Weak Masq photos!

[solarbird]

As promised...

Comments

[firni.livejournal.com]

Captions? Cuz, like, I didn't know 90% of the people there (or didn't recognize them).

[sarakate.livejournal.com]

"Didn't recognize" was big with me, too. I had NO IDEA Shego was solarbird until after seeing pics today. I am so without a clue.

[solarbird]

So wait... who're you? Are you in my pictures? Because I thought I knew most (but not all!) of the people in them. *^_^*;;

[sarakate.livejournal.com]

Yep! I was the blond in green with the baby girl in black (she was actually a bee until she got exasperated by her costume and I took that part off, but I think that was before you arrived) -- you've got one picture of just the two of us.

[sarakate.livejournal.com]

Is it okay for me to link to the picture of me and Amy, in one of my posts, since I am a dork and forgot to bring my camera? I doubt it'll vastly increase bandwidth, since it's on a friends-only post on my not-widely-read journal, but even so if you'd rather I didn't, please let me know.

Oh, AND, I just realized you weren't on my friendslist, but that I'd been reading your journal from the surlydinos friendspage, so I've added you.

[solarbird]

Okay, but! only as long as its friends-only. We do sadly have a bandwidth quota. Other than that, go ahead. ^_^

p.s.

[firni.livejournal.com]

Diana looks riled, hee hee hee

http://solarbird.net/Weakmasq2k3/PA250026.jpg

Re: p.s.

[solarbird]

I had fun with the groupings. My favourite is this one:

http://solarbird.net/Weakmasq2k3/PA250037.jpg

Many of them have themes. -_^

[grumpywitch.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing! My favorite is Moon the Harsh Mistress.

Jay got a kick out of that one as well (you know that's his favorite Heinlein, right?)

[solarbird]

I did not! Or maybe I did at one point, and forgot. ^_^ That's Mimi, btw, one of my housemates.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

We are teh sux for not attending. But I'm still feeling kinda ick-ish from the sore throat I've had most of the week, wrog was starting to feel dragged out and ill, and Philip has been sneezing up a storm (complete with snot flying everywhere) since last night, too. Bleah.

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

Whoo! Thanks for posting these so quickly!

My favorites (besides me) were Moon--Harsh Mistress and the Branch Davidian (http://solarbird.net/Weakmasq2k3/PA250050.jpg) (the one on the right). You and "Hester" got my admiration for sheer coolness in making your costumes from "scratch", rather than throwing a collection of things together.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

*curtsey*

shego

[(Anonymous)]

hi person who is in the shego out-fit. see i havee a problem. i want a shego outfit and i cant find 1 anywhere and my mom cant make me one so can you help me get 1

Re: shego

[solarbird]

Hi! That would be me. This is my LJ, too.

I made my own Shego outfit, the one I'm wearing in the photos. What you need to do is get a black dance leotard with long sleeves and long pants (and stirrup leggings so that the legs don't ride up), a pair of black leather-like gloves (skiing gloves are good) and low black boots. (Flats or low heels.) Then you get stretchable, flexible fabric paint and paint the green parts onto the costume. You NEED to get a really good brand of paint or it'll fall off, or prevent the leotard from stretching properly. I used Jones Tones brand "pearly green" and "yellow" colours, mixing them myself to get the right tone; I don't know of any other brand that might have worked.

Then you paint on one coat, wait for it to dry and put the costume on so that it stretches out. Then take it back off, put on the second coat, wait for it to dry, and do the same thing again. After the third coat, you should be done.

While this is going on, you paint one boot and one glove with the same colour paint.

It's a lot of work, but it looks really good when you're done. You can see the green patterning from my outfit photos above, and here's a picture of the back of my Shego costume. It's a little dingy in that photo because the temporary dye I used on my hair came off a bit. Figuring that pattern out took a lot of work, partly because Disney's animators don't keep the same parts green all the time, which I found REALLY annoying. So this is my version, and a bit of an average of all the versions.

Anyway, good luck!