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15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

1. You’ll get overly excited and pick a cosplay that is way too complicated

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

Kristell Lim / WorldCosplay

I can totally make this.

 

2. You realize you have no money so you try buying all the off-brand materials

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

Crazy Original Bad Boy Style Yelow Wavy Wig / Only Wig

Yeah, this wig will work.

 

3. You order shoes online

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

These are 3 sizes too small and blue. I’ll wear it.

4. You will drop all of your pins then step on them for the next week

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

Thor: The Dark World / Marvel Studio

It’s like a treasure hunt for your feet!

 

5. You will get blood on your cosplay, somewhere

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

Beyond the Boundary / Kyoto Animation

Well, now you’re a part of your cosplay! Just try not to prick/stab/cut/slice yourself more than twice.

 

5. You will hot-glue your hand to something

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

The Simpsons / Fox

Your hands are pretty much made of hot-glue by now

 

6. You realize you don’t have enough time to finish the cosplay in the two weeks until the convention

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

Koutoura-san / AIC Classic

LET’S WASTE TIME BY FREAKING OUT!

7. You will try to style your wig, it is now destroyed

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

Phil Spector

I just need to brush it a few times

 

8. You don’t find a picture of the back of your cosplay until you’re more than halfway done

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

Arrested Development / 20th Century Fox

“I’ll just try to keep my back to the wall, I guess…”

 

9. You survive on coffee and sugar the week before the con because your cosplay isn’t done

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

Meet the Robinsons / Walt Disney

You transcend your human form and before part god, part cosplay machine.

 

10. Your sewing machine will break and you will have to try to sew it by hand.

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

Instructables

“Why did I pick something with so much fabric?!”

 

11. You run out of thread, you have to use what you have.

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

Community / NBC

After you eat a cookie and cry in the corner

 

12. You forget to put in zipper

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

Thor: The Dark World / Marvel Studio

Safety pins work, right?

13. You start believing that duct tape fixes everything

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

Mythbusters / Discovery Channel

Duct tape is made of tiny threads and glue so it’s like sewing but better!

 

14. You sew yourself into your cosplay the day of and learn you have a bladder of steel.

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

Kristell Lim / WorldCosplay

“Please stop talking, I really do need to concentrate here.”

15. You didn’t give yourself enough room in your cosplay so you can never sit down in it.

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

然 / Cure

But you look incredible.

And as everyone compliments your cosplay, all you can think of is how much fun making it and hanging out with your cosplay friends is.

15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make

gifsnthangs / tumblr

You start to happily plan your next cosplay.