Cosplay Amino and Cosplanner App Review

Hello everyone, I hope your summer's wrapping up nicely. I'm still in shock that summer is pretty much over. I feel like it was just June! Time flying by like this makes me happy that I'm no longer in school. I've been taking this time to work my butt off on my New York Comic Con line up. I finally looked down my last cosplay last week^^ I recently found an amazing app called Cosplanner, and it's been helping me stay organized. I also discovered a cool social cosplay app called Cosplay Amino. I figured since I've been enjoying them both, I should share them with you. I hope if you're a cosplayer, you'll find these apps useful!

First up is Cosplanner! This app is currently available for Android and in Apple's App Store. The app has a lot of useful features. You can sort you cosplay by end date, due date, character, and that's just name a few. You also can categorize items by things you need to buy or make.

There's even a space for reference pics and notes. The task feature is awesome because it lets you plan the convention aspect of your cosplay in one place. So rather than having to use a separate calendar to plan out when you'll work on your cosplay or tracking convention details like booking your hotel, you have everything in one piece. Sometimes I have a bad habit of doing things the hard way and writing everything down and then magically losing that sheet of paper. I'm so happy I found this app because it is extremely useful and saves me a lot of time.

Recent GETS: Sailor Moon Edition

Hey everyone, I'm happy to say that I've been treating myself for the last few weeks and my items arrived! I'm hoping to buy a new Lolita dress soon fingers crossed! I finally sat down and watched the original Sailor Moon and I am loving it so far. I haven't met any of the other senshi yet, but I believe Sailor Mercury will show up in the next episode.

Sailor Mercury dust plug

Complex Wish

I've been told by a few of my friends that I would most likely be Sailor Mercury out of all the senshi. I've been wanting to get a cellphone charm or dust plug for my phone for awhile and figured this would be a good character to get. I found out about this store when I went to the Ghibli brunch for Geek Girl Brunch. One of the girls at the brunch got the cutest Howl's Moving Castle dust plug that I later bought with the Sailor Mercury one.

My next purchases came from J List in the adorable bag below. I've been wanting to purchase from this website for a long time, and I'm happy that I finally did. I really enjoyed their customer service. One of my items had to be backordered, and they kept in contact with me through out the whole process.

 The adorable bag my order came in

I'm so excited to try this Sailor Moon eyeliner. I heard that it's similar to Dolly Wink, so I can only imagine it'll work great. It'll also be my first liquid eyeliner^^ 

I bought a strong charger for my phone. These chargers you pre-charge and then can plug them into your phone when you need a charge on the go. My previous charger was really cute, but had the strength of 2600mAh and would only give me one charge. This charger has twice the strength and has an LED so I can see how much charge I have left. My current phone is my first smartphone so I never thought about how much I would be on it. Also, most people in the NYC area don't drive, so you don't have a car charger as an option. It's lightweight and super cute. It also already came with a charge :)

I may have made a fatal mistake today by signing up for Crunchyroll. Blame it all on Ore Monogatari aka My Love Story. That show is SO good and addictive! I watched the first three episodes with Tiff and was immediately hooked. I went on Crunchyroll today to watch the latest one but couldn't because I wasn't a member. I figured I'd sign up so I can watch it the same time it comes out in Japan^^ The one thing that's amazing about Crunchyroll is that it's super cheap and has anime, Asian dramas, and manga on it. So I will def get a lot of use out of my account, Boba probably will too haha If you like the shoujo genre, give My Love Story a try! Night!

New York Comic Con 2014| Photo Heavy

Hi everyone^^ Work has been kicking my booty due to a trip to Florida. I didn't even really get to enjoy the weather as it was chilly down there, and I wasn't properly dressed -_- Anywho, I wanted to write about my experiences at this year's New York Comic Con. It was a lot of fun! I opted not to cosplay because I was so burnt out from trying to secure tickets which was a nightmare. I was only able to go on Friday *pouts* but I'm still happy that I was able to go. Let's hope next year isn't as difficult, but I'm not holding out too much hope for that considering the conventionis getting more and more popular. I'll be going to Anime Next in the summer which will only be my second convention, so I'm really excited. So far I've only been to NYCC. Warning there will probably be a ton of pictures in this post lol

They had these really huge blow ups outside from Teen Titans. I thought it was really cute and definitely set the geeky atmosphere.

I went with Boba and his sister, and it was lots of fun! This was my first time going on a Friday, and I was really excited We were going to meet a few friends once we got there, but it was the three of us for a good bit of the time. We all rocked nerdy tees.

My Ninja Turtles tee

Boba and his sister Ana in their nerdy tees; Also, he is so freakin adorbs!

We made our way over to one our fav booths. It's for a modular bag designer; the brand name is Equilibrium and their bags are awesome and super comfy. Boba bought one from them last year and he still loves it. He even wore it to the convention; we ended up switching bag because my bag was a little rough on my back and his Equilibrium bag feels amazing. He's such a sweetie!

Boba and Rae

My bestie Rae (she's the gf of my wifey Laura) met up with us around 11:30. I actually attended my first panel with her. I've only been on Saturdays and never wanted to attend a panel because you usually have to fight to get in and fight to get out. And since I would only be there one day I didn't want to spend it waiting in line for panels. There was a huge turn out for this WOC of color in Comics panel which was a great surprise! The women on the panel were amazing, it's a wonderful first panel experience.

Swag alert!

I bought Boba this really cool Nintendo controller case. It was only ten bucks which was a steal. I looked on Hot Topic's website and it was $30 bucks. You can actually press the buttons^^ And Boba bought me a Cat Bug plushie!

There were some really awesome cosplayers as usual. I know a lot of people go hard on Saturday, so I can only imagine the level of awesomeness. I actually ran into Heir of Glee in her Storm cosplay. She is really beautiful and nice, and I can't believe I forgot to ask to take a pic with her.

When you're tired at the convention, hit that geek squat, hit that geek squat

We actually ended up staying at the convention for the whole day. If anyone decides to do this I highly recommend going out for lunch just to get a break from the convention. We went to the a nearby burger place, got off our feet for a bit, and then went back. I don't think we would have lasted all day if we had pulled a marathon.

Me and Ana

Can we talk about how I freakin loves this show and need to continue watching it. I am seriously slacking on my anime and Asian drama game.

So ready for the live action of this anime

There was actually someone inside of this. They would just stand there and wait for kids to come up and pose for a pic. Then they would move and scare the kids haha

Come and get your bag of yaoi!

The last thing we did was attend the Sailor Moon panel at 8 pm. I thought that it was going to be a cool discussion about the show, but it was just a screening for the new dub. I wish they would have wrote that, but I didn't mind too much because I haven't seen any of the show.

It was the best NYCC I've been to and I can't wait to go next year. Let's just hope people find the chill when hunting their tickets because this year was cray at the stores. I will not be doing that again, no ma'am.  The vendors and the guest list were amazing. I can't wait to see what they have in store for us in 2015.  Thanks for reading!