Blogging style

Recently I've been really attracted to the japanese blogging styles.

For example, I just read Himena's recent blog post  - it's so short and spontaneous and straightforward and....free? I guess the general feel I get is that it doesn't have any 'requirements', and there are no themes to stick to. It's literally just whatever comes to mind, and that's really exhilarating~

(btw congrats to Katie for featuring! All the recognition is worth being noticed by your students? haha)


Anyway, I used to like writing long posts. And I still do like to do long posts, for example with product reviews it's just not possible to get any depth with a short post.

But sometimes, the thought of starting a new post (knowing it's long) really puts me off writing. And that's a problem too ;-;

For example, that 20 (probably 30 by now) item list of manga I've been meaning to review since October.....>>;


Well, I'm still thinking about where I want this blog to go. But, I will definitely be moving to wordpress sometime over this summer (Dec-Feb), so a lot will be changing!


In the meantime, since this post lacks images, I shall repost some of my recent outfits!

Hope to blog again soon!


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Liz Lisa haul arrived! + First outfit / Penderie

Hiya!

Sorry it's been a heck of a long time since I last updated! I've finally moved all my 2000+ travel photos onto my computer, so hopefully I can upload the posts soon since I've already typed them out like the eager beaver I am *v*

My Liz Lisa package came in on Friday, unfortunately in the very early morning (as they do), but I was so excited because it literally came three or four days after I received the 'item sent' email from Tenso!! They are SO FAST. I cannot stress how amazing Tenso's service has been throughout the entire shipping service process!

Here are my lovely items in all their packaged glory~

YEEEEESSSSSSSS :D

My shoes came in the shoe box perfectly stuffed with huge balls of paper (as expected of Liz Lisa), and all the clothes were acting as cushions in the package for my friend's snacks. There were also other random pieces of paper stuffed in the box to keep his snacks safe -0-

The amount of packaging and the space they left in the box is insane. The over-packaging is probably the only problem I have with Tenso tbh.

Yes. My friend B bought snacks to be shipped over with me. No, the snacks were not worth buying after the shipping cost was added. Moral of the story: buy things that are expensive compared to their weight. ie. just clothes.

Of course, no haul post can be uploaded without an outfit!
I actually wanted to take photos of all my clothes before doing this post, but I don't think I will be wearing some of them for a while because the temperature suddenly dropped last weekend, even though we are supposedly heading into spring. Lovely typical New Zealand weather yeah? xD

So anyway here's my Penderie dress, which was a whopping 70% off or something!

Ripped off my instagram @snowrii because I've lost the original photo :'(

The quality is seriously amazing for ~20USD. Brand items are so worth buying when they go on sale fufufu *v*

My face for that day

I haven't really had a chance (or the will) to put on proper makeup the last two weeks, what with uni life really catching up on me, but I'm finally getting back to it! The fashion season is coming up in New Zealand, so hopefully there will be a lot more local content to blog about ^^

Stay tuned for my other Liz Lisa outfits and travel tips for Europe & Japan!


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Nail inspiration for my upcoming nailset ~

Hiya!

It's the start of exam season in NZ for us tertiary students, so the uni labs are always super packed now ><

Good luck to everyone with exams in the next few weeks!

My departure for Europe is the morning of the day after my exam (yes I only have one paper with a final exam this semester), so I only have one evening to gel and deco my nails!

Knowing that far ahead of time has relieved me of much stress around the thought of having to figure out what I want to do with my nails in that evening ON TOP OF actually making them.

Truthfully, I still haven't drawn out what I want to do with my nails yet. I've picked out a few nail polish colors, but that's likely to change now that I've decided to use a different set of nail tattoos (with different color scheme).

Speaking of nail tattoos!

I finally did a quick trial of the nail tattoos I bought from my last taobao haul! Little noob me managed to screw up even sticking on a nail tattoo, but thankfully I was able to fix it up and it doesn't look toooo shabby for a first try ^^;

I'm so glad I actually did a test run. If this happened the night before I have to board a flight, I'd totally flip and freak out. Actually.

So yeah, as you can see, the house is a little messed up at the bottom, but it's not too bad. I've learnt my lesson ^^;

Nail tattoos are so much better than nail stickers! They're as thin as I remembered (from a nail salon in China) and you can't see the edge of the tattoo at all, so it looks drawn on!! ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆

I also received my acrylic set today which I'm super excited about! I don't know if I'll get to practice with that before the day I need to use it so...fingers crossed things work out and I have natural talent? Lmao who am I kidding.

Anyway, here is an image spam of the nail art I will be drawing inspiration from, for my upcoming nail set! Hopefully this will be good for everyone in the northern hemisphere heading into summer too :)

I've probably reblogged all the images here from tumblr, but there are also a few extra from instagram and magazines and google/pinterest. Sorry won't be providing credits cause there's just too many photos, and tbh IDK where most came from anyway. On the other hand if you find your image here, tell me and I'll happily credit you.

Sorry about the quality of snaps from my nail up magazine. iPhone camera quality is not the best ><

The tutorials in Nail Up! are really good! I'm so happy its possible to do a marble style nail with normal nail polish (on a small scale, like drawing hearts in latte art), though I doubt the effect would be anywhere near as good as gel. Anywho, it seems that most designs in these magazines are now using gel or acrylic paint, so I actually went out and bought some. I think instead of buying gel, it may be much easier for non-pros to stock up on acrylic paint instead. I haven't tried my acrylic paint yet, and don't know when I'll find time, but I imagine the effect would be pretty good.

Have you gotten a new nail set recently? Please comment images of them if you have! I'd love to see other nail designs too, as my pick is somewhat narrow in regards to the style focus ><~

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