I'm here to write about a cosplay store on eBay called Artistic Sprouts. I love cosplaying alot! I try to make my costumes with every oppurtunity I get but sometimes, which may happen to a few cosplayers, problems come up such as making it before the deadline or your budget for materials manage to sky rocket to an impossible price due to how accurate you really want your costume to be! Well whether you make your cosplays or not Artistic Sprouts is an amazing store even though they tend to be quite expensive ( Some costumes range from $99- almost $250 depending on the add on for your costume). I remember being super determined to do an Append Miku but for during my search for the materials I noticed that my cost was going to be well over $300! While searching on eBay for my Append Miku wig (Append ver. has a different color tone) I found Artistic Sprouts Append costume as soon as I saw photos I fell in love with this costume but seeing as how determined I was to make the costume myself I decided to watch the item instead. During my time of raising my Miku fund I was working as a server at Convention Center downtown from where I lived. I made good money but with horrible hours, due to favoritism at my work, within a month I had made about $200 off of just 2 paychecks. sweatdrop Another month went by and my hours kept getting cut shorter and shorter because of the holidays causing less events being held, favoritism along with drama was annoying me so I ended up leaving. my last paycheck was $50! After the holidays I decided to buy off of Artistic Sprouts, I was super skeptical on buying from them I was worried about getting something half assed made. But I decided to take a chance. I looked at the beautiful costume seeing that sizing was an issue with my body type I messaged the owner asking about custom sizing. The owner who replied was very kind and helpful and after getting the information I wanted I chose to buy the costume so with my $250 along with my $100 eBay gift Certificate that I got from doing an internship there. The whole total was $323 (Costume= $118, shipping= $39, custom size price= $28, Headset=$30, Waist pieces= $80, Anklet=$28 ) The shipping was fast and when I opened my package I was in love! heart My costume looked exactly like the photos in their store! (sorry better photos coming soon > n < ) *Note I oredered this during January 2013*
Pros:
yum_strawberry Great materials
yum_strawberry Fast shipping
yum_strawberry Worth what I paid for
yum_strawberry Great communication with seller
yum_strawberry Seller was very kind and understanding regardless of the situation, wanting to help.
yum_strawberry The headset, anklet, and waist pieces are made out of a foam like material/plastic and look very fragile but are actually quite durable
Cons:
emotion_8c Might be too expensive for some people's budgets
I give Artistic Sprouts 5 puddings out of 5 emotion_yatta
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