Birthday Celebration: Day 1 (Hair Modelling & Date with Steph)

My birthday was last week, on the 15th to be exact. I knew that I'd probably be celebrating it with family and friends individually but I didn't expect it to a 3 day affair LOL! 

Anyway, my first day on celebration was with Steph on the 13th. She kindly accompanied me to get my hair done by the newly opened Naoki Ashihara by Ash salon at Liang Court. I was their hair model that day and after bout 4-5 hours of colouring and cutting (and patient waiting by Steph  >.<"), my hair looked and felt incredible.

Steph kindly helped me take pictures for the blog, here's a pic of the Director, Teiji-san, checking my hair

 



The other guy is Kelvin, who did most of my cutting and colouring, under the watchful eye of Teiji-san of course.

 



After cutting my hair, the hair dye was applied and then cling wrap was placed on top of my head. I left it entirely up to them to decide the cut and colour. The only things I told them was that I wanted to maintain my hair length and that I worked in a corporate office so bright hair colours were a definite no.

 

Getting the royal treatment! Feels awesome to have your hair blown and curled by not one, but two professional stylists.

Took the obligatory photo outside the salon, but the salon people were really sweet and kept asking Steph to join in the picture. Check out how amazing my hair looks after everything!!!

Picture with Kelvin, he was surprised and bit shy that I wanted a picture with him haha

With Atsuko, the main contact point I had with the salon, she was really sweet and friendly and looked amazing!!! Even her outfit of a simple top and white jeans made her stand out amongst the crowd.

Another pic with Teiji-san, he's really funny and kept complimenting Steph and asked if she could be a hair model too hahaha

 

 

After being pampered, Noriaki- san, the one who introduced the salon to me and the mastermind behind StreetAngels , asked if we could do some shots for the site. I was more than happy to oblige! You can see me as the model of the day on 2nd August and at 12:26pm, Steph will appear on 1st August, 22nd November (her birthday, yay!!) and at 12:25pm. Be sure to check out the website, facebook page or handphone app to see our pictures!

 

I'm definitely incredibly happy with my hair, the colour is a dark brown mixed with a reddish-pink tinge. It is understated enough for the office but not boring and the cut is so easy to manage. I could curl it inwards with a hair curling iron or Velcro curlers, or if I simply brush it through, I'm all set for work. I'll probably go back as a paying customer next time.

 

Took this selfie as I was waiting for Steph and Noriaki-san

 



Outfit:

Babydoll camisole: Katie

Black sheer dress: Taobao

Belt: Taobao

Choker: Taobao

Dolfie print stockings: Bought from a friend

Shoes: Taobao

Bag: Mety Damali

 



Steph treated me to dinner by bringing me to Yayoiken, I had been wanting to try the place but there was always a long queue. I ordered the cheese hamburg set (top pic) as I was starving, while Steph had the yofu hamburg with ebi fry. I loved it! The food was really really yummy! Thanks Steph!

Camwhore of us! A must-do every time we meet haah!

 



Steph gave me a birthday gift bag filled with lovely stuff inside this Louis Vuitton paper bag. Hahaha Classy!

 



The gift bag contained a high-neck long puff sleeved lace dress (perfect for work!), a cute shorts with tulle overlay and studded with stars (perfect for cult party), Benefit Sugar Addict makeup tester set, Hello Kitty Hyper curl mascara, BB cream and OMG!!! A pair of Verum by Grimoire stockings, I nearly died when I saw it in the bag!! Not shown are a cute pair of polka dotted high-waisted shorts (it's in the wash) and a embroidered ethnic print scarf that I've left in the office to keep me warm (and to let me feel her lurrrvvvveeee as I wrap myself in it to not freeze to death in the office)

 

A look at the full length of the Verum by Grimoire stockings *sobs* omg its so beautiful, and I can't believe it's mine! I must think of a wonderful outfit to do it justice and let it's beauty shine through!!

Here's what the Benefit Sugar Addict set contained, Benetint Lip and Cheek Stain, High Beam highlighter, Sugarbomb bronzer/blush and Sugarbomb lipgloss. I've always wanted to try the Benetint lip and cheek stain and now I can! The entire set is great for creating a nude but polished look, so it's perfect for my work makeup

 

 

Once again, thanks Steph for the great day and presents, I'm sorry I made you wait for me during the hair process >_< let's meet up again soon! Bitches forever!

Cosfest 2013 (Day 2)

Really late post about day 2 of Cosfest, a lot has happened since then but I'll write about them as soon as I can. I've just been really tired out after work lately but enough bout me, let's get back to the event.

I had originally planned to cosplay Toph from the Avatar: Legend of the Airbender series, and I had even planned to do it Mini cosplaying as Sokka. Unfortunately, my tailor was so bogged down with orders and paid so much detail to my Rapunzel cosplay that she completely forgot to do my Toph costume. I was screaming mad but I knew yelling at her would achieve nothing, so after a quick call to Mini, explaining the situation, I ended up breaking down and crying from the disappointment. I had also wasted my money speed ordering my wigs and contact lens so I was really upset about the whole thing.

In the end, I reused my cosplay of Freya from Chobits for Cosfest day 2. However, on the morning of the day, my left heel gave way. Luckily, the room next to us (full of our other cosplay friends) had shoe gum, so after applying it, I could still walk around the event, but I couldn't rest my entire weight on it. By that time, I was really upset about the whole thing so it really put a dark cloud over my mood for the rest of the day.

Met plenty of friends again during the day.

Most of them were actually featured in my previous post, recognise any of them? 

One thing that did lift my mood was being able to finally meet Reika! Mini, Jo and I woke up especially early to prep and queue up at her booth before the queue got too long.

After she autographed her picture books for us, we hung around near her booth and luckily for us, she decided to leave her booth to allow the growing crowd to take pictures of her. Unfortunately mine are bit blurry, so I here's a more professional shot of her.

 

Jo kindly took a polaroid of us

 



I was also able to spot this Thai cosplayer called Zeasonal amongst the huge crowd. Doesn't she look amazing as the main character from Darker Than Black? I've been admiring her on her facebook page for awhile now.

 

My amazing friends, Skrei and Borupen cosplaying Trinity Blood. Look at the details!!

 

Found Robin and Wonder Girl! Wonder girl actually recognised me as the Zatanna cosplayer and I recognised her as the Supergirl that nearly knocked me off my feet as she sprinted with full force right at me in excitement

 

Met these two Legend of Korra cosplayers. They admitted that it was their first time cosplaying and I must say that it's pretty good! Now I really want to get my Asami costume ready.

 

I was so excited when I spotted this Last Exile cosplayer from afar! For one, I haven't seen anyone cosplay the series locally, and also, she was cosplaying the less well-known first season of the series. I told her I had been wanting to cosplay Dio, her character's brother, and she told me that if I ever did, I should contact her and we could do a shoot together. Yay!



There was also this amazing X/1999 team walking around, but they were split up most of the time, so I only met a few of the team members. Still, it's an amazing series that deserves more love and I was so happy to see people actually still interested in cosplaying the series.

 

These were the photobooks that I had Reika autograph, as well as the postcard in the middle. She was surprised to see them as they were only sold in Malaysia, the one on the top right was sold during the Cosfest event and luckily for me, my friend, Janice, helped me get it before it sold out.

 

All the coscards I collected through the 2 days. I'm amazed at the number of new people I met that day.

 



 

Oh yes, this video showed my amazing Disney Princess team and many of my friends too. Do have a look and don't forget to check out the 1st and 3rd video too for more amazing cosplays

 

Overall, I did have tons of fun and it was amusing to spend the last night, drinking and telling ghost stories to each other as we all crammed ourselves at the balcony so that the smokers could have their fix without missing anything. I also got to meet amazing Thai cosplayers, Narutan and Tama, they were so funny and down to earth despite looking so amazing when all dolled up.

 

I'm definitely looking forward to next year!

Cosfest 2013 (Day 1)

Quick recap on what happened on day 1 of Cosfest 2013 last Saturday before I'm off to bed!

I cosplayed Rapunzel from the movie Tangled as I was part of a team of Disney princesses, Mini helped me do up the wig and despite being pretty heavy due to the sheer length and volume, it was quite bearable.

Lots of camwhores with friends that day, everyone looks amazing with their cosplays

 



More camwhores, despite having made arrangements with another group of friends to stay at their chalet, I ended up crashing at Blacklash's (the sexy Ada Wong in the middle and bottom right pics) chalet for most of the 3 days. The little girl on the left bttom pic was such a cutie, she was being brought around by her mom and couldn't have been more then 5 or 6 years old! She was such a shy little thing.

Camwhores with my amazing Disney Princess team! We had a Snow White, Aurora, Merida, Jasmine, Mulan, Tinkerbell, Pocahontas, Ariel, Megara and Belle. Everyone looked gorgeous! 

I also took part in the Cure cosplay walk that day. Was bit disappointed that because of it, I was held up from joining my team in many shoots, so there's a lot of pictures of my team flying around but without me :( However, it certainly was fun to walk onstage though I was winging it most of the time with my posing and was super worried bout my heavy wig falling right off my head right on the stage,

 

Shoot with some of my team members, Astellecia Skye (the one cosplaying Mulan) was the leader of the team and the one who invited me to join it. Really grateful for her doing so as I'd never have gotten to know these other gorgeous ladies otherwise.

 



Solo shot of me, I'm bit disappointed that there isn't the "flip" in my fringe but other then that, the wig was fantastic and my costume was pretty comfortable to run around in all day. I was happily dancing around backstage whilst waiting for my turn to walk on stage for the Cure walk.

 

 

There were so many incredible cosplayers that day but I shan't spam you guys with the images, so I've only put up a few of my friends' pictures.

 



Selicia cosplaying Hanji from Shingeki no Kyojin, doesn't she look spot on like the character?! The titan is Lawliet, who was crazily running around and trolling everyone

 



I dare you to find me a better Hanji, seriously...

 



I also met this cosplayer that I was admiring her costume from afar. I can't quite remember the series she's cosplaying as, but I did ask her how did she do her amazing headgear as it looked like a solid piece of moulded plastic both up close and from afar. She laughed and told me it was nothing more than foam with multiple layers of primer to give it the shine and hardness.

 

 

After the event, I went back to Blacklash's chalet where a whole gang of us ended up sharing a sukiyaki dinner. Her boyfriend and fellow cosplay photographer, Rescend, was really kind to help us buy the groceries needed for the night.

 

Here's a picture of Rescend (on the left) and the other guys looking mighty pleased with themselves hahahaha

 

 

I will be uploading a post on day 2 soon, but in the mean time, have a look at what cosplay photographers do when they're waiting around during the waning hours of an event:

 

 



Have fun watching the video!

Pre-Cosfest 2013

Cosfest has come once again & I'm bubbling with excitement at not only being able to meet my friends & have plenty of fun during our stay at the chalet! 

I shan't say which characters but I'll give you a clue, here are the pictures of the wig & prop I'll be wearing for the 2 days:

I think they should be easy enough to figure out hahaha! Anyway, I printed more coscards then I usually do, so if you see me during the event don't hesitate to say hi & ask for one!

My coscard this time is my Kagura cosplay from the series Gintama & the bling bling thing next to it is my cosplay card case haha

Minnacon 2013 & Cosmo Youth Parade

It's late, like close to 3am in my time, but I'm such a bad blogger and been putting off blogging for so long now that I thought I might as well write a quick post before I'm off to bed. 

I had initially wanted to write about my day at Minnacon last week, but I also attended the Cosmo Youth parade yesterday, so I figured I might as well write a combined posts, so apologies for the picture spam.

Cosplayed Rise Fujiwara for Minnacon, really simple and comfortable cosplay, just nice for the small event.  

Met Kanoe, a member of one of the teams that organized Minnacon, love her cute wig!

Playing around with Skrei during the event, look I've got a braided moustache!! LOL she was cosplaying the genderbend version of a character from Kurobasu

More randomness during the event, here's a camwhore shot with Kitska (the one in the middle) and Shang. They're both in my K cosplay team but they'll be doing different characters when we finally debut, wanna guess who I'll be cosplaying from K?

A photo taken by one of the photographers at the event. They photographers were laughing and joking at how my cosplay matched the terrible haze that had been plaguing my country for the past 2 weeks. I mean look at this shot, it wasn't edit in any manner and I already look like I'm in the alternate dimension in Persona!

Was abit sad and lonely that Mini and Selicia couldn't make it that day, a cosplay event just isn't the same without the two of them for company. But I still had fun, the event was small but cozy and I managed to buy a few things for myself from the booths.

Yesterday I attended the Cosmo Youth Parade event with Mini and Selicia. The original plan was to help them with their Shingeki no Kyojin shoot before heading down to the event, but Selicia being Selicia, had a whole load of problems and was mega late. The weather was also being unpredictable, so we decided to just cancel the shoot and head straight for the event. I chose to redo my cosplay of Karina Lyle (the normal alter ego of the hero Blue Rose) from Tiger & Bunny, as it was a simple and more comfortable cosplay. Good thing too, as the weather was searingly hot and the event space was tiny and packed with lots of people, such a bad combination.

Met Daisy! He hung around abit before disappearing

Awesome Mini being awesome once again, she's cosplaying Armin from Shingeki no Kyojin

Group pic with Selicia! Selicia's derpy face so does not match Eren Jaeger hahaha!! I'll be cosplaying with them soon as Annie, Selicia will be my partner, Ymir, when I'm also cosplaying as Crista

  

With sweet Alicia, who's helped me so many times especially with our tailor as my Chinese conversational skills are minimal 

Managed to find Mein, doesn't she look so bishie? 

With Mein and Daikon, I'm so so jealous at how amazingly handsome they look! They can easily pull off both guys and girl characters superbly!

With Tsubaki, she's cosing Uta Prince hahah

Quick Camwhore shot, I'm not totally happy with my cosplay as Karina, for one the wig is wrong, need to change it and I need to change my makeup too. Hopefully I'll do a better job during my shoot

Outfit shot!! 

I had initially thought about not attending the Cosmo Youth Parade as Cosfest is next week, but the organisers did something that I simply couldn't resist, they brought in celebrity guest cosplayers. And not just any guest cosplayers, they flew in Saffron & Yui and King & Mon and Misa all the way from Taiwan!! I knew I had to meet them no matter what!!

Luckily, there was a fan signing service, so I bought their merchandise and queued pretty much the whole day, just for a chance to meet them and get their autographs. Luckily the bf kept me company throughout, so I'm really grateful for that.

Saffron and Yui Posing for a photo after signing a postcard for me! Stupid me was so awestruck by them, the only thing I could do was shove to them the postcard, give to them my coscard and ask for a picture before hurrying off. I must have looked really dumb being so quiet and not saying more then five words to them TAT

Also, Saffron actually gave me another coscard after I gave her mine but I stupidly lost it. I was so bummed about it that I moped about it all night.

The fan signing had a silly rule that said you could only meet one guest during the event, so the bf helped me to get King & Mon's autographs and pass to them my coscard. They were really sweet and posed for this picture after the bf explained to them 

Csocards from the guest cosplayers!!! Top left is Saffron's, bottom left is Yui's and the ones on the right are combined cards of King and Mon

Also, their autographs! I bought a stack of Saffron's and Yui's postcards and out of the lot, I liked their pyscho pass cosplay the best that's why I chose it for them to sign. I only wish they had printed their Evangelion cosplays instead, I'm still drooling in fangirl mode at Saffron's amazing cosplay as Kaoru. King and Mon produced this entire calendar based on Shingeki no Kyojin, so the bf asked them to sign on the cover.

I must also write this down before I totally forget that this actually happened and wasn't the ramblings of a delusional fangirl, ok deep breath, basically what happend was that I happened to be standing round the corner where the fan signing was taking place and chatting with Alicia. All of a sudden, I heard the announcement that King and Mon's session was over and they were going backstage to rest, I turned around only to realise that the two of them were heading in my direction, but having had the chance to get their autographs, I decided to step aside and back up Alicia who was trying to pass to them her coscard. She had just managed to get Mon to accept her card when I turned around and wound up face to face with King! Before I could react, King took my hand and started speaking to me quickly in Chinese (this sucked big time because my level of Chinese is pretty basic ugh!), with the loud screaming of the fan girls and the guards urging her to leave, the most I could hear was King telling me she liked my Imitation Black cosplay that was on my coscard and that she thought I was cute, she said alot of other things as well but I couldn't quite hear her. I was too in shock and simply nodded and also became aware at how my jaw was hanging wide open in embarrassment, and just as I was finally getting a grasp on reality, King released my hand, turned around, and was gone. I just stood there, blanking out for a couple of seconds before realizing that it actually happened!! 

All I can say is that it's probably an experience I'll never forget as I doubt I'll ever get this personal with a celebrity cosplayer ever again! 

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