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Many a times, I asked myself, do I still want to continue cosplay? It's like, I feel such a loner at cosplay events. I always see cosplayers going to/home in groups, watching performances in groups, a few characters from the same series etc. Whereas I'm always going to/home alone, watching performances alone, sole character from a series etc.
Today's Toys Con was horrible. I mixed up the day, Saturday was movie and Sunday is anime so there weren't that many cosplayers. When I was looking at the movie cosplay, I felt a tug on my wig and turned around. An uncle(father type) looked at me and asked "Is it real?" I was going(in my head) "WHAT THE FUCK, whether it's real or not, should you even be doing that?" I ended up not answering him and turned back to the stage but I think I gave an angry expression.
Wearing a wig which I got from Zephyr for my past 2 cosplays had been a torture. It's so badly tangled now, brushing and spraying wig conditioner for hours does little help. Since I don't have the mood to cosplay for Cosfest(sorry mum...), I soaked the wig in the last of my protein treatment, washed off, applied the hair conditioner I'm using, hand-combed through the tangles to no avail, washed off and is now sitting in a basin drying off. If it dries in time and I can minimise the tangles then I might be going for 1 day of Cosfest.
- Cosplaying itself is:
- money draining - no problem with money. I normally keep to a budget and do costumes within my ability.
- physically draining - always feel tired even thought I am not in costume during entire event. I normally keep to 5-6 hours, sometimes 2-3 hours.
- mentally draining - this is what's happening to me right now. I don't see a solution to this.
Today's Toys Con was horrible. I mixed up the day, Saturday was movie and Sunday is anime so there weren't that many cosplayers. When I was looking at the movie cosplay, I felt a tug on my wig and turned around. An uncle(father type) looked at me and asked "Is it real?" I was going(in my head) "WHAT THE FUCK, whether it's real or not, should you even be doing that?" I ended up not answering him and turned back to the stage but I think I gave an angry expression.
Wearing a wig which I got from Zephyr for my past 2 cosplays had been a torture. It's so badly tangled now, brushing and spraying wig conditioner for hours does little help. Since I don't have the mood to cosplay for Cosfest(sorry mum...), I soaked the wig in the last of my protein treatment, washed off, applied the hair conditioner I'm using, hand-combed through the tangles to no avail, washed off and is now sitting in a basin drying off. If it dries in time and I can minimise the tangles then I might be going for 1 day of Cosfest.