I just remembered that people thought I was working at the Hasbro booth. Thanks for posting the pic anime-bookworm!
Jem cosplayer say what??
This year at the San Diego Comic Con, I went as Jem and am so goshdarned proud of how my costume turned out, I’m posting it here.
I made the dress (I used Butterick 8342— a 3/4 sleeve bateau neck shirt— as a jumping off point for the pattern) + belt from scratch. Since I know very little about pattern making, I taped together a bunch of newspapers (instead of getting real pattern paper), drew stuff that kind of looked right & went from there.
The wig started out as this blonde “rocker” wig. Since some of the length was n’t very Jem, I cut off a few inches off the bottom & trimmed some of the bangs as well (which i don’t really think were short enough for authenticity’s sake, but I liked how it looked). Since Jem isn’t blonde, I found out how to dye the crappy plastic hairs of the wig (Youtube can be your best friend!) using acrylic ink + rubbing alcohol, et voila! Dying the wig was definitely the hardest part, because the dye solution kept dripping to the ends, away from the roots.
Not pictured are my Jemstar earrings, which i made from the cardboard of the shoebox my white pumps came in. I painted them with all sorts of paint & nailpolish, but I found that the red Sally hansen nail art pen was the PERFECT metallic red for these. Then i just hotglued the shapes to some posts that i never wore.
I was also able to knock this all out in a few days. So if you ever want to make a costume (or even just some bad ass item of clothing or jewelry or anything for yourself)— if you’ve got scissors, a vision, and a boat load of patience, then nothing should stop you!
