Vocaloid-inspired look

With the bottom layer of my hair having recently been dyed a Hatsune Miku sort of colour, I decided to do a vaguely Vocaloid-inspired look.

A recent look

 I re-dyed my hair grey! And used hair chalk to make the tips pink~

Top: River Island

Dress: GLAVIL by tutuHA

Cross necklace: tutuHA

Eyepatch

Here's another makeup look from a couple of weeks ago. It was vaguely inspired by Koichi of Mejibray (I don't think that's very obvious though haha), because pink hair. 

Also, here's a recent outfit, because I never remember to post these any more:

Dress: Fernopaa
Cardigan: Civarize
Belt: SEX POT REVENGE 

14/06/2014 - Tokyo Dark Castle look

My look for Tokyo Dark Castle, a goth night held in Christon Cafe. 

Hair accessory: Paris Kids 

Necklaces: Fernopaa, Moi-même-Moitié

Corset: Black Peace Now

O ring garter: Black Milk Tea
Heart ring garter: Creepyyeha

Skeleton garters: Noctex

Halloween POP'N'CUTE flyer shoot

Back in June, Junnyan asked me to do a shoot for the promotional flyers for the POP'N'CUTE (a Harajuku fashion party) Halloween event.  

I went for a sort of demon/vampire look: 

After shooting for a couple of hours we ate ramen and took purikura~

 Delicious yuzu ramen

Tokyo Decadance: Rolly special

There's a club night I like a lot that happens about once a month in Tokyo, called Tokyo Decadance. I'm not quite sure how to describe it, but it's a lot of fun. Every time there's usually a different dress theme, and as there's a slight discount on the entry fee if you follow the theme (or just generally dress up), people really go all out.

Back in May, Rolly (actor who played the crazy singing guy in the film Suicide Circle) was a guest performer, and as Rolly sometimes plays Frank N. Furter in Rocky Horror Show performances, there was also a small performance of some Rocky Horror songs by the Decadance team. I don't think there was an official dress theme this time, but most people went with Rocky Horror-inspired (and some full-on cosplays).

Although I had Dr. Furter in mind whilst getting ready, it didn't quite show in my outfit haha:

Hair accessory: Paris Kids

Top: Qutie Frash

Skirt: Bodyline

Waist belt: SEX POT REVENGE

Gloves: SEX POT REVENGE 

Make up

Before going, Chi and I took purikura, of course. 

She's an absolute pro at decorating these.

18/07/2014

I'm too tired to write a full entry today, so here's some purikura I took with Ashley when we met for karaoke and drinks before I went to some kind of goth night at Trump Room. 

Senbonzakura Miku T-shirt: animega
Heart ring garter: Creepyyeha
Skeleton garter: Noctex
Heart bracelet: WEGO

A slightly clearer shot of that day's make up

Florence!

Wow, remember 2 months ago when I got a new computer and said I'd start blogging again? That never happened ahaha. I'm sorry, I'll try again. I have a LOT to catch up on so it might be mostly smaller posts for the moment. As for what's going on with me now, I finished my studies in Japan in early August, and I'm now studying in Florence, Italy for a month. I'll try to post about both my time in Italy and Japan~

Anyway, I'll talk about Florence for today. I'm here doing an intensive, 4 week Italian language course. This is a compulsory part of my university degree, as I have to spend time studying in a country that speaks each language I'm studying. As I also spent one semester in France and one in Japan, there's only time for about one month in Italy. I've been here for 2 weeks now. I was worried about coming here because it had been about a year since I'd spoken Italian, but thankfully I remembered most of it really quickly!

I'm staying in this really cute (I say cute, but it's actually pretty big) apartment with some other study abroad students. 

As you can see, it's a beautiful city, but to be honest I don't think it's a very interesting place to live. On the weekend I've been visiting art galleries and museums, which is nice, but there isn't much to do during the week once I've finished school (at 4pm). 

I've mostly been spending my evenings watching anime (I recommend Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun) and messing around with make up haha. Here are a few looks I tried:

 Used black eyeshadow as lipstick. It worked surprisingly well.

Choker courtesy of Spookii!

I'll leave you with this old-school VK song I've been listening to a lot lately~

I got really addicted to La'Cryma Christi in Tokyo after impulse-buying one of their albums from Closet Child.

05/04/2014

This weekend was the first weekend I've had in Tokyo where I've actually had time to do what I want and haven't been super jetlagged. It was really fun! 

 This was Saturday's look:

Dress: Fernopaa
Belt: GLAVIL by tutuHA
Boots: YOSUKE
Heart garter: Creepyyeha
Necklace: tutuHA

Make up

That day Chriss arrived in Japan, so I met up with her and Dayle (both of them have just started studying here, too!) in Shibuya. We hung around in Starbucks for a while, then went to take purikura.

After that, we wandered around some shops until it was time to meet Rozzi and Deej and go to an izakaya.

 It was my first time going to an izakaya, and I was impressed.

 I really liked being able to order with this touch screen thing, thus minimising the need to speak/wait around for waiters. 

We each had about 4 alcoholic drinks and shared looooads of food, and it only came to about 1,800yen (about £10) per person! You couldn't even get the drinks for that price in England! 

After the izakaya, we headed to JPU Records' event, which was held in a rock bar situated somewhere in dodgy love hotel land. 

 The bar was next to a shrine...

...which was right next to a love hotel. We kept running out to go to the conbini to buy cheap alcohol (and pizza buns!), then drank it outside whilst watching couples awkwardly leaving the hotel as if they weren't together aha

At about 2.30am, we and some others from the bar went to do karaoke. They had some kind of special offer if you did it until 5.30am (which is when the trains start running), so we did that. It was also all-you-can-drink! 

I'm not sure you can quite call it "singing", but we... made lots of noise until morning. It was a lot of fun.