Shiro Makeup/Wig Tutorial

First things first, I want to thank The Five Wits for sending me this amazing Shiro wig cleverly titled “I’ll Form The Head”. It’s only $30 on their website, and fits me very well—and I have a HUGE head and a hard time fitting all of my hair into wig caps. You can find the wig here (x) (Link will open in a new window).

I fell HARD into Voltron recently. Like marathon-the-whole-series-in-two-days falling. So of course, I decided I want to cosplay every single paladin AND Allura. I already have Lance mostly finished, but... Space dad had my heart from day 1. I knew I just had to cosplay him!

I don’t do anything special to fit my hair in a wig cap. I just use an open ended netted wig cap and just… tuck up my hair and slip my wig on. I do usually secure my wigs in with bobby pins, but for the sake of this tutorial, and thanks to not bringing any to my dorm… there’s no bobby pins. So you might see some of my hair poke through.

Also note. Make sure the wig you are using is elasticated like this one. If it is netted or something, it’s hard to fit a lot of long hair!

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Changing gears for a minute, I decided to start with my basic foundation and then go on to the scar. I decided to take my foundation and some dark brown eye shadow, and mix it on the back of my hand until I got the color I liked. I used a small angle brush to do this.

Then I just sort of painted it on! I didn’t want it symmetrical or anything, as a real scar wouldn’t be, but I did try to make it even in terms of thickness on both sides.

Then I added a little bit of this color on the crease of my eyes as a base coat to work off of later. I added a bit under my eyes too, as space dad is Very Tired ™ and I wanted to look like a very worn out parental unit.

Then wait, let it dry, which takes ages. But the scar can still be a little wet when we do the next part- coloring.

To make sure I was getting the color right, I pulled open a reference image of Shiro, and wondered why the hell the scar was pink…

Anyway. Time to shade. I used this reddish/brown color I had in my ELF Makeup Pallet and dabbed it on, working from the center and out to the edges. I did this to try and concentrate the heaviest color by my nose, where the scar would be deeper.

I realized here it still wasn’t bright enough, so I just used a bright hot pink and dabbed that on top VERY lightly to make the color a bit closer to cannon. I used my finger to make sure that color was firmly on top of the foundation.

Onto the lips! I used a lip balm first, because foundation is a recipe for chapped and painful lips let me tell you. Then after a very nice smelling balm, I put a TINY bit of foundation onto my lips. Now I look ™ manly.

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Onto the eyes! I used some dark brown eyeshadow on top of the base I put down earlier to darken the crease area, and blended that out.

Then I realized looking at my reference that Shiro wears fucking eyeliner and laughed my ass off for a solid 5 minutes.

Then got to work with my ELF liquid liner in black, doing a VERY THIN line and a small wing. Try not to make the wing super thick and feminine here!

Then for eyebrows. Mine are already very thick and dark, so I used black eyeshadow to help fill in and shape my eyebrows to be more like his.

Put your wig on AFTER you do your makeup, so you have more room to work and there's no white floof in your face. And also pull your wig on from back to front, then work on adjusting all the little flaps.

(Also have your roommate take pictures for you if you’re making a tutorial)