#April cosplays catra

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On the one hand: Catra’s belts are kind of silly. She’s always in some kind of leggings/bodysuit situation, they’re not holding up her pants lol. (Also how are they staying in place?? Does the bodysuit have belt loops we just don’t see?) The little Horde logo on one of the belts isn’t necessary either. They’re purely decorative.

From an outside-the-show perspective I realize it’s just to make her look cool. Which is…also probably the reason Catra herself would give lol. (That, and she does attach things to them—the whip, that taser thing.)

But ALSO there’s no getting around the fact that the belts are extremely convenient for cosplaying—that’s what we attached the tail to! And it’s so rare for a random bit of otherwise-impractical character design to be useful to cosplayers!

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Okay so I did this when I cosplayed her at Rose City Comic Con (the short nails were painted matte black like my toenails, my other fingernails were glued on and LONG)

And I just want to point out that MULTIPLE people did in fact notice and immediately get the joke which was very satisfying

THIS SEASON WAS SO GREAT (and of course Catra is lying)

[elle-eedee]

starting a collection <333

[pkmnsdarkqueen]

𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐈'𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 .

𝟎𝟏. 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐒 / 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄  : Iz/cherry bombs/ (has just been called Karen mun before, tbh I haven’t really decided on anything concrete so call me whatever)

𝟎𝟐. 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘  : January

𝟎𝟑. 𝐙𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐂  𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍  :  Capricorn, le fish goat

𝟎𝟒. 𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓  :  5′7

𝟎𝟓. 𝐇𝐎𝐁𝐁𝐈𝐄𝐒  :  rp, singing, dnd, video games, cosplay

𝟎𝟔. 𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑  :  purples

𝟎𝟕. 𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 : Narnia for nostalgia reasons

𝟎𝟖. 𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐃  : Boba

𝟎𝟗. 𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌 / 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐖  :  Cup head show

𝟏𝟎. 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍  :  Karen herself is inspired by a combination of Regina George from once upon a time, April Ludgate from Parks and Rec, Catra from She-ra, and Rosa Diez from Brooklyn 99. Course the manga version of her is what inspired alot of it, and the personality took influence from that along with aspects of these women. In broad terms: Catra-abused child raised as a child soldier who’s sort of got this flirty mischievous vibe but is learning to care. Regina George-A woman told constantly all she’ll amount to is being evil, that has a tender motherly side she doesn’t show everyone. April ludgate-Just sometimes an odd ball loner that well cares but in her own way. Rosa Diez-Can and will kick your ass, she delights in the chance to and do not make her mad. The manga is where much of her character arc comes from though, and the inspiration of rebirth and hope to be set on a new path of life from ho-oh’s symbolism. 

𝟏𝟏. 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐔𝐑𝐋 :  I mean she’s the first dark type user, and is an elite so high status. Also just look at her, queen attitude truly. From there I have it head cannoned that as a child she dubbed herself that trying to sound cool, because well she was a 13 year old trying to sound scary while in the mafia so of course the name is kinda stupid and edgy. Now the name just won’t leave her alone, and people at the bar call her it some from respect and to tease her. 

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[rosebubss]

big ass master post of everything meaningful i’ve drawn since i last posted which was like. December ??

1) Allister from pokemon shield bc i thought he was cool in January and i still think he is kinda neat

2) Redraw of some old art of double trouble in February (this is also being sold on redbubble if u want it 👁👁)

3) Me in February but Goblin :)

4) how i looked in March (i no longer look like this and also i have a Mohawk now)

5) memorial drawing for Wowaka, made in April

6) drawing of lovelybedhead on tik tok!! i thought they looked cool 👉🏻👈🏻 made in April

7) drawing of starsandvodka on tik tok bc i thought their bill cipher cosplay looked cool too 👉🏻👈🏻 also made in April bc i guess that was my Month,,

8) screenshot redraw of catra made in april

9) drawing of plantt33th on tik tok bc,, terezi,,, made in may

10) my ~~~trollsona~~~ i love her!! she was drawn in May too

pretty much all I’ve drawn since then have been ocs that I’m not ready to share yet smjsjfe y’all have to wait!!

[aprillikesthings]

Cheap glue-on nails!

I used these:

Which I got from Amazon

You’ll want to buy actual nail glue, the sticky dots are useless

But they’re matte black and worked great!!

Hard to see more than the one lol but I promise they’re there!

I also got a cheap matte black nail polish for my toenails.

little question for my cosplay

does anybody know how to make some black claws for my Catra cosplay like the ones in the image? Preferably something low effort

[faithcael]

Some cosplay retrospective since 2013 (yeah it’s been a long time since I started !)  Funny how the first half was only male and manga cosplays, and the second half is only lesbians xDD Heres the dates for all my cosplays !  Agito (Air gear): December 2013 Ciel Twin (Black Butler) : September 2014 Hiro (Big hero 6) : February 2015 Sora (No game no life) : July 2015 Red Ridding hood ciel (Black Butler): July 2015 Marshall lee (Adventure time) : may 2016 Chloe Price (Life is Strange) : July 2016 Marceline  (Adventure time) : January 2017 Mae human version (Night in the woods): April 2018 Peridot (Steven Universe) : July 2018 Tracer (Overwatch) : July 2018 And Catra (She-Ra) is ongoing for July 2019 ! :3 Sorry for the bad quality and the bad edit xD

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Me: are you comfy with looking at my boobs?

Vico: oh hell yeah!

AHHHAHAHA

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I still need to put on the claws, and I’m half convinced I still have a contact in the wrong eye BUT

NOICE

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Just realized what my pose in this one reminds me of

The screenshot in this post:

Ahahaha nice

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Eeeee!!!! @corpseauthority is helping me with my Catra cosplay! Lookit my tail!!

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As is traditional

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Cosplay continues to be a ridiculous hobby for unserious people

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I’m getting better at this

My eyeliner wings each look good…too bad they don’t look like each other tho lollll

Also I ordered a couple of belts. I was gonna skip them (I’m not doing any of her specific canon outfits) buuuut Saer pointed out that I gotta attach the tail SOMEwhere. Anyway one is a wider dark red one and the other is narrow and black.

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WIG

It’s the Arda Jareth

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I made a list of things to cosplay Catra 😬

Tempted to make a “someone talk me out of this” joke but I know none of my friends actually will lolololol

So now I just have a bunch of open tabs and a list and I’m staring it down going “do I want to do this? Do I????”