I knew I had to make Gerudo Chief Riju’s hair the moment I saw it in #botw because Looooong. ;p Its an epic cosplay Athena (45") with an unbranded ebay lacefront spliced to it (I added a widows peak and sideburns again because Elf) some braiding hair (80" ebay kanekalon) and a pack of 35" wefts! There’s a BUNCH of tubular crinoline (aliexpress) as filler so its really lightweight and I’m VERY PROUD! There’s some progress pictures in highlights <3

The braid is a little sloppy BUT Im in a hurry :p (managing all the hair took soooo long and then styling took less than 2 days pffft) Later I will consider adding SOME more hair (its already too much guysssss this wig! is my height!) for smoother braid with more coverage cos there are a lot of gaps where I didnt stagger the wefts well and I crimped the hell out of it for volume of course. And I just want to make it more fancy in general. And THEN I want to make her headdress and probably a Thunderspear because its my favorite weapon in the game okurr

This year is my first DragonCon I’m so excitedddd! Will I wear it EVERY DAY probably I worked very hard on it ok

Spent months on this wig… made from a 24" blonde ebay lacefront, three packs of 35" weft extensions from epic cosplay (two platinum blonde and one peach blonde), and some wefts handmade from kanekalon braiding hair. Between work and school and burning out over and over all of my projects take a long time and most don’t get completed :( BUT I’m almost done with this baby and I’m wearing him to dragoncon yay

I made a highlight on my profile of my (mis)adventures in dyeing it for anyone curious about the custom colors. I airbrushed the ends with a little bit of pink and purple, which I am happy with for small areas. I wouldn’t airbrush a full wig because it changes the texture of the hair and I plan on wearing a white shirt with this because I’m a crazy person. Dye isn’t 100% transfer proof but it’s close and keeps the hair washable.

Nitpicking the hairline right now (needs more sideburns) and then I plan to make a ponytail as fluffy and massive as I can muster! The fun part is almost heeeere!!!!

Messin with some rainbow hair and rainbow tinsel. Four different sets of ombre brading hair found from trolling ebay which is my ultimate pastime :p these are actually experiments v2 and v3 Imma keep going until I find a blend I am happy with

I tripled the density of hair on this lacefront so it took a looooong time. BUT Im super happy with how fluffy it is without any product 8D

1. ventilated widows peak & sideburns added
2. trimmed bangs
3. micro crimped
4. rollers
5. heat set into a SWOOSH
6. combed out no teasing or hairspray!

floof!

super late to this hype train also its been ages since i stayed up super irresponsibly late to color something but it feels awesome (for now ;p ask me again at work in the morning 8|) 70s prom douchey elf wizard atcherservice

learning how to make things pretty with laser engraving :D

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wing posing test for the JUSTICE JETPACK gwaaaaad I’m excited

materials: foamcore board for the wings. sintra, pvc pipe, shelf brackets, nuts, bolts, angst, and a waist cincher. backplate is designed to bear weight entirely on the hips because sore shoulders are the WORST

first attempt at custom highlighter palette, went overboard with the red…

I learned a lot working on him… I don’t finish things much and then when I do perfectionism can still get the best of me UGH. I definitely added enough hair for hugeness! But my teasing skills arent up to snuff and it kept collapsing immediately queue sad deflating balloon noise 8C

Some problems I didn’t forsee with insistence on ponytail, he is heavyyyyyy which is an amplified problem when all of the weight is exactly at the back yanking head constantly backward. I didn’t add what seemed like THAT much extra hair (its basically 2 wigs worth) but like a dummy I forgot that LENGTH adds weight too. I think also trying to tease out hugeness from small origin point provides no base of support for the hair to stay huge.

I… don’t want to give myself a literal headache to wear it but I tried it on and it makes me feel SO! FUCKING! MAGICAL!!! BEAUTY IS PAIN

I have some ideas to make it huger AND a little tiny bit lighter but it means unstyling, washing, and ripping out some of the wefts which… I want to do because theres an entire can of hairspray in him and I think I can redo with less and avoid such a rough crunchtastic texture. I also want to put more tinsel in it :P

But that’ll be later cos I started on my next, even longer wig ;p

fairy experiment I guess?? jewelry wire, pantyhose egg, continuous rotation micro servo, ornithopter blueprints (not pictured :p).

one thing that has been holding me back from playing with animatronics was the fact that there are ZERO!! resources for hobbyists (theres stan winston school but I’m too broke for the courses aaand they dont have a handheld fairy class, lol) So I took my time to research everything orthogonally related (RC planes, hobby robots) and even got a mechanical engineering textbook lol

HEY LISTEN we’ll just see how it works out xD

experimental boot painting with purple/gold chameleon pigment from paintwithpearl mixed into leather studio clear gloss. Im sure much better results could be achieved with airbrush but I dont feel like it! I think Ill goose the effect a bit with interference orange on top…

pcb milling time! #othermill

destroying some jelly shoes for science!

working on a color based battery life indicator, just got the colors mapped to analog input yaaaaay

I’ve got the ongoing severe project ADHD where I sketch a rad idea and draft a pattern or two and start hoarding materials and then… float to the next shiny idea like a cartoon character following the scent of fresh-from-the-oven windowsill pie. :P

Screenfaced expressive robot is on costume bucket list, one evening on a whim I sketched them out on my headform and uUUgh I wanna make it but when will I?? Dunno. Need more LEDs.

I feel like I’m in work/school purgatory. I can’t manage full time school but it means I’m just gonna be in school for what feels like forEVER! AND I’m still so got damn tired. Came home from closing shift last nite, stayed up late panic studying for a programming test this morning, I DID OK ON THE TEST THO YEEEEAHBOOOOII, now I’m gonna pass out for a quick nap before work today fnghfgh ZZzzz.

I’m ok tho just a lil moody that I gotta take things so slowly and Im STILL exhausted by it. Still thinkin about the irony of persuing robotics/engineering education after getting kicked out of top robotics school over decade ago (mind you, arduino didn’t exist back then and hooooolymoly this stuff is so much easier now! wowowowow)

Programming still so hard tho UGH. But I stay motivated when I get ideas like above and know that I may actually have skills to make it real sooner rather than laterrrr