KJG Cosplay: 2009

Sunday 24th May 2009

I love Batman and The Dark Knight so it was only fitting that I played the Joker this year! I bought rigid collodion and liquid latex to complete the look after doing some make-up research on YouTube. Me and Mike were leaving for EXPO at about 7.00am so I had to get up at 3.00am to start my make-up! It was exhausting! I finished at about 6.30 so I just about had enough time to get my costume sorted.

I'd hired my suit jacket and waistcoat from a place local to me in Ascot called As If By Magic. I bought the hexagon style shirt from Hot Topic. I searched for ages to find the perfect Joker shirt and this was the only place I could find one. If I remember right, it cost me quite a lot at around $20 odd dollars plus a ridiculous amount for postage and packaging from America! I couldn't find any purple trousers that matched the jacket and waistcoat so I went as a female Joker.

The train journey to EXPO was great. We had one elderly man asked us 'what all this was about' pointing to my costume, so I explained all about EXPO and that seemed to make sense to him. He said he thought that this was the kind of style... as if dressing up as the Joker was the new Goth or something! haha

It got to the point where I kept getting really odd looks, which obviously wasn't a surprise, so I started saying 'Why so serious?' to anyone who gave me a funny look. It soon put a smile on their face (no pun intended)!

When we got to EXPO I signed to do the masquerade, as I'd only done it the once before when I was Tuxedo Kamen (see the post here). I didn't win of course, there were much better costumes than mine! And I hadn't learnt anything from my time on stage as Tuxedo Kamen and I was only on stage for a very short time (although to me it felt like ages)! When I was behind the stage I met some great people! It got really awkward when a guy started asking me 'how I got those scars?' and I couldn't remember the speech from The Dark Knight so I started mumbling about how 'my dad gave them to me' etc Then he went a quoted the whole scene really well and in the right voice and I was just sitting there very awkwardly and embarrassed! :S haha Nevermind.