was a swing costume, or that alternates would have principal costumes I began assigning the vinyl on that post to the first cover combos that didn't have an alt costume designed for them already. Half of those colors didn't make it to the list for various reasons so I had to find more. For that post I aimed for widely available textile holo vinyl colors, but once I expanded I had to go into rarer colors and some were not even meant as textiles.

And then. Between me figuring out the sixsona colors and now. The most commonly available textile holo vinyl (which includes some of the six stage vinyls) expanded its color range and suddenly I had textile holo for most colors. Currently only coral and magenta are not textile but instead craft vinyls. The rest you could buy them and make a costume no problem.

And its so wild to see them together @sixcostumerefs and I have made a point of creating designs that could be made in real life and to just see design and vinyl side by side feels crazy. I should look for sequins too tbh.

Bronze, coral, emerald and blue were designed by @sixcostumerefs

update of the week is that @lightleckrereins has been talking about wanting to see Six on Glow Up for forever and DID lose her shit

love how the new Boleyn Tour cast solely consists of women of color and redheads

Dreamcast: Future Shows (Aline Mayagoitia Edition)

The other day I continued my trend of dream casting soon-to-be-leaving Six actors in shows I’d like to see them in in the future. However…I think any long-time readers of my blog will know that seeing Aline in Six has meant the world to both @lightleckrereins and I, and narrowing it down to just one show/role we’d most like to see her in out of our long af list was HARD. So, as a farewell to Aline…we decided to post a few of our biggest dreamcasts for her.

Lempicka as Tamara de Lempicka

Moulin Rouge! as Arabia/understudy Satine

Anastasia el Musical as singer swing/understudy Anya and Lily

Gatsby as Myrtle

Hamilton as standby Schuyler sister (don’t ask us to choose just one)

Mentiras el Musical as Daniela or Yuri

Dreamcast: Future Shows (Boleyn Tour)

A few years back I’d made a post of the shows I’d most like to see each of the Broadway alts join when they left Six. I’ve made one for just about every cast since, and this time it’s the Boleyn Tour cast’s turn!! (And keep an eye out for a special edition of this in a few days…). So without further ado….

Gerianne Pérez: On Your Feet! as Gloria Estefan

Zan Berube: Mamma Mia! as Sophie Sheridan

Amina Faye: Hamilton as standby Schuyler sisters

Terica Marie: The Wiz as Evillene

Aline Mayagoitia: Moulin Rouge! as Arabia, understudy Satine

Sydney Parra: Jesus Christ Superstar as Mary Magdalene

Cecilia Snow: Shucked as Storyteller 1

Taylor Pearlstein: Hadestown as swing, understudy Eurydice/Fates

Jana Larell Glover: MJ as swing, understudy Kate/Katherine Jackson

Per usual, I only included actors who are imminently leaving the show. Since Adriana Scalice, Kelly Denice Taylor, and Aryn Bohannon are continuing, I didn’t include them in this post. The exception this time was Jana Larell Glover, purely because I’d been really wanting to include MJ for her prior to her being announced for Broadway.

So….Amaya White ASC, Carlina Parker ACP, Aryn Bohannon BSH, and Taylor Sage Evans BHP!!!!

posted 16 Mar 2022, @/iamlaurenkay

Freaking love these, and so much fun to see someone else interpret my designs, especially with all of @lightleckrereins' thoughtfulness + attention to detail

(also, sneak peek of bronze updates)

Its sixsona season!!

Main variations edition (cleves tomorrow)

So incredibly proud of this lot. I am aware it is my art but it feels so wild to see this designs in something that has become in a way very iconic for six.

Bronze, coral, emerald, and blue designs ara by @sixcostumerefs

Of interest!

Hi I still have crazy life stuff going on but I DID see the casts and I am going crazy about them

Name Duplicates

Figured I should make a proper post with all the name duplicates. I’ll update periodically as we get new casts. Just counting queens right now, but I’ll probably add LiW eventually.

6 Lauren/Loren/Lorren (Drew, Irving, Santo-Quinn, Byrne, Hunter, Mariasoosay)

5 Ellie (Sharpe, Wyman, Grant, Elysia Cruz, Eloise Lord)  Jasmine/Jaz (Shen, Forsberg, Hackett, Smith, Robinson) Meg/Megan/Meghan (Gilbert, Leung, Dawson, Dixon Brasil, Corbett)

4 Courtney (Stapleton, Mack, Bowman, Monsma) Gabriella/Gabriela/Gabbi/Gabi (Stylianou-Burns, Francesca Carrillo, Mack, Boumford) Hana/Hannah (Stewart, Taylor, Lowther, Lawton)

3 Abigail/Abbi/Abby (Sparrow, Hodgson, Mueller) Adrianna/Adriana (Hicks, Scalice, Glover) Amy/Ami/Aimie (Atkinson, Bridges, di Bartolomeo) Danielle (Steers, Rose, Mendoza) Erin/Aryn (Palmer Ramirez, Bohannon, Caldwell) Jessica/Jessie/Jess: 3 (Niles, Bodner, Davidson) Julia/Giulia (Pulo, McLellan, Marolda) Maddie/Maddi/Mads (Bulleyment, Firth, Fansler) Maiya/Maya/Amaya: 3 (Christian, Quansah-Breed, White) Nicole (Kyoung-Mi Lambert, Lamb, Louise Lewis) Sophie (Golden, Isaacs, -Rose Middleton) Taylor: 3 (Iman Jones, Pearlstein, Sage Evans, plus Kelly Denice and Hannah if you count surnames) 2 Amanda: 2 (Lindgren, Lee) Amelia: 2 (Millie O’Connell, Atherton) Ashleigh/Ashlee: 2 (Weir, Waldbauer) Caitlin/Caitlyn: 2 (Tipping, De Kuyper) Casey: 2 (Esbin, Al-Shaqsy) Cassy/Cassie: 2 (Lee, Silva) Chelsea: 2 (Wargo, Dawson) Chloe: 2 (Zuel, Hart) Christina/Cristina: 2 (Modestou, D’Agostino) Elena: 2 (Gyasi, Breschi) Eloise: 2 (Sharpe, Lord) Emily: 2 (Harrigan, Rose Lyons) Grace: 2 (Melville, Mouat) Harriet: 2 (Watson, Caplan-Dean) Holly/Holli’: 2 (Musgrave, Conway) Janice/Janique: 2 (Rijssel, Charles) Jennifer: 2 (Caldwell, Kim Ji-woo) Kelly: 2 (Sweeney, Denice Taylor) Kennedy/Kenedy: 2 (Monica Carstens, Small) Kristina: 2 (Walz, Leopold) Laura: 2 (Blair, Dawn Pyatt)” Lexi/Lexie: 2 (McIntosh, Kim Ji sun) Lucy/Lucia: 2 (Aiston, Valentino) Maddison: 2 (Bulleyment, Firth) Natalie: 2 (May Paris, Pilkington) Olivia: 2 (Alexander, Donalson) Rachel/Rae: 2 (Rawlinson, Davenport) Sydney/Cydney: 2 (Parra, Clark)