Happy Easter Derpy Video Shoutout...sort of XP

Sorry this is the best I can do for you today. I had so many things planned out for Easter, but everything got all fudged up :[

But I still wanted to have something to post for Easter.

Here is a better picture of todays outfit and makeup. I had a super sweet Easter coord planned, but since I ended up not doing much I decided I wanted to match my darling bunny Mayhem! ♥

headbow: forever21
bolero, socks: offbrand
wristcuffs: btssb
jsk: bodyline
boots: secret shop

Strawberry Lolita Tea Party Meet-up

Ok! So since I have a lot fewer photos from the meet, I will share them first! But first, outfit snap from yesterday!

Allthough I've been going through a faze where I am eliminating the majority of my sweet items, I will never ever EVER get rid of my beloved Whip Magic dresses!!! So I tried to mix it with black, and I still love it, and feel comfortable enough to wear it out! ♥ Thank goodness!

Awesome people I know! ♥

Group shot. And that little doggie in the front by me is my mamas dog Daisy. I had to babysit her for the weekend so she traveled with us to the meet. :]

A newer lolita, but shes so cute and so well put together allready! ♥ Please excuse my shorts showing from beneath my dress! DX

And finally jerk-face's car. My final photo I took in retaliation as we drove away.

Thats it for now! I hope to have the photos from the con up soon! There are sooooo many!!!!!

Experimental Lolita + my Etsy

Well I have been juggling cyber lolita outfits in my head for a while now, but I dont have the money to do exactly what I want. However, after going through my events page on Facebook, I realized that on April 28th, I have two events I really want to go to on the same day! AND they just happen to be at the same park! The first event is our May Day picnic for all the Arizona lolitas. The second is the first raver picnic of the season. Since I know that the raver picnics usually last all night long, and I know that the May Day picnic will last till about 3:00, I figured I could just walk across the park to join in the raver kid festivities.

I havnt had the time or money to go to a rave recently. The last one I went to was back in November. I really misss it a lot! I miss all of my raver friends! Unfortunately we are so busy with our own lives that raves are the only time we ever get to see eachother.

So, at first I was planning an outfit for the May Day picnic, but then I was thinkng, that wouldnt do so well at a raver party. All though for summer International Lolita Day last year I wore lolita to a rave, but that was a speciql case. So I figured why not create an outfir that combines my love for the rave world, AND lolita? I have a ton of beads, so yesterday I went to work on a few accessories.

A kandi mask, a bow, and a cupcake hair tie. I am contemplating making kandi goggles, but I am not sure if thats going to be too much on my head since I am also obviously going to have my headbow on as well.

I am going to wear my Whip Magic jsk in black, and wear my pink fuzzy legwarmers and wrist cuffs. I am really excited for this outfit! It is going to combine the two things I love most, AND it will be with my favorite dress!

Here is a rough preview of what it will look like:

But I think I am eithet going to wear black otk socks instead. Possibly with my pink glittery fishnet tights on top if I can find them! ;P

As for makeup, I have no idea what to do!!! All I know for certain is that I will be wearing my green cercle lenses. Here is a closeup of what the mask looks like worn. I also have my circle lenses in right now, but please excuse my boring every-day makeup. Whatever I decide on is going to be very glittery, and probably have lots of swirls or something going on.

And while I really wanted to continue with the 30 day challange, I can not at the moment. For one, one of the people in my building has bed bugs. The infestation is so bad they are having reports of them now moveing into other peopls rooms. When I found this out yesterday I was incredibly grossed out! I even slept at my gentelman caller's house last night so I wouldnt have to be here. I have never had a bug problem. I like to keep my place spotless and clean! Even with all the animals I have, I always make sure no cage is smelly and I vaccum regularly! So now that this infestation is going on in the room beneath me, the exterminators came in and tore my apartment apart to set up bug traps, and spray down my floor and walls. They also gased the heck out of the breeding grounds down stairs, so hopefully that will be the end of that! So now that my place is torn apart, I dont really want to take pictures of my room for the next challange.

Secondly, I have been really busy with my Etsy shop. I make and sell custom beaded bikini tops and belts. I have also done purses and skirts for myself and others. I recently got several orders so I have been a bit busy and havnt been able to have the time to continue with the challange, and then the bug problem happened :[

Anyways, here is the latest order I have finished. This is for an A-cup, and the rainbow pattern is glow in the dark.

The next order I will be working on is a Batman belt. It is going to be awesome, and I will definately share pictures of when it is done!

I think after I finish all of my current orders I might make a few more masks and list them and see how they go. If they sell allright then I might add them to my list of custom pieces that can be ordered.

So what do you think of my outfit and newest creations? I would really like some con crit for all of them! Thanks so much in advance for your info!

Vintage finds, Bloody Valentine 2, and the Renesance Festival

A few weeks ago I found these two beautiful paires of vintage lace gloves. One pair is pink, the other is black. I have always thought long lace gloves were a wondeful and little used accessory, even in the lolita world! I only ever see them used by the lovely Asuka of Angelic Pretty, whom I will admit, I have always loved her style!!

So it is not a suprise that I wore my first lovely pair of black lace gloves to Saturdaythe 18th's event titled "Bloody Valentine 2". Here is a pic of my outfit before I left the house:

Gloves: vintage
OP: Bodyline
OTK socks, shoes: Angelic Pretty
Belt: offbrand
Hair flower: claire's
Necklace: Forever21

It was wicked fun! I even got all bloodied up! Now here are some pictures i took with my bff Emily!

She isn't a lolita so she was trying to look at my petticoat and take pictures so finally i said "fine!!!!" And I just flashed her to get it over with! XP

Me and my bestie! <3 And of course like the last club event I went to, they had a professional photographer. I kindalook all derped up in this photo because I went to the blood station and got covered! It was really fun!

The next thing I did was on Sunday I went to the Renaisance Festival with my ex boyfriend, who also just happens to be my best (dude) friend. It was so much fun! I ate a giant turkey leg, watched the jousting tournamant, watched a family circus perform juggling, and watvhex a dead guy cokedy routine! Even though we really didnt have money to spend on anything, it was a lot of fun to just look at all the crafts that were on display like hand made glass blown figurines and cups, candels, woodwork, and hand sculpted leather masks.

While I was having too much of a blast to take any photos, I did for once remember to take makeup and outfit shots beforeI left the house.

Everything here is Angelic Pretty except, obviously, my converse sneakers. At first I was going to wear my Angelic Pretty tea parties, but then I remembered how dusty it can be, and we would be walking around for hours, so I went with maximum comfort. However, I don't think that they even clash that badly with the rest of my outfit. :]

I am also really happy with how my makeup came out for the day! Since Milky Planet is a sparkley print I wanted to have as much glitter on my face as posible to match it! All the actors and workers kept on calling me Lady Sparkle Eyes. It was really funny! One of the older gentelman working even knew what lolita was! Apparently he lived in Japan for some time and knew all about it and thought it was awesome that I wear it too! Not just him, but I was aproached about evry 5 minuets by people telling me how cute I was or how much they loved my dress/outfit! It really bosted my confidence! And since I looked so different compared to everyone else who was either in normal clothes or mideval wear, whenever we went to the pub stand, they never rechecked our IDs becaused they remembered me!

All in all, It was an amazing day! I wish I would have gotten more pictures from the event, but I guess there is always next year! :]

positive experiences in lolita

Im going to start off firt with my outfit for the day

Dress, socks: Angelic Pretty
Shoes: bodyline
belt: offbrand
Accessories: claires, handmade, pink macaroon, metamorphose
Bolero: ebay

Makeup:

As you may or may not know, I recently moved to a somewhat sketchy side of town. Not the worst, but not the best either. Especially compared to the side of town I moved from. So, since I wear my lolita clothing daily, or at least on a near daily basis, I was terrified of what to expect from people on this side of town! But, living on my own, this is all I can afford at the moment. At first, I didnt wear lolita at all! Then, slowly, i started to wear a skirt paired with a tanktop. Starting out slowly, you know? Then I slowly started to wear my jsks without a blouse...and you know what? It was ok! Now Im back at the point where I am wearing exactly what I want to again! And wearing what I love and makes me happy also gives me confidence!

I honestly believe that confidence is the key to getting positive feedback from people around you! In fact, I was so nervouse about wearing lolita at first, but I have only had 2 negative experiences since I moved at the beginning of January, and they wernt even that bad! Just mildly irritating! Aside from that, I have had tons of compliments on a daily basis! I have even been hit on, and asked out while just walking my dogs in lolita! And not by some creeper looking hobos or anything, but by actual guys who seem normal!

I feel that if someone is a bully, they are going to go after meak little prey. So dont look scared or intimidated or else you are quite likely to be singled out. Bullies pick people apart because it makes them feel better and they want to get a reaction out of you. So if you carry yourself with confidence and you feel comfortable, you are lot less likely to run into trouble.

But thats just in my experience. I may be strong willed, stubborn and confident now, but there was a time when I was very meek, sky, and bullied all the time. I would get teased for being half hispanic-half white, for having curly hair, because i loved to read, because I was smart, etc. It really broke me down for a long time. Then one day I decided I didnt care what they thought. They were not my friends. I didnt hang out with them. So why should I care? I should be proud of all thoese thing that they made fun of me for. That is what makes me ME! So I started feeling comfortable with myself, and I started to gain confidence. They slowly stoped picking on me when I quit giving them a reaction. And ever since then, I have rarely encountered any problems with anyone regardless of how I look or dress.

I know it may be hard to get the confidence at first. It was a little unnerving to all of a sudden lack the confidence to wear my clothes that i love so much. But, just take it easy and slow untill you feel comfortable and move on to the next step, and so on and so forth untill you can wear a full blown lolita coordinate with your head heald high, and a giant smile on your face!

Sorry for such a long post today but it was just something thats been on my mind recentlly. I should hopefully resume with the 30 day challange tomorrow. My bedroom light went out so its too. dark to take any pictures back there.

outfit snap/30 Day Lolita Challange- Day 21

Before I get on to the challange, i wanted to share my outfit for the day.

Makeup shot! I havn't been wearing my circle lenses lately and I've really missed them!

Bolero: ebay
Belt: offbrand
Accessories: handmade, pink macaroon
Jsk, headbow: angelic pretty
Shoes: bodyline
Fishnets: hottopic

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Day 21- Your favorite fictional lolita

Well, as you might realize, there isnt many fictional lolita characters out there. I was trying to find it earlier, but it seems to have dissapeared, but there was an online comic calld "Confessions of an American Lolita" which was roughly based on what actually happens in the real life lolita communities. If I had to choose anyone, it would be that main character! Mainly because she was so...well, NORMAL! I found it back in '08, but I never even saw another chapter come out after the first one. Regardless, I loved it! I wish it didnt dissapear so I could of shown it to the world!

30 Day Lolita Challange- Day 19 cont.

Day 19- What is in your makeup bag?

I know, I left off on this challange a long time ago. But, I am not a quitter, and I am determined to finish this challange! I have just been held up with moveing, among a ton of other crazy things that have been going on lately.

You know, I never really knotice how much makeup I had untill I started to move! I am not going to show you all of it because I have a whole box, but rather the most often used...which is still rather quite a bit!

My rainbow of glitter. I have various shades of each color including darker shades, dusty colors, and even pastels. I do mostly use white glitter though, because it tends to be more style neurtal.

Again, I have tons of eyeliner not only just solid colors and gitter eyeliner, but liquids and pencils/pen depending on weather i am doing plain basic eye makeup, or drawing hears, stars or other swirls and designs on my face. I also alway have my mascara, red lipstick, and eyelash glue.

And last but not least are my eyeshadows and foundation. Again, I have solid colors, solids with glitter mixed in, and straight up glitter eyeshadow. I have a ton more colors, but since I work 6 days a week now, I tend to keep my makeup pretty work friendly during work days unless I am off of work for the day, or have a fun event planned to go to after work.


Well, now that I am sort of settled I hope to finish this challange soon!!! And once I am no longer living out of boxes I want to do a wardrobe video. My new place is quite small compared to my last apartment, so I have been trying hard to get everything organized to the best of my ability. I even hung some of my headbows on the wall. Not only is it more visually appealing, but It is eadier to see and grab whichever headbow I need for my daily coord.

Ah, and speaking of daily coord, here is my outfit for the day:

Accessories: Pink Macaroon, handmade, Metamorphose, claire's
Skirt: We're All Mad Here
Top: Too Fast
Socks: Bodyline
Boots: Forever21

New Arrival!

I just came back from a walk with my dogs. Before I headed back to my apartment, I decided to check the mail. And what did I find in there? A box with my new Milky Planet jsk and headbow!!!

Of course as soon as I got inside I had to try it on!

Outfit: I am wearing head-to-toe Angelic Pretty

I think this is the most comfortable jsk I have ever worn! I think I am determined now to hunt down more halter neck jsks! And quite frankly I really don't care if it's "breaking the rules" because I honestly have never been the one for "rules" but, I think it looks lovely without a blouse! Especially since it is barely February and it is allready starting to get hot and gross outside!

The only thing I am not too keen about is that this headbow is so huge, I ront know how to wear it! My hair is really short and really thin, and it is getting way too hot out for wigs now, so I need to figure out some new hair styles to even out the giant bow! :D

Also, later on today I will be meeting up with some other ruffle butts for possibly dinner, and we are going out to a club tonight for an event called Bloddy Valentine. For this event I will be wearing my black Bodyline OP because apparently there will be a "blood station" and I dare not get my beautiful clothes stained or ruined by fake blood!

Well I hope to post an outfit shot within the next few days! And until then, here is my makeup shot for the day/event:

Zoo Outfit

Went to the zoo today with some friends! It was so much fun! And all the animals were out and about and playing! It was the best zoo experience I had ever had!!! I cant wait to be able to upload all my pictures! I even have some cute footage of the otter running around and swimming!

Untill then, I have my zoo outfit shot:

Boots: rue21
op, socks: metamorphose
Belt: offbrand
Hair flowers: claire's
necklaces: forever21

It was also really vool because after the zoo as we were walking around town, i was walking to my car to leavefor work and this street musician stoped in the middle of his song to say "You have a bitchin' ooutfit!" to me! :D Thqt made me happy! Favorite compliment of the day! Of course a couple of other people stoped us yo say how cute we were. :]

We're All Mad Here outfit shot

Not much today, but I just wanted to share the photos I got yesterday when I finally had the chance to wear my new skirt out! I allready have a ton of other outfits planned for this skirt, so I cant wait to have another chance to wear it again!

The headbow shown is actually the detachable bow from on the skirt. Before it even arrived I hd allreafy planned for it to be used in my hair! I also added the pin to it. I think it looks cute this way. What do you think?

Headbow, skull pin, skirt: We're All Mad Here
Blouse, tights: offbrand
Belt: forever21
Shoes: Angelic Pretty
Necklace: Pink Macaroon

Outfit Post& new stuff/problems

Wig: Gothic Lolita Wigs
Hair Accessories: claire's
Cutsew: h.NAOTO
Wristcuffs, JSK: Baby, the Stars Shine Bright

I am so happy this jsk came in! It is Baby's Trick or Treat prink. I don't care if it is halloween themed, I'm going to rock this dress as often as possible!!! ♥ When I get moved I hope to be able to take my outfit snaps more frequently.

Also, I have recently ordered from Bodyline to take advantage of their $1 Air campain. I recieved my first order, got 2 jsks that I have been eyeing for some time, and to stock up on shoes. However, the pair of shoes I ordered are different then they marked me down for and I recieved...

I have tried contacting them but they either dont give me a straight answer or they keep on asking me questions that run me around in circles, or they just plain out don't reply.

I hope my second order with the other shoes come in. And I hope they are the correct shoes! I am so fustrated with Bodyline, I don't think I will ever buy from them again.

They say they shipped out my second order, but they never gave me a shipping email conformation, and even after my many attempts to contact them, they still never gave me a tracking number. I guess worse comes to worse, I could always open up a paypal claim since that's how I paid.

I am so fustrated, I really don't know what to do.


Also I plan to be more active, and I allready have a list of things I want to do here on my blog, but things have been so hectic, I'm not sure I'll be able to post much else untill I get moved and all settled down. Which by the way I am super excited!!! Especially since it's going to have a walk-in closet!

And as soon as I'm all moved and settled in, I will be having a big closet cleaning sale so keep an eye out for that! ;p

30 Day Lolita Challange- Day 13

Day 13 –A picture of your favorite sweets.

To be honest, I really dont like sweets. The best sweet things in my opinion is fruits! <3 However I suppose if I were to choose anything, I would go with Reese's peanut butter cups! Other then that I am absolutely gaga over another candy bar called Coffee Crisp! I have only been able to find them in Canada unfortunately. I have heard that there are some locations in town that occasionally have them, but so far I havnt been able to find any :[ So every time I go to Canada I alway bring back a giant stash of Coffee Crisps with me! :D So since I unfortunately dont have any Coffee Crisps around, all I can show you is this:

And I also wanted to share todays outfit! I have been constantly wearing my fur collar and legwarmers ever since I was able to finish them! I have been obsessing over winter outfits even though its only fall!^^' I have also been enjoying my legwarmers because everyone always say that they can not be incorporated into lolita, however I think you just have to have the right coordination skills, and items that fit well with the over all look.

Also, my hair is dyed to a natural color. If I want to get a new job I have to look "normal" and this is the first time going without any sort of color in almost 4 years! So before I dyed it I was really scared!!! I'm having a bit of difficulty adjusting actually...but hopefully I will start to feel better about it once I get a new job.

As always, thanks for reading! I hope everyone is doing well!!! <3

Armin van Buuren

So at the beginning of September I drove several hours to another town to see the #1 DJ in the world, god of trance music, Armin van Buuren! I was so suprised to find out that he was playing within driving distance of my town, so I couldnt NOT GO! I decided to wear my Sheep Garden to the show.

Makeup:

So I paid extra so I could get VIP tickets, because, well, it's Armin! The event was helled all day at a small resourt. The stage was poolside, which was pretty cool. Before Armin came on there were other local artists playing. The majority of the people who attended were all bros and people who dont typically go to raves, so it was a little odd.

While Armin's set was beautiful and amazing, I was really put off by the people in attendance. While one set was going a bunch of people thought i would be cool to start calling and chanting for Armin to come out and the current djs to step down which was incredibly rude. You would never see that sort of thing at any rave. Secondly, when Armin finally did come out, again, stupid bros thought it would be cool to keep on throwing beach balls everywhere, and they kept on bouncing off of the equipment on stage, and evin hit Armin in the head a few times! I was incredibly embarrased by everyones rude behavior! Third of all, my friend and I stood at the very front of the stage for over an hour before Armin even came out so we would be sure to front and center for his set befor it got crowded. I was front and center for Armin and it was amazing!!! What wasnt amazing was the stupid little girls behind me shoving me into the rail trying to get past me. So, I danced ever crazier, jumping up and down, and shaking my booty, making sure that unless they wantet their toes steped on or they wanted to get booty smashed, they would let ke have my space. Same goes for the guy who "dropped" his phone behind the rail in front of me and the girl to my right, who tried to get infront of us that way. Fortunately we were small enough to squish back in front of him and we both pushed him back into the crowed.

And my final dissapointment was that I spent extra for VIP, but they didnt have anything for VIP. But it was Armin and It was definately worth seeing him live, and so incredibly close! I was probably about 3 feet away from him! <3

My wardrobe situation + outfit post

I was looking at all the clothes I have in my closet. I was thinking, there are a few pieces I wear almost constantly, and others that I wear very rarely or never. I think I want to start from the very left side of my wardrobe and start making outfits featuring the very first piece of clothing I have, moveing to the right each day untill I get to the very end. Hopefully this way I can figure out some new cute combonation of coordinates to wear and get out of my current wardrobe funk!

My wardrobe is arranged by type. There are skirts, jsks, ops, short sleeved tops, boleros, and jackets. Hopefully by the time I get to the jackets it will be cool enough I can actually wear them!! I got this adorable Baby hoodie with bunny ears much earlier this year, but it was too warm for it by the time I found it unfortunately.

Anywho, does anyone else get outfit funks like this? How do you cure it? I know I have my favorite dresses...and its sometimes hard not to ignore the rest of your clothes and keep on picking out your favorite pieces.

And tonight I have a photo to share! I know its a little late, but its from kareoke at the bar last Thursday night! Hopefully I will be able to get another picture of my outfit tomorrow night :] I know I JUST stated above I was going to start at the beginning of my closet and go through the end, but first I want to wear my Sugary Carnival replica because 1. I havnt worn it at all yet, and 2. I love getting all cutesy-fied for the bar. Its so much fun and everyone always loves to see my clothes! Besides, cutle little lolita at the bar? Come on who wouldnt want to do that?! XD

Anywho, on to the pictures

Dress: Baby, the stars shine bright
cutsew: offbrand
shoes: rue21 (one of my favorite pairs of shoes!!!)
tights: offbrand
panda bag: go him during a lolita meet at the Tucson zoo! <3 Going there again this Sunday! I am so excited!!!
Necklace and accessories: forever21, claire's, handmade
hairbow: hand made from the waist ties of this dress. I really hate waist ties on about 90% of everything I get that has them! :/

Also, I have somehow survived day one of the egl shutdown. I hope to be busy with work and what not for the remainder of the shutdown so I wont be able to constantly be checking the community! :[