My beginnings

My name is Tarah-Rex, and I am a Cosplayer.

I've been cosplaying since January of 2012 when I started working on Lilith from Borderlands 1. Little did I know that Lilith would be the beginning of a tedious, labour intensive, tear jerking, beautiful, addictive obsession.

To me, Cosplay is a bittersweet, love-hate obsession in it's purest form. There have been several costumes I have started and never finished for various reasons (ex. tears, blood, tantrums and obsenity) and plenty that I have powered through because it just seemed worth it.

Now I'm rambling.

Backing it up a little bit as to why I actually got into Cosplay. For years, throughout highschool and in my very early 20's I would admire cosplayers and their ability to make beautiful reproductions of all the characters I love so much. I've always been artistic, but I never really "dabbled" in the art of sewing. I am clumsy, and if you give me the means to injure myself (a sharp fast moving needle perhaps?) I most definitely will injure myself. SO I resigned myself to being a life-long Cosplay admirer and observer.

Fast forward to November/December of 2011. I was bored, plugging through facebook because I had nothing better to do in my spare time apparently. I stumbled across a post with a picture of Lilith, titled "Do you look like Lilith? If you do, check this out". I had been told repeatedly by friends that I had a strong facial resemblance to the foxy gun weilding siren, so for kicks, I clicked and read onward. This is where I discovered that Gearbox was holding a casting call for someone to be their Live Action Lilith for footage in the anticipated Borderlands sequel, Borderlands 2. Expecting absolutely nothing, I submitted some photos and went on my merry way, forgetting the whole thing.

A few days later I got an email asking for more footage. I was shocked. After a few more emails back and forth, as well as a skype session, I didn't end up getting the role (Check out the stellar work by the girl they went with, Yasemin Arslan), but the experience left me with a renewed sense of purpose. If I apparently had such a strong resemblance to Lilith, surely I could pull off a wicked Cosplay of her.

And so it began.