Sailor Moon Cosplay pt 2

It's only been 16 days into January and already preparation for the Sailor Moon cosplay is underway. I have been reading up on wig tutorials and found two great websites to use for reference. The wig tutorials will help in the creation of wigs for all three girls. I started with the wigs because I have no doubt  that making the actual costumes will be a problem. I am, however, not too crafty with wigs.
That tutorial was found here at HezaChan which was found through Cosplay Tutorial. Below are pictures from both websites. Instruction are not included, so if you'd like to learn how to do this step by step check out the links provided.

A Wig Tutorial Break Down and Commentary

Both tutorials had similar instructions of taking wefted wigs, pinning them to a foam head, straightening the hair if curly, then stubbing them and finally putting clear caulk around and on the top of the stubs to get them hard and sealed (shown to the right.)

They had to be tight and sealed off before they could be removed to create the stubs. The subs would later be used to hold the odangos and the puffy pigtails in the finished product.

(Although the hair here is pink, the same process can be used to create Serena's hair style, seeing as Serena, Rini, and Chibi Chibi have the same hair styles with a slight difference.)

The next step of creating odangos was a bit tricky. Taking styrofoam balls of the right shape, cut a small hole though the body of the ball and them hollow it out. This proves to be hard. Hollowing it out to big makes the ogando an odd shape and makes it weird when you sit it on your stubs. So I found taking your time to be valuable. Don't rush or you'll find yourself redoing odango after odango.

After that taking a bit of hair, tie a bit of  it off, caulk around the stub and stick it into the styrofoam. (shown to the left.) Using left over hair or extensions of the same color, wrap around styrofoam ball to create the odango look. This was tricky too, because hair strands kept pulling out. I assumed that I didn't caulk off enough of the stub. So, what I've learned is to get inside the hair as well. Get it nice and hard and firm (That's what he said.) Even use more than one rubber band to tie off the end. Extra precautions. Also using hairspray worked wonders to keep the hair, glued down.

In the end, the odangos ending up looking like hair buns and the overall effect was lovely.

Setting aside the odangos, I now worked on the long pigtails. I used the hair I had cut off from the wig and looped it around the stub. (shown to the left) It got a little bit difficult, seeing as there was over 54" of hair to wrap around with a rubber band. And then (thanks to my odango fail) I used more than one rubber band to make sure it wasn't going to slide off. Then I carefully glued (the easiest step) the odangos to the subs and made sure to cover up the extensions and anything else that would give away just HOW this wig was made. To give Serena's hair a bit of depth, I teased it. At first I had teased too much and she ended up looking like a blonde Hatsune Miku. Teasing was just brushing from the bottom up and then spraying and detangling with my fingers. In the end, the wig came out looking fantastic and the 2012 sisters and 0104 loved wearing the finished product. 

Styrofoam balls for Serena was purchased at Dollarama. A more triangular shape styrofoam was found at Walmart and a heart shaped styrofoam ball was created using three balls bought from Dollarama as well.