Kida Cosplay: Atlantis the Lost Empire

Why do only super skinny chicks get to cosplay the characters that show some skin?

I noticed this at MegaCon when I saw this dazzling girl dressed up as slave princess Leia in her aura of confidence and smiles; yeah. I was jealous. and yeah. I didn't like it. So I though "Psh, I could do that too", but then looked at my body and immediately thought otherwise.
Making my Kida cosplay was a journey of, welp.. I'll make it and not wear it, or I'll develop the confidence over time. The second one won out. But, I didn't do it for the attention or to show off my body at a con, I just did it to prove to myself that my body isn't this horrendous, fat blob I make it out to be, because I know I'm not fat and put myself down more than I need to.   
So I got to work and finished my cosplay. Yeah, I'll say I did work out for a solid two weeks, ate no sugar, and had super healthy meals (with veggies!), but refused to weigh myself, I wanted to be happy with how I looked. I know, this goes against what I just said, but I was never gonna be completely content with myself unless I actually tried to make my body better. So I did. I lost a bit, not very noticably, but to me it made all the difference knowing I put forth effort.
Here's the link: http://www.allouteffort.com/2012/11/how-my-wife-lost-13lbs-in-2-weeks.html
My results were nowhere near hers, but I switched a few things in the exercise and I was happy :)
So here's the results of everything, my sewing, my working out, and my confidence!

By the way, this took place in SwampCon at the University of Florida.


Photo Credits: Figments Media

So go out there and have fun!

 

Ariel Inspired Dapper Dress

I really wanna go to Disney's Dapper Day (October 3rd, 2015, ) for my 21st birthday; yupp.. 100% partying like the disney fan-girl I am with all the other princesses :P I've really gotten into swing dancing lately and a lot of the 20s era things, so I thought it'd be perfect to make an Ariel dress with a little bit of everything and a bit of a pinup touch to it. I've never really designed a dress, so its a bit rough, but I love it anyways:

 

 

I've got the finger waves going on, the peter pan collar rimmed with small pearls, a bow at the waist with a shell in the middle, the kick pleats with a different color inside, the almost-sleeve-but-not-really-quite-a-sleeve-but-it-still-is-a-sleeve thing going on, and most importantly.. Ariel's colors!

 (I haven't decided on the shoes yet)



 I went to JoAnn Fabrics to check out what kind of fabric I should use and what colors (realistically) they had, lucky enough, they had wonderfully perfect colors that matched the Ariel look I was going for.

The purple and Jade look a little darker than they actually are, but the above pictures are pretty accurate

 

I didn't really wanna make the blue-green part plain, but it's what they had, Ill be on the lookout for a pattern that would look good, and I'll keep updating my dress progress as I go ^.^



 

--------Update: 12/28/14---------

New addition to the fabric family of options!!

Look at this beauty!! ♥♥♥ Its almost perfect! (I think) :P

When out under the jade fabric, it makes it look a lot darker, but its sooo pretty! I guess we'll have to see.

 

By the way, Jo Ann fabrics gives away free samples of whatever fabric you want (max. 2 per person), so that might help ;)

 

--------Update 1/9/2015--------

 

First attempt at curling iron finger waves, not too bad for the first time with no hairspray :)

 

Got the instructions from here.. but its hard doing it all on your own!

http://www.samvilla.com/pro/blog/how-to-create-finger-waves-using-a-curling-iron#.VK9uwu85DIV