Clothes, makeup, hair, and other such things

I got thge wonder woman edition of the missha bb cream cushion today :^y

Spoiler: woop

 

as part of #SkincareGoals2016 i bought the glossier phase 1 set & it just came in the mail today and look at how pretty

Spoiler: so pretty

it's a bit pricy ($80 for the whole set which isn't bad but not cheap) but just from quick swatches on my hand the texture is divine. will update later w/ how it actually performs but so far i dig it. also the package came with stickers so they've pretty much won me over already.

 

@Choco I've heard a lot of wonderful things about this set!!

I am Upset that i placed an order with shiro cosmetics a short while ago because they just released this and i need a meme eyeshadow. but, alas, i cannot do it, my dear sweet shia.

 

The struggle: being really, really appreciative of butch style and unable to wear it because it's expensive/hard to find and also...idk, it doesn't feel right.

Also I so nearly successfully altered a bra. I know it's possible. This would have worked, but it's lightly padded & plunge & I had to gather the excess fabric at the outside of the cups, which ended up changing the shape juuust slightly too much :(

Spoiler: Complaining

Which means I've still got to spend the £60+ I was hoping to save on new underwear which probably won't even fit in another 3 months time UGH

 

okay confession time
I am suuuuuuuuuuuper into cyberpunk and cybergoth styles of clothing and I am just weird enough that I would 100% wear it out and about
only problem?
price.
so does anyone know any places to get cheaper cyberpunk-type stuff?

 

how crafty are you
because cyberpunk and cybergoth can be diy-ed if you are willing to suffer the occassional hotglue gun burns and don't care about how much makeing dreads from synthetic hair burns your sinuses and maybe you actually like the smell of spraypaint?
but yeah depending on how good with crafts you are i'd go hunting for tutorials on youtube. if there is sensory processing stuff that prevents youtube from being a good idea i can try to make you transcripts for stuff you think might be interesting?
A good pair of fabric scissors, a seam ripper and lots of olderish black clothes + neon fabric paint should suffice for your base wardrobe and the harness thingies could be like things you get for birthdays or christmas maybe? the cyber hairfalls i'm not actually sure how to make them but i've made "regular" dreads from synthetic hair before so i could maybe try and tell you how i did that.
all the other fancy accessories i'm pretty sure are generally diy anyway.

 

hmmmm.
I had not considered this.
I am very crafty. I could get olderish black clothes and neon paint. I have a seam ripper and fabric scissors. I actually also already have some neon fabric paint...
not suuuuuper interested in the hairfalls, mostly just the clothes. like. idk. the clothes really appeal to me. a lot.
some of the things I like I doubt I could do, because complexity. but some of the things I definitely could do.

edit: also actually if I made them myself I could make them less...reveal-y? like I'm a huge fan of the guys' styled cyberpunk, not so much girls', because it tends to have weird peepholes and shit and I am not such a fan of showing off my boobs or stomach.

 

as someone who is making plans for my third wig modding project: it's a practice thing. complexity can mostly be solved by skill+motivation+time+planning and the first thign is the only thing you might have to work on, but that just means you can make even better and funner things later!
try to find out which crafts stores and fabric stores have discounts or scrap bags or bargain bins. The smart crafter shops smart! Leather especially you can get pretty decent deals on if you are willing to get creative and piece a few scraps together (thought that might scew the aesthetic to wastelands/apocagoth but eh you can probably cybergoth it up with like... idk spraypaint? those spikey things?)

 

I will figure it out
tbh wastelands stuff also appeals to me but I can definitely cybergoth up leather, even things that are pieces put together
and I shall do that!! thanks, seriously.

 

Tried a different method tonight and it worked! Hooray for saving money. & making the clothes fit me instead of the other way around.

 

@EulersBidentity if you feel like making a post about it, I would be interested in hearing what you did and how you did it!

 

PLEASE LOOK AT THIS INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE THING THAT I HAVE FOUND THAT I REALLY WANT
SOMEONE TELL ME HOW I CAN MAKE THIS

 

okay so you want to search for underbust corset patterns first.
The collar should be easy as hell to draft on top of that unless I am overestimating myself again. Actually I think that looks really really hella so if you're willing to give me a WHILE (and I do mean a while my sewing supplies are hella packed away for another month or two because we're moving houses)
I can try to figure out a way to draft this? and try to upload a video or text tutorial of the process

 

also i can't tell if it's actually boned or not?
if it is you will need very sturdy fabric.
If it isn't you'll need tough and sturdy fabric anyway but it doesn't have to have quite the strength without the bones.

 

I am 100% willing to wait if you really want to figure out a way to draft it and upload a video/text tutorial of the process. otherwise I shall attempt to work with one of the various underbust corset tutorials I've found (I'm reading and trying to figure out how to modify and so far I'm just confusing myself :P)
I'm fairly certain it's not boned? I shall get my hands on some tough and sturdy fabric but I do not think mine will be boned either way. just because if I tried to make/buy a boned corset my parents miiiiiiiiiiight flip shit. they hate boned corsets.

 

i have never boned a corset (this sounds wrong but i'll leave it because freud deserves a treat)
Unless you are totally unable to do this yourself you should totally go ahead and try to work it out yourself! I don't wanna hold you up! But I just wanted to mention that I might do a thing like this/vaguely inspired by it and I could try to document the process.

 

I shall attempt to work it out myself! using duct tape!! and fabric! (don't ask, I have a plan, hopefully it works. no, I am not going to duct tape fabric together.) if I can't figure it out, though, please do document your process!

 

@WithAnH

I tried to resize all these images and they're still huge :T

Spoiler: Alteration! Pic heavy.

Fig. 1: The bra I altered yesterday.

My issue was that I love this bra and I've only had it ~6 months, but the cups have gotten too big for me recently. It's the perfect shape for me, but it's not cheap and only rarely appears on Ebay. Not happy to throw it out, and not willing to buy a new one which may also not fit me in another 3 months' time, I have been driven to stabbing this bra many times with a piece of metal.

Fig. 2: Here you can see where I've sewn part of the padded cup to the underwire fabric. I've got clearer progress photos below, but this is what the finished one looks like.


Fig. 3: A close-up of the altered part of the bra from the front.


Fig. 4: And this is the bra that I altered badly. Fortunately these alterations don't involve cutting the fabric at all, so I could unpick my previous attempt and follow the effective method! This is the same size/style/brand of bra as the one above, just in a different fabric.


Fig. 5: This whole method was based on keeping the shape of the cups as constant as possible while reducing their volume. I originally tried pulling the fabric outwards, which didn't work for me at all. The thing that seems to work best for me on this bra is to take the most fabric from the underneath centre, which means tacking down part of the fabric against the underwire which sits on my sternum and under my breasts. (This is obviously the kind of thing that'll vary depending on the shape of your bra and your body. Personally, I put the bra on and just tugged at parts of it until I'd decided where would be the best place to take in.)
I started off by folding over part of the padding so it would lie flat against the underwire. (I gradated this off towards the underarm, since I didn't want to take more fabric from the side of the cup.)

This pic is upside-down, sorry. You get the idea.

Fig. 6: I drew out the satin which covers the cups so it wasn't sandwiched between two layers of padding.


Fig. 7: Did a quick running stitch against the edge of the underwire to keep the folded layers of padding tacked together.


Fig. 8: Whip stitched the folded padding to the underwire fabric.


Fig. 9: Put some darts in the satin to pull it taught and hide the alteration.

It takes a long time because of padding and the shape of the bra, there's several steps to complete. I think this would be a lot quicker with an unpadded half-cup or balconette.

 

Shiro eyeshadows are so great, Extermination from the FMA collection is the perfect shimmery natural color for me ^^

 

oh yeah you could just have colors based on the gems alone, Garnet, Ruby, Sapphire , Amethyst, Pearl, Lapis, Peridot, Jasper, Diamond Yellow, Diamond Blue, (Diamond) Rose Quartz (I mean wha coughcoughcoughjk)