Hey guys.
I look like an absolute wreck right now, but we all know what that means. It means, I'm here for another DIY cosplay.
Yay.
Also, what it means is that I just got out of bed after being lazy all morning.
And couldn't be bothered to put on makeup before I filmed. If you watched my Dumbledore cosplay,
it's kind of like a series thing
I want to do, just doing DIY cosplays with stuff that I have in my house.
And today's cosplay is Newt Scamander, now obviously anyone can be Newt Scamander.
It doesn't matter your gender or anything like that.
I'm gonna be using a dress instead of trousers, but obviously if you're a guy, and you want to wear the dress then that's fine too.
It's just another version of Newt Scamander, let's say.
It's not specifically what he looks like in the thing is just a slightly different version.
We're using the things I have in my house like Disney binding, but not Disney binding.
Without further ado,
I know the idea with cosplay is to look as similar to the characters as you can, but I do not have short hair.
So I'm just going to start by doing one long French plait down the back, as I think that will just, I don't know,
just thought it would be fine. Now, if you don't know how to do a single French plait, that's fine.
You could do a normal plait and if you don't know how to do that,
my hair is so knotty I should have brushed it. If you don't know how to do plaits there are other Youtube
Tutorials that you can look at to show you how to do such a hairstyle because,
oh wow that's an interesting contraption I've done at the top there.
I'm just not really the most qualified to show you how to do this plait. I mean I've been doing French plaits for
many, many years on myself and when I was a theatre school. I had to do with the other kids
hair when I was bit older.
So yes,
It doesn't have to be particularly neat just I mean I'm saying it doesn't have to be
neat but also doesn't have to be a plait or anything. This is just a guideline,
suggestion, don't want anyone to get carried away thinking I'm literally telling you what to do.
I mean, I guess that's the point of this video. I'm sending mixed messages here.
Now that you were all plaitted up. You're ready for the costume aspect.
I'm not going to do any makeup in this tutorial because frankly,
I mean if I really wanna go to comic-con in October and to cosplay this and probably get some better pieces.
But like I might just use this one, but I would probably do my normal everyday makeup.
So I mean I don't need specific makeup style for this. I mean you can let you do whatever you want.
I'm gonna go for no makeup.
I handily bought this poster book the other day from Waterstones. The reason amount of the shot at the moment is because I'm
literally just stood in my underwear while I'm waiting to put on the clothes, and ain't nobody got time to dress again.
Just to show you this, so this is basically
Newt Scamander's look if you haven't seen it before, he's got the blue coat the waistcoat and
the white shirt, with the bowtie, and obviously the nice briefcase.
So we're going to be trying to replicate this as close as possible using items just in my house.
I don't know why I'm doing hand actions when you can't see them.
The item number one is this shirt, that is a bit small for me because it
is my primary school shirt. So if you just, I just found a white shirt in my house, don't judge me kids.
I do have a really nice white shirt that I use for my Belle Disney binding cosplay, which I can't find anywhere.
Which I would ordinarily used, but basically any white shirt will do. You're going to have this part covered anyway.
So there's a little bit tight, don't worry. Also
you can pick up white shirts from loads of places really cheap, like
supermarkets like Tesco and Sainsbury's do them for their like back-to-school range, so you can pick them up.
And that's kind of crucial just because he has the white shirt with the bowtie and everything.
So yes. Next thing you'll need is this, I'm gonna just go down a bit.
So you can actually see this is a school pinafore dress in brown.
I've got this actually of ebay didn't buy it specifically for this cosplay, so I can use it. I bought it just to wear out,
because I like pinafore dresses.
And it's very hard to find ones that aren't school ones that you can use like to wear out,
And I really wanted just a brown one, so I got two different styles.
But this one one as soon as I put it on I thought perfect for Newt Scamander cosplay.
It's a little bit on the big side I got it on ebay for like 12 pounds.
And I think this is a size 13 to 14 age-wise.
But I probably should have got 11 to 12.
I don't know how big they're making these school kids these days, but
I think that this is quite baggy.
I would preferably like it to sit a bit higher up which I might do some adjustments to it.
But the length is fine for the purposes of this cosplay, I think. So, yeah, it's a pretty cool,
bit, it ads, it saves you having to go out and get trousers and a waistcoat.
Because it's all of it in one. Now for the bowtie. Now Newt Scamander wears the sort of tweed,
brownish coloured bow tie, however,
I usually I have loads of bowties because I went through a phase when I was about 11
or 12 where all I'd wear was shirts and bowties.
Can't find any of them the moment apart from my flashing green one which is not particularly appropriate.
So I made this one.
This is an old pair of tights that I'd already cut for something else, I think to make a wig cap from my Dumbledore Cosplay.
This is an old pair of tights. I literally just,
I'll un-knot it again. This is just the tight,
folded in half,
with a knot in the middle, which gives that sort of floppy
bowtie look which kind of fits the Newt Scamander thing. And to attach it,
I've just got one of these hair pins, and I'm just going to slide it through the back of the knot,
and then, it would be better with an actual grip.
This is the only hair pin and I could find in my entire house. Which is ridiculous considering I'm a dancer.
You can see how long it's been since I've been to actual dance, since I can't find any hair pins.
Anyway, so once you've attached that and sort of tucked it.
I mean that's not effective at all. Right I would not advise using one of these massive hair pins.
You know like the the teeth, like get a bobby pin, right once you've got it like that,
you can sort of make it sit where it's supposed to be, you might want to trim it a bit the ends.
I think I might because this is a bit long for this sort of look that we're going for. I think it looks alright.
But I think yeah, you could do with a bit of a trim.
Now, Newt wears an iconic sort of blue felt-ish coat, that it looks like. I don't have one of those but I do have this
Blue velvet oversized shirt that I got from a charity shop about a year ago.
That I just I fell in love with when I saw it and
I wore it quite a lot last winter, so I'm just putting that on to complete the
the finished sort of beginning look, because it has a collar that's able to pop I think.
That we can pop that collar yes we can. And Newt's sleeves aren't rolled up,
but I'm rolling up the sleeves, just because. I kind of look like Doctor Who what's going on here.
Mixing up my cosplays a bit, that's how this looks with it and although
it's not a coat,
and it's not long especially, I think it does work because it's quite obvious
with the rest of it kind, of view is supposed to be, or at least it will be when
Fantastic Beasts is released in November.
Now, Newt wears these sort of brown lace ups. They kind of look like suede shoes.
I don't have any of them.
I've got a couple of different pairs of Doc Martens that could work for this, I've decided if we're gonna be doing this try
and make it look as similar as possible.
I've got these brown Cowboy boots obviously they don't really look like it,
but they're the sort of the right colour and I guess they go with the outfit okay. And yeah, they're just kind of cool.
Now I've put the shoes on, I have to duck because they make me a bit taller.
Arguably one of the most iconic parts of his costume is of course his briefcase.
It is crucial because it's what contains the Fantastic Beasts. I don't have a briefcase.
I did have a really cool vintage old brown one and then the locks broke and my mother decided to throw it out without consulting me.
Which it would have been perfect for this and there are I've got a couple of different music boxes,
like not music boxes, isn't winding it and do nanoo nanoo nanoo. But like music instrument boxes, which would do as well.
So if you have got some of them they can also do, but what I'm gonna use today is my satchel.
This has been my satchel since I was literally eight years old.
And I wanted to be a lawyer so my mom went and got me a satchel, because obviously,
to be a lawyer you need a satchel. It's literally my go-to bag. I don't really have bags like I don't
actively go out and buy bags. Because I just always had this, and I always use it, it matches everything.
Anyway enough about my actual fashion, this comes with a strap.
But for the purposes of cosplay, to be honest if I do this,
this has got loads of stuff in it.
Sorry, I use it as storage when I'm not using it.
I'm probably gonna try, and I've looked on ebay for a couple of like old suitcase briefcase type things.
They're quite cheap, or I might go to a vintage store and see what I can find. But just holding it like that.
I think works pretty well, as well as
just having a brown bag. Which the Beasts, could in theory be coming out of.
For some reason my lip has started quivering, my bottom lip.
Which is usually only what happens if I'm super super nervous about something. I'm not nervous at all.
I'm literally just dying of overheating in this jacket, in my bedroom so I don't know what my lip is going.
This is so weird.
Now, to my knowledge.
They haven't released the wand that's Newt Scamander's, so I've just picked up one of my old plastic Harry Potter ones.
I feel like if I was holding a sonic screwdriver right now, I would just be the doctor.
What's going on here. But that pretty much completes the look I'll do some full length shots in a minute. But yeah,
that was me sort of just getting everything from around my house to make this cosplay.
I think it would be really cool once we've got, like I mean we've already got some of the Beasts released and stuff, if I could
do some drawings and have them sort of like coming out the suitcase. That'd look pretty cool, if I'm gonna do this as a proper
cosplay, then I'll definitely look into doing something like that. But I hope this was informative and
that you enjoyed it. And I want to do a few more of these type of cosplays because they're really fun.
I might do someone interesting like Professor Trelawney or someone next because like they're kind of easy ones if you've got loads of different
styles of clothes like me, because I don't really have a set style that I wear. I sort of
have loads of vintage stuff and stuff from Charity shop.
So I will just chuck together, and so I just have a real mix of clothes.
So it's quite easy for me to do but like I say, if you want to do a cosplay,
and you're not really handy at sewing, like, you don't have to sow to make cosplays.
I've sewn cosplays in the past, and I've also just bought bits in the past. So go to charity shops,
adapt things, it can be so easy and cheap just to like put together a cosplay. I've been Newt Scamander. I hope you enjoyed this.