Zesty Latex

June 2025

• Who wants to see…

  So it's been a while since I've been here, about 6 years in fact. Where is here you ask? Designing a new cosplay! The last time I made one was way back in 2019, 6 years ago now when I made a Spider Gwen suit. I fell out of the habit in 2020 for obviously covid related reasons, cons just weren't running so I didn't have the motivation to make them in the same way. It took a few years before conventions started running again here and by that point my habits were changed, even if I did have a desire to make a cosplay, I didn't watch media in the same way to have characters that inspire me. But no longer is that the case, for I, the indecisive, have finally made a decision to make an Invisible Women cosplay from Marvel Rivals. Now I will admit that there was still a lot of indecision on which skin to make, at first I wanted to make the Blood Shield skin, but after researching the colours I need I found it would be quite hard to get the shades of grey. Next thought was the regular base…

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May 2025

• My First True One…

  For a long time my fiancée has been wanting a metallic green dress similar to the one I made for myself, which I've been more than happy to do because she's not usually a fan of latex so I'm stoked she's interested in one. While the colour is the same as my one I made a few years back, she wanted a pencil dress similar to another she already had (in traditional fabrics). This project is well overdue, she requested it from me probably multiple years ago but it's just been on the back burner and I've been so bad at getting to it. So today (as of starting to write this) I measured her, made the pattern, cut the material and assembled it, which let me tell you, impresses me that I did it all in one day. Design I had drawn up the design just under a month ago as I'd been wanting to make a move on it and written out the expected measurements I'd need. When I did come to measure it today I did find a few missing ones to add to the list but it wasn't anything too majour. Mostly just a few…

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April 2025

• Purple Test Dress

  Back in the Day To start this story we have to go a long way back in time to far away year of 2023. The success of the green dress from the year before was still fuelling my endeavours (and to be honest still to this day) and I had already decided I was going to make an amazing Opel Marble dress one day. What's an Opel Marble dress? well a dress made from some amazing Opel Marble latex I bought from Yummy Gummy of course. Someday I'll have to show it off here. But back to the story at hand, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out a Princess Cut pattern. Pattern making I find is one of the hardest parts of making these clothes. While I'm slowly getting the hang of it, I've still got a lot to learn and what I do takes time and effort. Oh and don't forget the trial as well, and that's what brings us back to this dress, the intent is two part, one a pattern test to make sure I'm happy with it before using my very fancy material, and two, well I wanted a bit more of a casual latex dress…

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• Oh Snap!

  So I recently ordered a bunch of Grommets, Snaps and Rivets because I thought they would look good in latex... ok ok we've all seen the pictures, I bought them because I KNEW they look good in latex. First things first, let's do some tests, both to figure out how each one works and also get some examples of what they look like. So in order of left to right we have 7mm grommet (or eyelet as I'll keep calling it) 7mm double cap rivet (same cap on both sides) A failed hole with a tear A failed snap (I'll explain shortly) 9mm snap female side 9mm snap male side 9mm snap with cap male (cap is on other side) 9mm snap with cap female side Along with all these parts you need some tools to assemble them, I have the big green DK-93 Snap Press that you can see in the first photo. You can also get hand held plier like ones, or tools designed to hit with a hammer. I got the press because it was only like $30 from where I ordered everything! In the first photo you can also see the green boxes and a…

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March 2025

• A Holey Matter

  The other week I was sitting at dinner out with some friends and I was wearing a pair of my black latex leggings as part of the outfit. Towards the end of the meal I suddenly realised my leggings had spit. Thankfully between my dress and the split being pretty small it wasn't obvious to anyone, not even myself really. My early assessment proved to be correct, a seam had come undone. The best part about that is it's the easiest kind of hole to fix, doesn't need a patch like a tear would as everything already overlaps. So while I repair it, I thought I'd give a bit of a reflection on these leggings. A Pattern Emerges The pattern for these is an old one, infact trace back its lineage and it is the very first pattern I used for any latex way back in 2015, just with a few tweaks over the years. Whether these issues come from the original that I bought, or the modifications I did through the years is kinda hard to tell. While I still have a copy of the original, I'm not planning to make it…

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• When a Mouse Dies

  Other hobbies hey? Yeah I said I'd probably post about them at times and so here's a little post for one of the many other things I do, electronics. A month or two ago while playing Marvel Rivals my mouse started having issues of not being able to hold the click down which is a problem as I was playing that adorable little land shark. I had a look online and found that the series of mouse I like has been discontinued. So what was a girl to do? It's just the switch for the click right? Why don't I fix it myself. Discovery The first place to start with electronics repair is usually online, with how many of a product are made these days, chances are you're not the first to have to tear it down and by finding what others have said about it you can save time, effort and breaking things accidentally. In my case I had a Razer Naga Trinity, and know that a good place to start looking is ifixit. I found a guide for basically the exact issue that involves pulling the switch apart and bending…

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February 2025

• My current favourite

  I thought a good place to start this off would be to talk about my favourite thing I have made to date (and that's including non-latex!) I call it, The Green Dress Yeah I know, I need to work on my naming skills, it's a recurring problem beleive me. This dress came about when my future sibling in law invited us to their birthday party at the local queer club. At the time I was regularly working away from home a week at a time, and it was while I was away I decided "yeah, let's make a dress for that" which was promptly followed by the thought, "guess I'm only going to have 2 days to do it" and such a challenge was born. The Challenge I was starting kind of from scratch with this one, but also had some previous projects to pull parts of. First question was what kind of dress did I want to make, and being me, I love the skater dress style so that was an obvious choice, full circle skirt, form fitting top with little sleeves and a nice cut out considering it was…

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• Welcome

  Welcome to the first post of this blog, my name is Lena and I'm starting this so I have somewhere I can write about my thoughts, projects and whatnot. I expect a lot will be my latex crafting adventures, maybe some wearing of it, but there will absolutely be bits of my other crafts in here beit chocolate making, cooking, building machinery, blacksmithing and who knows what else. Updates will be sporadic as things happen I guess but I'll try to keep up with it.

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