Trying to catch up with all my purchase posts.... xD

So this is all the junk I got in April & May, besides my taobao/fromjapan orders~

I always wanted to get along with these sort of posts, but I always ended up forgetting or getting too lazy. Aren't you glad that I'm finally doing this? xD;

Agejo is my favorite style over all, because it's much more mature~ I like sweet soft accents of stuff like Ank Rouge and Liz Lisa and whatnot, but it's about that time where I'm trying to add more variety in my wardrobe (so lolita + my few DreamV items won't continue to be the most worn items in my closet) so I'm looking at a bunch of different outfits, different colors, etc.

When it comes to summer, I like to get flashy. This coming season is one of those rare times I actually look into an EGG magazine for inspiration. I might not have posted -that- many outfits on my blog and places in the past during the summer, but when it gets warm and a bit sweaty I'm all about those shorts and booty buttcheekz and-- yeah. You see where I'm going with this...

With that being said... my little inspo spam~





I'm not only into all the white and light soft colors like I've always been into, as seen in my collages, but for the summer I'm also looking at a lot of poppy, contrasting colors. Especially white and black. (Where can a girl get a verticle-striped bxw blouse top in the city?) There's something about the black x white stripes, the crazy printed leggings and the polkadots that are really getting to me around this time. I really want to try and do something with it if I can find them around my area. Even things like acid washes are starting to catch my eye as well.

I've also been looking a lot at these salmon and rusted pinks that pop up from time to time. Even as far as haircolor~ you see my clip of Sayaka Araki with this pinkish caramelish hair tone that looks so pretty. It can be styled to look a bit grungy like this, more mature and sexy like Sayaka's, or made with a bit of a blend effect with different extensions like Pikarin. Every time summer comes along I always look at pictures like these and wish I could do something similar... I might just get a bunch of weave and make my own wig in that color xD I'm craving it.

Other than that, I'm also still feeling ombre-style lilac or sakura pink hair... but if anything I'm probably just gonna get clip-in extensions of those colors. Oh, and tinsel hair as well~ my sister apparently got a connection for cheap-priced hair extensions, up to 30". You know I want to be about that life xDD; If I wasn't so broke, I'd so be indulging in everything.

As far as nail art I'm expecting to do more on my own hands~ and maybe even feet. I really want cute light summer colors that will go with anything and everything i wear. I'm planning on learning how to do my own nails~ since Rio did mine back in December I've been craving to try because now I see how easy it is! I just bought myself a UV lamp and some deco items (crowns and whatnot) that I don't really see in my area for cheap~next I'll be trying to get myself some more acrylic and UV gel stuffs and hopefully nail polish... in the meantime I'll just be borrowing from Rio LOL (sorry gurl)

Yeah... yeah. This mook didn't even take two weeks to get to me.

This is just a random preview on some of the pages that are in this mook~ unfortunately due to my schedule and lack of good hardware, I won't be making actual scans of this magazine.

When I first requested this mook from Kinokuniya I had to think to myself.. like, how more in depth can they get? Any reader of the Ageha-branded magazines would know that the issues already go super detailed as far as makeup points and whatnot.

As soon as I received it, however, I had to literally stop what I was doing.

If you too, think that they couldn't get any more in depth, just get this book and wait for it.



When you first open and flip through the first few pages, you'll see a few familiar faces, but one girl in particular shocked me-- Midori Fukasawa. If you don't know her, she's a very popular lolita model~ and she's in this magazine displaying some of her own makeup styles. So this book isn't only for the hime/gal audience, but general cute makeup for Japanese eyes.

Part of the book is split into 8 different parts-- "Gal", "Girly Girl/Gal", "Princess", "Foreigner", "Cat Eye", "Office Lady", "Akameji", and "Natural". It touches up on eyelid shaping (using fiber/eyelid glue/tape/etc), eyelining and different shadow looks, it breaks down lashes (like... legit having almost all the popular lash brands displayed so you can see how each of them look)... CIRCLE LENSES... like this book really, -really- goes in. If you're into trying out all the different eye shapes and whatnot, you will have fun with this seriously.

Since my images are not in order at all, I'm just going to post a spam~ There's not much for me to talk about since my Japanese is really limited and I haven't seriously observed every single picture and diagram in this book. But I'm telling you, it's amazing.

Back in October or November, I joined in on all the hype over the 2013 New Year's lucky pack season. I wanted EVERYTHING from EVERY BRAND and looking at Shibuya 109's online pre-sales and the brand sites I was freaking out everywhere.

Despite lucky packs being super cheap compared to the amount of stuff inside, they always turn out super expensive, especially when you're trying to import-- so I knew that in reality, I couldn't get too much.

Baby, the Stars Shine Bright's lucky packs this year was super expensive, and honestly it discouraged me because their cheapest was like 200 USD. :/ I started the whole "well back in MY DAY they had affordable little basic lucky packs for 70-150 bucks and blahblahblah" in my head. Angelic Pretty was alright, but I wasn't too interested in what they had (or matching basically everyone in my community). Innocent World was tempting... but I wanted to try and break away from getting lolita all the time, so I looked at more gal-type stuff. As far as pre-sales, MARS, La Pafait, D.I.A. was already sold out a looong time ago. It was pretty disappointing. But Liz Lisa was still there...

At the end of the day I ended up getting a Liz Lisa fukubukuro! I had my bby Yuuki snatch one for me from the actual store, since the store and the online shop was a bit different (the online store had plain white bags, meanwhile the in-store had pink floral print bags..) As tempted as I was with the luggage pack, which was so adorable, I ended up getting the big ribbon tote bag. Really, when it comes to Liz Lisa, I only go for the bags themselves. Liz Lisa's sizing is a bit eh for me and I never expect to fit into their clothing.. I wanted to go for D.I.A., or La Pafait, but since Yuuki was running a service for mostly lolita items, I doubted that he'd get one of those in time before they sold out...

Overall my lucky pack was like $175ish after Yuuki's fees, which isn't too bad. I can't imagine how much it would have been for the luggage pack xD

But my God the shipping...? The shipping would've been around 80 dollars which was INSANE. So my lucky pack was sitting in his room for the longest time because I never got around to pay for it. But luckily one of our friends was going to Japan to visit! And somehow, by the grace of God, I was able to evade that crappy shipping price altogether xD Thank you Rei for smuggling my lucky pack into the states..

But anyways, on to the pictures...

Now this is the little birthday gift you'll get from Sephora this time around, if you're a Beauty Insider. I didn't get my gift from last year because a year or two before because I just couldn't get along to it-- but this year I ended up going and getting my item, and they gave me these little mini-sized mascara and highlighter by Benefit.

And let me tell you, this stuff is so good. The mascara's nice, it makes my lashes look nice and full. Maybe not so much to the point that Makeup Forever would, but this still does nicely.

The highlighter though? Another best friend of mine. Before, I used to highlight my face with an old nude eyeshadow that I used, and it would do it's job, and highlight my nose area a bit and stuff-- but with this? my nose contouring and my eye area looks so much brighter. It's nice and sheer, doesn't apply heavy, and it'll work for different skin tones. Contouring will never be the same for me again.

If you're a Beauty Insider-- definitely get this item. Just do it. My God.

I'll probably come up with a beauty favorites video soon~ since my camera and the lighting in my room seem to have an issue really cooperating, I'm gonna probably compensate by talking about some of my most-used items~