Panam Palmer cosplay photos (Cyberpunk 2077) - Part 1

Because why wouldn't I want to be Night City's sassiest nomadic heartthrob?

This Panam Palmer cos­play is prob­a­bly my first some­what seri­ous attempt at cos­tum­ing. I've dressed up for Halloween par­ties before, that was often last-minute, and I didn't go all-out.

This time, I felt the pres­sure to look amazing.

Here are the reference pictures:

There's no end to how deep some­one could fall into the rab­bit hole of cos­play per­fec­tion­ism — both in terms of char­ac­ter accu­ra­cy and beau­ty stan­dards. There's always going to be some prick nit­pick­ing at every lit­tle (per­ceived) imperfection.

I try not to lose my sleep over what peo­ple might think of my Panam Palmer cos­play pho­tos, though. For one, the haters would hard­ly be above reproach them­selves. But also, they're not the ones invest­ing time and mon­ey into hair­styling, make­up, por­trait pho­tog­ra­phy, and (not least) the actu­al outfit.

(There are so many "hid­den" costs to being a mod­el. I'd know because I've worked as one in a vari­ety of settings.)

Let's be hon­est, though: plen­ty of my friends and fol­low­ers were excit­ed just to see Panam's high­ly detailed jack­et come to life.

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Panam Palmer cosplay but make it 1997 in color aesthetic

The first time you meet Panam Palmer isn't when she's bent over, tin­ker­ing with a car engine. (Though that was mem­o­rable for many Cyberpunk 2077 players!)

You can see her talk­ing to Nash in the Afterlife around the time you meet up with Dexter DeShawn. Also, when you go back to vis­it Rogue, Panam storms off and rants on the phone out­side — pre­sum­ably about Rogue Amendiares and Nash Bane.

As such, I made sure to get sil­ly pic­tures in my Panam Palmer cos­tume, gri­mac­ing at my phone, too. What's the point of cos­play if not to have fun with it?

That being said, I still def­i­nite­ly do have per­fec­tion­is­tic ten­den­cies — and there's room for improve­ment. (In one of the pho­tos above, I didn't notice until after shoot­ing that my leo­tard was crooked!)

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Next Panam Palmer cosplay attempt: what I would do differently

I'm learn­ing as I go, so here's what I learned "the hard way" about cos­play­ing Panam from Cyberpunk 2077.

1. Use a finer-toothed comb for neater hair sectioning

Frankly, I didn't do well at sec­tion­ing hair. But combs with fin­er teeth and small­er spac­ing in between are spe­cial­ized for that pur­pose and can make the process go a lot more smoothly.

I also have a bet­ter idea of how to sec­tion hair after watch­ing a time-lapse of some­one installing wool faux locs. If I'm try­ing a hair­style that's not opti­mal for my nat­ur­al hair tex­ture, I at least want to make it look decent!

2. Use a styling pomade for more control of stray hairs

Flyaways and frizz are a pain to pho­to­shop out. Enough said.

3. Skip the white eyeliner on the waterline, or maybe use a more natural color

It does look like Panam's eye­lid rims are quite light, but using white eye­lin­er on my water­line didn't quite suit me here.

It makes my eyes look rounder and more doe-like when I'm cos­play­ing a fox-eyed char­ac­ter. (My eyes are nat­u­ral­ly quite squin­ty anyway.)

4. Not cut the leotard neckline as low

That's my bad. I mean, hey, I doubt many peo­ple will com­plain about a nude bra peek­ing through, but it'd be nice at least to have the option of more mod­esty with­out the jacket.

5. Other Panam Palmer cosplay makeup adjustments

These details are pret­ty sub­tle com­pared to the pre­vi­ous points, but they're eas­i­ly incorporated:

• Blend the fake freck­les a bit bet­ter; use a lighter shade and give it a more con­sis­tent spread.
• Higher arched eye­brows + eye­brow slit
• Lighter, soft­er con­tour — espe­cial­ly if I'm in out­door nat­ur­al lighting

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What's next?

These pho­tos were just a test run!

I intend to wear this Panam Palmer cos­play again in an envi­ron­men­tal shoot — maybe out­side among city build­ings, maybe inside an aban­doned indus­tri­al cen­ter with a friend.

(Yes, I total­ly could do it myself with a tri­pod, but I'm wary of the off chance that some­one will steal my equip­ment while I'm stand­ing a ways away!)

In the mean­time, though, the jack­et is beau­ti­ful enough to wear just as myself — picture-perfect make­up and light­ing or not.

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