Hey everyone~! Yesturday was a great day~! Its the Anime Festival Aisa 2011~! ^^ I had a GREAT time there! I spent like almost more then 2 hrs cosplaying~! Its my second time cosplaying Shana from Shakugan no shana. I did not have the money to actually get a new costume to cosplay T.T But it was still fun~! There were so many people taking photos of me that i did not have the time to even rest!!! Haha! It was tiring, but fun still~! My friend also had a great time too~! She was cosplaying as Kagome and we took quite a number of photos together, lol! Shana and kagome together~ Of course theres some solo parts too~ Anyways, It was fun having all the photo shoots, even with other people together, but preparing the items really is kinda hard, haha! I had lots of problem with my long wig becuz it got tangled up so easily... I did not know how to manage my wig! HELP! If any of you had any suggestion on straigthening wigs, PLS TELL ME~!!!(I'm kinda desperate, haha!) Anyways, here are juz some of the items that i prepared before cosplaying as shana:

This is the uniform that shana wore, i sewed the ribbon onto the uniform so that it will not come off and be permenently there. It was originally not attached.
This is Nietono Shana, Shana's sword. It was originally given by my brother who had aikido training when he was younger, and ya, my father went to bought the sword for him for his training. Apparently, he did not use it, so he gave it to me~! It is made of real aikido sword(Expensive, with real heavy wood, yup its kinda heavy, haha!) and my father helped to paint it the way it should be~ I tried to cover up all the other "brown wooden" parts at the side. 
So ya, this is the wig that i'm fustrated about, haha! It like all tangled up and kinda messy..(Cant be seen) I really need some advises on taking care of wigs!!! T^T
So ya, i'll be posting pictures of the anime festival asia 2011 next~ Sayonara~!