Hi everybody! Denise here again with another video! Yaaaaay!
So I just got back from Metrocon in Tampa
and I thought I would do a quick video
showing what I tend to keep in my con bag
Ooooh aaaaaah
What I tend to keep in them does differ depending on the exact situation of the convention that I'm at
and what my costume is
For example I was wearing my Remus costume on the last day that I was at the convetion
and this bag I actually have as just part of my costume
to look like a bag he would carry his books in to class
a lot of my costumes don't actually have a bag that's part of it
and so I may have something smaller that I carry with me
not to mention some conventions I go to I am staying at a hotel, which was the case with Metrocon
Some of them I am driving to, and I might need to keep slightly different things with me
just because I don't have a room to place things, I would have to go back to my car to get whatever it was that I needed
And some costumes I have just need different things with them
Sometimes, you know, I might be wearing something that's a lot more uncomfortable than my Remus costume
and so I might want a lot of headache medicine with me
I tend not to get headaches in my Remus costume because the wig is kind of perfectly sized for my gigantic head
which is unreal, but... yeah, anyway, let's just jump right on in.
So like I said, this bag I have actually as just part of the costume
which is sooo convenient because if somebody wants to come take a picture
I can just leave the bag on. I don't have to worry about taking it off, bending over to pick it back up when the picture's done
just to turn around two minutes later and have somebody else want to come take a picture.
Um
It's fairly large, so I do have the ability to keep quite a
decent amount of things in it
and another thing I wanted to add is that there are a few things in here that I've actually taken out
because it has been a few days since the convention
Um, I tried to put as much stuff back in it that I could remember that I had
but there may be a few things that I know I had with me that I didn't think about before I started filming this video
So just gonna go ahead and open it on up
I do like to carry a water bottle with me of some sort
I have this Marauders Map tervis which I thought was very fitting for the costume
so this is the one that I decided to take with me to the convention
Staying hydrated is super, super, super, super important
The other day that I was at the convention I was wearing my Rapunzel costume
and I completely forgot to put my water bottle in it
and making sure that I stayed hydrated that day was a lot more difficult
But by having a water bottle with me I'm able to get sips of water whenever I need them throughout the day
and I'm also able to refill it a lot
because I need... a lot of water
This convention center actually had a lot of those cool, uh, like water bottle refill fountain... things...
where you can just hold your bottle up to it, and it'll fill it up because it has a sensor
That was really nice
I was able to get a lot of water that I needed
This is one of the things that I took out because I've been using it
and I put it back in.
As you can see, it has water in it that I have been drinking throughout the day today
uh, but yeah. This is my water bottle.
I also have my wallet and my contact case.
Another thing that I do usually carry, especially if I have a larger bag,
even though I wear contacts with my costumes I like to have my glasses
so I usually have my glasses case in here as well, that way if something DOES happen
my contacts start bothering me, I can take them out but I can still see to walk around
and if I need to read something I'll be able to because I'll be able to put my glasses on
Oh, this is my wand for my Remus costume
Obviously I usually don't have this in my bag - unless I'm cosplaying Remus
but. Yeah, isn't it fancy?
It's one of the interactive ones they sell at Universal.
This is my comb.
I don't need it so much with my Remus costume because it has a really short wig
but any time I'm wearing a longer wig, like my Rapunzel costume or my Sailor Moon costumes
I need this a lot throughout the day to brush out the tangles that happen as I'm walking around
Um
It's got these nice wide bristles
It's got this little pointy end
if I need to pick out a certain area
This is a very nice comb to have.
I also had my phone charger - my portable charger
and a cord with me
I don't want my phone dying throughout the day so having this is really nice
because I tend to use my phone quite a lot when I'm at conventions
because I want to take pictures, and I want to text my friends and see where they are
I want to post things on you know, my insta story or whatever
It's nice being able -- a lot of conventions now have their panel schedules posted on different apps you can download
so having my phone handy to look that stuff up is nice and just in general
I go through a lot of phone battery throughout the day
so this comes in handy.
If you don't have a portable charger then obviously
I could have just taken the little bit that you plug into the wall that you put the USB cord in
and that would've worked. I would've had to like, sit down somewhere
but sitting down is nice anyways, so you know, who cares?
Alright I did also have some snacks.
These cookies are really smushed up but I bet they still taste really good, because they are cookies
I also had a bag of cheezits but we ate all of the cheezits so
they are no longer in here.
And, uh
It's a wonder I haven't eaten all these yet.
I don't know why I kept them in my bag these past few days. I could have been eating these cookies.
I also like to keep a smaller bag in my main bag that has a lot of the little items that I want to be able to
find quickly if I need them, but I don't want them to kind of just get scattered and lost throughout my larger bag.
That way if I know I need something that I keep in here, it's very easy for me to find it.
I can just pull this bag out.
Plus a lot of the things I keep in here are things that I want to have every day of the convention
and it's a lot easier to take this bag out of the bag that I'm using on day 1 and go ahead and place it down into
the second bag that I'm wearing the next day.
I dunno, I just think it's really convenient.
and it's nice staying organized, I think.
But in here I've got some band-aids
in case you know, somebody randomly starts bleeding,
or if someone starts to get blisters on their feet you can pop a band-aid on so that they don't
y'know, have to go the rest of the day in complete and total agony
I have a little sewing kit in here.
In case something rips, or I need to mend something.
It did also have a few safety pins in here but I am not sure what happened to them
I know we were using them on costumes and I still have yet to find the safety pins that I took
but normally I have safety pins in here as well.
This is just a little sewing kit you can get at, you know, Walmart... craft stores will have them...
Lots of different places
Just a cheap little thing that has a few different colors of thread, that way you can kind of match something
it's got little bitty scissors, a needle, some pins, and I guess it had the safety pins.
I did also have my medicine with me that I take throughout the day
I didn't need my big pack {my organizer} so the one that I have I can kind of separate, so
I was able to take off just, y'know, a couple days with it to keep with me
If you do have any sort of medicine, please make sure that you're taking it even though you are at a convention
You're gonna be happier in the long run.
But you could also make sure that you've got, you know, ibuprofen, or tylenol, or headache medicne
Whatever you think you're going to need to stay comfortable throughout the day.
Eyelash glue, very important.
I don't wear fake eyelashes with my Remus costume, but my Rapunzel costume I do,
and I had this in here in case my eyelashes just started to come unglued I could go ahead and glue them on quickly
Plus you never know, maybe someone else has that problem and you can save their life by having some handy if they don't have any
Similar to that I have a Tide To Go pen.
They have these little bitty ones that you can get. I got this at Target in the section where they have all their travel things
It's very small, it is super easy to carry around
If you spill something on your costume you want that to be gone as quickly as possible. This can help.
There was actually somebody sitting behind me in the Harry Potter Trivia Panel who needed it
and I was like "oh, I've got some" and I was able to hand it to them
The look on their face was amazing, because they were like, "oh my gosh, I didn't think anyone would actually have it"
but it's always nice to stay prepared.
Super small, super compact, really lightweight
it's not going to weigh you down by carrying it but it could save you a lot of trouble
I've also got some extra bobby pins
This is just the paper that I keep the majority of my bobby pins on
So normally it has a lot more on here.
My thousands of bobby pins that I used with my Rapunzel costume are somewhere else in my luggage at the moment
so they're not on here but I do usually have a lot
It's nice to have.
I didn't really need it with my Remus costume, but when I was wearing my Rapunzel costume
I had to put extra pins in multiple times throughout the day
It's always nice to have them.
I also have some of these oil blotting sheets for your face
I get really shiny
especially when I'm wearing a costume at a convention and I'm surrounded by tons of people
and it's really really warm
My face is going to get shiny and it's nice to be able to just take one of these out,
and blot your face off whenever you need to
Um, I have also sometimes carried handkerchiefs around with me when I've been wearing costumes
Specifically I do it when I'm going to the Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Parties because
it's real hot in Florida, even at Halloween time, and
Like say, when I wore my John Laurens costume
I burnt up and I was sweatin my darn face off, so having a handkerchief with me to just kind of like
you know, get rid of the sweat without like rubbing all of my makeup off onto my hands
was really nice.
But usually at actual conventions since I'm inside where there's air conditioning I don't sweat THAT bad
but having the blotting sheets is really convenient
especially if you are planning on doing like a photoshoot in the middle of the day you can go ahead and just touch up really quickly
before you continue
Speaking of touching up, something else that I forgot to add back in here that I am thinking of now is
makeup that you can use to touch up your face throughout the day.
Powder, uh, I do actually have um. This one is what Mandy was using but, um,
since we were both wearing guy costumes that day part of our crossplay makeup is covering up the color on our lips a little bit
So, you know, what we need for that.
Or even if you are, you know, wearing a lip stick with the costume you might want to have that with you so you can touch it up throughout the day
What else do I have in here?
Um, oh, I had chapstick
Chapstick is really useful, I know I need a lot of chapstick throughout the day
I also had my social media cards that I can give to people
if I decide I've just met you and I want to be friends, here's my information, really easy to hand out
And last but not least, my badge for the convention
A lot of times I will safety pin these to my costumes, but with my Remus costume it was
easy to just have it in the bag, pull it out to show to the convention staffers when I needed it
and I knew that it was going to be nice and safe, it wasn't going to fall off of me and get lost halfway throughout the day
and I would have it
So that is what I had in my convention bag
Let me know what you tend to carry around in yours
Do you have any great ideas for things that maybe I haven't thought about before that I might want to carry around with me?
If you do, let me know down in the comments.
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