About the Artist

Name: Germaine
Birthday: July 3
Hobbies: Photography, listening to music, doing makeup, cosplaying, dressmaking, fashion and webpage design

Cosplay history:
I first got into cosplay around the same time I started paying attention to J-rock. My first cosplay was Ryutaro from Plastic Tree, consisting entirely of clothes I have lying around, and my makeup was borrowed from my mom and done really badly. Since then I worked hard to make better costumes and apply better makeup, but my first Mana costume actually came almost two years after I launched Mana Wannabe. So far I have only done two out of all the costumes that Mana has ever worn, and I hope to do more in the future.

About the site:
Everything you see here is made from scratch in Paint Shop Pro, except the rose up in the corner, the ruleline on the card and some textures and fonts. I first drew the layout as one graphic file, then I carefully cut the graphic up and coded the structure of the site according to the cuts. It took me about four days to finish the basic structure, and a few more to actually write the tutorial. All photos are taken by me using a point-and-shoot camera, and edited in Paint Shop Pro.

Other websites:
CosplayPiggy.net (under constructions)
Livejournal
Cosplay.com profile (half-abandoned)
OtakuBooty profile
Flickr photograhy gallery

Contacts:
Email: mana@cosplaypiggy.net
AIM and Yahoo: AviaPurgatorika