Celebrating 10 Years!
Category: Welcome!
Holiday Break
As we enter the holiday break, I wanted to say thank you all for your continued support these last nine years!
This year presented me with a lot of challenges, but I got a dream job a few months ago, so things in life have improved a lot! I know I’ve posted OOTDs almost exclusively this year so I could concentrate on getting settled into that aforementioned dream job, but next year, I’ll be bringing some more variety of content.
Speaking of next year, please join me celebrating the tenth year of this site! 10 years?! I’m super touched and moved by your continued support, and I thank you with all my heart!
I began this blog to encourage and inspire you to enjoy your style, whether it be nerdy, gothy or sparkly; regardless of size, age or budget restrictions.
I will continue to do so with OOTDs with shopping links, articles with tips and tricks, and inspiration to wear the dress, buy the piece you’ve always wanted to try, take that selfie and express your personality through style.
Because style turns you into a walking, talking work of art and self-expression, and you live your life in it.
So, please join me for 10 more years of fun!
I love all of you, and thank you again.
Welcome to the New and Improved Site!
When I originally started this site back in 2016, my son and I were pretty immersed in the cosplay/con world. We formed a cosplay team, 9 O’Clock Bedtime Cosplay. The name came from a rude ex-boyfriend that despite traveling with us (on my dime), refused to head back to the hotel for the kiddos bedtime; but to be honest, how else are you going to date someone else at the same time if you don’t shuffle the girlfriend and her kid off to the hotel?! We also started this site, named raisingaheronotavillain.com. A mouth-full, but accurate.
The lapse in my romantic judgment aside, the kiddo and I had an amazing time, but time does go on as you know. Before I knew it, I had a middle-schooler that didn’t want to cosplay with his mom anymore (shocking, I know). So, I kept going with the site under a new name, InPlainSight.style. The idea being that rather than non-stop, screen-accurate cosplaying, I would begin to incorporate my style and nerdiness into my everyday wardrobe.
Over time, friends and fellow cosplayers started encouraging me to publish a guide to help others learn how to do the same. As the site’s popularity grew, so did the demand for a book. So, I decided to combine the most-useful articles, put them in one place into a workbook-type format. “In Plain Sight: Using Everyday Cosplay to Express Your Inner Superhero”, offers readers a step-by-step guide to getting started with Cosplay, the various types and styles of Cosplay, how to create everyday looks, and the world of Bounding. The book includes shopping guides, sources, convention pack lists, Con pack lists and more.
As time passed, my style grew to include more of goth styles I love, as well as sparkly pink and kawaii clothes, mode-styles and J-Fashion, so I rebranded to “NerdySparkleGoth.com”.
Please take a look around, click on the links to shop around and drop a comment if you’d like. All are welcome here, regardless of size, age and/or identity. Remember, clothes do not have a gender, so you can wear anything and everything you want! Let me help you find those pieces to look and feel your most confident self!
Thank you so much for your continuing support and encouragement! It means so very much to me. Don’t forget to drop me a comment or an email with what you like/don’t like on this site, as well as what you aren’t seeing, but would like to see.
xoxo
Kim
Con Pack List
Team Build Checklist
Please click below to print the Team Build Checklist:
Quick Mini-Vacay to Disneyland
Benji had three weeks off for the holidays, and that last week, the poor kid was stuck in the house while I was at work during the day. So, I asked for a couple days off, and we put our annual passes to good use.
While Disney is building the Avenger’s Campus over at Disney California Adventure, we decided to concentrate our time in Disneyland park, specifically, Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge.
I wore my new skirt from Her Universe featuring BB8 and D-O. I paired it with Doc Martens and a gray tee. I finished the look with a leather jacket from Torrid and my Millenium Falcon necklace from Amazon. Then I found a great scarf/hood combo at the park and snagged it. It is very Kylo Ren-inspired. Inspired enough, that I got detained by Kylo himself. I was eventually released with a stern warning.
For our pictures, I bought a kid’s lightsaber. They are very reasonably priced at $32 and the blade is colored, which makes it great for pictures day or night. They also have a shorter blade and are much lighter, which again, makes it great for pictures and for carrying it around the park all day.
Benji tried on this jacket and immediately feel in love with it. He also really liked this staff. Needless to say, we went a little nuts in the market place in Batuu! Totally worth it!
Available shopping links are above so you can shop these looks yourself!
Happy Shopping!
Love, Kim and Benji
raisingaheronotavillain is now InPlainSight.style!
We have made a big change to the site, in case you haven’t noticed already!
We didn’t come to the decision to change the name lightly, but because it was so long, Benji is being raised pretty well so far and we wanted to change our focus a bit, we decided to make the leap. We really wanted to focus on everyday living as a nerd.
How to integrate your fandoms into your everyday life. Not with just everyday cosplay, which is fun to wear for sure, but also more subtle ways, bounding, dapper looks, pin-up style and the like.
We hope you like the update! Please share your thoughts with us. We love to hear from you!
Love, Kim and Benji
Wonderful photos by Justin Davidson Photography! Click on the link to book him today!
Holiday Hiatus
We are currently on a holiday hiatus, but come visit us next year for more fashion, nerdy mayhem and the usual shenanigans…
Until then, Happy Holidays (Yes, ALL of them!)
Love, Kim and Scout
So Ya Say You Want To Cosplay?
Fantastic article about getting started in cosplay!
Justice League Behind The Scenes Featurette
This makes the Justice League movie look pretty good!