Back again!
This time around I will tell you about my latest work on a costume for BoA dance cover.
A month a go I joined in a Japan Dance cover competition in Surabaya called Chocodays 2014. The competition held in Ciputra World mall on 13-15 December. I decided to cover Shout it Out, a song from BoA because I love the song very much. The song is cheerful and happy. but the main reason I chose this song was because Rino Nakasone, my favorite dancer/choreographer, was the choreographer of this fun song!
The choreograph was tricky, fun, hard yet beautiful, but the other fun part of the dance cover was about the costume. One of the most important rule of dance cover is the costume cover. We have to make it exactly like the video we cover. People love so much when they see a performance that is really look like the "real" thing. They want to feel like they were in a concert. So we had to make a deal with the costume. Not just the costume, even the hair makeup and accessorizing must look alike.
First, take a look at the MV from BoA's Shout it Out click here
There are 2 sets of costume: The All black costume and the street costume.
For BoA Costume:
I decided to take the Street one instead of the black costume. Because the black costume items were harder to make. I didn't have the pants and I thought it was harder to make it. The tanktop and the beanie hat also. The thing was I couldn't make them all!
Then I tried to browse on the internet about BoA street costume. There was a picture shows the original design of BoA's Jacket from Fig and Viper brand and It costs thousands yen! Clearly, buying the jacket wasn't a good solution for my problem. But the basic top and pants BoA wears were easier to find than the all black costume. If the only problem I found was the jacket, then I decided to make the jacket instead of making the top, pants, and hat for the all black costume.
The jacket consists of various colors: black, tosca, blue, yellow, red, and white. I had a problem choosing the fabric. Because it costs so much for the real jacket fabric. So I chose the fake one. Cheap satin. Wasn't a wise choice, I know. At first I regreted it because satin was to shinny. It makes my garment looks cheaper. But I already spent so much for 6 colors of satin fabrics, so I didn't have much choice, I had to make it work!
I was a lazy person, so building a jacket from zero will be a big-serious-problem. Instead of cutting fabric and making it from zero, I decided to buy a second hand jacket. A black jacket with silver zipper. And thank God I found the jacket that I wanted. Next thing was to cover the black jacket with the satin fabric in the exact same pattern as the real jacket design.
That was the work. The real WORK.
The harder part was the sleeves. I had to cut the sleeves open, covered them, and sew them all together again.
But the result is quite satisfying.
Look cheap. But look good from a far.
For the top, I was using my turtle neck top. Actually BoA's top was a turtle neck tank top, but I chose to cover my sleeves (and some part of my stomach, of course). For the pants, I had to sew 2 line of white ribbon in the side of my black pants to make it look like BoA's jersey pants. I wanted to buy black jersey pants but trust me, my feet were to small and all the jerseys were sooo big. I tried to borrow from my friends to, but they were ill-fit too. So, I had to remake my pants. And Voila!
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For Hair/Makeup
My hair was too short for high ponny tail, so I used hair clip to extend it.
For makeup, I did smokey-type.
So, how do I look?
Next, I will talk about the BoA's back dancer costume and accessories, especially for Aya Sato's.
See you on the next post!
(PS. I'm sorry for the bad image quality and bad english :p)
This time around I will tell you about my latest work on a costume for BoA dance cover.
A month a go I joined in a Japan Dance cover competition in Surabaya called Chocodays 2014. The competition held in Ciputra World mall on 13-15 December. I decided to cover Shout it Out, a song from BoA because I love the song very much. The song is cheerful and happy. but the main reason I chose this song was because Rino Nakasone, my favorite dancer/choreographer, was the choreographer of this fun song!
Rino Nakasone, BoA, and the [Shout it Out] crew
(source:google.com)
The choreograph was tricky, fun, hard yet beautiful, but the other fun part of the dance cover was about the costume. One of the most important rule of dance cover is the costume cover. We have to make it exactly like the video we cover. People love so much when they see a performance that is really look like the "real" thing. They want to feel like they were in a concert. So we had to make a deal with the costume. Not just the costume, even the hair makeup and accessorizing must look alike.
First, take a look at the MV from BoA's Shout it Out click here
There are 2 sets of costume: The All black costume and the street costume.
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| Street style costume (source: google.com) |
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| All-black costume (source: google.com) |
For BoA Costume:
I decided to take the Street one instead of the black costume. Because the black costume items were harder to make. I didn't have the pants and I thought it was harder to make it. The tanktop and the beanie hat also. The thing was I couldn't make them all!
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| (source: google.com) |
Then I tried to browse on the internet about BoA street costume. There was a picture shows the original design of BoA's Jacket from Fig and Viper brand and It costs thousands yen! Clearly, buying the jacket wasn't a good solution for my problem. But the basic top and pants BoA wears were easier to find than the all black costume. If the only problem I found was the jacket, then I decided to make the jacket instead of making the top, pants, and hat for the all black costume.
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| (source: google.com) |
The jacket consists of various colors: black, tosca, blue, yellow, red, and white. I had a problem choosing the fabric. Because it costs so much for the real jacket fabric. So I chose the fake one. Cheap satin. Wasn't a wise choice, I know. At first I regreted it because satin was to shinny. It makes my garment looks cheaper. But I already spent so much for 6 colors of satin fabrics, so I didn't have much choice, I had to make it work!
I was a lazy person, so building a jacket from zero will be a big-serious-problem. Instead of cutting fabric and making it from zero, I decided to buy a second hand jacket. A black jacket with silver zipper. And thank God I found the jacket that I wanted. Next thing was to cover the black jacket with the satin fabric in the exact same pattern as the real jacket design.
Second hand jacket. Covered in red satin
That was the work. The real WORK.
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| Half-done work |
The harder part was the sleeves. I had to cut the sleeves open, covered them, and sew them all together again.
But the result is quite satisfying.
Shinny-shinny satin. Closer look.
Look cheap. But look good from a far.
Diamonds team with our trophy (left) My sister as Aya Sato and Me as BoA from Shout it Out MV (right)
with Sara~ Tousa Bao world class Cosplayer from Singapore, our judge, dress as Hiro Hamada of Big Hero 6
look at our performance: BoA's Only One (japan vers.) and Shout it Out
For the top, I was using my turtle neck top. Actually BoA's top was a turtle neck tank top, but I chose to cover my sleeves (and some part of my stomach, of course). For the pants, I had to sew 2 line of white ribbon in the side of my black pants to make it look like BoA's jersey pants. I wanted to buy black jersey pants but trust me, my feet were to small and all the jerseys were sooo big. I tried to borrow from my friends to, but they were ill-fit too. So, I had to remake my pants. And Voila!
For Hair/MakeupMy hair was too short for high ponny tail, so I used hair clip to extend it.
For makeup, I did smokey-type.
So, how do I look?
Next, I will talk about the BoA's back dancer costume and accessories, especially for Aya Sato's.
See you on the next post!
(PS. I'm sorry for the bad image quality and bad english :p)
It has been almost a year since the last post I made! wow, how unproductive I am... --;
but here I am, I want to represent my latest work of art!
So, I went to my bestfriend wedding last Saturday, to me, the event was special, because it was my bestfriend's, so I thought I should wear something special too. And I thought it was the right moment to show off who I really am. To show my work of art. To show my passion and to show what I am capable of beside studying medicine :p
Let me show you my look on the weeding reception I went to:
I will tell you what makes my look so special to me.
1. A HANDMADE DRESS
Yeay! For the first time I managed to make a dress using brocade fabric which is so hard and tricky to work with! My other friends were using the fabric to make conventional Kebaya (Javanesse traditional woman clothes), but I tried to make it looks different, so I didn't make conventional Kebaya, but I made some different style. Let me show you the detail of the dress.
Basically it was peplum dress. You can see the peplum skirt in the picture above. I combined it with wide-sleeves and high collar. If you see it closely, you will find that the collar is messy. It is messy, because I made it just the day before the wedding day. The back part also, it was a messy work, because I made it in a rush (because I had my psychiatric exam coming up that week). But overall I really like the look I made in a very short period of time. As you can see, I'm just a med student, I don't have a real competency to work as a tailor :D but I really like how it turns out to be even if it's far from perfection :p
It was my first time too to sew a pattern on a tile fabric (see the detail in my chest). I have to cut the pattern from the brocade fabric, and sew it on tile so it looks like the original brocade. I wasn't sure about my work at first, but when I started to like it gradually. And finally, I found my confident to wear my work of art!
Below the dress, I was wearing Sogan Batik skirt. My mom and I picked the pattern. I think it suits the dress very well.
2. MY OWN MAKE UP DO
I really want to challenged my self on this thing. So I did my own makeup using my standard and basic makeup kit. I wasn't using the top recommended makeup kit to do this look, but I really satisfied. Here are the looks:
I used my favorite foundation from Kryolan and face powder from Wardah in Light Beige. Eyebrows using Brown natural brow pencil from SilkyGirl. Eyeshadow, blush on and shading by Sariayu. I was using 3 colors: gold, green, and black (and of course white for eyebrow bone). I even used a very cheap eyeprimer by VivaQueen, but it turned out to be fair enough, I mean, not too bad. I used a cheap gel liner from Pixy too, but they worked fair enough too. I used Maybelline lipstick, Summer sunset shade. And of course, falsies ;)
The only thing I didn't do my self was my hair-do. I can't make any hair-do by myself!
AND, that was it! Those two things were the reason why I felt special for my bestfriend wedding! I never really show off of my work of art, and now I DID IT!!! I am really happy about it though is far from perfection!
Starting from now on I guess I am confident enough to show my work even if it's not perfect like what tailor do. And I will keep on doing things like this :)
VIVA HONEY AND LUCKY!
Lastly, I never forget to take after-makeup-pictures. So here they are:
Hahaha, this is Halloween edition! Happy October!
but here I am, I want to represent my latest work of art!
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| me and the bride (my bestfriend) |
Let me show you my look on the weeding reception I went to:
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| me and bestfriends |
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| me and bestfriends |
1. A HANDMADE DRESS
Yeay! For the first time I managed to make a dress using brocade fabric which is so hard and tricky to work with! My other friends were using the fabric to make conventional Kebaya (Javanesse traditional woman clothes), but I tried to make it looks different, so I didn't make conventional Kebaya, but I made some different style. Let me show you the detail of the dress.
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| dress overview |
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| the back-look and front-look |
Basically it was peplum dress. You can see the peplum skirt in the picture above. I combined it with wide-sleeves and high collar. If you see it closely, you will find that the collar is messy. It is messy, because I made it just the day before the wedding day. The back part also, it was a messy work, because I made it in a rush (because I had my psychiatric exam coming up that week). But overall I really like the look I made in a very short period of time. As you can see, I'm just a med student, I don't have a real competency to work as a tailor :D but I really like how it turns out to be even if it's far from perfection :p
It was my first time too to sew a pattern on a tile fabric (see the detail in my chest). I have to cut the pattern from the brocade fabric, and sew it on tile so it looks like the original brocade. I wasn't sure about my work at first, but when I started to like it gradually. And finally, I found my confident to wear my work of art!
Below the dress, I was wearing Sogan Batik skirt. My mom and I picked the pattern. I think it suits the dress very well.
2. MY OWN MAKE UP DO
I really want to challenged my self on this thing. So I did my own makeup using my standard and basic makeup kit. I wasn't using the top recommended makeup kit to do this look, but I really satisfied. Here are the looks:
I used my favorite foundation from Kryolan and face powder from Wardah in Light Beige. Eyebrows using Brown natural brow pencil from SilkyGirl. Eyeshadow, blush on and shading by Sariayu. I was using 3 colors: gold, green, and black (and of course white for eyebrow bone). I even used a very cheap eyeprimer by VivaQueen, but it turned out to be fair enough, I mean, not too bad. I used a cheap gel liner from Pixy too, but they worked fair enough too. I used Maybelline lipstick, Summer sunset shade. And of course, falsies ;)
The only thing I didn't do my self was my hair-do. I can't make any hair-do by myself!
AND, that was it! Those two things were the reason why I felt special for my bestfriend wedding! I never really show off of my work of art, and now I DID IT!!! I am really happy about it though is far from perfection!
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| YEAY! I DID IT! |
Starting from now on I guess I am confident enough to show my work even if it's not perfect like what tailor do. And I will keep on doing things like this :)
VIVA HONEY AND LUCKY!
Lastly, I never forget to take after-makeup-pictures. So here they are:
Hahaha, this is Halloween edition! Happy October!
I am a big fan of America's Next Top Model, not that I wanted to become model--since I know that is impossible-- but I simply love the pictures taken on the competition, especially when Tyra Banks took it herself! She got perfect taste, arts, and eyes. Her photo shoots always turn out to be really magnificent.
One of the photoshoot Tyra Banks did in one of the ANTM cycle has inspired me in to create this post. I was looking back at the cycle 13, where Tyra Banks took all of the contestants photo with scarfs. The scarfs are styled in different ways for each of the contestant. They put the scarfs in their face, their head, or else in different ways. One of my favorite picture was Nicole's.
Then I found an old scarf--well, it's not actually scarf, but it's a goldie-fishnet-garment, which I don't know what to call it. And I started my experiment with this garment! I tried to put it in my head and covering my face in different ways. I put a classic gold necklace too--which looks like necklace from ancient ages as my only accesories.
Let's see how it turns out to be:
I had another shoot with another scarfs, a green scarfs. For the next style, I tried to use the scarf like using hijab. So it's a little more like mid-eastern style. Check it:
So, what do you think?
Please leave comments
One of the photoshoot Tyra Banks did in one of the ANTM cycle has inspired me in to create this post. I was looking back at the cycle 13, where Tyra Banks took all of the contestants photo with scarfs. The scarfs are styled in different ways for each of the contestant. They put the scarfs in their face, their head, or else in different ways. One of my favorite picture was Nicole's.
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| Ashley ANTM cycle 13 |
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| Nicole ANTM cycle 13 |
Let's see how it turns out to be:
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| cover up the face |
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| tried to look scary yet classical--ancient style |
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| My favorite shoot |
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| tried to wrap it on the head like hijab |
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| Another head-wrapped |
I had another shoot with another scarfs, a green scarfs. For the next style, I tried to use the scarf like using hijab. So it's a little more like mid-eastern style. Check it:
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| Mid eastern style--hijab styled |
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| A little Spanish-like |
So, what do you think?
Please leave comments
lately I've been obsessed with nail polish and nail art. There are many nail art pictures at pinterest.com that inspires me. And there happens to be a challenge to make nail art at the looxperiments.com website. So, I think this is a great opportunity to learn nail art and demonstrate the results of my study on looxperiments web. With the little money I have left, I was trying to learn how to do nail art. The result? Here you go
hmmm.. not that beautiful. Far from my expectation. Far from the "real" nail art I saw on pinterest.com. But I do learn something from this attempt. I'll tell you what mistakes I did on my first attempt:
1. I bought cheap nail polish.
Cheap nail polish has a different liquor, they are thicker or they become thick easily. the nail brush is rigid or become rigid easily. So you can't have a flat layer. you have to redo it. But unfortunately I am not a patience-type of person. So My work looks (a little?) messy.
2. Always put the light color first.
When you put the darker color first, you have to make double layer with the lighter color above the dark one, means double work, double patience. Oh, I hate it.
3. Learn how to put it full on your nails.
My nails are big, but I can't cover it to the fullest. I just don't know how to cover it all without making a mess around my nails.
4. Base coat and/or top coat is a must
I didn't use both. But if you want to make nail art (especially using cheap nail polish), you have to put base coat first and?or top coat after you finish your art. That will keep your work beautiful, glossy, shinny, and long lasting.
5. Aceton
remember, acetone is a volatile liquid! Don't forget to close the bottle or you will find it empty next time you want to clean up your nails.
That's the basic things that I learned from this attempt. Next time, I will make something just like pictures on the pinterest.com :)
see you!
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| My pictures |
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| Cheap nail polish |
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| my fingers |
hmmm.. not that beautiful. Far from my expectation. Far from the "real" nail art I saw on pinterest.com. But I do learn something from this attempt. I'll tell you what mistakes I did on my first attempt:
1. I bought cheap nail polish.
Cheap nail polish has a different liquor, they are thicker or they become thick easily. the nail brush is rigid or become rigid easily. So you can't have a flat layer. you have to redo it. But unfortunately I am not a patience-type of person. So My work looks (a little?) messy.
2. Always put the light color first.
When you put the darker color first, you have to make double layer with the lighter color above the dark one, means double work, double patience. Oh, I hate it.
3. Learn how to put it full on your nails.
My nails are big, but I can't cover it to the fullest. I just don't know how to cover it all without making a mess around my nails.
4. Base coat and/or top coat is a must
I didn't use both. But if you want to make nail art (especially using cheap nail polish), you have to put base coat first and?or top coat after you finish your art. That will keep your work beautiful, glossy, shinny, and long lasting.
5. Aceton
remember, acetone is a volatile liquid! Don't forget to close the bottle or you will find it empty next time you want to clean up your nails.
That's the basic things that I learned from this attempt. Next time, I will make something just like pictures on the pinterest.com :)
see you!
Yes and yes, I'm still obsessed with "Visual Kei Style". I'm still wondering how they create the style like this:
or like this:
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And then I made the shots with this make up, and guess what? Here is the look I captured:
I do really like the eye make-up, but you know I've tried it (if you want to look at my first attempt, you can see it here) and that wasn't close enough to the "real" visual kei Style.
So I learned about it more. I think there are keys of making this style:
1. Bald eyebrow (or painted eyebrow which is "high" and "thin" line)
2. Heavy smokey eye
3. Pale look
4. Nude lips or even a pale lips.
5. "cool" hair do
Then I tried these 4 steps on making my 2nd attempt. But, first thing first, I can't make any "cool" hair-do ( I don't have either wig or hair-iron to create any style). So, I just tried comical hair look, like this:
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Messy? well, I only got a comb and bobby pins, so, this is as far as I could make :p
I tried bald eyebrows too, but I will never make it "real" bald, so I just put concealer and foundation on my eyebrow and hide it with face powder. But you know, that won't be perfect.
I also put a heavy smokey eye on my eyes with only black and white eyeshadow. But I think I had it wrong so my eyes look even bigger.
I did pale look and pale lips too. But I put a little red lipstick in the inside of my lips so I looked even more pale (don't you think so?)
So, here it was:
That's so not visual kei! That's too sweet. It's more like an anime look than visual kei. Too comical (but I like it). I changed my hair style too, but still, that was too sweet.
Okay, that wasn't a real Visual Kei. Wrong idea. So I decided to create another style. I like it, so I hope you like it too:
The 2nd attempt of this visual kei is a mess. Failed.
But I like it :)
Enjoy!
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