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Hazbin hotel part 2: Cosplay

 Hazbin hotel part 2: Cosplaytime!


All the best animated films have a dedicated fanbase, and among it cosplayers who in their part spread awareness of their object of admiration. You can tell that Hazbin Hotel is doing well when you search the characters and find a lot of fanart and cosplays. It's amazing how popular the pilot became in social media.

Because Halloween was approaching and I do love to make some cosplays here and there, I decided to make a costume and chose the main character Charlie from Hazbin hotel. She is very passionate, full of ideas and cheerful personality and I really relate to her a lot, so it felt like a fitting match. My dear friend Mona was also excited about the idea and decided to join to Hazbin hotel cosplay as Charlie's girlfriend Vaggie.

When the agreement was made, it was time to start research about the characters, especially of course about the outfits and what kind of solutions other cosplayers had found.


Charlie's look and outfit:



Vaggie's look and outfit:


So it is time to start the cosplay project! We ordered wigs and I bought Charlie's fabrics, buttons and other stuff that was needed. I already had a white shirt and black dress pants, but wanted to make the suit from the beginning.



When the wig arrived I made a fast makeup test and learned what to do and what not, it really helped me not to mess up the red cheeks again.



Then it was time to make the suit! I downloaded free pattern from moodfabrics called Ercilla suit. There is also a guided tutorial for it, and it was very helpful but sometimes a bit confusing.



Normally you would print the pattern, but my printer wasn't working and I didn't have the guts to go to library and print over sixty pages of pattern so I ended up drawing them trough my computer screen. Yep, you red that right. At that point I was actually still determined to make also the pants but my friend advised me not to, because I already owned similar ones.

"Fine! I don't make the damn pants!"


Charlie's suit is red from the outside and black from the inside, so I kind of had to make two suits. Starting from the cutting the fabrics.



Sewing the front and sides together.



Sewing fronts and backs together, after this only had to sew the sleeves and both sides of the suite together.



After that there is no pictures because we got really busy with the cosplays. We practically sewed and glued Mona's cosplay together at the preparty. Getting ready was super fun and when we finally were ready we went to meet our classmates, excited about our costumes.





The end :D











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