Where to shop lolita video!

New video is up! This time I will talking about where to buy lolita.

                                                           New video :)

Where to shop lolita

Hi beauties! I have received a message on my FaceBook page asking where to shop lolita. I just want to thank the person who ask me for advice! So first things first! If you live in the United States, you will most likely be purchasing lolita items from online! Most lolita items come from East Asia. Unless you live there of course kudos to you! I will be unable to name EVERY store that sells lolita so I will mention a few big and small shops.


If you are  new to lolita Bodyline is a good store to start. Bodyline is a Japanese cosplay/costume and lolita store that sells really good stuff and for cheap!The price range for Bodyline is between $30-70 but if you catch them while on sale then you save even more money and get more items! Since this store is in Japan, the shipping does take a bit of time. I usually get my order from a month and week. So if you do want to get items from here I suggest you order early especially if you want a piece for an upcoming event. Their payment methods are CC and paypal, here is the link: bodyline.co.jp





Next place to shop lolita, are auctions! Japanese auctions such as yahoo have great stuff and you can get rare items for great or even expensive prices. Keep in mind these are auctioning sites so the items goes to the highest bidder. And that the types of sites are in the native language, in this case Japanese! But using you browser translator could be enough to get by. Below I am showing of what the site look like, all I did was type in 'angelic pretty' this is what is shows me! Link is here: auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/



Now for some lolita items on the more expensive side of the spectrum. You night have heard of brand lolita items. When one mean 'brand' they do not exactly mean the logo of the item, but more of the greatness of the brand itself. Usually 'brand' items are very sought after. Angelic Pretty (AP) and Baby The Stars shine Bright (BTSSB) are considered 'brand'. There are more but for now I will stick to these two since these are very well known. (AP) & (BTSSB) are indeed expensive. BUT THEY ARE GORGEOUS. I call them the Tesla and Gucci of lolita fashion because they pretty much are in my opinion. with these dresses you will be spending money unless you can find them second hand or even on auctions like I mentioned above. These are both Japanese brands, and they do have US locations in NYC and Los Angeles Angelic Pretty Site. Baby The Stars Shine Bright Site. 

Another great place to shop is LaceMarket! On this site the expensive dresses (AP) & (BTSSB) you can get these dresses here for less. LaceMarket is a place where people sell their old or unwanted lolita items. Every brand is sold here. The expensive dresses you want, you can try to find them for less here! There are auctioned items and buy it now items so really you have look for whatever you want. Link to LaceMarket  Below is what is looks like when you go on their site! The items here have no central location be aware that you could be buying from a n international seller and shipping rates are expensive. The great thing about this i that you can buy from soooo many brands, so lots of choices here.

Next I want to mention a Korean brand called Lief. Their website is in Korean so using your translator if you do not know Korean will be helpful. From what I can tell you have to make an account to purchase their things. I am not very experienced with this store so I could be wrong as well. Here is their site: www.lief.co.krFinally I will speak of a well known Chinese site name TaoBao. The thing with TaoBao is that the site itself is not a store but more of a place where there are many stores. Similar to how ebay has many sellers and their stores.But if you do not know Chinese or use a translator you might have some trouble with it. Also you are not actually able to order directly from a store because they do not ship outside of China. You have to use a shopping service. A shopping service is basically a third party agent with going in to get your purchased items and ship them to you. Through this shopping service's website you give them the link to what you want to buy and then you purchase and indicate the correct item through them. You will be paying for the item(s), the service fee for using the shopping service and the shipping. This does take some time to be shipped to you so be wary of that as well. There are many shopping services but a few that I know of: SpreeNow , TaoBaoSpree ,   Yoybuy, . There are many others and they each have their own perks.

Thanks so much for reading! If you liked this please follow me for more. This was a VERY long post I know but this isn't even all the stores. I can not tell you all the stores for lolita but could only give you a few. I will be making a YouTube of this as well so feel free to check that out when it's out! Until next time!

New video up!

Hi beauties! Hope the holidays are going well for you! This week's video is about my Halloween meet up :) If you enjoyed it please like & subscribe for more! Comment & tell me about your Halloween meet ups and events!

                                                         Halloween Meet Video

Flashbacks & updates

Hi beauties! The holidays are near, and as we are prepping for our holiday cheer, I was just recalling memories, places and cons I've been to as I am writing my anime conventions goals in the new year. It is a bit early, I know but we have less than 2 months left of 2015! So I am just doing a throwback to an anime convention I went to over the summer. For this coord, I did a kawaii decora lolita hybrid. My theme was royalty and it was my first time doing something like this. I was so excited when I first did this coord and happy how it turned. I gained lots more experience since then and I look forward to doing something like this again and improving it. I'd like to do more hybrid styles in the new year definitely! smile emoticon Let me know if you've done anything different or creative in your cosplay or j-fashion journeys


I also have exciting news! I will be entering a contest through Kawai.i International (Contest Link)! I am working on my coordinate, but the contest theme is dolly fashion. I have a few ideas as to how I will approach this, and I want to try my best with my limited experience as of now. When I enter I will; let you know and I hope you will like my dolly fashion enough to vote for me! :D Until then, have great day beauties!

One last thing, I received a video request so i will post that ASAP along with my thought for our community Halloween meet-up, I apologize for being behind on videos. I am a full-time university student so there ill be sometimes all y projects and work become overwhelming where I cannot make the time to do videos. Since Thanksgiving break is coming, I will definitely film and upload during that time :D

Royal theme

 
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Ramen shop meet up video

Hi beauties! I uploaded my video about my Ramen meet up on youtube! Next I have my Halloween meet up to do! Should be up by next week ! Please like, comment and subscribe if you enjoyed the video! The link is below! Until next time~!

Ramen Meet Up Video (ෆ ͒•∘̬• ͒)◞

First Halloween meet-up !

Hello beauties!! Hope you had a happy Halloween! The weather for this Halloween weekend was GREAT! So in my last post I mentioned I would be hosting my very first lolita meet up! I will talking about that this week along with my thoughts of the meet ups. So for this meet up we decided to go to a botanical gardens in a neighboring town, about 30-35 minutes away from where I live. It was such a beautiful place and a diamond in the rough!

We had a reservation at the cafe but we were early so we decided to explore the gardens. The red, yellow and green trees were beautiful, we were awe at how beautiful autumn could be. We walked by a greenhouse an decided to take some pictures while we wait.







There were 6 people attending including myself, so we were a small group. One of them was my best friend and sister so I was so happy that she came along! She is not a lolita, she does cosplay but she enjoyed this meet up so much that she wants to go to more lolita meet ups ໒( ♥ ◡ ♥ )७.
The other attended were 2 of my newly found lolita friends, one of the lolita's boyfriend and a girl who is interested in lolita but has yet to start.

For my Halloween coord, I wanted to wear one of my new Alice prints from Bodyline. So since it was Halloween, I wanted to give off a Alice feel. In the gardens I looked like a lost Alice LOL I was like a candy Alice, very sweet and colorful. I really love this jsk, it is such a beautiful print and has is very cute!

We finally found the Japanese Gardens and we were so excited of how beautiful it was. There was a Japanese gate called a Torii gate. It is the red gates that leads to the path of the shrine. When we entered there a pond with a bridge over it, as seen in the picture.

This was the bridge in the above picture I was mentioning, and it was a great spot for a variety kind of pictures! I cannot wait to actually visit a Japanese shrine, and hopefully soon!

There were so many Japanese style statues, such as you would find in  areal Japanese shrine. I sort felt like we did travel and they did a great job integrating that into these gardens. There was a Japanese shrine there but unfortunately it was closed so we were not able to go in.

This was our group of girls that attended the Halloween meet! I had so much fun and look forward to the next one ❣⃛(❛ั◡˜๑)

Final Thoughts of The Meet Up

So I planned this meet up since about 3 weeks ago, to give people some time to decide. At first there were about 7-13 people going. Only 6 people attended as seen in the picture above. 3 of them were lolitas, including myself. So what happened to those people? Some people unfortunately had some last minute cancelling which was totally fine but the stuff I had planned would have been great for a larger group. For our activities, I had lolita bingo, a raffle, and a best Halloween coord contest. I had prizes too! Even though few people did attend, it was very fun and we already planned what our next meet up would be haha! We ended up only playing lolita bingo and everyone got to win a prize! I will admit I was a bit disappointed and a bit upset that I did deliberately tell people by a specific date to let me know who is attending for a reservation of the cafe in the gardens. But the day before about 3-5 people indicate they are unable to attend. I understand life happens and things come up last minute, but I was told a number of X amount of people attending which I told the cafe but about 1/3 of attendees attended. I did mention that my local lolita community is not active and in my opinion pretty much dead. It is a harsh way to put it but it is the truth. I do want our lolita community to be more active so I'm not going to stop trying to set up meetups,because that's not how our community will become active. This was a very great learning experience for me as I decide to set up more meetups, I learned what works and what would have more people attend and how I can become a better host for future meet ups. I am so glad I did this meetup, I bonded with the few lolitas that were there and I feel more unified with a lolita community. I will making a YouTube video of this to really talk about it & to give tips for meet ups along with footage of the actual site ♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ) Let me know what you did on your halloween weekend! Did you attend any meet ups? Let me & thanks for reading!

My most recent lolita meet up

Hello beauties! It's me again! ♡＾▽＾♡ if you haven't read about my lolita meet this past weekend then please read that! I'm going to talk about what I wore for that meet-up! ( do you sense a photo shoot coming again?) -ω(´•ω•｀)♡ So I wore a Alice print dress! I decided to wear something not too bright so I went for a toned down colorway.  The print is actually a Alice and wonderland print. My headband is a n accessory that came with the dress. This dress also came with and apron!! with bells!!!! I think of a foodie lolita with this on LOL (which is a very accurate description of me)   It was a very beautiful day that day so I couldn't resist a mini photo shoot! I might actually ask a fried who is very into photography to do an actual photo shoot. Next I will be going to a Halloween meet up and I can't wait for the beautiful pictures I will take along with my lolita friends! So for now enjoy my pictures of my coord and see you next time ! ♡〜٩(^▿^)۶〜♡

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Ramen lolita meet up!

Yummy ramen time (♡´౪`♡)

  Hey beauties! So this weekend I went to my first lolita meet up! As I mentioned in my previous post it's basically a group of people in frilly clothing gathering & hanging out! I had so much fun! The meet up was about and our away from my town so I had a bit of a driving distance but I was not alone! I recently meet a lolita at my university and we decided to go together. It was so great going to new territory with someone I somewhat know, and it was less intimidating.

So we went to a ramen shop in town, my friend and I were a bit late because it was the beginning of rush hour ( lol ) As soon as we got there we were welcomed very warmly! My friend and I got separated because of the seating arrangements but it was great! I meet some wonderful girls and a cool guy. The first person I met was a girl originally from Thailand! I love her coord and she was so nice to me! Everyone were so great, friendly and I enjoyed my time there so much!

The food was DELICIOUS! I have never had real ramen, I've only had ramen cup noodles and the store bought microwavable ramen so I was very HUNGRY and EXCITED to taste real Japanese style ramen. I had NO IDEA what to order so I ordered whatever I knew. I actually ordered their most popular ramen and tonkatsu. I learned about tonkatsu in my Japanese class once so I was so happy to recognize something LOL

Ramen shop!

My ramen

Tonkatsu!

So after eating for 15-20 minutes we were at the ramen shop total of almost 3 hours! We were just talking and laughing about so many things, and I learned a lot of stuff! Unfortunately by the time we decided to leave the shop, it was getting dark outside! But I brought my awesome camera and got to take pictures of the lolitas ♡´･ᴗ･`♡

Our group (♡ >ω< ♡) ( One person is missing :c )

My first Halloween lolita meet up......But I am the HOST???

For Halloween I am hosting my very FIRST lolita meet-up! Now what is a lolita meet up you may be asking???? A lolita meet up is what it sounds like! People who dress up or are interested in lolita fashion got to a gathering with other lolitas and we socialize! Meet ups are like big group friend dates! Actually this coming weekend I am going to an neighboring lolita meet up! It's about an hour and half away though (︶︹︺)

Photos CR to nekoblog.ch

Think about when a group of you and your close friends go out, you guys could decide to go to a movie, a park, a festival or whatever! Same thing for lolita meet ups but the most common places we tend to got to are tea houses, cafes, amusement parks, a restaurant historical parks or gardens and there is so much more you can do! 

Funny story is I actually have not been to a lolita meet up before. "Ha-ha weird right? And I'm planning one? Why even?" you might be thinking. The reason why I am planning a meet up is for a few reasons.
 
 1.) My local lolita community is dead/not very active. By this I do not mean, there are no lolita's in my area, just that our community is not as unified or active as it COULD be. Many larger cities such as NYC, LA, etc, have meets ups often because it is a larger amount of people interested in the fashion there and there are actually more things to do. I know girls that travel to NYC from western NY because that is the only place they can express being a lolita aside from anime conventions. There are conventions dedicated to Japanese fashion but either they are far away or there aren't many currently. I only know of 3 Japanese fashion oriented conventions.

  

Photo CR to egl.livejournal.com

2.) You don't have to be a professional lolita to create an event You do not have to be well versed, a lolita model, or anything extraordinary to create a  meet-up. I have started wearing the fashion in April of 2015, I am still a newbie but I would like my community to have more events so I decided to take an initiative and JUST DO IT !

3.) WE NEED A HALLOWEEN MEET!! What lolita does NOT want to dress up on Halloween of all days of the year?! It's a given we do LOL. For the record lolita is NOT a costume. 

I'm on Bloglovin!

Hey lovelies! I just made a Bloglovin' account as well ^^ I will be posting there soon!

Corn Maze outing! ♥

Hello beauties! The past weekend I went to a corn maze with my university club! Most of the work week I am unable to wear lolita, I decided to wear lolita to the corn maze! It was a little chilly today but it was a very beautiful autumn day and I dressed to the occasion.

 I am part of a executive board, I am our public relations director for my university's Asian culture society, which is a club on campus. The club is about learning of Asian culture. We decided one of our trips would be a local corn maze. When I drove up to rendezvous with my club, I will admit I did get some stares. Most people in the club are upper class men who know what kind of person I am and knows I cosplay, and wear lolita. The girls I am friends with immediately complimented on my look. Even though I know the majority of people thee I did feel a little intimidated when I notices the stares. Some of my new guy friends questioned my outfit but not in a negative way, they were curious as to why I am dressed this way. I told them I wear this fashion on weekends normally, due to my clothing restrictions at work and they thought it was cool. I enjoy lolita fashion and am not ashamed of it.

My friend took this picture, I kind of like it lol ^^

 I decided to wear a plaid skirt an nice white blouse. I wore leggings under my thigh high socks because it was a bit chilly even with the sun out To top it off I wore my signature fox/bunny/cat hat. I have no idea what kinds of ears they are supposed to be LOL To make my hat look a little ;lolita, I put on some accessories on it that i recently bought from the last convention I went to. I have a star clip on one side of my hat and the other side is a fluffy hear clip with a pink bear on it, a dangling jewel, a dangling heart coming in my favorite color, PINK (｡♥‿♥｡)

Kawaii Decora?

Hello beauties!! Today I'd like to give you a short introduction to a different Japanese street fashion style, "Kawaii Decora". This literally means "cute decoration". This is a very common street fashion that you can see in Harajuku, Japan just about every day. So the whole point of this fashion is to be adorable as you can be. This fashion is more of the childish, fun and spunky side of you! I love this style so much because aside from wearing very adorable stuff, it doesn't have any rules like how in lolita fashion (which is what I normally wear & will explain what is exactly in a future post) does and you can make it to WHATEVER theme you want, and just be cute! You can express yourself in further with this style, and you can be as cute and crazy as you want!! Who doesn't want that!!?? (｡♥‿♥｡)

YouTube channel!!

Hello beauties & happy labor day to USA & Canada! I have started a YouTube channel! Click the link below & check it out! Please like & subscribe if you liked it! ♥ I post weekly so look forward for more!

First YouTube video :)!

Photoshoot!!! ೭੧(❛▿❛✿)੭೨

Hello again beauties! o(^▽^)o here is one of my pictures from my photoshoot. Deco'ed out above and a unedited version below! (⁎⚈᷀᷁▿⚈᷀᷁⁎)

ようこそ! Welcome! ¡Bienvenidos!

Hello beauties ! Yesterday I decided to make a place for the love of lolitas, loved by people of color. Unfortunately I do not see many dark skinned lolitas, and when I do it's so great! There are so many barriers and stereotypes surrounding dark skinned girls in the Japanese fashion culture. In Japanese fashion you only see lighter skinned models, barely any beauties of color. To be, frank dark skin is looked down upon in most Japanese fashion. There is practically no market for dark skinned models in Japanese fashion and that needs to change! I am not a model or anything of the sort I am just a girl whose passion to be a part of the culture shift towards more dark skinned girls in bows and frills and in overall Japanese fashion. I hope you find my future posts and stories to find the courage and inspiration to BE WHO YOU LOVE, HAVE COURAGE AND STRUT IT! (♥ω♥ ) ~♪