#nerdthings

This is probably the funnest cosplay I’ve done and definitely one of my favorites.  It originally started as a Halloween costume since I was playing the Batman Arkham Knight video game at the time, but it ended up turning into a cosplay that I modified over time that I still wear today! It first started with an Arkham Knight Harley Quinn costume I ordered online.  It ended up needing A LOT of modifications to look like Harley’s actual outfit in the game. The buckle over the chest wasn’t even attached to the choker so I sewed those two things together. 

After that was finished, I got to work on the tights since the ones that came with the costume weren’t very realistic.  I already had a pair of maroon-colored tights I never wore, so I bought some fabric dye and dyed the other half of them navy to match the costume.  I then took apart a studded pyramid belt and carefully pinned the studs onto each knee of the stocking.  It surprisingly worked and all of the studs stayed in the stockings really well, so I could slip them on and off with ease.  

Next, I decided to turn this old black baseball bat I had into her white/red striped bat.  I painted the entire thing white and glued on leather strips I had pained pink and then glued on metal round beads to the strips to act as the studs on the bat.  I then painted the tips red and pre-outlined the stripes on the body of the bat with pencil and painted in the stripes with red acrylic paint.  She has a few different bats as weapons, but I liked this design the most.  

I bleached my hair and getting it into the ponytails was definitely the hardest part of the cosplay! I bought some spray dye for the red and black hair tips......and here’s the end result!

Throwback to when I cosplayed as Tifa Lockhart at Ohayocon a few years ago. My friends and I were supposed to go get food after having slept all day and I was starving! We had to stop at another friend’s hotel room first because the rest of my friends had cosplayed as “tide pods” back when that was a thing and they wanted to take a tide pod group photo. I was the only one not cosplaying as a tide pod since I really wanted to be Tifa. I had to wait FOREVER for them to get it together and take photos and I was dying of hunger. Finally my friend taking the photos threw some oatmeal cream pies at me so I ate one while waiting for them to finish up. I looked hilarious standing there in cosplay and fighting gloves eating one and took a selfie. Some guy walked in and loved my cosplay and took pictures of me posing and it was pretty cool. I miss cosplaying so much and can’t wait to do it again!