A photography that's meaningfull for me

This photo here is one of my favorite photos, basically cause I like how I look in it (which isn't usual at all) and I'm doing something that I haven't done in many years (and might probably never do again) and made me learn a lot of things that inspire some of my projects nowadays: I'm making cosplay.

This is me! Back in 2016 (I had 19 back then, I'm currently 26), cosplaying Jolyne Cujoh from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure in the Anime Expo 2016

Cosplay is getting dressed and acting like a fictional character. It's pretty popular nowadays, but it wasn't that much back in 2016, it was just starting to be something. My friends and I were currently obsessed with "Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken" ("Jojo's Bizarre Adventure"), a manga writen and drawes by Hirohiko Araki. Recently the animated version of the manga concluded in Netflix his 6th arc, called Stone Ocean, but in 2016 Stone Ocean's story was only disponible in manga scans. The protagonist of that arc is the character I'm cosplaying here: Jolyne Cujoh. 

Jolyne Cujoh, protagonist of the 6th arc of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean and the only female protagonist in the whole series

That's was both my most hard-working cosplay and my last one: even though I got so many photos and had lots of fun, I inmediately knew that I wasn't cutted up for being a cosplayer. But I did enjoy to act like characters and to dress in special, fictional-like outfits, and the forced exposition made me develop some new skills that's I use a lot till this very day, like being more comfortable with pictures of myself and acting a character in front of many people. 

I still happen to have the wig, but I selled the clothes long time ago. Making cosplay can be pretty expensive if you don't manage to make some money out of it (which is possible), which lend me to stop doing it. But, God knows! Maybe I'll try it again sometime! There are many characters that I like a lot, and that I would totally enjoy to cosplay (Maybe, when I get a little money, I would love to do an Arcane Jinx Cosplay, what do you think?)

It's an important and meaningfull photo for me cause at the time I wasn't that used to photoshoots and stuff, lacked a ton of confidence and didn't even knew how to make up that well. But that didn't stopped me! I really wanted to go in that cosplay, and all my friends were doing matching characters too! It ended up being super fun and we got a lot of photos taken by so many people around the expo.

What about you? Would you cosplay your favorite characters?