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Cosplay Feature: Holly Bean Cosplay's Sypha from Castlevania!

Photo by David Ngo By the time you're reading this, I will have just gotten back from my first convention of the year, PAX East! You can hear all about it in a brand new episode of CosplayBytes! For now, let's go back a little bit further to MAGFest from January for even more gaming related cosplays. Holly Bean Cosplay here brought along her cosplay of the devoted mage Sypha from the Castlevania anime adaptation aired on Netflix. By the time of this posting, the original has aired two seasons plus a spin off called Nocturne starring another Belmont Descendant. You'll notice that even if the cosplay is relatively simple in its design, I love both the pose work that Holly has done in addition to the edited photos that came out of this. Starting from the top, Holly is rocking a short orange wig with a variety of curls and wefts seen on her sides and from the back. Then you have the main top piece all in a light shade of blue and layered.

Cosplay Feature: Kristen Hughey's Janna! BEHOLD THE BEAUTY!

Photo by Ngo Photography
You can probably tell that I both have the biggest cosplay crush on Kristen Hughey along with feeling incredibly lucky that she's such a sweet friend to have. When I saw that Kristen was planning to do Janna from League of Legends, my excitement shot up :D. Janna is one of those characters that I just infinitely love from her gorgeous design. I featured Jessica Nigri's Janna a while back last year I think so this was a no brainer. With the cosplay being the default outfit, you got the white and gold color scheme. Alongside her signature staff, the gold inserts definitely shine in the pictures. Kristen here has the breastplate placed around her chest. The lower parts of the cosplay consist of the center piece and her hip armors. They all look to be done with the same materials of foam and or Worbla.

Photo by Lyon Hart Photography
I really admire Kristen's figure in this cosplay. Everything just falls into place so perfectly! The golden designs on the armor stand out with the gem stones taking center place. Her hands are covered with white gloves of sorts and gold trimmings on the edge. The crown looks to be done the same way as the top section of Kristen's staff. Upon taking a closer look, I saw that the staff itself was done with PVC pipe being my best guess! Elf ears can be seen here which match up to Janna's design.

The hip armor have an interesting shape with a round part curving upwards on a point. White drapes are seen in the bottom section. Pose wise, Kristen looks incredibly elegant and this is definitely one cosplay I would love to see in person. Her face looks so radiant too! Already see myself making one of the pictures my background soon :D. Take a look at the other pictures and see for yourself! I may be getting my hopes up but it would be amazing if I got to match with her at RICC this year <3.


Photo by Jay Hooker Images 
Photo by Lyon Hart Photography
Photo by Lyon Hart Photography

If you haven't checked out Kristen Hughey on FB, you must fix that ASAP! She's been so amazing to me and I'm lucky I have her support in the many things I do cosplay wise! I promise the 2nd part of our interview will happen, either at RI Comic Con or afterwards. Some questions I definitely want to ask her that should go into more specific details about Kristen! Love ya lots :)

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