For today's trade secret,  I will tell you how I made a Hakkai wig! :D  Little Sister flat out refused this year to let me chop her hair funky, so it was to the wig drawing board for me! XD It only took me about 4 hours total to make (compared to my Goku wig which took like 2 weeks) so I didn't really take any in-progress photos, but I will try ( Read more... )

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What's with me and cosplay Saiyuki pictures? LOL well, here's one I actually drew over a year ago but I never finished coloring it until
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Here are some cosplay pictures I've intended to post since, um, yaoi-con 2007, lol. These are of Solitaire, cosplaying as battleversion!Sanzo, in all his bloody glory, hehe. These are worksafe, unless your work has a problem with a little bruising and bleeding or Smith & Wessons. ;D Please check them out and lemmie know what you think! ♥

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It's time for Xpyne's long awaited Yaoi-con 2007 Con Report!!! <--whut? Haha, well! Even if you haven't been waiting on the edge of your computer seat for this, i'm pretty excited to share it with y'all. XD Sorry this took so long!  Yaoi-con was the weekend of October 26th and took place in San Francisco, California (the unofficial gay capital of ( Read more... )

This time I want to show how I do Sanzo make up, and offer some tips on making demon marks. First i have Soli put on foundation and powder like she normally does. Then I make her face look a bit slimmer by using brown blush on the underside of her cheekbone, area above her temples, along the column of her wind pipe, and a line down either side of ( Read more... )

Heehee, after Yaoicon, I pretty much slept all of Monday. The con was SUPER fun!!! I will make a lengthy post with lots of pictures and such of me & soli, the lovely
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Whoo! Yaoi-con is coming up! So that means I really gotta start finish my cosplay stuff! Luckily, I've been in productive mood this month. ((and yes, i will definitely finish all the hijack requests, don't worry!)) I have only ever done Seiten Taisei Goku cosplay, and I've been wanting to do normal Goku, too. So I finally made a diadem. Here are ( Read more... )

Soli bought this waaaay back in like, last year? but it has only been now, with the new addition to the family of Olympie, my super awesome digital camera, that i can take pictures of this and share.

This is a nickel revolver air pistol, Smith & Wesson Chiefs Special S 9mm R.K.  ~♥

In other words, it is a real gun that has been modified by a gun ( Read more... )

It's time for Xpyne's long awaited Anime Expo 2007 Con Report!!! <--whut? Haha, well! Even if you haven't been waiting on the edge of your computer seat for this, i'm pretty excited to share it with y'all. :D Making last minute cosplay stuff created a high energy, stressful all-night prelude to the first day of the con (that we attended) which ( Read more... )