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rosiegaga · 2 years
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Wig Seller Masterlist
Some people on were asking if I had a post about this and I didn’t, so I thought I’d make a big master post of wig companies I like! It’s in alphabetical order, with information about them listed afterwards. Currently I have fifteen brands on this list, but if I try and am really impressed by another, I’ll add it. I hope maybe one of them has that hard to find wig you’ve been searching for! I have the color samples for Arda, Assist, Classe, Coscraft, Cyperous, Kasou, and Swallowtail and am willing to help you check if a color from them is correct or not.
Airily
Japan only brand, so you’ll need a shopping service. Wide range of colors, including some that are hard to match in other lines, and a lot of base styles that I like more than other brands. Sells both wefts and lace front pieces. Lace hairline wigs are also available. Fit is medium (not particularly large or small). Price is higher. Swatch book not available.
Alice Garden/aiyaya
Amazon wig brand selling lolita/natural looking wigs. The variety is not good but if they have something that looks like what you need to wear with very little styling, you won’t get something as nice for the price! Styles are all very natural looking. Fit is on the smaller end of medium. Price is low. Swatch book not available.
Aoi Wig
Taobao brand doing character wigs, so a shopping service is required. These are hands down the best character wigs I’ve ever worked with. If you don’t want to do a ton of styling and they have the character you want, you literally cannot go wrong here. Fiber isn’t the world’s most durable but will hold up for multiple wears, and the price is good enough to make up for it. Fit is slightly small but larger than most taobao wigs. Price is a bit high for taobao but is still dirt cheap for what you get. Swatch books not available but the photo color is exceedingly accurate.
Arda Wigs
American based. One of the most common brands for a REASON! Wide range of colors in a wide range of styles. If you have a larger head or a lot of hair, this is your new best friend. They sell lace fronts but not individual lace pieces. The big problem with them, however, is the stock issues. Colors run out quickly so sometimes you have to compromise on which style you buy, or place an order from one of their sister sites in another country that actually has the color you need. Nobody has as much hair in their wigs as they do, which can actually be a problem in some styles; be prepared to pluck lace fronts and use thinning shears. Fit is LARGE; they have the largest wigs in the market. Price is a bit high but not exorbitant. Swatch rings are available for both their fiber types
Assist
Japanese brand, ships worldwide but EMS/fedex only so you’ll probably want to group order. Nobody in the market has as many colors as Assist; between their premium and basic lines, they have over 600 colors! DO NOT TRUST THEIR PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY TO PICK COLORS; you need to buy their swatch books or ask a friend who has them to help you choose, because those photos can be criminally inaccurate. If you ever order from them, buy a bottle of Face Cover Glue and watch it change your life as “wig sticks away from face and face framing pieces move out of place” become a distant memory, and I adore their contacts! They sell wefts and lace pieces in their premium line but not their basic. Price varies; Premium line is a great price for what you get, but Basic is incredibly cheap (but not quite as good quality). Fit is SMALL; they’re the smallest of the Japanese brands and if you’ve ever found taobao wigs too small, they’ll also be too small for you. Swatch books are available and also required.
Blue Beard
Taobao character wig brand, so shopping service is required. Blue Beard wigs are all affordable and decent. You won’t ever get a bad wig from them, but I’ve found that their wigs tend to require a lot of maintenance. Wide range of characters! No wefts available. When you find stolen taobao wig photos, more often than not they’re stealing from Blue Beard. The photos are all color accurate, but you’ll typically need to do a lot of styling to make the wig match the photo. Price is great for what you get. Fit is medium to small. No swatches available.
Classe
Japanese brand that requires a shopping service but oh what a brand it is. Classe has a wide range of colors but where it truly excels is in the range of extra styling supply options. You can buy lace front pieces, yes, but you can also buy stand alone skin top pieces in center whorl or long for parts. No brand is as flexible with what you can do with their wigs, not by a long shot. Make sure to check out their styling blog! Even if it’s all in Japanese, the diagrams are clear and the techniques are genuine life savers. The fiber is beautiful and the website’s color suggestion feature where the desktop version tells you a list of characters they’d use this color for makes picking colors a lot easier. You’ll pay a lot for them, but what you get will be worth it. Fit is a true medium, comparable to non-Arda western brands. Swatch books are available and affordable.
Coscraft
Based in the UK but ships worldwide despite being way too unknown outside Europe. Coscraft is an absolute gem of a site with a wide range of colors (more than 80!) with plenty that you won’t find in other non-Asian brands, a decently large variety of base styles to choose from, and wefts and separate lace front pieces in every color. Also for some reason they sell ridiculously inexpensive corset coutil so for all the craftsmanship people, new source acquired! Even if you’re outside of Europe, Coscraft is so nice for its price that with a favorable exchange rate, they can be more than worth checking out. Fit is larger medium; it won’t be too big or too small on most people. Color swatch ring is available.
Cyperous
Japanese cosplay wig source that theoretically ships EMS outside Japan but I haven’t been able to get that to work for years so shopping service it is. Pour one out for Cyperous; they’re clearly in decline but as one of the original heat resist brands, they’re still here and still worth ordering from while you can. Nobody has as beautiful and delicate blondes as Cyperous; their Milky and White Milky are the best blondes I’ve ever used. They have a nice selection of lace wigs and the much rarer lace bang wigs as well as regular wigs, and wefts of course. No other brand I’ve seen has synthetic wigs that photograph as much like real hair as Cyperous. They can tangle a lot as a result but it’s worth the upkeep. I have no idea how long they’ll keep limping along, but look them up before it’s too late. Price is high but reasonable for what it is. Fit is a true medium. Swatches used to be available and no longer seem to be, but the photos are pretty accurate to my ancient swatch ring and newer wigs.
Five Wits Wigs
Five Wits is the most criminally underrated of the American wig companies because most of their stock photos suck. They really, really, really suck. The photos are somehow incredibly color accurate but represent the wigs as pulled directly from bag and plopped onto someone’s head or a mannequin without even combing them in a flattering way. I wrote them off until I got to see their booth at a con and realized quickly that these wigs are wonderfully made with beautiful fiber that typically photographs like a dream (how do they get such bad stock photos?!) and is so easy to style! Five Wits mostly stocks character wigs, but many of them are versatile enough to use for tons of other things and they offer wefts for some of their colors. The owners are friendly, the service is great, the actual wigs are beautiful, the price for what you get is wonderful, but those dang stock photos keep people from noticing why Five Wits is one of my favorite suppliers! Price is great for what you’re getting, especially for an American brand. The fit is larger end of medium (very few people find it too big or too small). They don’t carry swatch books but every single stock photo, despite being terrible, is an incredibly accurate depiction of the color so feel free to judge colors accordingly.
Kasou
I almost hesitate to put Kasou on here considering that one of the problems with them is that their shipping when it’s from their Chinese warehouse is occasionally “good luck getting your wig”, and I disqualified another past favorite of mine for this, but Kasou squeaked onto this list for two reasons: 1) their fiber and wigs really are spectacular and 2) they have the ONLY Jolyne Kujo pre made wig that I don’t hate. Order from them with confidence that whatever you get will be nice, but keep in mind that there are enough people who’ve had issues with wigs from their Chinese warehouse that you want to give yourself months of lead time if you go that route. They have a decent if slightly expensive price range, medium cap fit, and they do offer swatches.
L-Email / wig-supplier
Not everyone needs premium wigs for heavy styling all the time, and that’s where L-Email comes in. This Chinese-based seller that ships internationally will sell you decent character wigs and decent base wigs for an incredibly affordable price. Nothing from here is going to be spectacular, but if your budget is low and you’re willing to put in a bunch of effort to make up for that, what you need is just a plain wig without tons of styling, or you want a character wig that’s a bit easier to upgrade with extra styling work than other brands because the hardest parts are typically done for you, L-Email is a great option for you. They’re just all around decent, and sometimes that’s what you need. Fit is medium, prices are pretty affordable especially if you go in with friends for shipping, and there aren’t swatches but the photos are typically pretty color accurate.
Sepia
One of the absolute oldest wig companies based in America; every cosplayer active before 2007 has bought at least one Sepia wig. They’re still here though, and now they have some heat resist lace fronts! Their range of fantasy colors is pretty atrocious but if you want some beautiful natural colors, you could do worse than shop here, especially considering there’s at least one more expensive brand (that I’m not putting in this list) that sources lace fronts from Sepia and resells! Fit is medium, price is medium, I haven’t bothered to see if they have swatches because I’m an ancient cosplayer and have the typical Sepia color codes memorized.
Swallowtail
If you’ve heard of this Japanese (shopping service required) wig brand before, it’s probably because the canon wigs in My Dress-Up Darling all come from Swallowtail. There’s more reasons than flexing about how you have the canon Shizuku-tan wig to consider Swallowtail, though! They have a massive color range with a lot of colors I’ve seen nowhere else in the world, and while the fiber isn’t the world’s most durable and is a bit shiny for my tastes in some colors, they’re affordable enough to be a competitive option even if you have to use a shopping service from outside Japan. They offer a full range of wefts and lace pieces and clip ons and a wide variety of base styles. The fit seems to be pretty true medium, and they definitely offer swatches (in the most chaotic ring setup I’ve ever seen. I have to go fix that sometime.)
Sylvia_Wig
You can get a lot of decent lace fronts on AliExpress, but Sylvia is my hands down favorite. If you need a natural looking lace front and you don’t want to spend tons of money, this seller is where you should be looking first. There aren’t any swatches or wefts, true, but the wigs have so much more lace than any of the American or Japanese cosplay wig brands, the caps run much larger than most taobao/aliexpress brands (comparable to Kasou or Five Wits), and there’s still plenty of hair to do more basic styles. The fiber is a bit thin and shiny, but it still photographs like a dream, and dollar for dollar you won’t find a better balance between quality lace front and budget friendliness than here. The hairlines are so natural that I have a few from here that haven’t required a single hair plucked to just… melt into my skin. There’s a reason this is my go to first source if I want a lace front and it’s not going to be heavily anime styled (like JoJo or Dragon Ball or whatever). Color stock photos are incredibly accurate; you can trust that what you see is what you’ll get!
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rosiegaga · 2 years
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“I want to continue being with you guys! Whether it’s fun, happy, painful or sad, I want to share every moment with you, because you’re my precious friends!”
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rosiegaga · 2 years
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Star shaped buttons ! Casio EP-10 + EP-20 Toy Synthesizers (1987)
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rosiegaga · 3 years
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五代目火影 - 伝説の三人の一人 - 木ノ葉のナメクジ綱手姫 . Me as Tsunade Wig is an @ArdaWigs styled by me Costume from Amazon Photo by @LostSymbiote . . #naruto #narutoshippuden #boruto #tsunade #hokage #fifthhokage #cosplay #costume #drag #anime #narutocosplay #cosplaywig #shounenjump #cosplaygirl #momcosplay #ladytsunade #kunoichi #伝説の三忍 #五代目火影 #綱手 #ナルト #うずまきナルト #コスプレ https://www.instagram.com/p/CKF0zAbDXSs/?igshid=1onan7i8o5kya
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rosiegaga · 3 years
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🍶🍶A round of sake on me!! . Me as Tsunade from Naruto! @lostsymbiote got me the cosplay for Christmas 😊. I haven't been posting here as much as I've mainly been active on twitter lately. The wig was my old Valkyrie wig (a leia from @ardawigs ), and in one sitting I transformed it into this Tsunade wig! It's a little sloppy but it's okay. Also I didn't even iron my cosplay but just ignore that lol. . ALSO- If you support Trump, the riots/insurrection at the Capitol, if you are pro-life, if you denounce BLM, if you are anti Planned Parenthood, if you think antifa is evil, if you are against LGBTQ+ rights and Trans rights, then UNFOLLOW ME, my content is not for you. https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ7pkBBjNUp/?igshid=1p4guewt5hj1c
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rosiegaga · 3 years
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You guys!!!!! My super talented friend @braydocalrissian drew me and it's so amazing ahhhh eijfjfjjfjfjdjqffsjjd 😭😭😍😍😍💖💖💖💖 https://www.instagram.com/p/CI4m8JkjP2s/?igshid=1nm6zkgt5ezu
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rosiegaga · 4 years
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Whoa, my Yellow Ranger cosplay pic (taken by @toshistudios ) has inspired another artwork! This time it's a beautiful piece by @jaegerbomb_designshop . Swipe to see and to see more power ranger cosplay shenanigans! Pics by @toshistudios , @edlitfin , and @lostsymbiote . . #powerrangers #pr #mightymorphin #mmpr #mightymorphinpowerrangers #cosplay #powerrangerscosplay #cosplaypose #yellowranger #sabertoothtiger #rangers #sentai #supersentai #costume #スーパー戦隊シリーズ #ジュウレンジャー #ダイレンジャー #カクレンジャー #コスプレ #コスプレイヤー https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJfWciDRmm/?igshid=6l5bphrev0m2
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rosiegaga · 4 years
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TODAY IS THE DAY!! In a few hours, Sat, Nov 14th at 10AM PST, is the Twitch Glitchcon cosplay competition!! It's a huge competition with incredible talent, superstar cosplay judges, and big cash prizes! The winners will be announced live, and there will be a fan favorite live vote during the show! The cosplay competition will be sreamed on www.twitch.tv.twitch and our channel twitch.tv/spicydoki . Head on over to Glitchcon.tv for more info! 😁😁💖 Photo by @lostsymbiote,  editing by @fayelynncosplay . . #twitch #twitchcon #glitchcon #cosplay #cosplaycompetition #costume #mh #mhcosplay #monsterhigh #monsterhighcosplay #cleodenile #sewing #handmade #egyptian #wigs #drag #dragqueen #makeup #pinkyrosecosmetics #glamlitecosmetics #colourpop #mummy #monster #halloween #masquerade #spicydoki #rhinestones #rosiegaga #streamer #twitchcreative https://www.instagram.com/p/CHku-VADVmO/?igshid=i65rbcyplece
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rosiegaga · 4 years
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TOMORROW is the big day!! Remember, the cosplay contest will be LIVE at 10AM PST! SWIPE➡️ to see a video on how to vote during the show! It'll be streamed on twitch.tv/twitch, and also on our channel twitch.tv/spicydoki ! Head on over to Glitchcon.tv for more info! 😁😁💖 Photo by @lostsymbiote,  editing by @fayelynncosplay . . #twitch #twitchcon #glitchcon #cosplay #cosplaycompetition #costume #mh #mhcosplay #monsterhigh #monsterhighcosplay #cleodenile #sewing #handmade #egyptian #wigs #drag #dragqueen #makeup #pinkyrosecosmetics #glamlitecosmetics #colourpop #mummy #monster #halloween #masquerade #spicydoki #rhinestones #rosiegaga #streamer #twitchcreative https://www.instagram.com/p/CHjBtzbjurW/?igshid=hvqrzc8djvof
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rosiegaga · 4 years
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Incase you missed it last night, I'm a finalist in the Glitchcon cosplay competition!!! Tune in to see the live show on Sat, Nov 14th at 10AM PST! It's a huge competition with incredible talent, superstar cosplay judges, and big cash prizes! The winners will be announced live, and there will be a fan favorite live vote during the show! The cosplay competition will be streamed on www.twitch.tv.twitch  . Head on over to Glitchcon.tv for more info! 😁😁💖 Photo by @lostsymbiote,  editing by @fayelynncosplay . . #twitch #twitchcon #glitchcon #cosplay #cosplaycompetition #costume #mh #mhcosplay #monsterhigh #monsterhighcosplay #cleodenile #sewing #handmade #egyptian #wigs #drag #dragqueen #makeup #pinkyrosecosmetics #glamlitecosmetics #colourpop #mummy #monster #halloween #masquerade #spicydoki #rhinestones #rosiegaga #streamer #twitchcreative https://www.instagram.com/p/CHdWH6mjbd6/?igshid=wlsm6l9982yk
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rosiegaga · 4 years
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I am so excited that I can finally make this announcement! I'm a FINALIST in Twitch's  cosplay competition happening online during Glitchcon! Glitchcon is the online version of Twitchcon and it's happening this Saturday, Nov 14th. The cosplay competition is at 10:20AM PST. Please tune in if you can and cheer me on!! Also all the other cosplayer finalists are MAJORLY TALENTED, so if you want to see amazing costumes and craftsmanship, you DON'T want to miss this!! There will be a fan favorite voting portion of the live show so PLEASE help spread the word, I'd love to get some support from you all! Visit Glitchcon.tv for more info, and see you all on Saturday!! 😍😁😁💖✌ Photo by me with the help of @lostsymbiote editing by @fayelynncosplay . . #twitch #twitchcon #glitchcon #cosplay #cosplaycompetition #costume #mh #mhcosplay #monsterhigh #monsterhighcosplay #cleodenile #sewing #handmade #anime #wigs #drag #dragqueen #makeup #pinkyrosecosmetics #glamlitecosmetics #colourpop #mummy #monster #halloween #masquerade #spicydoki #rhinestones #rosiegaga #streamer #twitchcreative https://www.instagram.com/p/CHcH8sUjsFb/?igshid=bg6cn8rspau4
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rosiegaga · 4 years
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Yayy the just announced Pokemon Go capability to Pokemon Home! I can finally transfer hundreds of pokemon taking up space 😂 . . Photo by Jesus H. #pokemon #ookemongo #pokemonhome #pokemonoras #oras #pikachu #pokémon #pika #may #haruka #pokemonruby #pokemonsapphire #swsh #swordshield #pokeball #cosplay #costume #halloween #pokemoncosplay #handmade #arda #ardawigs #ardastyle #spicydoki #rosiegaga https://www.instagram.com/p/CHbbPNEDG19/?igshid=16a3wtbfx2ckc
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rosiegaga · 4 years
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So a couple days ago, some folks braved my long-dormant social media accounts to make sure I’d seen this tweet:
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And after getting over my initial (rather emotional) response, I wanted to reply properly, and explain just why that hit me so hard.
So back around twenty years ago, the internet cosplay and costuming scene was very different from today. The older generation of sci-fi convention costumers was made up of experienced, dedicated individuals who had been honing their craft for years.  These were people who took masquerade competitions seriously, and earning your journeyman or master costuming badge was an important thing.  They had a lot of knowledge, but – here’s the important bit – a lot of them didn’t share it.  It’s not just that they weren’t internet-savvy enough to share it, or didn’t have the time to write up tutorials – no, literally if you asked how they did something or what material they used, they would refuse to tell you. Some of them came from professional backgrounds where this knowledge literally was a trade secret, others just wanted to decrease the chances of their rivals in competitions, but for whatever reason it was like getting a door slammed in your face.  Now, that’s a generalization – there were definitely some lovely and kind and helpful old-school costumers – but they tended to advise more one-on-one, and the idea of just putting detailed knowledge out there for random strangers to use wasn’t much of a thing.  And then what information did get out there was coming from people with the freedom and budget to do things like invest in all the tools and materials to create authentic leather hauberks, or build a vac-form setup to make stormtrooper armor, etc.  NOT beginner friendly, is what I’m saying.
Then, around 2000 or so, two particular things happened: anime and manga began to be widely accessible in resulting in a boom in anime conventions and cosplay culture, and a new wave of costume-filled franchises (notably the Star Wars prequels and the Lord of the Rings movies) hit the theatres.  What those brought into the convention and costuming arena was a new wave of enthusiastic fans who wanted to make costumes, and though a lot of the anime fans were much younger, some of them, and a lot of the movie franchise fans, were in their 20s and 30s, young enough to use the internet to its (then) full potential, old enough to have autonomy and a little money, and above all, overwhelmingly female.  I think that latter is particularly important because that meant they had a lifetime of dealing with gatekeepers under our belts, and we weren’t inclined to deal with yet another one.  They looked at the old dragons carefully hoarding their knowledge, keeping out anyone who might be unworthy, or (even worse) competition, and they said NO.  If secrets were going to be kept, they were going to figure things out for ourselves, and then they were going to share it with everyone.  Those old-school costumers may have done us a favor in the long run, because not knowing those old secrets meant that we had to find new methods, and we were trying – and succeeding with – materials that “serious” costumers would never have considered.   I was one of those costumers, but there were many more – I was more on the movie side of things, so JediElfQueen and PadawansGuide immediately spring to mind, but there were so many others, on YahooGroups and Livejournal and our own hand-coded webpages, analyzing and testing and experimenting and swapping ideas and sharing, sharing, sharing.  
I’m not saying that to make it sound like we were the noble knights of cosplay, riding in heroically with tutorials for all.  I’m saying that a group of people, individually and as a collective, made the conscious decision that sharing was a Good Things that would improve the community as a whole.  That wasn’t necessarily an easy decision to make, either. I know I thought long and hard before I posted that tutorial; the reaction I had gotten when I wore that armor to a con told me that I had hit on something new, something that gave me an edge, and if I didn’t share that info I could probably hang on to that edge for a year, or two, or three.  And I thought about it, and I was briefly tempted, but again, there were all of these others around me sharing what they knew, and I had seen for myself what I could do when I borrowed and adapted some of their ideas, and I felt the power of what could happen when a group of people came together and gave their creativity to the world.
And it changed the face of costuming.  People who had been intimidated by the sci-fi competition circuit suddenly found the confidence to try it themselves, and brought in their own ideas and discoveries.  And then the next wave of younger costumers took those ideas and ran, and built on them, and branched out off of them, and the wave after that had their own innovations, and suddenly here we are, with Youtube videos and Tumblr tutorials and Etsy patterns and step-by-step how-to books, and I am just so, so proud.  
So yeah, seeing appreciation for a 17-year-old technique I figured out on my dining-room table (and bless it, doesn’t that page just scream “I learned how to code on Geocities!”), and having it embraced as a springboard for newer and better things warms this fandom-old’s heart.  This is our legacy, and a legacy the current group of cosplayers is still creating, and it’s a good one.  
(Oh, and for anyone wondering: yes, I’m over 40 now, and yes, I’m still making costumes. And that armor is still in great shape after 17 years in a hot attic!)  
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rosiegaga · 4 years
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twitch.tv/spicydoki . #twitch #twitchstream #streamer #vr #vrchat #spicydoki #vrchatmoments #phasmaphobia #spooky #spookystream https://www.instagram.com/p/CGgc2wZjpNT/?igshid=jfcng5yg1l7b
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rosiegaga · 4 years
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Spoopy stream! About to go live and try to finish up my accessories for Cleo! twitch.tv/spicydoki . . #twitch #twitchstream #streamer #creative #cosplay #cospleryer ##twitchcreative #twitchcosplay #twitchcosplaycontest #twitchcon #twitchcon2020 #monsterhigh #mh #mhcosplay #monsterhighcosplay #sanrio #halloween #cleodenile #cosplayprogress #wip #cosplaystreamer #cosplaycontest #inprogress #spoopy #kawaii https://www.instagram.com/p/CGf-cPADka1/?igshid=1wlnnm9gud8pi
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rosiegaga · 4 years
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This is the thinnest eyeliner I've ever done in my life lmao. Eyes: @glamlite ice cream dream pallet , ISEHAN - Kiss Me Heroine Eyeliner , @tartecosmetics lights camera lashes mascara Lips: glamlite lip gloss in berrylicious Face: @colourpopcosmetics pretty fresh concealer Highlight: tarte (an eyeshadow from a mini pallet, i forget the name) . . #makeup #muotd #makeuplook #glamlite #glamlitecosmetics #glamliteicecreamdream #icecreamdreampalette #icecreamdreampallet #icecreamdream #pastelmakeup #colourpop #colourpopme #tarte #tartecosmetics #colourpopcosmetics https://www.instagram.com/p/CGRcmW4jCHt/?igshid=dfn5vqjpd9zq
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rosiegaga · 4 years
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💖 https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQr8WcjTQl/?igshid=4fsm4rlrt94j
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