By the Bel: ROCK ON!

How will you be dressed for Supanova Sydney and/or Perth? Not too long now and cosplay is going to be FANTASTIC this year.

You don’t have to go dressed as an anime character. Some of my favourite cosplayers in the last few years have been really inventive. We’ve had a really convincing Doctor Who and I don’t even think he was with the girl dressed as the Tardis.

We’ve seen Poison Ivy and I keep running into Batman. Hiya Batman!

But I thought this time with all the colourful people in music right now we could not go past two of the most glamorous ones in the industry, one male one female.

Aric of Beat That Face has the most impressive eyes I have seen on youtube, and they are the crowning glory to his take on Adam Lambert’s eye makeup from the For Your Entertainment album cover.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RQ-04Q0uY8 (there’s a funny skit before he does the tutorial)

Then the other stand out glamorous person in the last year had GOT to be Lady Gaga. Here’s MasqueradeMakeup’s version of the look Lady Gaga did in the Grammy Awards performance of Bad Romance.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNQZP-Loumk

But along with these two we should really look at two icons from the past as well, since everything old is new again. Cyndi Lauper is still rocking her signature look, but ‘back in the day’ she was the quintessential  pop icon and was more far out than Madonna when it came to hair and makeup… here is kandeejohnson’s take on recreating Lauper…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm7Gy9NdoIg (this is why anyone who lived through the 80’s would really rather they NOT come back)

And you can NOT talk music without mentioning the GODS of rock and roll KISS. Tinsoldier8 shows us how to do a Gene Simmons face…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_n6RuT7dj0

So don your fancy pants, grab your dancing shoes and a mic and rock on out at Supanova 2011.

Don’t forget to go on over and say hi to Marianne on the Dymocks stall!