Do you ever feel like you need to look a certain way to cosplay?

You can still pull off a good cosplay if you look nothing like the character. It still helps to use transformative makeup to appear more convincing. Of course there are other aspects that come into play, such as physique, or skin tone that might make it more difficult to create the most accurate cosplay, most people don’t have their physique or features. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t look like them. but these things are less important than what causes people to cosplay in the first place; making friends and have fun.

I simply can't get rid off this cringy feeling I get when I imagine myself in a cosplay I don't look good in. :/ I can't cosplay as a muscular, incredibly obese or really underweight character for example or characters that are really tall. I wanted to make a Darth Vader cosplay years ago, but I accepted that I wouldn't look intimidating and cool in it with my 1,73 m :D Whenever I see people cosplaying who look nothing like the character I cringe a little bit, but it's not like I can't accept it. Everyone can do whatever he wants to do, so I don't really care, I just don't want to do it myself.

One of my long term goals is certainly cosplay. Weight loss is a cinch with how hard my current job is. The positive is the big checks, which really allows me time to budget and think about what costume pieces to get for any character.