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Strater carefully applies her makeup in the mirror before she gets into costume. Alexandra Vincent/The Penny Hoarder
Thats something not all cosplayers do.
She wants everyone to look their best, he says.
Around the same time, some friends asked her to make specialty wigs for them.
Thats when Strater decided to pursue commission work more actively.
She changed her cosplay alias to reflect a more professional-sounding name and made her services available to the public.
Thats why she tries to be as open as possible with her clients.
Foster, who is from Winter Park, Florida, applauds Straters attention to detail.
Is it old or new?
Has it been to battle?
To put her customers minds at ease about cost, Strater works out a quote.
It details the price of materials, shipping cost and a per-hour construction fee.
She pockets the total cost of the hours spent building the piece.
Currently, shes in talks with a client to build an elaborate costume involving intricately detailed pieces of armor.
That commission may cost up to $1,000.
A wig commission can take one to two months to make.
She does not take good enough as an option, Foster says about Straters work.
She looks at it as a new challenge and a new learning opportunity to keep her going forward.
She likes her day job and wants to keep her commission work for the weekends.
Instead, she plans to help the community that has given her so much.
Her goal is to use the revenue from future commission work to support her YouTube channel andwebsite.
On her pages, shell release cosplay crafting tutorials free of charge.
I think its just a wonderful hobby and a wonderful thing.
Matt Reinstetle is a staff writer at The Penny Hoarder.
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