Back in London!

Sorry I've been so bad at updating lately! I moved back to London on Sunday! ヾ(＠°▽°＠)ﾉ I'm so happy~ Will any of you be going to MCM Expo this weekend? I'll probably go on Saturday and Sunday, so I hope to see some of you there! If all goes according to plan, I should be cosplaying Roromiya Karuta from Inu x Boku SS on Saturday. I still don't know what I'm going to wear on Sunday haha, I'll probably just invent an anime-esque costume/outfit like I usually do for these things lately. 

I spent quite a lot of time with Charlie and Damien (and their wonderful kittens!) after exams, and thanks to them, I actually enjoyed my last days in Birmingham~ 

 Trad goth night 

I ate this whole thing by myself!

Anamanaguchi's music always manages to make me happy~

22/04/2013

I'm back in Birmingham now, but there are no lectures or classes this term (only exams), so today I went to find what seems to be the only place in Birmingham that does frozen yoghurt~

Outfit rundown:

Dress: New Look

Eyeball bow: Taobao
Ball-jointed doll tights: Lockshop

Shoes: Bodyline

(I think I'm going to start doing outfit rundowns, because people often ask me where I buy my clothes in general, which is quite difficult to answer, as I get them from loads of different places.)

It's finally warm enough to wear my BJD tights without layering them! 

It wasn't as good as the places in London, and less flavours (only vanilla and "original" :C I prefer green tea) available, but it was cheaper, and still good! 

Song of the day:

January's Snow Shoot Photos

Today I just want to show a couple of photos from a shoot I did back in January. I was going to wait until I'd seen them all, but I have no idea when that will be, so yeah~

Dress designer: Rima Tadmory

Photography: Memoirz

Make up artist: Becky Hunting

Model: Me

Despite being the coldest I'd ever been in my life, I still enjoyed the shoot, and the first picture is probably my favourite photo of me, so I think it was worth enduring a little unbearable cold~

22/01/2013 - More snow shooting!

Wanting to make the most of the snow, on Tuesday I dragged the lovely Richie B out to take more photos. It was just the two of us, so I was completely in charge of styling and make up, which made a nice change. C: Don't get me wrong; I love having this stuff done for me, but sometimes it's fun to shoot in my own stuff.)

I used some new lashes (top and bottom) I recently got from Taobao: 

It was my first time even trying them on, so it's not perfect, but I quite like them. 

I decided to wear something a little warmer than the last snow shoot:

I went for a slightly wintery, classic lolita-inspired look (not sure how well that came out haha).

We shot in a big, amazing park called Cannon Hill. It's actually quite near where I live, but I'd never been there before.

Here are some of my favourite shots:

Song of the day:

This is one of my favourite albums. It always makes me think of snow. C: 

19/01/2012 - Snow shoot!

Yesterday I had a photo shoot in the snow! I was ridiculously cold, but had a lot of fun. Around when it first snowed in Birmingham, about a week ago, I was contacted by a designer asking me if I wanted to do a couture Red Riding Hood-themed shoot in the snow. I don't like shooting outdoors (or being outside at all to be honest lol), but I really liked the concept of it, so I accepted. At the time we didn't really know when it was going to snow more, so we just planned the shoot with a very vague idea of when it would actually happen, and yesterday was the day. 

Originally we wanted to shoot with the sunrise in the background, so we arrived at the designer's studio to get ready at about 6am (I had to get up at 4am to walk there!), planning to be finished by 9am. We soon realised that because of the snow, there wouldn't be much of a sunrise, so we could take our time. 

The whole day was also being filmed by a team of 4 photographers and videographers. They didn't arrive until about an hour after us, and we couldn't finish the make up without them, so for a while the designer, make up artist and I just sat around eating porridge haha.

The make up concept was pale skin and big, doll-like eyes, so I was allowed to wear circle lenses! 8D

The designer being interviewed on camera.

After lots of filming in the studio and a few photos, we all piled into a car to go to the shooting location. It turned out to be where I was living last year! Not the actual building, of course, but the surrounding hilly, forest-ish area that looked great in the snow. 

I was wearing about 5 layers of clothes on my legs, because they weren't visible under the dress, but my arms and shoulders were completely uncovered. I actually thought it'd be okay at first, because I didn't feel too cold when we started shooting, but eventually my hands became painfully cold (and then just completely numb). 

After we were sure we'd got a few good shots (which didn't actually take too long), we went to a café to warm up with hot drinks and see what was happening with the second model, who was...

...a dog! 8D Because the theme was Red Riding Hood, we wanted to use a dog that looked kind of like a wolf. In the morning we didn't think it was going to happen, so we went ahead and took a loads of shots anyway, but in the end we managed to borrow an akita from a friend of a friend of the photographer. I was so happy! 

The dog/wolf was gorgeous, but kept getting distracted and running off lol, so it took a while to get the shots we needed. She was way too strong for me to restrain, and there was no way I could run after her in the dress, so whenever she decided to run off, I just had to let go of her leash, and the owner would have to run after her and bring her back haha. 

I'm super excited to see the results of this shoot~

Sales shopping!

I'm back in Birmingham now, and class has started again. I didn't manage to do New Year's sales shopping in London, but I did in Birmingham after class today. C: I actually prefer shopping here, because it's usually less busy, and most of the good shops are in one building haha. 

My Kreepsville 666 dress arrived in the morning! 

I didn't have much time to get dressed before class, but I'll probably try to put together a more interesting coordinate with it on the weekend or something. 

Gets:

 Cat ears from Miss Selfridge. I already have similar ones, but these were half price!

 Shoes from Schuh. All my shoes have been breaking lately! (´Д｀；) So I'm really happy I found these.

Necklace from claire's, because I figured I should have some jewellery that isn't black or a cross haha.

 Tights. I don't know if you can see in the photo, but they're heart-patterned. （＾ω＾）

 Big, fluffy leg-warmers from Forever 21. I'd wanted some of these for a while, and was really surprised to find them there!

Ankle socks from Primark lol. I thought they were cute, and I can never find matching socks these days.

Top and tights (the crosses are gold! 8D ) from Internaçionale:

My mother bought me these when I was visiting her and we went shopping. C: