Oh hey, I’m not dead. And I cosplayed as Yurio for my local con. Wish I’d gotten a photo of the whole look before my contacts murdered me and my makeup got ruined, but.. this is me (completely unedited btw) before I left the house yesterday morning and before I bought the leopard print jacket from a vendor in the exhibitors hall to complete the look. People thought I was a teenage girl.. and I kept getting misgendered all day. Even when I talked. But hey at least that meant the cosplay was effective. In case you don’t know what I look like normally, here’s a recent pre-Yurio selfie (also completely unedited):
I’m a 35 year old dude with an epic neckbeard, ruddy uneven skintone, wrinkles, a badly receding hairline, unruly eyebrows, and brown hair and eyes.. so yea, it was quite the transformation and no one recognized me, but I’m so stoked I was able to pull it off. The makeup, contacts, an old blonde wig I used to own (and had to revive and cut for the purpose of this cosplay), and a good pair of tweezers, really did wonders. Though it was awfully strange being baldfaced and girly looking for the first time in.. a very long time.
