Princess Vivi Nefertari

Alabasta Dress

One Piece

My husband and I like to watch One Piece on Saturday nights (dub, I know, I know). A couple years ago, I picked up a One Piece pencil board at a convention with Princess Vivi in a belly dancer-ish outfit on it, mentally filing it away for possible future cosplay.

Loving the Seiyuu for Luffy, Mayumi Tanaka, I got interested in making this again, partially as a CosWorx project. Almost every single thing used in this costume either is available or will be in the store. The wig, fabric, eyelashes and other things... all CosWorx. The beads and flipflops are my own :)

Mondo Mega FUN FACT- The original design doesn't have any of the beads, but I couldn't resist adding some sparklies to it. The neckline was actually beaded in between boxing up wig orders. If anyone accedentally got any renegade pink bugle beads, that's why :)

Note about the eyebrows. Naturally I have crazy ugly Groucho Marx looking eyebrows, but I have a bad nervous habit of pulling and plucking them out, so most people don't know. I got them blue by using colored mascara and brushing it in with an eyebrow grooming brush. It works out great even though my eyebrows are very dark. I think this type was by Caboodles (from my Shiva costume), but Stargazer makes a great one that's more theatre quality. I'll probably use that type next time to get a richer color.

The wig is a Linda XXL wig in color 60 colored with my secret mad scientist recipe to get Vivi's crazy manga shade of blue. In case anyone is curious, the Linda (and its cousin, Alicia) wigs dye amazingly well. Needless to say, I love how this wig turned out and how it makes my eyes look so blue!

So, it's a face shot for now while I look at the other pictures Joshua took. I'm a little self conscious because all the girls in One piece have something like 12 inch waists.

The best part about this costume is I can go around saying I'm a pretty pirate princess. WIN.