How To: Kawaii On A Budget

Many people ask me how to be kawaii with less money. Here is an answer I wrote about 1 month ago on Tumblr . I posted it here so more people can see it and it won't disappear in the flood of my Tumblr posts! ♥

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1.- Time

Your kawaii stuff accumulates by time. Some of my kawaii items are 7 years old XD I have clothing items, which are 4 years old! When I go shopping and I see something I like, the first thing I do is look at THE PRICE TAG. If the price is ok, I get it or I get it not! I can be 1 hour in a shop because I’m only buying the best thing with the best price, and I want to be sure that I know what I’m doing. Btw, I think that there are a lot of people that have more kawaii stuff then me, I just know HOW to make it look like a lot XD 

2.- ONLY Kawaii

Whatever you need, get in the kawaii version! Pillows, bed sheets, pencils, food, ironing boards, toilet paper, cups….If you start buying the kawaii version of your everyday needs, you’ll get kawaii soon! ; D 

Oh, and, the kawaii version of that is NOT more expensive than the “normal stuff”!

3.-Let your friends know what you love!

If you have good friends, or family members, let them know that your a kawaii addict and show them your kawaii side! So when you have Birthday, you’ll get something kawaii for sure! My more expensive clothes, like Angelic Pretty, BSSB or just stuff that you can only get in Japan, were presents!

4.- Get it 2nd hand!

2nd hand BSSB, Angelic Pretty, and Vintage clothes! Google helps you finding 2nd hand sellers in your near! : D Also, 2nd hand is more than half price cheaper!

Shops you can get stuff cheaply:

H&M

Pro: Was always my favourite for shopping since I was 6 years old. lol. :)

Contra: Has some more sexy mainstream stuff too, but not that much so I can’t really say a contra.

BODYLINE

Pro: Affordable, cute lolita clothing and cosplay

Contra: The quality isn’t bad, but not on “designer” level! You get what you pay for!

TOPSHOP

Pro: Has promotion sometimes, and very nice accessories which are not that expensive!

Contra: Do have some cute stuff, which is, indeed, sometimes, yes, expensive like wow.

PRIMARK

Pro: You can get there so many kawaii clothes you’ll drown in them!

Contra: The quality is not very legit! XD

Promotions

Pro: Hit the expensive brands during promotion seasons. A great way to get designer stuff for low prices.

Contra: Still expensive, so you have to save money throughout the year.

Promotion season means also, crowds and queues. 

Do it yourself

Pro: Sewing your own kawaii clothes is a great way to save money and own something others don’t! You can get cheap, cute fabric and lace in most sewing stores!

Contra: Requieres a sewing machine and skills.

Additional: When I was 3 years old and we didn’t have enough money in Switzerland, mom sew me my clothes! I still have most of them <3 I remember that people told me, that “I look cute again” haha! Memorieeeeeessss! <3333333

Ok, hope I could help! <333

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The answer to: "Why did I cut my hair?"

Hello my prickly pickle!

"Oh! Hi! Yeah! Really! I did! 2 months ago!"

This is the story of why I chopped my hair off and returned to my natural dark brown hair colour.
The idea came from my hair stylist and the fan from Japan, and from me, of course.

In May my hair started falling out due to tons of stress, puberty (yes I finally hit it wooohoo) and more stress. Some people assume it's the bleaching's fault, but it isn't. I bleached my hair for 1 year and let it grow long. I know when and why it started falling out, that's for me to tell you! : 3


Hairstylist guy said:
1.- I think that it's impossible to dye you hair back, without totally damaging it and leaving it with a slight tone of green.
2.- Yeah sure, I can cut you a bob!
* The hairstylist even took a sample of my hair and died it, but it looked green-ish violet and fried. O_o

Mom said:
1.- Leave the dying to me <3

Fan From Japan said:
1.- Get a dark brown bob
2.- Put your hair behind your ears, people will love you when they can see your ear.
3.- Wear brown or black circle lenses
4.- Wear light makeup, and with that, I mean only some concealer, mascara and lip gloss (but not red!)

These instructions came with this set of pictures.

So I followed the idea of the fan from Japan, mom dyed my hair brown (and it looked a marshmallowian times better than the Hairstylist's little experiment, haha XD) and the Hairstylist cut me a Shinoda Mariko bob.

And with all these ingredients I turned out to look like this:

My viewers in niconama and most of my fangelic (and even non-fangelics) were delighted that I look more natural. And, I'm happy too! : D

So that's the story!

If you have any more questions, I'll be glad to ask them for you on my tumblr, or @VenusAngelic on Twitter! ♪

❤HAPPY END BEGINNING❤

♥ Autumn Clothes Shopping ♥

Hey everyone!❤⃛(*ૂ❛ัᴗ❛ั*ૂ)

Yesterday I mentioned I will show you my autumn shopping today ♥ yay!

As summer fades and the afternoons are getting cooler, and yeah, that rainy english weather included, I just need warm clothes OK. (๑•ૅૄ•๑)

First of all, soft, thick and warm socks. Hmmmm.  And their cuteness makes them even warmer, softer and thicker!☆

♥Po-po-polka dots!♥

Pink! Light Pink! Black! ☆ One dot! 2 dots! Endless dot! (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

☆I like the pipipipink one the moooost!☆

I also got a cute white blouse♪♫♬

♥♥♥I love poncho designs!♥♥♥

I will wear this with short jeans, cute thick tights and UGGs! ★

★Blue dotted triangle pattern blouse!★

Looks cute with a jeans jacket♥♥♥♥♥

Super comfortable and cute peach coloured (half?)hoodie! ♥ As you can see, only one half of the hoodie is there.

(๑╹ڡ╹) I will wear this with pink frilly shorts for chilling at home! 

♥♥♥Rocking the dolly look♥♥♥

All these items are from Amazon (uk) and I'm still waiting for another item to arrive! Excited☆

Of course I'm going to show it to you in my blog!

Hint: It's for the eyes and lacy! 

This way I'll have mofu♥mofu warm in the rainy english weather ! ʕ̡̢̡ॢ•̫͡ॢ•ʔ̢̡̢

I hope you guys have warm too,

and please look forward to more cutifying, yummyfying and lyrics translations here on my blog!

♡ℒฺℴฺνℯฺ

by Venus

London Fashion's Night Out 2012

Hello my fashionable avocado! 

Yesterday, the 6th of Semptember 2012, I went to Fashion's Nigh Out in London! 

Wohoo!

★Read here what I did and saw during that time★

First I went to the Roger Vivier Boutique because that‘s the place I got the invitation to! 

They had pralines, rose tea, and these yummy strawberry cream & jam biscuits!

Besides yummy stuff, shoes and bags, they also did Tasseography.

I wanted to take part in the Tasseography, but I‘m only 15 yet and for some mystical reason you can only do it if you're 18. Ok, 3 years more and I can go and let my future be read out of tea leafs. Can‘t wait, wohoo! hehehehe

Trying on Roger Vivier flats.

Those are the special "Limited Edition Metallic Rose Gomette Ballerinas"

There were purple falts too, they really matched with my cardigan and tights.

Btw, purple is the trend colour of winter 2012♥

Model gets her hair done during the photoshoot.

That‘s because it‘s a PR shoot for the hair dresser Errol Douglas live in the La Perla store♥♥♥

The photographer of the fashion shoot also took a picture of me for the FNO website! *blush*

Living mannequin in La Perla‘s display window.

Aww they were sooo nice! The La Perla shop assistant even greeted me with refreshing Lemongrass water. 

I love lemongrass, it‘s like my favourite spice ever♥

Aww a strawberry macaron! I love macarons!

The shop assistants were very friendly and they showed me their bra and undie collections!

Guess what? Their all Japanese inspired, most of them are Kabuki style. So elegant♥

Well I didn't take any pictures of me wearing the underwear, hehe

Ok, I did take pictures but not gonna show them! bleehh : P

Instead of me wearing underwear take a look at the Marni (Yes, yes, Marni and not Armani, many ppl get confused with that lol) coat from this year's winter collection!

My favourite part about this coat are the colour and the collar.

You can fold the collar up so it's like a "turtleneck" and tighten the belt (which is hidden under the collar when not folded) around your neck. 

The coat fit perfectly, except the belt around my waist which was too big. :(

Otherwise, I think it goes perfectly with my red shoes which I‘m wearing in the pic.

Recently I started to like red! hehe

But my favourite coat was definitely this one:

This coat came with a belt too - a belt that was too big for my waist - again.

So the shop assistant gave me a separate belt, not included with the jacket and BAM! it fit perfectly.

Also, the style of this separate belt goes well with this coat, which is harder to do with the red jacket because of it‘s design (but of course you can get a tailor to modify the belt). 

What I REALLY like about this jacket is - that you can wear it with almost anything because of the neutral design.

The coat looks great without the belt too - another thing I'm loving about the design.

Trying on high heels in the Louis Vuitton store.

(Note the Marni balloon, lol)

They are from the most recent Louis Vuitton fashion show.

Would you think that they are comfortable? Of course, they are! I could walk in them four HOURS.

Seriously, those are the most comfortable and good looking high heels ever.

There were black ones too, and I usually don't like brown shoes, but these brown high heels were just sooo different♥ Probably because they remind me of doll shoes♥♥♥

Next stop: Escada!

Pink! I ♥ pink! And this is just such a nice bright pink.

Hmmm comfortable♥♥♥

My favourite top/dress. Wearable with tights, jeans and leggings, heels, ballerinas, boots...everything!

I love these kinds of clothes you can just "jump in" and look great ♥ lol

That‘s really practical when you have these total girl moments like:

"OMMMMG I don't have enough clothes!! TT_TT"

A cute girl who works at the Ted Baker store and was wearing green circle lenses (!!♥) handed out fish and chips made of white chocolate packed in fashionable Ted Baker "newspaper".

 ...then the clock hand pointed to 9(pm)

And I went hoooome....

By tube. 

London's tube is fast and very clean. Wohoo!

Yesterday, the 6th of Semptember 2012, I went to Fashion's Nigh Out in London! 

It was super duper fun and interesting.

Thank you for reading♥

Sweet Greetings,

by Venus

Doll glasses

Oh, HI!

And a pink welcome to this blog entry! : D You know I love you! 

Do dolls wear glasses? 

Can you still look like a doll when wearing glasses?

Why do dolls need glasses? I don't think they can have distorted vision, right? 

Oh well, I do know the answer, and, lucky you, will hear it! Now.

Le answer is: Yes.

BUT, there's ONE RULE!

1.- It has to be dolly style.

Dat izz u: So dolly style glasses? Is there some kind of shop specialised in dollified glasses, huh?

Oa maibi nod. A dunnooh.

OMG LOL NO.

So the easiest way to get a frame that fits your style and personality, is going to a "glasses store"! It doesn't has to be some kind of uber posh store, not at all! Just pop inside your local optical aid merchant and try on any kind of frame you like, even try on such you would never think that they could look fabulous on you!

Have some self confidence, and ask yourself:

- Do these glasses make me prettier, uglier, or even more interesting?

- Does they match with my makeup? 

- Or could I wear another makeup with those glasses, and look even better?

Also it depends on what kind of events you want to wear the glasses and how you want to represent yourself.

Sometimes you have to look for hours, but mostly, when you found your beloved one, then it's like the "you know it" feeling! ;D

Sometimes you look good in something, but think: it's weird. You're actually scared because you never experienced looking at a different, cuter you! But of course, if you look double dumb, then don't try to convince yourself that they "aren't that bad". @__@

Well this blog entry about glasses doesn't just come out of the blue, I actually got a new pair of glasses a week ago! 

I need glasses? Fashionally: YES. But definitely not because of my eyes. I made an eye test (was free because I'm still 15, yay!) and the optician told me that I have perfect vision! I was very glad to hear that! Well, thanks to mommy, who tought me not to read in the dark, or watch too much television! ❤

To my surprise, those window glasses make my eyes 

all shiny and sparkly, that's so cooooooool! @w@

So my glasses lenses are just "windows". It's just Fashion! : )

The thing is that I like to wear glasses to make my outfit look cuter and to build upon it! Another thing I like about glasses is that they make you look smart, they make you look like you're always thinking about some hard stuff! That's very cool, I guess, hehe! AND THE OTHER THING is that they enhance your eyes and face a lot! They give you a whole new charisma, so they are the perfect fashion accessory, don't you think? ; )

The reason I choosed those round glasses are, because they are very dolly (round glasses look vintage) AND because they fit my face very well, and same as the glasses frame my face is very round, it isn't very edgy (it's very curvy I'd say, haha).

Those are a special brand, actually, they are designed by Gok Wan!  I got them very cheap because I'm still 15, yay! Gok Wan is a British fashion consultant, author and television presenter of British Chinese heritage. He produces many glasses in that kind of style, well, not round ones only, but in that kind of style. Just ask Google sensei. =_=

(photo is license free from wikipedia)

Colour? Black! I guess black is the best colour for glasses, in my opinion.

Some cool thing to try out would be sticking rhinestones and ribbons on a glass frame! That'd be definitely cute❤ Actually I really wanna try that some day! : S

Pull the glasses a bit down and it makes you look even smarter and "thinking-deep looking!" ; D

Hehe. So that's how I wear glasses with my dolly style! Have a nice day!

Sweet Greetings

by Venus

What I do when I can't decide between crazy and just plain simple!

Hello and Happy Wednesday!

In my last blog post I made my first outfit pic, which was a bit tricky, but as promised, I managed to find out how to make outfit pics (that aren't blurry or the camera covering my face and I can't even see and stuff huh).

Ohhh, and I also told you that I went to Oxford Circus, but I didn't tell you what I did there. But I'm sure I told you that I'm gonna tell you today what I did there,  and I'm gonna do it RIGHT NOW!

SO the reason why I went to crowdy Oxford Circus is because I had to buy 3 pieces of a certain white blouse. 

WHY???

Because...

It's not just a white blouse.

It's a SIMPLE white blouse.

SOOOOO freakin' simple that you can wear it whatev' ya want with it!

Spring is here, wear the white blouse!!! 

Summer comes, wear the white blouse (and al gusto pull the sleeves up to make yourself look super chillin')

"After summer follows autumn, in that golden time the maidens shall wear the white blouse with a frilly ribbon jacket.", said mother nature.

And in winter pull over a fluffy jersey over the white blouse and to nerdify the look wear big glasses (you know those big glasses that kawaii girls wear and then make the duck mouth?? exactly those glasses. nerdy glasses. huhu.)

After all that cool stuff I just said I finally show you my outfit pics (ATTENTION: white blouse!!)

WHITE BLOUSE + SPRING COORDINATE

Outfit Index:

• White blouse combined with pink frilly pants.
• Because those are high-waist pants, I tucked the blouse in, but because  the frill isn't too dominant, it's also cute when the blouse hangs over the pants.
• I use white lace tights instead of socks to create a balance between different colours and body proportion. 

Outfit Index:

• Because both the blouse and the overall's colours are neutral, I wear a red ribbon.  Red is a more dominant colour and gives the outfit a feeling. Without anything colourful on my head the outfit would be a bit cold, right? 

Outfit Index:

• First and most important thing: I tried to imitate a pop art look. lol.
• As you see it consists of only black and white. But white is dominant. I don't like black as the dominant colour because it makes me look even MORE pale (in a bad way, i mean, haha XD)
• Also a pro of this outfit is that it looks classy, but you are still able to move awkwardly (see pic bottom right, lol XD) thanks to this handy white blouse and the skirt's nylon belt! haha.

I know, this isn't a complete outfit, but did you know that another pro of that simple white blouse is, that you can wear like numerous super interesting necklaces, without weird looks of people, that you would mostly get when wearing them with lolita clothes or japanese street style. haha. But with a white blouse some crazier accesories are OK if you're just doing normal stuff. 

haha and lol. : ) 

So why a white blouse really is that important:

Because you can combine it with outstanding items, and still look "everday cute".

1+1-1=1

Simple as that.

Have a nice day! CHUUU!