When it comes to professional cosplayers few can match the skills, beauty, and popularity of this little 5’1 fireball from Japan. If you’re not following her work as a cosplayer than you should be. Han boasts an Instagram following of over 500,000, a Twitter following of nearly 170,000 and she’s got almost 40,000 subscribers to her Youtube page. Not only is Yaya one of the most beautiful cosplayers around, she’s also one of the most skilled having done this for nearly 20 years. If you want to learn a bit more about her, here’s part of her bio from her website
Yaya Han is a costume designer, model and cosplay entertainer based in Atlanta, GA. She discovered the unique creative pastime of cosplay at Anime Expo in 1999 as a young fan, with no prior trained skills in sewing or crafting. However, Yaya has always been artistic, especially with pen and ink illustrations, so she quickly absorbed the heart and soul of costume making. Yaya is completely self-taught, mostly due to lack of funds and resources to enroll in classes for fashion or costume design.
At the beginning, she could only afford a used $40 sewing machine and a sewing book from a thrift store. Yaya credits persistence and repeated failure as her greatest teachers in costume creation. To this day, she has made close to 300 costumes in the genres of anime/manga, comic books, video games, sci-fi and her own original designs.
Check out some of her creations below:
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