What is cosplay? Meaning, cosplayers and where it all began
What is cosplay? What the word means, what cosplayers do, how the hobby began, the main types, Team UK’s world title and tips for your first costume.
Cosplay Guides
Cosplay Guides brings together step-by-step tutorials for building costumes of your favourite anime, manga, video game and movie characters: the pieces you need, how to choose and style a wig, makeup, safe coloured contacts, props and EVA foam armor. You’ll also find easy cosplay ideas for women, men, couples and groups, with difficulty levels and a rough budget.
Every guide works for your very first cosplay as well as your next convention build. To see how the pros do it, visit our cosplayers section and our prop makers section, where creators share their process, patterns and making-of content.