[Cosplay] Yamuraiha's Sea Snails

The last month was held the 4th edition of Alicante's Anime Convention, and this year I decided to cosplay as Yamuraiha (Magi: Labyrinth of Magic) for that occassion.

One of the things that drove me mad were the Sea Snails she has behind her ears. I searched in a lot of shop for plastic sea snails, but I couldn't find any. Finally, when I was watching cosplay tutorials on Youtube, I saw someone using some kind of bobber for making horns, so I asked my father and he told me that it may be extruded porexpan, so I bought one sheet of 4cm thickness.

My father helped me during the process of making the sea snails.

Tools:

- Extruded Porexpan

- Sandpaper and Other Sanding Tools

- Cutter

- White Glue

- Eva Foam 

- Brown Acrylic

- Glod Spray Paint

1- Firstly we cut 3 circles of porexpan of different sizes, and then we glued them to form something which looked like a pyramid.

2- Then we sanded them to get the shape of a cone, after that, we drew a swirl on them.

3- After drawing the swirls we sanded the lines with different tools to make the spiral pattern of the snails, we polished the borders to make them look more rounded.

4- Finally, I tilted them a bit so they wouldn't look as horns.

The painting process is pretty simple but, before painting, you need the porexpan to be more hard, that's why I used white glue.

Once the snails were hard enough (they had about 5 coats of glue), I made a cut on the edges and I cut tome eva foam to make the little fins of the sides. I glued them inside the cut of the snails and put them about 3 coats of white glue to harden them.

After that, I used brown acrylic paint to make a base and when it dryed I used gold spray paint to paint them.

Finally, I attached the finished Sea Snails to a hairband and I used a thicker eva foam to extend it.

I don't have any good photo of the finished cosplay yet, but I hope I'll go to take some photos soon with mi Magi group :3.