Wig Party

So, I haven't gotten any pictures from the con yet, so yeah. But I did buy an amaze-balls wig (by which I mean my sister bought it for me) from The Five Wits. I want to put together a Birds of Prey group with my sister and her friends (hopefully we will be able to go to NYCC next year), so I got the wig for Lady Blackhawk:

I've been a fan of her uniform for a while now and have been tempted to read Blackhawks because of her.
So yeah, I got the "Art Bomb Zodiac Star" style. Here it is:

a little curling and a hat away from perfect

the wig came with a cute clip in pony tail (we bought a second one for $5)

I think I might go to Comicazi's Halloweeniversary party as a girly Captain America

Or maybe as a girly pirate Captain America

Previously, on Juia Goes to College:

I painted my nails again:

This time, Fullmetal Alchemist style! (because it took me this long to finally finish FMA:Brotherhood)

I went to the College Night at the Museum of Science:

"turn on thrusters!"

"draw me like one of your french girls... IN SPACE!"

playing around in the models exhibit means making Captain America and Iron Man squiggles:

Also, my college activities board is putting together a New York trip to see Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark which means I'll need to make a more formal Spider-man dress.

seriously, I spent months listening to the soundtrack.

Assassin's Creed part 2

When a girl on my college Facebook said she wanted to do an Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood cosplay group, I knew I needed to do some research. See, I have a confession. I've never owned any of the games because my best friend had an Xbox360 so I'd never needed to buy my own. And even then, most of my exposure was watching my bestie's dad play the first game (which was great because he's a history professor so he told me all kinds of stories while he played).

Now that I have that off my conscience, let's get back on track. I found the perfect costume while searching the multi-player characters, but then another perfect costume when I started watching a Let's Play of Assassin's Creed II on youtube. Now I'm stuck with decisions!

The smuggler's costume was love at first sight:

Isn't it wonderful? It does look like a bit more of an undertaking than Ezio's costume
9this is at least 3-4 layers of clothing), but the result is fabulous. For the less fancy one, the one on the left, there would be a shirt which makes the inner layer of the sleeves, as well as one of the skirt-like bits. Over this would be another shirt which makes the second layer on the sleeves and peaks out below the leather overskirt. A third shirt would make the collar and peplum under the leather doublet. Then the leather doublet itself with interesting paneling. Then over all that is a cloak.
The two layered skirt would be the bottom of the innermost shirt (if it is elongated and unfitted, that might work) and a detatched skirt. Then two layers of britches.

And then it wouldn't be complete without the pretty pretty inverted hidden blade.

See, I told it it would be an undertaking. And the other (even more fabulous) variant of the costume adds another shirt for the puffed sleeves, another overskirt, leather gaiters, and another layer of cloak.

And an advantage to cosplaying video game characters is there are sometimes different color schemes to work with. (her default looks to be green but the navy blue is my favorite.)

The other costume I love is the younger sister of Ezio, Claudia Auditore da Firenze (because she's that badass I need to type her whole title):

Reason 1: I love pretty Italian Renaissance dresses.
Reason 2: My mother has been wanting to make pretty Italian Renaissance dresses for my family for doing things such as SCA events. (so I might be able to enlist her help)
Reason 3: Her dress is pink and yellow in the beginning of the Assassin's Creed II (which is my favorite pretty princess color combination):

Also Reason 4: She becomes a total badass lady assassin (and also owner of a brothel which is always cool):

But most people make her assassin costume, so I want her dress. It's also going to be a ton easier because of my family's background in historical costuming. I do have a slight fear that the costume might not be recognizable, but I think it would be more recognizable if I hang out with an Ezio/Femzio, so problem solved.

Assassin's Creed part 1

(I'm currently working on a dress using my green lantern fabric which I'll tell you guys about when it's done because most of what's left is the actual sewing)

So, yes, Assassin's Creed is amazing. Every time it comes up, I end up gushing about how pretty everything is. So, in my efforts to make friends at college, I found a girl on my college Facebook who also loves Assassin's Creed. And wants to do a cosplay group. And I want to keep her.

I'm really excited and trying to plan what I can about the costumes before it gets too late (the girl wants to do this for Halloween, but PAX East seems like a more reasonable deadline for making multiple costumes).
She wants to cosplay as the main character of ACII, Ezio (but a female version, so Femzio).

I'm curious what she has planned since I think the costume design might need some small changes in order to look more flattering, (if the fabric is too thick, the layering will hide her curves) also because just making the costume without changing anything is boring/common/missing the point.
Part of me says "screw accuracy" and make the multiple belts into an underbust corset (which will help counteract the layering hiding curves issue). It also gives a better base for the metal thing that is probably like an over sized belt buckle.

I was right, it is just a really big belt buckle.

I think most of the costume is good, if we get the fitting right, so that might be the only change I suggest. 
Warning: The next post(s) will be Assassin's Creed because I really like the aesthetics of this game.
Also, I have a twitter now: @notsogeekchic, just in case anyone wanted to know. I don't know much about how to use it, but I will be putting up random things whenever I remember to.

Punisher Lolita...?

Doesn't that sound like a great idea?
Alright, so mostly this is a non-post, but I found these amazing shoes online (A few years ago I went through a major HotTopic phase so I still get the emails.)

 I imagine some kind of bullets everywhere. If I am able to get these, I will totally make a whole lolita Punisher outfit. Like, the skull logo could be the top of a nice apron.
Also holsters everywhere. Like this one:

I never want to deal with weapon stuff at conventions (laziness strikes again), so no fake guns, but pockets to hold all my stuff is always nice.