parfait prince ♔

FUCK YEAH.

All  I wanna say is… THANK GAWD I WASNT SICK.
And we prayed so hard it wouldnt rain (coz it was raining every single freaking day) and it really didnt rain!
BUT!!! It was 34 degrees out!!! RAWR. My feet were cooking in my boots X_x;;

For the first time I changed clothes at a random toilet (the one in the MRT) haha, usually I’m in costume already!
Met Rea at the toilet haha. It was funny coz I wasnt sure if I gotten the right toilet, so I was texting her while in the vicinity. And she was changing while I was texting haha. There were so many people using the restroom so kinda paiseh to talk over the cubicles haha.

Anyways I couldnt escape taking a cab as usual :( SIGH
We had some mishaps, with Ria forgetting to bring her socks! She only brought one hahaha!
We had to call for help!! AKA. YeeLong, one of our photographers haha.

He had to go down to Ngee Ann City to purchase a pair of socks.. .SO HILARIOUS.
Like some hentai jiji!!! Hahahaha!!! The saleslady looked at him funny apparently hahaa!

Anyways IT WAS BLAZING HOT! Rawrs!

I was half afraid no one was gonna turn up actually coz we shot this on April Fool’s day haha!

Photo: Yee Long

We had lots of stares and we walked the same places like 5 times I think?!! Haha just going back for shelter / mcd to wait for the sun to stop being annoying! Haha.

photo: Foo!

Anyways super thankful to everyone again (;A;)

Things I regret:
1. Not styling my wig properly wtf at my fringe :(
2. Not getting new boots haha. My boots were flaking!

Anyways more pictures on:
FACEBOOK
DEVIANTART

Rea had to go finish her work (>A<) so Foo, YL and I went to Liang court for foodie! Yumyum!

Out of cosplay!

Also gotten mephisto charm from Yee Long! Keke! Thanks! <3
Promise to treat Foo and YL after I get my first pay keke! (^_^)/

Oh dear, how long ago was this haha.
Anyways very grateful to Foo and Garion for agreeing to shoot!

I really love Inga, he’s silly, playful and eccentric. It was easy to get into character and pose.
However, not so much for the “crazy” looks Foo was expecting, sorry! Haha.

I also like adult version Inga, but I’m too lazy to cos that haha :X

Anyways, 2 days before the shoot, I decided suddenly, that i should sew a Kazamori plushie.
So I did..

And gawd was it ugly HAHA.

I made the ears too pointy and it become neko-like =_= , so I re-did the ears again.
Then even though I have 29480283482 buttons (I bought a button pack in Thailand years ago) I had no buttons to fit!!
So I bought wooden ones from daiso and painted them XD

My first time sewing a plushie ;A; so it had many errors, like, me closing the head too early and realising, OH SHIT FORGOT TO SEW THE MOUTH. Then I used thread so thin it’s like =_=

Anyways on the day of the shoot, I planned to take public transport in half my costume, but I left late and had mild food poisoning.
This is like the second time in a row for a shoot!
(First was Takasugi, then about 1-2 weeks later I shot Inga, and I gotten food poisoning again =_=)

I had to push back the shoot to an hour later coz my stomach felt so sick (@_@)

Then it rained! OH GAWD WHY.

We were gonna shoot at alleyways.. but arghhh…
Thankfully Foo had his car back so we sat down thinking of where else to go to.
We couldn’t go to many places coz there was no shelter and the photographers didnt bring any lights (x_x);;

I couldn’t do the scenes I wanted! I bought chalk to draw on the floor like a crime scene. Sobs.

Anyways we found a good place to get some light at least haha!!

SEE MORE PICTURES HERE: 
ON FACEBOOK 
ON DEVIANTART 

So far only Foo’s coz Garion hasn’t passed me any (X_X)

After the fast shoot, we wanted to go crash Yeelong’s shoot at the botantic gardens but alas, he canceled his shoot coz it was raining big time there.

So we met at Plaza Sing for dinner! With tenjin too~
Then I went to play gachapon! AGAIN!
The previous night, after going to hort park, we went there too, and I gotten a Gintoki charm.
I tried my luck again … and.. GINTOKI AGAIN!! WAEEEE?!!!
I love you Gintoki, but I wanted Takasugi!!

Initially, I gave it to Foo/YL.

Then we went to the upper levels to play gachapon AGAIN!
I gotten Kagura! And Foo got Hijikata, so we changed! haha.
YAY!
Then later, Foo gave me his Okita since I gave him Gintoki.
XDD
Yay! Good trade!
So thankful keke!
When it got later, Foo sent us home! Whee! Thank you!!

All in all, happy day despite being upset about the rain and my food poisoning (X_x)

Will update next about my Panty & Stocking photoshoot.
Hurhur.

Shot this about 2 weeks back!
Finally, my Takasugi cosplay gets an official debut haha!
I did the cos-test so long ago (@_@) And I cosplayed him to be featured in my childhood friend’s uni project about identity and cosplay.
I heard she got an A!! ヾ(*´∀｀*)ﾉ
I’m always happy to help for such projects if you are sincere and nice about it!
I talk ALOT during interviews and I know how difficult it is to get the statements you would need, so please feel free to look for me if you need help in your project about cosplay haha!

Anyways, this was my first studio shoot!
I never really fancied the idea of studio shoots and it never crossed my mind, but my wonderful friend, Yee Long, has an amazing portfolio of cosplay shoots taken at his home haha. Please see it here! So I was willingly to give a studio shoot a shot!

This is by far, the MOST COMFORTABLE SHOOT EVER. Hahaha!
Reason being, we took our time doing everything and I sat down on a chair 90% of the time when not shooting haha!
And there was aircon! BANZAI! (｡･ω･)ﾉﾞ

^ My favourite picture!
Alot of people on deviantart have been asking me how did the butterflies turn out so nice?
The answer is:
1) Yee Long is fucking amazing with lighting
2) These are iron-on butterflies

In reality, this outfit reminds me of a brinjal with golden butterfly stickers plastered all over it haha.

Had so much fun laughing coz the lighting which was peach-coloured made some photos look fluffy.
In other instances, the photo looked like a scene in a brothel.
Although the idea of Takasugi in a brothel wouldn’t be so far-fetched.

Also the katana photos was a pain!
The first few shots were great but we realised the scabbard (or saya) was in the picture and it made the whole pic look kinda awkward haha. So we took the saya off and begun trying to get the same pose and angle all over again haha!
Pretty hilarious though.

The katana is heavy as hell! It’s an actual katana apparently?
So man… it was heavy like (*#$(*@*&* haha.

OH gawd and the licking sword photos (which turned out really fucking hilarious) !!! I never laughed so hard at a shoot before HAHAHAA. Omg thinking about it makes me laugh like mad. I totally killed the image of Takasugi right there and then. It was really “Bakasugi” hahaa!

You can see the whole set of pics including my camwhore pics on FaceBook! 

After the shoot:

Finally gotten a stool in there, and I laid there like a dead fish while Yee Long went around to tidy up haha.
How come I look so thin here? D8:

Camwhoring with Yee Long and what “Bakasugi would look like” :

Every shoot, I would definitely have regrets! Because I have a perfectionist mentality when it comes to cosplay haha!
So what I regret this time would be: MAKEUP!!!! I think I could have done a better job ! (＞人＜;)
Somehow I didn’t do the kind of makeup I was aiming for, like in my cos-tests!

I think the whole problem was I didn’t draw my double eyelid higher.. and I didn’t line my whole eye (.___.)

But the photos came out great so I can safely put a “DONE” stamp for this character haha!
Also I would have really liked it if Yee Long liquified me so I look thinner HAHAHAHA!
None of my photos were liquified!!! D8 What horror is this hahahaahahah!
Kidding! But for non-liquified photos, I think these are fantastic!
Goes to show that camera angles are important!
Get it right and you never have to PS your photo haha!

Thanks Yee Long, for always shooting for me since my Ciel cosplay, for listening to me whine about my nose HAHA and bitch about 29849283482942 other things.
And for understanding that my vulgarity is a part of me and how much I love little girls. HAHAHAHA!
Anyways, I’m selling this outfit and wig! Please go check it out on SGCafe! 

I’m also going to be shooting Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt in April!
Can’t wait!!! (*´ω`*)

I also hope to shoot other cosplays soon:
1. Konan! Waiting for Rhoda (╥﹏╥)
2. Alois! Gotten everything ready, just figuring out locations to shoot…
3. Inga! The panda hat is taking up a lot of closet space (X_x);;
4. Date masamune (but i need to do a cos test first D8)

I also opened a Star Driver team (specifically for the Glittering Crux Brigade) for Cosfest 2012:

If you are Singaporean or are coming to Cosfest, I warmly invite you to join us!
I’ll be as the President! Secretary has been taken! I’m looking for Banker and the other members!
Visit SGCafe to apply if not please leave me a comment or something!  (♡´◡`♡)””

Ahh… my plan for BGS failed again.

I was really upset .. arghwqgdjhajd.
So I pulled out a Kagura cos out of my closet.
In fact I have a few costumes just sitting in my closet collecting dust D8

Went to meet BRS team mates and caught up!
Because Ning and I didn’t finish the cos, we had to do a punishment… (invented by yours truly, coz I was so confident I would make it >_>) so we spent our cosfest time carrying out our punishment (X_x)

With Ning~

Also met YL and Garion (FINALLY) ahha

Hmmmm what can I say about Cosfest…
It was HOT HOT HOT HOT!!!! Like madness.

In the tent area, it was equally hot! And stuffy!!! It was like the air conditioning wasn’t working.
Actually, I’m pretty certain there was no air conditioning at all (X_x);;
It was only then I was half thankful I didn’t do BGS… I would be sweating buckets.

Decided to forgo day 2 because of that!!

Anyways some pics:

Picture credits: The cosplay chronicle

Picture credits: Lawrence Yin

After suffering in the heat, went to take purikura with our BRS team! =3=
It was free purikura, because when we put in coins, the machine didn’t work so when Ning pressed the lever to get back our coins, we got back $8! D8

After that, I went to bum around in their chalet =3=
We had a lot of fun talking and laughing! Keke! =3= Gotta love these peeps !!!

Anddddd… that’s it for today.
I have no mood to blog recently @_@;; Heh… ._.

Until next time~!

… but this is just a test WAHAHA.

It was a bit difficult because I had only one hand to click shift and the mousepad on photobooth haha.
Plus I only had one eye!! Haha. This is my set of 25 Inga expressions. If it was just myself, this would be a whole diff set of photos. I think being in character is something important when it comes to cosplaying. It’s not only just about the costume you don on ://

See bigger version here: http://parfaitouji-nariko.deviantart.com/#/d4lkpcz 

Going to change some things with the makeup.. mainly the lower lashes !
And also the wig needs to be styled even more.

Hope to do a shoot for this soon!

Also I finally styled my Konan wig. HIPHIPHURRAH.
Just need to fix on the flower, get me some scandals and I’m done babeh.
Oh wait, and organise a shoot haha.

I feel so super fail because I havent been working for 2 months but I havent done ANY shoots at all ORZ
Blame my epic laziness haha.

First more Panty & Stocking:

Photo: Eileen Seah

Photo: Sweemin Hyuuga

Okkkkk so…
On Sunday, I was supposed to go as BGS, but the plan fell through when my knee guards fell apart (;A;)
Seriously thanks Yee Long for listening to me being upset the whole morning !!

Our group of 6 dwindled down to only 1 person! Cherilyn!
My gawd! She was so impressive seriously! AND SO SO CUTE!! (*______*) *squeal*
Seriously wanted to go down on my knees and beg for forgiveness for failing her.

Anyways I decided to pull out my male DOLLS uniform from the abyss that is my closet.
Quickly slapping on a different makeup and all the small lil accessories, I was ready to go!

Met YL who thankfully decided to change his mind, and go for the event with awesome flash!
I helped to test the lighting test and it’s seriously the best picture ever HAHAH!

Later we went to Level 6 for a short “shoot” :

OMAKE, coz it was a lighting test again:

MONKEY FACE OH YEAH!

Later we met Ning, Bren, Shawn, Jerome (I think??) etc~
We went to help saikang a bit for Cherilyn too!

Also met Chad from supermerlion who was covering AFA ~
Went around the area, met some more colleagues etc~
We happened to walk by the AKB shop and the 2 AKB girls were working there~

Had awesome muffin delivery from Ning!
And also badges from Shawn! WOOT!

We helped saikang a bit for Cherilyn!
Took omake shots:

I realised there was this weird dude behind us over dinner, then stupid YL went to brighten that dude’s face!
As such the pic looks like that ^ (.__.);;

Didn’t camwhore with everyone else though *sobs*
Wasn’t in my best mood after the failure of today’s cosplay!

Saw pretty impressive cosplays and some really sad ones :/
Also saw crazy fans dancing around on 1 of the levels… freaked me out man.. :/
haha.

Supported Shawn etc on NND!
All the comments were so cute!
But before that, angela suddenly came on NND too!
Right infront of us! <3 I don’t know much about them but they were SERIOUSLY cute!!!
After angela came on, Kaname and Usagi came on too!
Gotta give kudos to Kaname for being in character all the time! Maybe that’s why he is so popular haha.
Usagi is just so freaking skinny! D8 When she was sucking in her tummy stretching, I could see all her ribs man!
When she smiled at us whoa,super dokidoki! But I’m not a huge fan of her yet.

After that, off! Off to dinner finally with Nicole, Christopher and Shane~
By this time, my feet = WANT TO DIE!
We went to Ootoya~ Yeah!
Created more memories / traumatising moments with everyone haha~!

Didn’t change out of my costume before dinner, so I was stripping in the restaurant HAHA!
While waiting for mum, I decided not to shock her and went to change after bumping into Chad and crew again~ haha.

And whilst carrying my jacket, someone asked if my uniform is from the Chinese military.
I’m like “WTF?!!!” and he gave me this really shit-faced look of disgust.
zzzz.

All in all, I think it was a good day although I felt like utter crap in the morning for failing (T_T)
We should be shooting in December! So please watch out for photos then!
This time all SIX of us will show up!
I’m going to use this time to cut my boots shorter, re-do my horns and knee guards (T___T)

I’m too lazy to blog about AFA!
So I’ll split it into 2 posts ! Haha.

Day 2: Saturday!
I keep calling it Day 1, but WHATEVER.

Was super late in meeting my partner, Yui-chan, who was my Stocking !
(T_T)
I’m so sorry! So many complications came up! Including an annoying younger brother!

My parents sent me to the event yeah!
They were actually not very pleased with my cosplay haha. I don’t blame them.
What was embarrassing was that my grandma came to my place this morning ORZ
But she didn’t say much and said that I looked like a foreigner ! Haha! PHEW!

Finally reached at about 12.45?
With Yui:

Yui chan was really nice and waited for me before going into the event hall (>_<)

I called Calvin to get my complimentary ticket!
KECHI! Apparently he couldn’t get me more tickets (T^T)
But super thanks Calvin!!

We went around the event hall and were swamped by so many photographers!

I saw soooooo many of my ex-colleagues too!
It was great!
Some of them couldn’t recognise me at all! Haha.

I also met my president ORZ how embarrassing ! haha.

But here is my VERY VERY nice colleague!
He was taking care of LiSA!!!

Because Yui is a fan of Kaname, I went around asking everyone if they knew where he was, Otsuki-san dragged both of us to the backstage holding area DDDDDD8 to look for him but kaname was no where to be found!!

But thank you so much for the effort Otsuki-san! m(___)m

I also met a lot of weird perverts at AFA2011.
But I’m not going to complain cause it’s kinda “asking for it” in some way when you’re dressed like that?

But WTF fella, blatantly hitting on me while staring at my boobs ain’t earning you much points ! (even though you were kinda cute)

We were also invited to go on JapanCon TV!
Koike-san was also there ! Haha.

Then later we were pressured to go onto Nico Nico Douga live stream!
It was funny! Thank you everyone for their kind and warm comments when we were on!
I’ve seen other live streams, and the comments weren’t nice at all!
We had a lot of marriage proposals and what not haha! Thank you so much!
Someone asked us to turn around also!
I’m like huh?! haha.
But we did it anyway!

The NND hosts kept misunderstanding us!
One of thme said “Oh, Pantry and stocking?”
I made a funny story with Yui ~
I’m Pantry and she is the Kopi Sock HAHA!

Left to meet Yee Long, Foo and Rhoda!

Here’s smexy Rhoda:

She had this really funny old man come up to her to talk about ancient Japan and what not! Haha!
Seriously hilarious!!
He was a weird fart seriously.
I could see how hard Rhoda was tolerating to not smack him.

And when he took a pic with us.. SI RHODA TOOK TWICE!
I had to stand there with his hand on my bare back for so long omggggg ORZ

More pic spam!:

Photo by : Test Fire Zone 
Really like this pic for some reason!

Photo by: Ah Foo!
Thanks! I love this pic too!

Photo by: Yee Long 

Finally full body:

Photo by: Mario Chua

I also took a pic with Beel-bo!!!!!! KYA!
SO MANY people had the beelzebub paper bag and I wanted it too!
Just didn’t know where to get it!
I finally asked a nice person who had taken a photo of us and they told us to just take a pic with Beel-bo~
So we queued for it like excited girls! (OK maybe it’s just me? haha)

Beel-bo was so cute!
After taking a photo, he kept asking for my number hahah!
However, WHERE IS THAT PICTURE D8
I really want it! I hope Animax posts it up! Pls pls pls! (T__T)

Actually throughout AFA, half the time I felt like a mascot person haha!
Because so many people took a pic with us and there was like a queue hahaa! But I’m very flattered!
Sometimes though, we were too tired and wanted to slip away without making eye contact… to no avail D8

After Yui left, I went another round to say goodbye to my colleagues ~ Spent a great deal talking to them keke~
Didn’t take many photos though (.___.);;

Then met Foo and Yee Long for TCC dinner~
Found out that my Rilakkuma ghost charm was disfigured!
I’m so sad (T_T)
But oh well (.___.);; SIGH.
I think I can finally say I’m happy with my cosplay of a girl.. HAHA!
And also recently I don’t feel like my standard is up to par, so yeah, I felt good about Panty (^_^);;
I can’t wait for a private shoot!!

I know a lot of people didn’t think AFA was fun, but it’s all about the experience really and who you were with?
:33333
Will blog about the last day tomorrow~

If anyone has more pictures of us, please let me know! Even if it’s pics of us and someone else~~~~ (^3^)

My BGS sword~ Unwrapped!
Did a touch-up of the paint job today…

Chopped like half of my wig D8
Too fucking lazy to try it back on.. so I’m just crossing my fingers that it would be ok!

I also did a makeup cos-test for Panty as I was planning to chop the wig…

But realised it suited me perfect, so no need to cut 8D
I know you must be thinking, WOW, U’RE SO VULGAR!
Panty IS a vulgar character. That’s why I fucking love her haha.
I just hope I stay in character tomorrow.
Will try not to flash the finger when there’s kids.

To be honest…
I think if you don’t watch the series, you might think I’m some kind of kinky hooker in a police outfit. HAHA.
Not sure how my parents are going to let me out of the house tomorrow. Haha.
I only requested transport for Sunday coz of the fucking sword!
Hope they just quickly leave the house early tomorrow!

Actually if I see my ex-colleagues tomorrow, I might be super paiseh haha!!

My ex-colleague thought I dyed my hair… (=A=)

DID NOT!
Haha. My hair is in a fucking mess though damnnn!
Gotta get it fixed!