Construction Details:

THIS COSTUME IS MADE OF GLITTER. and of misery trying to cover my eyebrows. I have too much eyebrows for this. I also made this costume in less than a week while recovering from a concussion, so there's some questionable craftsmanship. I scanned the original illustration from JoJo a-GO!GO! into Photoshop at a really high DPI, filtered away the printer dots, and printed out an assortment of the hearts that I liked most onto iron-on transfer paper. I then ironed them onto my fabric and decorated them with puff paint and glitter. At first I had no regrets, but then I realized how hard it is to get the iron-ons to stay where the fabric stretches. I'm still trying to work out a way to fix this.

..also the shoes. They aren't the worst shoes, but I couldn't get any other base shoes, so it's inappropriate heel time. I painted them white and absolutely DOUSED them in glow-in-the-dark glitter.

Personal Thoughts:

I'm the tiniest girliest Polnareff EVER and that's fantastic. The fun of a single Vento Aureo-era artbook picture for ref is that I can interpret it how I want and change a few things and it's still all good. No regrets.

Styling Notes

The original wig was a waist-length curly eBay wig with a too-small cap that I had bought for a project that never panned out from a store that no longer exists, and it had been SERIOUSLY damaged and tangled. I detangled it, added a hairline extension of fabric to the front, and proceeded to style it. The wig won't ever fall over entirely, because the center of the flat-top part is formed by backcombing and copious amounts of Super 77 spray glue. Once I got the top done, I used cut-off hair and some hairline alteration tutorials (praise Tacky Glue!) and a RIDICULOUS amount of hairspray and hot glue to cover the messy inside of the flat-top, make the hairline a bit more realistic, do the side sweep that conceals where the hair goes from up to down, and cover the back of my neck. This was a serious project (the three days is how long I was working STRAIGHT) and I found left-over bits of Polnareff wig hair around my house for at least a month.

Wig Review

It's a good thing the original eBay store I bought this wig from is long gone, because the wig was garbage. (Also this is totally not CC's color, even if this WAS originally sold as a CC wig.) Between its overly waxy hair fiber, tendency to tangle if you look at it funny, and its too-small cap (it fits nicely on a foam head designed to be smaller than a human), I'm really, REALLY glad it was the right color to begin with so I could work some extreme styling magic.

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