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Video Game Costumes: Injustice II, Starfire Version II

Costumes

The second outfit of Starfire’s from the Injustice II video game was made to be worn in a warmer climate and was a fusion of a couple in-game designs that I took liberty of adding my own creativity to.

Materials used: textured spandex, lame, suede, vinyl, pu leather, eva foam, sew on gems

Items purchased: wig, shoes for inserting into covers, gems

Features a crop top and high waist bottoms. Sleeves have a cutout shoulder with vinyl insert. Open chest with faux collar donned with gems. Elbow length fingerless gloves have eva foam armor covered with lame fabric and faux leather that attach via velcro. Shoe covers are rather simple, like the gloves, and have the addition of eva foam armor.

Video Game Costumes: Injustice II, Starfire

Costumes

Details and complexity are what catch my eye when it comes to making a decision on whether or not to recreate a costume. Video games are on another platform as most of the time some parts of the costume are never visible. Construction becomes difficult to breakdown as well as determining how the remaining parts of the outfit are designed. Thus, Starfire comes into play. She has an expansive wardrobe within the game and her Blackfire gear set was the first of hers I was to make.

Materials used: spandex, lame, pu leather, suede, vinyl, resin, fabric paint, snap closures, acrylic plexiglass

Items purchased: Base boots for covers, acrylic plexiglass rounds, wig

This dual layered spandex bodysuit features heavily detailed sleeves and bodice of lame, faux leather, and vinyl. A wrap around bodice of lame fabric extends along the legs with elastic straps to prevent shifting. A hexagonal pattern is painted on the untextured areas of fabric. A single mounted resin gem resides over the abdomen. Features a removable collar with similar designs to the bodysuit, resin gems, and velcro in the rear for attachment and snaps to connect to suit. Boot covers were made for the shoes and feature a flared top, suede used for structure and to provide soles. Starbolts, the green plexiglass, were hand etched with a dremel tool and handles of plexiglass were cut and heated to snap into the discs, allowing them to be held at many angles.

Heroes & Villains Fan Fest Chicago/Rosemont 2019

Travel and Conventions

So I am a little late making a post about Heroes and Villains Chicago. For life is busy and full of surprises.

A couple weekends ago my friend, her sister and I traveled to Rosemont, IL and attended this convention. It is MUCH smaller than C2E2 and it was also a combined event with Walker Stalker Con, for the Walking Dead fans, so there were plenty of zombies. We were able to see every vendor within the first day, some a couple times over. But the best part of H&V is because it’s a smaller convention, lines to meet celebrities and artists were much shorter, allowing time to meet more people. Pricing was very reasonable as well.

We were beyond exhausted to attend the first day so we wore out casual cosplays for Saturday and wore our best ones for Sunday. I dressed as Sesshomaru and my friend Riley was Kara Danvers.

Our photographer friends from C2E2 were also at the convention and we snagged a few photos with them as well as doing our own photoshoots outside of the convention center.

There was a center live stage at the convention, aside from the panel stage, where they had guests performing, and where selected celebrities would have a mini panel with the fans. We listened to the fabulous Harp Twins and stuck around for Michael Rooker’s appearance. He was very much a ladies man and had smart-ass responses to questions and it was honestly hilarious. But of course he did have genuine responses for the right questions.

After we finished attending Rooker’s panel, we were famished and headed to Gibsons. This restaurant is a tourist hotspot for sure and we go every year we are in Rosemont. They are a little on the expensive side but it’s a treat we allow ourselves to indulge in once a year and I highly recommend making it part of your trip to eat there.

We finished eating, got ice cream at the mall a short walk away from our hotel, and headed to bed, ready for day two.

Sunday we already planned to not stay very long as I had said previously, we saw everything within the first day.

I dressed as my Injustice 2 Starfire and Riley donned Antiope once again. We packed and checked out of the hotel and made it to the convention to attend the Arrow panel. Afterwards I decided to buy a katana??? Gotta love those impulse con buys. Of course we were hungry again so after walking around for a little bit longer we snagged up some lunch and headed to our spot for another photoshoot, leaving soon after to return home.

I still have tons and tons of photos to go through and have fun editing but here are some I wanted to share anyways!

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