x-plain NZ designer brand buys && evening fun

At the university my mom works, there's this admin/PA who dresses in 100% designer clothes. TBH I didn't really know about this, but today my mom said that lady had recommended an outlet store on 7 Triton (Rosedale) that opened not too long ago.

I was pretty skeptical cause my taste in fashion is pretty....different from most NZers .-.

BUT the store was actually super nice!

The interior design was super minimalistic but bright and fresh and spacious~
For once, my mom didn't complain about waiting for me to try clothes. She usually hates the stores I go to and would never wait for me >>"

The clothes in the store weren't that cheap, they were all indie NZ designer brands. But the selection of items there were all really nice. The overall style concept of all the clothes in the store is probably retro/hipster/high fashion. It's an interesting mix, but I will definitely visit again!

I splurged quite a bit today. Not something I'm particularly proud of, but the quality of the clothing was so nice, and the design so unique that I had to buy them! Besides, the clothes my mom buys are about this price anyway >> << >>

So I bought one jacket - the Kibosh Jacket (link is to the brand's e-store), and one skirt - Boggie Skirt.

love the asymmetrics on this jacket and the mix of textiles!!

without chiffon attachment

long chiffon attach

base skirt

shorter chiffon attach

nice minimalistic packaging ~

the designer of the shop, which also sells other brands such as the one I bought o.O

I super loved that the jacket and skirt had detachable areas which completely change the look! The design is just so awesome, it was totally worth the $170 I paid! (Yes, in store price was even lower than the webstore 50% off price!!!)

So all in all, my wallet is bleeding, but I'm feeling pretty smug. These pieces definitely improve the style of my "normal" wardrobe~

KTV & Pool

Man it feels like forever since I last went ktv!! Actually I went several times before uni started. There was a period where I just wanted to sing so much hahaha

Anyway this evening, went KTV with some friends and met many new people *o* Funny story, some of the friends I did know were from online gaming years ago! It's so awesome to meet up again offline and have mutual friends from offline wtf haha

So we went ktv and played pool after, and it was so much fun! Pool was so competitive lol. We booked two tables and my table had the most serious game I've been in these few years! My team won 5-3 though *hi5 to my awesome teammate RC who totally ownd* >:D

Today was so much fun, I hope there will be more days like this! Hanging out with friends is so rare now wtflol!

=^.^=

Dinner catch-up with my girls~

Tonight I went across town (Ellerslie -> Forrest Hill) which is like an hour drive, to have dinner with my high school friends!


The host today held a dinner event before, but i missed that one. I think I was in Canada? Anyway, everyone said her cooking is AH-MAZING so we kept pestering her to hold another eveent, and today it finally happened!!


There were several friends I haven't seen in many months, and some that I spent New Years eve playing drinking games with. We rarely get to meet up during the study semester since everyone is doing different degrees, and are super busy *ahem procrastinating* so we try to make the most of summer vacation!


Our lovely host made many Taiwanese based dishes, but she put a spin on everything and it was super nice! I got to deep fry the chicken, and the parsley, garlic, and apparently ginger too (I don't eat ginger) were so good! We agreed that next time, half the deep frying will be of parsley LOL

The Feast

We only had 9 people, but there was so much food!! Thankfully there wasn't much left over, though our host is now sorted for sugary drinks and snacks for the next fortnight hehe~ (she told us not to bring food, so we ended up having a huge variety of drinks to choose from)

We also had really nice 'tofu tiramisu' omg. First time in my life I felt healthy eating a dessert!! It was made with the soft jelly tofu blended instead of using mascarpone, and it tasted really good!! It is of course a tiny bit firmer than a cheese/egg mix, but the flavour and texture (on the most part) were not compromised in the least. I will hopefully be half-trying it this weekend as I still have a sachet of mascarpone in the fridge ><;


This weekend, I aim to upload at least 1 review on Confetti, which of course I will link from here too. If I slack off now I bet there will be nothing done when uni starts! Not to mention... I miss putting on gyaru makeup!

Also, extra goal this year:

Up my sujimori game!

Yosh'

Obligatory self-introduction + photo history '08-'13

Hi there!

So this blog is called SnowRii's World (2) because I have another blog called SnowRii's World (also 's World in japanese) but I have no idea what the login for it is, so screw that. I like the name, so I'm keeping it. The previous one is at snowrii.blogspot.com, nothing exciting, there's literally one post on it for a giveaway. No wonder i forgot the login details LOL.

So anyway, some basic details:

Name
Rina

Online Name
SnowRii, Rii, some mix or variation on them (ie. xSnowBerri or xSnowKitty, if you knew me on PWI). I thought it was almost punny cause Rii is from Rina, and snowrii sounds similar to snowy... but apparently no-one except me gets it. Fair point too, I don't have a snowy complexion wtf, it just sounds pretty okay! T_T

Instagram
I live here.

Website
Confetti is my official blog site where I post most things. I share the blog with Cora (@corargh, her twitter is the same) and Little (our illustrator who draws sadistically funny comics).

Line Play
I also love this game because it's completely brainless, and the design is so cute wtf. My avatar is snowii <<<<no r!!!!! Feel free to add me ^^

ummmm what else... its 1.30am and I really should be sleeping. I need to get up for work at 7am but I don't wanna sleep fml ;;;
Oh yeah, I have insomnia, and self-diagnosed mild OCD and possible attention deficiency of some kind lol. Or maybe I'm just lazy ;;;

Gyaru
Right! The important part to my self introduction:
So I became interested in Gyaru back in 2010ish. I don't remember where...it was probably SCawaii or some other japanese magazine I saw first. Back then, I wasn't into any particular style at all, though I remember wanting to dress 'grown up' and 'sophisticated' or 'cool'. Yeah them were the myspace days...
And so in 2010, I fully became interested in gyaru,dyed my hair blonde...

JOKES. I lie. I became interested in Asian fashion in general around 2008 (I still have photos. But they're so gross wtf dig them out of that old OSN platform that was kawaii and you could heart people on if you can find my account). I was kinda into goth, and scene back then but I didn't know of the term 'scene'. There's this super old selfie that may or may not have been the first selfie I took and kept, and I had the darkest goth style eyes lol. Anywho, I had SUPER CRAPPY PHOTOSHOPPING SKILLS back then (and I don't claim to be good now kthx) so uh, yeah it was pretty awks. Anywho, this photo below is from 2009, and I'm pretty sure those are extensions I'm wearing....

I think I looked pretty chubby-cute here.

and back to 2010, I finally took the plunge and dyed my hair blonde the first time. Goodbye virgin hair.

or I tried to anyway... It ended up just orange-ish. Why was it blonde in my memory? T_T;;

Back then I had so little makeup to play with...How did I get such round eyes le!? Perhaps I photoshopped this photo and forgot ==;

I took a lot more photos in 2010. My first proper photoshoot with a really nice photographer and camera was with my high school friends.

That ridiculous leg-shop lol. I was so not that skinny.

I thought I looked super gyaru here lol

and then became interested in modelling after this photo...

No PS. I was so proud of this photo!

and... I'll just leave the next three years in a photo dump

2011

Kogal phase?? 2011

got into ulzzang for a bit. 2011, I think was when I had time to waste on FB ulzzang contest pages lol. Somehow I still went blonder at this time o.O

All my photos were photoshopped really hard in 2012... or rather, fail Meitu'ed.
Dat milky skin. mmmmmmmmmmmn...

Have a couple anyway. It's fun looking through my photo history lol

I really tried to go ulzzang for a bit. Not sure if I really got anywhere though...

Then late 2012, I went blonder still....

and started playing more with eyemake colors. I really drifted away from gyaru...

started buying wigs (2012)

dyed my hair pink and purple. Lifelong dream fulfilled,
though it wasn't exactly the pastel I really wanted...

and then 2013, the creepycute and pastel grunge came in...

and now I'm primarily back in the gyaru style!

Had to dye my hair dark, and not bleach again.
Mom thinks I'm gonna get cancer from it.
I think I just get dumber ~.~

with セ-ラ and Pattee. This is a wig btw.

The above photo was from a meetup we had with the NZ gyaru group Hana Emi Dolls!

I was so happy to find them this year, fashion and beauty is just so much more fun when there's people in it with you, and when they're not halfway across the world!

I love all the gyaru community (with the exception of a few snarky bone-pickers), but it's just different having a community based in nz!

Oh yeah some advertisement: If you are in NZ, feel free to join our circle!

Continuing on after the super long tangent....

My favourite styles
Kuro (everything except the dark skin. Tan does not look good on me ;;;), and hime.
Though, gyaru is shifting in a way that is really confusing at the moment. I think what I like isn't hime, but himekaji/romantic.
I also still like pastel grunge (grunge in general)~

My favourite things about gyaru
Makeup (if I had to pick something in particular, circle lenses)
Nails (long and arty please!)
Clothing (in general, because how can I pick something specific!?)

Oh and I'm Chinese, grew up in New Zealand, and I can't actually speak jap and pretty much can't read either. #noob


If there's anything else you would like to know, please comment below and I will reply you + append to the post!

Yoroshiku!