Sunday 30th October 2010

Sunday 30th October 2010

Mike and Roxana on the train

So this EXPO I didn't dress up. It always feels weird when I don't, like I don't belong there or something!

John de Lancie. Photograph copyright of
Creative Eye Photography

I decided to just take photographs this time rather than dress up. I always find that my photographs suffer if I wear a costume, so I dedicated the day to photography. So of course, my camera had to mess up and decide not to work for half of the day!

We had an amazing day as always, and I got to see John de Lancie! I loved him as Q in Star Trek Next Generation! :D

Mike showing off his long legs! haha

Wednesday 8th September 2010: Jason's Kyuubi Suit

Wednesday 8th September 2011

Today was the day that I saw Jason's Kyuubi costume for the very first time. How amazing is it? 

Sunday 30th May 2010: Gothic Princess

Sunday 30th May 2010

This year a huge group of us went to EXPO. There was me, Mike and Roxana as usual, with the addition of Dan, Emma, Jason and Danfeng. Danfeng and I go to uni together, but at the time of this EXPO we had only been speaking online before we had gone to uni, so this was the first time we'd seen each other. Dan and Emma are people I went to college with and Jason is someone I work with. 

No body dressed up apart from me and Dan. I lent Dan my cape, and I don't know who he was supposed to be! I went as a Gothic-y Princess. I didn't have a real costume and I wanted to dress up in something. Jason bought a link costume, but he chickened out at the last minute and decided not to wear it!

We all had a great day. I got to leave with a Luna Sailor Moon hat so I was happy! 

Me and Dan on the train

Emma and Mike listening to
music

Jason on the train

Me and the Cheshire Cat

Danfeng with Avatars

Roxana and Emma wearing my new Luna hat from Sailor Moon

Friday 5th March 2010 - My mum as the Mad Hatter

Friday 5th March 2010

Mum as the Mad Hatter

My mum works at a school (my old primary school) and it was World Book Day. She wanted to be the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland, so I helped her make a costume. I made all the red ribbons for the outfit and I sewed the patches onto her trousers. I also made the white cuffs and the cravat styled ruffles down her shirt. You can't see the ruffles too well in the photos, but it took a while to make!

I also did her make up too. I applied purple eyeshadow and then fake hair to make her eyebrows 'bushy' and 'eccentric'. I was fun to do the make up for her as I was getting a bit into special effects make up and I had just learnt how to apply fake hair.

Saturday 24th October 2009

Saturday 24th October 2009

This year Mike and I went with some old school friends called Shannon and Katherine. 

I didn't dress up this year. Katherine dressed up as a character from Vampire Knight. Katherine had made a 'free hugs' sign which I wore for most of the day. I can't remember how many hugs I got though!

We got to meet Tom Baker and Craig Charles. Well I didn't personally, but I took photos!

Katherine and Shannon on the train

Katherine in the queue

Me and Mike in the queue

Katherine with Tom Baker

Shannon with Craig Charles

Mike with a Warthog from Halo

Mike, Katherine and Shannon on the bridge

Me and Mike on the bridge

Sunday 24th May 2009: The Joker

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.

I found this on DeviantArt! Thank you to whoever
took this!

Me with another Joker

Me with another Joker

Me with Harleyquin

Thursday 13th November 2008 - Princess Jupiter

 Thursday 13th November 2008

I had just started working at Waterstones in Bracknell in October and in November they were having a Tokyopop Event. So I used my old prom dress (which had been re-designed after my prom) and went as Princess Jupiter from Sailor Moon. It was a good night and I got to have fun with some old school friends.