Yuki Onna / 及川 氷麗 l Tsurara Oikawa Photoshoot ❤ Nurarihyon no Mago [ ぬらりひょんの孫 ]

Hello ~ 

A while ago, I have a 1 week long holiday and I've decided to (finally, urgh ) take a look at my OLD Yuki Onna shoot folder. Which was done ages ago T__T (sorry Ee-chan and Wen-chan - despite all of your hard work , it really took me a while to sieve through it and decide which one are representative enough of Tsurara T__T ) 

For those of you who are not familiar with the series and character, here's an introductory ;D 

The series is  

Nurarihyon no Mago [ ぬらりひょんの孫 ]

And the character I cosplayed is Tsurara :3

Why her ? Why the series ? 

Because I friggin love her character design and I really really loved youkai stories x'D !! Speaking of which, Nurarihyon is a pretty good one ;) I've always loved youkai animes/mangas since I was introduced to anime. Afterall, my first DECENT , more serious/adult themed anime (not counting doraemon, sailormoon, wedding peach, conan etc) is InuYasha :3 after that, moving on to anime with more traditional/ youkai-nmyouji themes are just pretty much an enjoyable experience ^^ I find youkai manga enticing for reasons I cant explain myself - maybe its the story ? the mythical theme ? But yup - Anything from Natsume Yuujinchou, Akaya Akashiya Ayakashi no ,  Black Bird , and many many more are a pretty fun read :3

Also , I'm not sure why but so far , I noticed that I really like more traditional-ish costumes compared to brighter flashier modern costumes. Lookingback, I really loved my senbonzakura and yukata-based costumes >,< !! 

Speaking of Tsurara , finding and deciding on her lenses was .... torturous :(

The reason being, her eyes are bright yellow in colour in her youkai form , and dark blue in her non-youkai form (she's still a youkai, but she's per say not in 'attack-mode'  I guess) . What makes thing difficult is the pattern. Her eyes have this hypnotic circular pattern to it. Initially, I've ordered this pair of yellow lens because the yellow is striking enough for it to be visible in a distance and the black limbus does give sufficient enlarging effects. 

Then after getting those lenses

, I actually found one lens with more accurate pattern QAQ;

At first, I was super happy , because it wasnt easy to find exact replica of the lenses. But then after finding reviews and thinking for a while I realized that there may be a few problems with the lenses . There are so many rings on the left lens such that it wont show on pictures unless a close up is done. But for the right lens, the pattern is actually pretty close and the only thing I have about it is the lack of limbus and the fact that it has a smaller diameter and no limbus and thus may not be as big as the first yellow lens. I was torn to death on deciding whether I should get this lens. 

Although in the end , after I weighed in the fact that the yellow is more visible in the first lens ( after digging for a review from sb who bought the spiral lens and mentioned that the yellow is not so visible from a distance and the pattern is not even close to noticeable from a few metres T___T ) and counting in budget and schedule crunch  T___T I've decided to go through with the photoshoot with the first lens first... *cryingariver* *cryingtearsofblood*. 

(sorry for the poor cos photo quality ^^ photo above is not processed and its just a selfie that I thought was nicely taken hehehe so I decided to upload it although its not exactly relevant to the cos series . And because I was BROKE OTL... I made the hair accessories from scraps I have hoarded, painted it and attched hair pins on the bottom side :3 --> as you can see OTL... *poorstudent*) 

Would have loved to have a shoot at a Japanese house / venue T__T 

Its sad because I have not found such a place yet T_T

(I want to fly to Japan and do a shoot there QnQ)

Anyway, here are some of the final shots which I think are nicer >,< 

I havent seen through all the photos yet (sorry , took quite a lot ) 

so I'll be uploading at snail's pace over time hahaha ^^"""

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placed myself at a super awkward angle here and the hair was such a horrible thing to manage. Thanks to my lil sis who help prop my head before I lie down so the hair is not as messy as it could have been =A="" believe it or not my feet was like dangling weirdly off the platform OTL

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Anyway ,I'm really dying to do a shoot for Tsurara's blue eyed school version and a proper outdoor shoot if possible - am looking for the right time to do it as of now *sigh* Hope I'll be free soon enough else my cosplans are just going to pile up T_T Sometimes I cant even remember what did I buy a specific type of cloth for *sigh* 

Yup thats it for today :3 

To everyone who have supported and helped me through this photoshoot, thank you very much !! I'll continue to try my best so that I can improve !! 

 Ciao ❤

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Angel Beats _ Tachibana Kanade 立華 ( Tenshii ) / Angel Cosplay Photoshoot

Hello~~~ 

Today I'm going to write a short post about one of my recent Cosplay Photo Shoot :3 

Series : Angel Beats! エンジェルビーツ! 

Character : Tachibana Kanade 立華奏(Tenshi) / Angel

Here's how kanade (also called Tenshii/Angel )  looks like ^^ 

A challenge from the start OTL 

Since Im not as pale as her .. and in the illustration, she always almost have this ridiculous amount of "light" around her O3O which makes her doubly pale !!!! OTL OTL

Pictures from google image

See how dark my skin looks under the building canopy's shadow + contrasted by the CRAZY light wig ??? When I was in my room , looking at myself in the mirror, it wasnt this contrasted OTL... It was a bad day already , it was really sunny at first !!! THEN, it started to RAIN !!!! =_="" right before I have to shoot the sunflower illustration ver. OTL...

 

But in the end, I had a lot of fun and learnt some new things again too :3 

We have to experiment a lot with flash and lighting UNTIL we get an acceptable skin tone !! :D Ee-chan and I was arguing all the time about the lighting not being good, which angle will be good , and got quite annoyed when the poses we wanted to take turn out difficult to take because of the lack of lighting OTL... But in the end, at least , we managed to get some decent shots , so here they are :3 

Without further adue, the first successful shot of the day of the shoot xD!!!

「”まるで悪役ね。。。”」

「”もう来る気がした 

幾千の朝を越え　

新しい陽が

待ってる気がした

呼んでる気がしたんだ 。。。”」

「”聞こえた気がした 

感じた気がしたんだ 

震え出す今この胸で 

もう来る気がした 

幾億の星が消え去ってくのを 

見送った

手を振った

よかったね、と 。。。”」

Also cosed Kanade's reincarnated version :3 

But in the end, havent manage to sieve through this version's folder yet :( 
Have to find some more free time first ^^"" Thus this below is the only one I have for now :(( 

Haix... 

This shoot's main trouble is really the freaking skin tone >,<

I guess if you have proper equipment/studio/awesome expensive flash it will be easier but since Ee-chan and I were working with what camera we have, we have to find a suitable angle and lighting TxT 

Was super fun though ^^ 

(will be planning more extensively if Im doing light haired characters next time 

wahahahaha xD) 

Meanwhile, I have to rush back to my work again >,<

Have an exam next week >,<

Hope I have the free time to blog about other things soon .... Aih..

Bye Bye ~~~