Spidergwen Mask, Shoes, Wig Tutorial
- Posted on 16 April, 2020
- Color Lace Wig
- By Anonymous
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TIME CODES:
Mask: 0:05
Lenses: 0:44
Pointe Shoe DISCLAIMER: 2:32
Shoes: 3:03
Wig cutting / styling: 3:51
Wig painting: 5:44
PRODUCTS USED IN THIS VIDEO
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RPF faceshell - https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/...
Lenses - https://www.herostime.com/Spider-Lense...
Wig - https://arda-wigs.com/collections/clas...
Alyson Tabitha Wig Tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol5rkH...
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Let'S start with the face mask or face shell. I downloaded this pattern from the RPF. It'S a free file off the forum and I'll link it in the description below and I'm pretty much using just thin Eevee a foam. I'M using a giant flooring. Mat I got from Home Depot. Whatever flooring foam, you have or actual Eevee a foam works, trace your pattern pieces onto the foam and cut them out and we're gon na glue them together with rubber cement or barge bards rebar Bart Bart Bart Bart rubber Smith and along the way, make sure you're Fitting this to your face, adjust it make it smaller or bigger where you need to. I got my lenses from a costume shop online and I will link it in the description below I did have to adjust the eyes of the face. Shell pattern a little bit to match these ones that I bought. This step ended up being unnecessary, but I thought I needed to make the lenses fit very flush, so I taped them up and then put foam clay or air dry clay in between the gap of the face. Shell and the lens even do this if you want, but when I covered the face shell with fabric, you could not tell at all. You will also notice that I drilled holes in the foam on the top of the head as well as at the mouth, just to keep it from getting too hot, and so I could breathe out of it and I did end up painting the foam face. Shell, just a white, I actually only had cream just so you couldn't see the color of the foam behind the white mask and to make a pattern for this face mask what I did was I put the face shell over a Styrofoam head with my wig on It and I wrapped the whole thing in cling, wrap and then some masking tape, and I cut that up and used it for the pattern. Now my white fabric isn't super stretchy, so this ended up being kind of difficult. I had to make a lot of adjustments and take it in a lot of paces to make it fit very fleshly, so it ended up having more seams than I wanted to. But the front is still seam free and it does look pretty good and then to keep everything in place. I used a 6000 glue and glued the fabric down to the face. Show overall, I'm not too happy with the way the mask came out. The face. Shell ended up being a little big and I kind of think I look like a bobblehead with it on it's, not bad. It looks fine, I'm just not perfectly happy with it and if I'm not perfectly happy with it, I need to redo it, but that product is for another day for now we're gon na move on to doing the shoes, big fatty, fat, fat disclaimer. These are pointe shoes, they are for ballerinas who are trained in point. Pointe shoes can be very dangerous. You can hurt yourself tweak muscles break bones: break a colles sprained ankles, if you do not use them correctly, never use pointe shoes for cosplay unless you are practiced on point. That being said, I am NOT a professional ballerina. However, I have friends who are, and I did practice on point long story short. I bought some pink pointe shoes on Amazon and I painted them with the same mixture of fabric paint that I used to do the webbing on my bodysuit for the ribbons. I took off the pink ribbons and I bought a minty blue ribbon and I just sewed it back into the shoe and yes, the paint on the bottom and the tip of the shoe was going to get ruined pretty quickly. But that's, okay. The whole shoe needs to be blue and I didn't record it, but I did this same process on a pair of flats, I recycled a pair of old flats from my closet, painted them blue and attached ribbons on them to make fake, ballet pointe shoes, because we All know you can't just wear pointe shoes all day if it can't handle that, so I made normal shoes that kind of look like pointe shoes to wear around conventions. Now, let's move on to the last part, the wig, this wig is from our toe wigs. It'S the blue steel classic in the color ash blonde, and yes, all of my wig heads have funny faces drawn on them, so get used to looking at it. He'S gon na be staring back at you. The whole video first I made a part down the wig and because Gwen Stacy's hair is aimed symmetrical. What I'm gon na do is I'm gon na end up cutting off some of the hair from the left side of the right side of the wig yeah. I'M gon na pull over the top layer, so you're not gon na cut that and use this too long. But just under there go ahead and just cut off some of the hair and I'm actually using Allison Tabitha's method of hot glue and paint to style. This wig, I'm gon na list her original tutorial in the description below, and please check that out. It'S a little more detailed than this is gon na be, but essentially I'm just cutting off fibers, where the her hair is shorter and then I'm gon na take that hair and hot glue it down to the part. So you can't see the wig wefts, I'm also gon na use those long fibers from the right side of the wig that I cut off and glue them onto the left side, where that sides very full and very long, I'm pretty much gon na make it longer. Now you can just use the fibers from the wig. However, I did want this wig to be a little bit more full and cartoon-like, so I did buy an additional pack of short wefts from Arta in the same color and I glued those into the left side of the wig as well. I also use a hot glue and teasing to give the hair more volume, pretty much use a teasing brush T some of the fibers, and then I just put hot glue on it, so it could keep its shape once you have all the hair fibers glued in, Where you want them and the wig styled with the part looking nice and the front looking nice we're gon na go ahead and paint the roots. I started with the undercut, because pretty much all of that is dark. So I pinned up the top long layers and I used watered down just brown acrylic paint and slathered it all over the wig. Then for the top layers. I took down just a few layers at a time added the brown acrylic paint just to the roots and kind of dry brushed it down and use some water to make it fade. Do this for all layers of the wig until you reach the top part. This way of dyeing or coloring wigs is very simple: it's very cheap and effective, and the outcome looks really good. However, with the hot glue and the paint, this is permanent. You cannot go back and restyle this wig, so as you're working make sure it's exactly the way you want it to look, and once the whole thing is dried you can see. It looks pretty realistic. The only thing about it is that the wig does become pretty stiff and in a pro it does hold it style and it pretty much doesn't get mess up. But as a Khan anywhere where you use the paint, the hair fibers are pretty stiff. But as long as you keep the acrylic paint at the root of the wig, you won't notice the hairs gon na look natural to in a fall natural. All that's left is to give it a little bit of texture in the movie into the spider-verse Gwen's hair. Does have a nice wave texture to it? So what I did is I braided the hair in small sections and then I put a bag over it and steamed. It got the hair, fibers, really hot kind of wet and then let them dry completely. Take the braids out and you'll have a nice wave to the hair and bam look at that nice wig and that wraps up my spider-gwen tutorials. I hope you enjoyed. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time. Bye!
Comments
Shannon Lewinski: THANK YOU for the pointe shoe disclaimer. I've seen so many cosplayers without ballet experience wearing them and it worries me immensely. Despite having practiced pointe for a couple years, even I would not use actual pointe shoes for a cosplay because I am several years out of practice. Just use normal soft ballet shoes if you don't have proper training! I promise, it will not ruin your cosplay!
Box Heads of Olympus: Alex: Do not do this unless you are trained with point shoes. Me: *Happy ballet noises*
Cal Olson: Top things I’ve been missing : 1) Your incredible artistry; 2) Your humor - I laugh out loud at least once a video; and 3) Bird commentary. Welcome back, friend - and thank you!
pay1370: The fact that you just bought a random pair of pointes and didn't sink in your shoes. You must be pretty lucky
MaddlineMcMad: I remember the time when spider gwen did not have point shoes. In fact I have her original chuck Taylor converse(I also have like all the comics). Lol still not over the fact that they changed it
Golden Starlight: the wig looks absolutely amazing and the point shoes give me war flashbacks from when i used to dance ballet... before i hurt my ankles and completely gave up when i was 10
Dan Dan Noodles: Thank u for the ballet disclaimer! I sure hope the kids wearing cups and socks will take notice! Even pre-pointe students shouldn’t attempt this.
Khoi Chau: I am blown away... All these years I have been ignorant of the sheer amount of work good cosplaying entails! WOW!
Tori Peters: Looking like a Bobble head just makes you look more like the cartoon character!
Stuttsis: I always enjoy watching your tutorials. My fingers are now itching to get into crafting but yeah, gotta wait for the materials to arrive first :S
Abdul Jabbar: I love your cosplays they always turn so beautiful and when you you cosplay you look amazing.
David Harris: Alex missed you hooe everything was ok. Your tutorials are great and still use them for my young cos-players everyear when we go to a con to teach them how to handle problems at the cons. Thanks for coming back missed you and your tutorials.
Eiphnh Niefu: The best wig spidergwen tutorial of the whole platform! Nice work, your cosplay is awesome
Emily D.: So happy to see a new video from you! You look amazing. Good job :)
Ivy Gilliam: That wig is beautiful!
Jason Clark: That was very impressive. Well done.
Mekayla: Thank you so much this was very useful
Jessica Kelley: I didnt even realize you had two different pairs of shoes until now. Genius.
Rundhille Andallo: You should have heat form the face shell with a heat gun or hair dryer before assembling it so the face shell don't look so big.
FROGMAN78: WOW suit looks amazing!!!
Michael Gordon: Most impressive!!! I was kinda worried about how that acrylic paint was going to work out as a dye job but once again you pulled it off!!! Bravissima!!!
Black Pink Luv: I swear if marvel doesn’t do a live Gwen that’s on them, Bc this costume is fantastic!
Michael Pugh: You do make a good SpiderGwen
Kitsunebi CH: Yay i love the wig tutorial
𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐙𝐨𝐧𝐞: Great stuff as usual.
Rundhille Andallo: I wonder if you can make a male Spiderman full body suit.
Harko: Thanks for sharing Ax!
Ava Bott: This is awesome
Randomguy65: Beautiful. And yeah the mask is ok, but spidey masks are already stupidly hard to do. Good job!
cookieaddictions: Omg the wig is amazing.
Random Man: How come no one ever tries the spray paint eyes with the mask? You could use a solid stencil of the mask and go over it with some spray paint. Go heavy at the center, the lightly as you go out for the edges. If you're worried about sight, cut out the shape of the eyes and glue some perforated vinyl on the inside. Make sure you line the edges of the vinyl with something sin and soft. food for thought.
Maya ch: Incredible! ah I really missed your videos
PinkThorn242: ...OK yeah definitely sticking to flats then since I'm very much not trained. I did consider twinning a pair of demi-pointe shoes with entirely flat-footed poses as a "hero" shoe (based on what pros had suggested in previous iterations of the PSA) but that's probably not worth the risk.
Allure Cosplay: Ur gwen looks amazing
𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐙𝐨𝐧𝐞: Nice video ! Thank you
AstroDancer: Please don’t buy pointe shoes from amazon. You really need to be fitted for them properly, this is a super important thing. But the whole cosplay looks great, and your wig is super cool! If you ever are looking for something to listen to, you could listen to extreme anime radio’s podcast on ballet cosplay safety. The ballerinas give really good advice ☺️
11hugosanchez: Hi, what kind of paint did you use for the shoes ?
Lord Keltain: THANK YOU FOR SAYING DONT DO IT IF YOU ARENT TRAINED IN POINTE! The amount of young cosplayers I’ve seen wearing pointe shoes who clearly shouldn’t be wearing pointe shoes..... oof
Kratos Rage: Yeah i've went to comic an i was wearing my favorite wrestler The Fiend bray wyatt and i got lots of good photos of me doing the sister Abigail and the mandible claw i was wearing red pants with black stripes that are going down and black leather jacket an a black shirt with no short sleeves and the gloves will have HURT AND HEAL an color contacts and dreadlocks that are yellow and black face paint to cover over the mouth and my eyelids an finally the fiend mask from wwe shop even i carried a lantern of bray wyatts head and all of us know the way an you will Let Me In Bye alex Bye
I Fly Kaya: Hoping to be Spider Gwen for Halloween 2022! I’ll be in pre-pointe at the time so maybe I’ll do a pointe cosplay in a couple years if I’m still into it then. Also, literally can’t find teal ballet shoes, so I’m just gonna use some flats lol. (Btw I’m planning on going as the comic version of Gwen)
Mystic Moonshire: Your so talented
Madeline Zapata: What company did you buy the pointe shoes from?
King Danett: One thing that could be cool is if you put a small magnet in both the top of the mask and sewn into the hood so that you can keep the hood on while you're wearing the mask, because in the movie her hood is magical and will never fall off
Typical Cat: U are so talented
Awesome: Awesome video!
Raven D: Hi! Do you still take commissions for Snow White?
Garnet: Wait you can just BUY pointes on Amazon?? The frick? I thought you had to have like a teacher's permit to get pointes. Haha Thank you for including that warning. When I saw the thumbnail I was worried.
Captivis: Since lots of people in this comment section seem to know about pointe shoes I'm hoping they can answer a query I have, I'm making a cosplay that requires pointe shoes, would it be ok if I wore pointe shoes for photos and flats the rest of the time (I'm not trained but I wouldn't be going on pointe) would that murder my m u s c l e s?
Zinora Sky: Most of my wig heads i painted to look realistic so it would scare my roommate back in the day.
Mimi Marquez: i missed your videos so muchhh
bouhouche israa: If you are the person that disliked the video and you're reading my comment I want to ask you why did you do that this is a useful video
I Dino: Do you accept commissions? I'd pay you to make me a suit
pugs099 YouTube: Good job
Rodrigo Andrés González Carvajal: Why you do everything right???
candylocks cool 456: THANK YOU are you are the best
Gamer Ggs: Can you tell me where are those photos from at the start of the video
Fariha Mozammel: Who loves spider-gwen or spider women
Katherine E.: Random question, but were you on "Buddy vs Duff 2"? The Star Wars episode?
CandElla: What colour are the shoes
आदित्यAditya मेहेंदळेMehendale #BringBackDislikes: Perhaps a sensitive subject, but here goes: Your last view seemed somewhat off. Couldn't quite put my finger on it.. until _this_ video - Where is BIRB?
Allie Zaldaña: How many people didn’t actually do this tutorial | | |
celgod20: Hey was that you on Buddy vs Duff 2 ?
Meghan_ Shew: DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT USE POINTE SHOES IF YOU ARE NOT CLASSICALLY TRAINED YOU WILL RUIN YOUR FEET OR WORSE!!!!!!! VERY disappointed and VERY concerned that you disclosed where you got your pointe shoes. Unless you know EXACTLY what type, size, brand, and all the info you need to fit your feet to buy the PROPER pointe shoes you should ALWAYS go to an actual shop to get pointe shoes. ALSO, you NEED to break them in and the fact that you are NOT actually properly trained in pointe is extremely concerning. I had to take an extra TWO YEARS to do pointe because I messed up my ankle ligaments. You just shouldn't have included the pointes in this or disclosed the first part that if you are not classically trained to not use them. Even if it's "just for photos" simply being up in pointe position without proper knowledge can be extremely damaging and dangerous!!
candylocks cool 456: .