05/05/2012-06/05/2012 - Super early photo shoot and white contacts

Yesterday I had to get up for a photo shoot at 6am. D8 I haven't been up that early in years haha. The shoot was for two fashion students' joint final year project, so I was mostly modelling clothes they'd made. So, after eating a nutritious breakfast of Nutella straight from the pot with my finger, I set off. I chose to walk there (about 45 minutes) with the help of my iPhone for directions, because taking public transport only would have saved about ten minutes, so it didn't really seem worth it. 

I arrived at the stylist's flat just before 8am. I was the first one there, so she made me green tea (which made me way happier than it probably should have) and we watched the news for a while. Early morning news has such rubbish on it, it's hilarious. A presenter on BBC news actually said "But owls don't actually have legs, do they?" ಠ_ಠ Eventually the other stylist and the make up artist arrived. The other model and the photographer arrived when I was getting made up. The make up was like this: 

Fairly natural, but I like it. My hair was curled kinda better than this, but it had sunk a bit by the time I took this.

The shoot itself was fun, but we had bare legs in all of the outfits, so it was horribly cold (we were shooting outside). The photographer was a laugh though, and once we actually started shooting, he managed to keep me distracted enough to not be too bothered by the cold. Getting to the locations was painful, though. One of the outfits I had to wear showed my stomach too, so that one was particularly bad haha. The stylists were really sweet though, and always made us tea when we went back in to change outfits. And at the end of the shoot they gave us sandwiches and donuts. 8)

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Today I procrastinated some more. I'm gonna have to start revising soon though, because I have exams on Thursday. :/ Anyway, I decided to wear my white contacts today, because I haven't in months:

I went for a sort of visual kei-inspired outfit to go with the contacts:

Finally wore the sword and roses necklace I got last week, but it's kinda hard to tell here haha.

I was gonna to go out, but because I'm a massive shut-in when I'm in Birmingham, I ended up staying at home and listening to Die Antwoord, eating cake, and watching anime lol. For those that don't know, Die Antwoord is this South African rap group with really interesting videos. Their music might take a while to grow on you, but it's definitely worth giving one of their videos a watch:

This one's my favourite.

-Finlay

Bow horns!

Today I should really have been revising, but my bow horns from Kitten Tongues arrived, so I ended up taking a load of pictures and messing around with make up instead.

They only took two days to arrive!

 Worn photos

Outfit shot

I experimented with make up a bit, too. I don't normally wear false lashes, but I quite like how it turned out. What do you think?

-Finlay

02/05/2012 - A few gets and a photo shoot

Had a studio shoot today. I hugely prefer studio shoots, but I think that's mostly because I don't really like being outside haha. It was pretty quick once the hair and make up were done, but a lot of fun, even though a lot of the poses were incredibly uncomfortable (although I guess I should be used to this by now). I can't remember what the shoot was actually for, if anything, but there were nice clothes (slightly hipster-ish Topshop things), and dark make up. The photos looked pretty good on the camera screen, so I'm looking forward to seeing the results.

Anyway, a few things I ordered online last month have arrived over the past few days:

Garters from Noctex. We actually ended up using them in the shoot today.

Here's how they (well, one) look worn. Not gonna lie, the only reason I was only wearing one here is because I was too lazy to put on the other. Not that it's a lot of effort, I'm just that lazy.

Sword and roses pendant from this Etsy shop.

I also got these from Sainsbury's. :D They're amazing. I remember hearing about them about a year ago, but could never find them.

-Finlay

27/04/2012 - I was on Japanese TV this morning!

So you know how I talked about being filmed for some Japanese TV show? That was broadcast this morning. For obvious reasons I haven't been able to watch it myself, but one of my Japanese Twitter followers said she got up early to watch it. C: I found this on their website though haha:

I don't know how they managed to spell my entire name correctly, then put Emmie as "Amy"...

I couldn't be bothered to translate the last two bits because it was basically talking about two other people they interviewed, but there were no pictures of them, and I don't know them, so yeah. No translations for you, Robert and Cleo. 

Also, my headband from Necrosarium arrived! The stuff she makes is lovely, so go check out her shop!

-Finlay

25/04/2012 - New Favourite Underwear Shop

My exams are finally over for a couple of weeks! \8D/ Now I have loads of time to waste on The Sims 2. I think the exams went sort of okay. Today was the final Japanese lesson, and we got our exam results back (the  Japanese exams were all before the holiday). I think I got about 80% overall, so I'm happy with that (because you only need 40% to pass haha).

So anyway, after my exam yesterday I went to the Bull Ring (shopping centre) because there were a few things I needed. When I got there, I noticed that Boux Avenue had opened a shop. Basically, it's an underwear shop that not only has nice underwear, but also has my size (which is very rare for a non-online shop) and is reasonably priced. I cannot recommend this shop enough if you have a hard-to-find bra size (back sizes go down to 30 and cup sizes up to H). They have a webshop, but if there's one in your area, it's definitely worth paying a visit, because it's a really nice shop, and it's always good to be able to try things on.

I got measured for my size, and it was surprisingly not awkward at all. The woman measuring me was super friendly and helpful (as were all of the staff). My back size is normally 28 and they only went down to 30, so I had to go up a back size and down a cup size, but it's still a lot closer than what most shops have. I tried on a few things, and soon found what's now my favourite bra. It fits so well!

The fitting rooms had different lighting settings, which I thought was really cool.

They wrap your purchases in pretty tissue paper then put fake scented petals in the bag with it. 

I wish I took photos of the shop, because it looks so nice. They also have an old fashioned telephone that's hooked up to the fitting room intercoms, which I thought was really cute. 

I also got these glorious things from Holland & Barrett. They're so much better than banana chips.

-Finlay

This post has no real topic

I'm back in Birmingham now. Term starts tomorrow, but there are no lectures or classes, only exams. This'll probably be super boring, so I doubt I'll have much to blog about. :c I haven't done much these past few days either, as I'm meant to be writing an essay, so here is a structureless blog post about things that didn't really fit in any of the other entries.

Accidentally made my nails sort of match my Super Lovers necklace whilst procrastinating.

Dom and I made sweet potato chips (from scratch). 8D

You had ONE job. 
(In case you can't tell, this is popcorn. Apparently my sister and her friend don't know how to use a microwave.)

I got some posters (Nightmare and D) in a cheap (slightly outdated) issue of Shoxx I got when I was in London: 

I've also become slightly addicted to Etsy lately, and am currently waiting on a whole load of things. Which Etsy shops do you guys like?

-Finlay

13/04/2012 - Adventures in Shoreditch

On Friday I met up with Dodo, Randa, Emmie and Marie. We'd planned to go to a shop/gallery called Primitive, but it was closed, so TL;DR we wandered around Shoreditch and went to other shops.

We saw a lot of memes.

I didn't take many pictures haha.

We stumbled across Pat Lyttle's photography exhibition, so we had a look inside, and he gave us free sweets. 8D

A bit later on we were stopped by a Japanese film crew from the network Nippon TV, who did short interviews with me and Emmie about our outfits for some kind of featurette on fashion in London. They made us walk (individually) towards the camera so they could pretend they'd just spotted us and run up to stop us haha. They asked us about our outfits, our age, what we do etc., and upon finding out I'm studying Japanese at university, they made me speak Japanese for the camera and it was super awkward looool. :< They also made me be like "Good morning, ZIP (name of the show)!" (in English) and do this hand movement thing, which you can sort of see in the photo below:

Stealing this photo from Emmie, soz. 

After that was all done with, we looked around a few more shops and took more silly photos, then got the bus to Seoul Bakery to get some Korean food. I had to eat really quickly so I could rush off to meet Dom, who was staying over so he didn't have to get up too early the next day, when we were travelling to the North of England to stay with my mother. 

-Finlay