So that’s it, the mega outfit post of 2011~ Do you like the style? I should start doing this again for 2012, heh.

Thanks!

Apple

As always LCG was amazing, I spent too long messing around with my wig in the morning! I decided to go in Lolita as for some reason I’ve been Lolita inspired this month, and I realised that one of my Bodyline JSK’s that didn’t fit actually now does, which is pretty awesome; it has a matching bag, and I’ve been wanting to wear it for ages!

To be honest it was really difficult to co-ordinate because of the weird shades of gold and yellow, but I do love the wig and wanted to re-use it from my Rima cosplay and so that was the closest thing I had. I made a star hair clip the night before, out of polymer clay (recently got into deco-den, that’s a blog post for another day.) So it all ended up better than I thought!~

Photo by Sophie Wales

Photo by James Taylor

OUTFIT RUNDOWN;

Wig: Bought from a girl on Cosplay Island

Hair accessories: Star clip made by me

Cutsew: Tralala Japan

JSK: Bodyline

Bag: Bodyline

Tights: Offbrand

Boots: Minkyshop

Parasol: Offbrand

I also noticed that since a lot of people would be going in Lolita, to organise a Lolita photoshoot, and we were really lucky in that we had some awesome photographers on hand by chance to take some nice pictures, so thank you! Group photos will be up when they are posted. Later in the day, I messed around a bit and actually fell asleep on the floor, because I’m a classy women like that. I woke up to Soph staring at my face which was pretty hilarious, and as always Matt stole my jacket, pink suits him so much.

As for Sunday, we went to Yo! Sushi, which was amazing. Though I do miss Japan, and it reminds me of it! I’ve never been before and it was pretty damn awesome, and it’s 40% at the moment so it’s a lot cheaper. I bought Matt (the boyfriend) a takeaway version and that is sitting in the fridge, maybe I’ll nom some when he’s not looking haha.

All the Lolita’s looked SO GORGEOUS. And they were all really sweet and lovely. Oh so sparkly~ I really liked meeting the Leeds lolita’s because we all had a bunch of different styles and really unique co-ords, we had sweet lolita, goth lolita, classic loli, country loli, punk loli, bittersweet loli; basically most of the lolita styles had a representative! <3 So after we’d nommed a load of sushi, we headed to the Conservetory which is like a bar/coffee bar, and it was lovely. Never been there and it had like a really chilled out atmosphere! We were surrounded by books and it was all pretty. We had tea and just chatted and loled about random stuff Everyone seemed to get on well.

Again, I’ll post more pictures of everyone as they arrive but for now this was todays co-ord.

Headbow: Angelic Pretty

Wig: Bought from Gemma

Blouse: Baby, The Stars Shine Bright

JSK: Angelic Pretty

Bag: Offbrand

Tights: Offbrand (Primark, 3 quid or somethin’, bows and polkadots = bargain!)

Shoes: Offbrand

I bought a Baby blouse fr0m Lolita Sales on fb, and got it just in time so that was super lucky! I love it, it’s so comfy and frilly.

So yeah, all in all a fantastic weekend! I allowed myself some time off from working on all my various Uni stuff (heavy scheduling allows me to take a weekend off sometimes!)

Thanks,

Apple

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, so here is my Rima from Vampire Knight cosplay; it’s by TokyoToys.

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Hope you like ^_^

Thanks

Apple~

This is a tutorial on how to do gel eyeliner – it is basically just how I do it, so hopefully it will help!

Thanks,

Apple

Angelic Pretty Melty Chocolate OP in pinkxwhite.

Angelic Pretty Fruits Parlour in BlackxPink.

Bodyline Ice Cream Print in Mint.

Bodyline gothic JSK in black.

Tralala gyaru style dress and top in Pink.

Baby The Stars Shine Bright JSK in red tartan.

Bodyline heart pocket JSK in blackxwhite.

Offbrand Hello Kitty JSK.

Bodyline Alice in Wonderland print in pinkxred.

Bodyline puppy print in whitexpink.

Offbrand skirt in pinkxwhite.

Bodyline blouse in off-white.

Angel Pretty Jacket in Pink.

Offbrand coat in black.

Bodyline x2, Angelic Pretty x1, Offbrand x2.

Angelic Prettyx2, the rest offbrand.

Minkyshop, Offbrand, rest are Bodyline.

Offbrand black parasol.

Thanks,

Apple

I’m getting my room decorated soon, so I’ve started designing it. So excited! It’s been the same for a long time now, just hadn’t had the time to get going with it. I stripped all the wallpaper off, which only took me a little while. I designed the room on Maya, but I’ll skip the technical detail as it’s boring, hah. It’s inspired by Melty Chocolate by AP, one of my favourite dresses. So here they are!:

It isn’t finished yet, needs more stuff! But it’s a start, heh.

Apple

We got the train from Bradford to Manchester, and the tram to kind of near the expo hall. We walked the rest of the way, and we spotted some wonderful cosplayers! We waved and they waved back, everyone was really really friendly. So we arrived, and we couldn’t BELIEVE how long the queue was! I can’t tell you have glad we were to have bought the fast track tickets otherwise we’d have been there for hours.

We had a look around the stalls and squeeeeeeed at the plushies, comics, keychains and everything else anime themed! There was a retro game stall which I spent a bit of time looking at as I do love my retro consoles, as you might already know! Cybercandy was there, but unfortunately they didn’t have any Fanta Grape with them which I craved so much after my trip to Japan, hah. They did have some great stuff though.

I made a compilation video of the events, including an excellent video of our random toilet rave, hah.

As I mentioned, we were in the masquerade, which is always a lot of fun, even if we do get pre-stage nerves. It all went pretty well though and hopefully people liked our cosplays.

Here is a gallery of the images I took on the day, as there is too many to post individually.  Are you on our pictures?

Apple

This is my blog about Hyper Japan 2011. Hyper Japan is a Japanese Culture event, supporting food, fashion, cosplay and lolita. I attended both the Saturday and the Sunday to see Kanon Wakeshima, and of course, go shopping!

On the Saturday, I visited a lot of the stalls. There was a collection of Japanese food places, and for dinner I had chicken teriyaki and kelp onigiri, delicious! There were a number of stalls selling various Japanese goods, for example a Japanese magazine stall, they had a lot of the typical fashion mags from Japan, and things like the Gothic and Lolita Bible. There was also a Baby, The Stars Shine Bright stall, however on the Saturday I noticed it was closed, and this is apparantly due to the staff getting food poisoning the day before, which is a real shame! There was a Bring and Buy stall, which had Lolita rings, accessories and clothes, so I decided I’d buy a ring that would nicely match my Melty Chocolate dress. I was told a girl called Tania made them, so cute! (Excuse my nasty hands, hah, been making cosplay stuff and there is all manner of glue and such on there.)

I went to the Wasabi Records stall to buy Kanon Wakeshima’s new album, along with her artbook. I got a discount from being from egl, so that was great! In total it was £15.

As you can see, I was lucky enough to get it signed by her! The signing was at 4pm, I started queuing around 3.30pm so as a result I was quite near the front.  When I was wandering around the stalls, I noticed a guy at the AnimeLeague stand drawing people, and so I thought it’d be a nice thing to keep. He did a really good job I think, and he was a really nice guy too.

Cool right? I love seeing artists at work, especially because I like to draw a lot myself. Aside from the stalls, there were a lot of stage performances and such. I caught the last end of a sushi cooking tutorial on the stage, which was really interesting. I might have to give it a go at some point myself! And of course, the person I was waiting for, Kanon Wakeshima! If you don’t know her, she’s a singer and she also plays the cello, famously known for her songs at the end of the Vampire Knight episodes.  I was so lucky to be sat in a good place to be able to see her. She started her set with Still Doll, and played nearly all of my favourite songs, Suna no Oshiro, Marmalade Sky, Princess Charleston, Lolitawork Libretto etc and she really was excellent. I’m listening to her album now! My family who had come along with me were also really impressed by her, it’s nice that my family took an interest.

I saw some of the cosplay show, which was also pretty awesome. There were a ton of good cosplayers around (a lot of Miku’s! <3) which was nice to see. As well as this, there was a gaming booth with lots of new games, including Zelda: Skyward Sword. Ah, I was so excited to play it! My verdict on it, ‘The gameplay is structured better, it’s easier to access menu’s and it makes a lot more sense for the Wii controls. To access weapons, you hit the back button and it brings up a circle interface of possible weapons – no hitting the pause and going in and out through menu’s. Things seems a little more difficult than recent Zelda games, which is something I really wanted. Though it is hard to gauge the difficulty level from only playing for a short time, and it may have just been because I was getting used to the controls.’

‘The graphics/environment design were excellent, in particular I played the ‘Dungeon’ option and it was a very nice looking thing. It had the traditional moblins, this time with armour, more defense techniques and the whole thing required more skill than just random slashing of stuff in it’s general direction. There was also the come back of things similar to skulltula’s, spiders, where you had to break the web to defeat them.’

‘You had to hit the crystals dotted around to open the door, very typical in Zelda style. It has a nice combination of new elements in comparison with the old. All in all, I’m 10x more excited having played that little bit, I think it’s shapin’ up to be something pretty sweet.’

On Sunday, I went to the Tea Party with Kanon Wakeshima which was amazing. I was outside on my own, when another girl in a Melty Chocalate dress spotted mine and came to talk to me, she was really nice and invited me to her group as I was on my own. All the Lolita’s were really kind so I appreciate you guys including me! <3 We all went in and we had name places, and the tables rotated and we were given the change to speak and ask Kanon Wakeshima questions about her music and fashion. She was really sweet, polite and kind.

I asked her,

ﾛﾝﾄﾞﾝが好きですか？

はい、愉しいですよ！

Then I gave up on Japanese because we only had 4 minutes and I couldn’t think fast enough, hah!
What is your favourite Lolita brand?

She gave me a whole list, but her first was Baby, The Stars Shine Bright, and when I met her she was wearing a dress from Baby.

What is your favourite part of Japan?

I like Tokyo, because that is where I came from.

Some other girls asked her:

When did you start playing the cello?

I started playing the cello when I was young, and I used to hate it and didn’t want to do it! But then, I became better and learnt not to give up, and now I love it.

So it was very interesting! Thank you to the organisers of this event. I will post pictures as they come, so far I haven’t got any of us all at the tea party. I know there were a lot of issues getting into Hyper Japan because of the capicity problems, but I guess I was on of the lucky ones and had no problems either days I was there. I had a wondeful time and I’m especially thankful to my family who took the time to come with me and show an interest in my hobbies! They liked looking at the cosplay and the lolita fashion too!

I was in Lolita both days, so here are a couple of images (sorry the first one isn’t the greatest, my Dad took it hah.)

Bow: Angelic Pretty

Dress: Angelic Pretty

Blose: Cream Doll

Socks: Offbrand (I know you can’t see ‘em.)

Shoes: Demonia

Bag: Offbrand

Parsol: Offbrand

And another image, this is (c) Saoirse Clohessy

Bow: Angelic Pretty

Dress: Angelic Pretty

Bag: Angelic Pretty

Rings: By Tania, another offbrand.

Necklace: Offbrand

Socks: Offbrand

Shoes: Bodyline

Thank you so much for reading my blog post, it’s pretty long this time! More pictures will probably be posted as the emerge on the net, hoping to get one of the group photo of Kanon’s tea party. Oh, I’ve also changed the format of my pictures. Do you like them? Thanks!

Apple

What I’ve done instead is combine the 3 basic elements I use in my cosplay make-up to create a super simple look for beginner users of make-up; tinted moisturiser, blusher, and eyeshadow. Perfect for Miku Hatsune!

Here is the look I created with just these things:

Simple and easy, right?

Here is the video how to do it!

Hope that helps you in the future,

Apple