It’s pretty easy to create custom fangs for your next cosplay. You can use a non-toxic thermoplastic and mold your fangs from scratch. With this method, you can also create bottom fangs, a snaggle tooth, or even large tusks (links above). Related Tutorials: How to Make Super Simple Fangs How to Make Large Tusks How…
Whether you’re dressing up as a unicorn for Halloween, cosplaying as a galarian ponyta, or just want to be a narwhal, you’ll have to make a horn to match your costume. If you’re ambitious, you might also try to find a way to attach the horn directly to your forehead. This tutorial is a single-twist…
I am not good at tying bows. They always end up droopy, uneven, and upside down (somehow?). So for cosplay, I try to never rely on my ability to tie a pretty bow. Instead, I fake it. There are multiple methods you can use to fake a bow, but at its most basic, you’re just…
Making floppy dog ears is a little different than cat ears for a costume. In order for the material to accurately reflect the shape of a dog’s ear, you need to create a solid base for the ear (I used EVA foam for this), but leave the rest of the fabric loose. There are many…
It’s not uncommon for characters from anime, movies, comics, and games to have stark white hair that you want to mimic. You might also want to color your hair gray to wear a costume of a middle-aged or older character. If these aren’t your natural hair color, light white and gray hair colors are among…
Wearing glasses in your everyday life doesn’t mean you can’t participate in cosplay. Whether you’re open to wearing contacts or not, you can still look fantastic and be a great representation of your character. You can cosplay any character you want and still wear your glasses. Depending on how accurate you want your costume to…
An often overlooked but highly important step of cosplay construction is the process of painting. Even if you’ve done a fantastic job at sewing your costume or putting your prop together, it won’t look great if you did a shoddy paint job. To avoid paint that chips, runs, melts, or just doesn’t get vibrant enough,…
Sometimes people want to cosplay characters that don’t look like them. If you think about it, this is pretty common if you consider the fact that many comic and anime characters are purposefully drawn with proportions that are not realistic at all. But if your height or weight is drastically different from the character you…
Most anime and comic conventions take place in the spring or summer, making lighter costumes with less coverage ideal. However, if you want to cosplay for a winter convention, or even for Halloween, you’ll probably want to make some adjustments to these costumes so you don’t stand around shivering from the cold. The easiest way…
Everyone who cosplays will have their own reasons for doing it. And for most people, those reasons will change as they cosplay more and get involved in fan and geek communities. When I first started cosplaying, it was about dressing up as characters I loved. I didn’t care if costumes were store-bought and of questionable…