SINGAPORE: A petite woman is dressing up inside a bedroom in a HDB flat, getting ready for work.
She puts on contact lenses, dabs pink blush on her cheekbones and sticks on false eyelashes before putting on a black dress.The contact lenses she has put on are red, her black dress comes with a furry coat and she has on her head a brunette wig, which she combs while sitting on the bedroom floor, which is covered with even more blue, brown and blonde wigs.
Reg, who goes by Rea Kami in the cosplay community, is one of a rare breed of full-time cosplayers in Singapore. She knows of just one other full-time cosplayer and cosplay event organisers do not have an estimate of how many such full-timers there are here. “To me, cosplaying is how I pay tribute to my favourite characters and bring them to life, ” she says.
Vanessa, 22, who declined to give her full name, is the other full-time cosplayer in Singapore that Reg knows of.
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