2016, 2023
Status: Active
Clothes: Thrift stores, Amazon, my closet
Wig: Arda (+sewn in wefts)
Despite its simplicity, I really love this Tailmon cosplay! I think it helps that she's 100% portrayed as an adult. Also, the wig is fairly lightweight, which is unusual for me these days. To get the purple bits, I colored the wig with a purple sharpie marker I had lying around. It required some patience, but it paid off!
The whistle is leftover from when I cosplayed Hikari back in high school. Tailmon has some kind of necklace in her art, but I thought the whistle would help with recognizability (not many people are familiar with the Xros Wars manga after all).
Because I'm so proud of the wig, I think I'll be remaking/touching up this cosplay in the near future. I never actually cropped the shirt (it's just carefully folded up at the waist) and when I chopped up the pants I may have made them a tad too short.
Back in 2016 I did a private shoot at Seattle's Kubota Gardens and got some nice photos out of it. Back then I had different shoes and used a regular necklace instead of the whistle.
For SakuraCon 2023, face masks were still required so I made sure to wear my kitty whiskers mask.
Photo on the left by my friend who will remain known only as "M" until such time as they wish to be credited. Taken at SakuraCon 2023.