I'm moving this here from the other thread, it's from a post I made a few weeks ago:
So I was talking to my sister about cosplay. She cosplays Homestuck stuff because she's cool and doesn't live under an internet rock like me. And we had a conversation that was sorta like this:
Me: I've never cosplayed before
Her: Yes you have
Me: No. When?
Her: Remember when you had your phantom of the opera phase?
Me: Ohhhhhhhhhh yeeeaaaaahhhhh. Wait. That was cosplay?
Her: *facepalm*
When I was in 9th and 10th grade I was obsessed with the phantom of the opera. And I made my own costume out of various clothing we had lying around the house. I still have the cape, sometimes I still wear it around the house
A funny story about the mask: I had to cut it because it was a huge mask made for a male face, and so when I was cutting parts of it off to fit my face I got rid of the attachy thingies that were there before. And then I had no idea how to get it to stay on my face. The night before I had to wear it I started experimenting. At first I tried tape. Then I got more creative. I thought maybe it would be a Really Good Idea to use my purple silly putty to stick it to my face. So I did. And it worked. Very well. And I was walking around with it stuck to my face for about an hour. Then I had to take it off. It came off ok. The silly putty did not. Looking in the mirror, I realized I now had melted purple silly putty stuck in my entire right hairline. I spent the next
two hours pulling silly putty out of my hair. When I was done, my hairline was purple. The hair because it still had silly putty colour on it, the skin because it was bruised from me pulling on my hair for two straight hours. What can we learn from this? DO NOT STICK STUFF TO YOUR SKIN WITH SILLY PUTTY. EVER. In the end I found some clear fishing wire and tied it to my head, looping it through my hair so you couldn't see it. It was a MUCH BETTER solution.