Costume: Heather - Transform
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Heather's Transform costume, also known as Princess Heart, is
very special in many ways, and a very interesting cosplay.
On her head she wears something that would be best described
as
"it looks like some sort of fancy headphones with antennas".
The earpieces are very big half globes with yellow and slighty
salmon
pink circles. They are connected with a cobalt blue head band.
Out of each earpieces comes a little olive green antenna with
light yellow, glowing globes on the ends.
With this costume Heather actually uses some light pink eyeshadow,
lipstick and a hint of pink blusher.
Around her neck she wears something that resembles a pink belt
with a big red, silver framed heart on the front.
Now here is one of the things that is special about this costume.
We all know that Team Silent goes crazy with making details
look
as realisitc as possible, but here the belt holes look like
white dots painted on the pink belt instead of real holes. Same
thing happens with the bigger version of the belt which Heather
wears around her hips, from further away the white dots look
like belt holes through which you can see the white dress, but
up close they look simply painted.
Just like the big pink heart on the front of her dress, which
in the game actually glows in the dark. Its color is darker
in the middle
and turns more pale towards the edge.
It is rather difficult for me to define what material the dress
itself is made from. I think it is some thin, non shiny vinyl,
since the material seems rather stiff especially in the skirt
area. It does not wrinkle nor does it flow softly enough to
be normal fabric.
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The dress shows
a little bit of cleavage and has a deep red stand up collar
and has several dark, ornamental seams. Also on the sides from
under her arms down to the hem the dress has some sort of button
tape. This too look more painted though than actually being
a 3D detail, so it is your choice if you want to draw it on
the dress or sew the ornamental seams and buttons to it. The
latter might make your costume look more convincing though,
same with the white belt holes. The shoulder pieces of the dress
are another one of those weird things. Big, almost completely
round and of the same pink as the pink used on the earpieces
of the "headphones". The armholes are golden metallic
rings with blue, red and yellow gems embedded.
Heather wears a belt with a heart around her hips which is a
bigger version of the one she wears as a choker. Deep
red, long satin sleeves should be the easiest thing to find,
especially during prom-season.
Heather's boots are cobalt blue and have a pink soles and lining
as well as a fine pink line on the top edge. The front of the
boots is V-cut, the upper back has a very slight v-cut to it.
On the sides the boots show a row of five white stars each.
Looking painted again but if you get flat little 3D stars and
glue them to your boots it will look
nicer.
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How
Dodo made it:
I used white vinyl for the dress, for the collar I used denim
that I dyed red because it is a firm, stiff fabric and would stay
in shape better than thinner material. I still had to starch it
though. For the pink heart on the chest I used plush and spraypainted
it. The button tapes on the sides are real. |
I sacrificed
my V.01 Heather boots and glued blue and pink vinyl all over it;
carefully so there wouldn't be any unnormal seams. I really have
to stretch and twist the vinyl to make it look right. This is
rather difficult though since you have to wear the boots while
doing this to keep them in shape. So have someone help you with
that. The stars on my boots aren't painted, but little silver
stars that I glued onto the sides. The sleeves I simply bought
at a local store.
For the two pink belts I used some cheap belt that I covered with
some more pink vinyl and painted the white belt holes on them.
My local crafting store supplied me with clear plastic hearts
which I spray painted red on the inside to make sure the
paint won't rub off later.
My "headphones" originally were ear muffs; I covered
the connection part with the blue vinyl and attached two big half
globes to the sides. I drilled two tiny holes in them to put the
antennas in. For the yellow globes on the ends I used styrofoam
balls.
The shoulder pieces most probably were the most diffult things
to get done. Eventually I used two plastic balls for kids and
cut two holes in it to stick my arm through and have it sit around
my shoulder. The balls originally were way bigger than the shoulder
pieces, since when you cut holes in them not only the airpressure
is gone, but after a few days the expanded rubber/plastic will
tighten and shrink. Because of that I had to paint them twice
since after the first time painting the material shrunk and the
paint started peeling off.
The golden ring with gems is atually nothing else than a big strip
of flexible cardboard, painted and plastic gems glued onto it.
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