LBC: Underrated colors

Hello everyone!

It was so lovely to read all your posts last week, unfortunately I couldn't find the time to comment on every blog. I really enjoyed reading about all your favorite dresses. ^___^

This week's theme is underrated colors, I really like to talk about this subject. I have this kind of feeling that most of the lolitas stick to the more popular colors because they are afraid do something wrong. There is nothing wrong with more popular colors like black, pink, blue and brown. 

The most underrated color is green because it's a beautiful and elegant color. There are many variations of the color green, there is no way  to be bored of the color green. One of the misunderstanding about green lolita clothes is that those clothes are cheap or only suitable for ita's. 

That's not true! Green is not cheap, it's all about the fabric and dress design. I want to show you some of the variations of the color green with this color scheme.

Now I want to show some amazing examples of green lolita. Many lolitas think that there are no or just a little green lolita dresses only that's not true. There are many green dresses even from the most popular lolita brands.

Innocent world Rose and Playing cards jsk

Metamorphose Fancy Egg Tuck Pleated Pinafore JSK

Juliette et Justine Princesse dans forêt JSK

Juliette et Justine Le Premier Cri de Prophete JSK

Moi-même-Moitié Cross Arch Lace JSK

Baby the stars shine bright Velveteen Royal Antique JSK

Victorian Maiden Chocolatierre JSK

Innocent World Antique rose Flare JSK (Dark Green)

Maybe you are wondering about me, if you talking so much only about the color green instead of more underrated colors then you must have a green lolita dress, right? It's true, I just have one green lolita dress, I'm pretty sure that this won't be the last.  In the beginning of the year I saw the new release from Moi-même-Moitié and I really loved that dress. Guess what happened? I missed the release, it was already sold out in one day. It made me really sad... A few days after that I decided to make a green dress myself inspired on the beautiful Moitié JSK. In the end it's really different than the dress from Moitié only I really satisfied with the result.  It was so much work, I hope you will like it. ^__^

Thanks for reading and I hope this post will change your opinion about the color green. It's an amazing elegant color and perfect for gothic lolita and classic lolita.

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LBC: My favorite dress

My favorite dress, I never thought this would be so difficult. My favorite dress never was a dream dress of mine, you might be wondering why I even bought it. My favorite dress is the Holy Stained Glass from Moi-même-Moitié in Silver x Black.

Let me tell your more about this dress and let me tell you why this dress is so special to me even when it's not my dream dress. It feels really weird to say but this dress was meant for me,  I needed to have it and not because it was so beautiful. This sounds a little bit vague...
Let me explain it! I really liked this dress when Moi-même-Moitié released it, I fell in love white the shape of the dress. And look at the print it's amazing especially the glitters! There aren't many people who can tell that they have a dress with sparkling saints. ^_~
That's why I started saving up for it, I guess it didn't went that well only I graduated from high school so I could pick a gift. My mom thought it was ridiculous to give me a expensive dress like that, it wasn't something that I would like forever. I asked my dad and I was very lucky, he decided to partially pay for my dress because of my graduation. So... I can tell you, it was a partially gift from my dad which meant so much for me. I was so happy! ^___^
That's the first reason why I think this dress is more special than my other dresses. 

Only when the dress arrived after three week or something, I had to pay a huge amount of custom taxes. I think half of the whole amount... That day so my mom opened the door and had to pay for the taxes. After I payed she was furious, she found out the price of the dress and about the custom taxes of course. I was really surprised  I've had already warned her about the taxes and such.. She didn't have to pay it herself, so I didn't get all the fuss. Only every week I began to feel more and more ashamed that I bought a dress of such a huge amount of money... And those custom taxes I was so furious about that why did I always have to pay so much money? It's unfair some people never get those!

That's why I started to hate the dress, I thought wasn't worth a dress from Moi-même-Moitié...I wore the dress once then I really wanted to sell it.. I didn't wanted to have that dress anymore.  I hated it, it had to go! Unfortunately (??) I couldn't sell it... there was nobody who could offer me that large amount of money or trade the dress. Every meetup I said, this is the last time I wear this dress. It's a goodbye, this time for sure. Only I wore the dress more and more... I've never had a lolita dress which I wore more than ten times. That's why I started to like it, all those times and all those good memories I have when I wore that pretty dress.

The last reason why I could NEVER sell this dress has something to do with a deeper meaning. With the recordings of a Dutch television program I wore the Holy Stained Glass. So... I was on TV while I was wearing this dress! I guess that's great?!  ^__^

The reason why I wore this dress wasn't nice.. I knew I was going to loose someone important in a few days. I had to wear my memorial cake that day only I couldn't... you should not wear pink dresses in a situation like that.

My outfit from that day was a memorial outfit, to show my last honor.

This dress is so much more than just a dress. It has so many reason why I love it with all my heart, not because it's a beautiful dress, it's because all those memories. Many good memories and many bad memories, this dress remembers me not to give up and follow my dreams. This dress remembers me to think twice if you want something and not to judge in advance. Although I didn't like this dress first, I even hated it for a while, it's my favorite dress. The most important one this dress remembers me of friendship, of all those nice days I've had with my friends. And hopefully for all those days that will going to happen in the future.

Some pictures

I hope you understand why the Holy Stained Glass is my favorite dress...
I would love the hear all your stories about your favorite dresses! Please tell me! ^__^

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Lolita Blog Carnival: 5 themed Meetup Ideas

First of all I'm very sorry for not writing for the lolita blog carnival!
I really like it and it's so nice to read other blogs and hear opinions from other lolitas about certain themes. From now on I try to be more active!
This week I noticed something odd, many pictures disappeared from my blog..
I'm not very happy about that. Many of those picture were on my other laptop and that one is broken, it can't be fixed anymore. I'm going to try to get my pictures back, but first I'm going to remove the empty picture icons, that annoys me so much..

Meetup themes, that's something I really like!

Let's start! ^____^

Rococo tea party

This one is my favorite idea and it's going to happen in January here in Holland, that's not weird because Josine and I are organizing this meetup. Let me explain the idea of a Rococo tea party.
Everyone knows that lolita is influenced by the Rococo era and why we should go back to the roots of lolita and add a few more lolita elements to it. This meeting is all about bonnets, Marie Antoinette, many many details on the dresses, big hair and so much more...
And aristocratic ladies loved to drink tea, that's why we decided to make a tea party of it. 

Fairy tale meetup

I really love fairy tales, I always loved them since I was a kid and I still do.
Now I collect old fairy tale books, with amazing illustrations.
There are so many fairy tale themed prints and dresses, I'm wondering why there wasn't a fairy tale meetup before... Every lolita wants to be their favorite character from a fairy tale for one day, right? Let's make it happen! I think I would like to wear a little red riding hood outfit,the little mermaid outfit or maybe a inspired outfit from a relative unknown fairy tale? 

Masquerade ball

Once in my live I want to go to a lolita masquerade ball, that would be so amazing!

Everyone MUST wear a mask or something that covers your face. There will be nice music for some dancing and enough chairs and tables to eat and drink something. The event must be in a castle,manor house or something other classy!

Twin meetup

Everyone who attends this meetup has to twin with another lolita. It doesn't have to be the same print, the same style is okay only it would be nice if everyone has someone or more persons to twin with!

Pirate Meetup

Pirate lolita is still underrated I think, it has to change! If you do it well it's not too costume like, like many people think. What I love about pirate lolita are the many details in the outfit and it's not too girly. And of course the tricorn hats which are so awesome, it's a great excuse to wear mine again.The overall theme of the meetup will be the sea so mermaid coords and sailor lolita would be great too.The perfect location for a pirate meetup is the beach, hopefully the weather will be nice enough next year. ^___^

Secretly I want to do a treasure hunting game on the beach, that would be so much fun!

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I can't wait to read your blogs! ^__^

Next time I want to show you a drawing which a friend of mine made for me, show you some of my recent buyings, tell about the fly away fashion show and answer one of my blog readers questions. (I'm pretty sure this won't be one blog post)

                      

Lolita Blog Carnival: Favorite makeup tips

Favorite makeup tips, I'm going to be honest I'm not a huge fan of using much makeup. I love to keep my makeup a little bit natural and toned down, I don't want my makeup to scream: here I am! I guess this makes it difficult for me to write something about my favorite makeup tips, so why would I write a post about this? 

It would be interesting because it's something I would never write about, I want to give it a try!

My first overall makeup tip: natural & toned down makeup!

Don't get me wrong, I don't like to use much makeup.. that's my opinion. Many lolitas think that they have to use lots of makeup to look good in lolita, I think it's not true. With a little bit less makeup, you can still look pretty. First of all stop comparing yourself with the makeup pages in famous lolita magazines, yes the lolitas in the magazines look stunning, only their makeup is done by professionals and then most magazines use photoshop for their models. Then I want that you won't see makeup as something you use to hide yourself, okay it's something to make you 'prettier' but it's not true that using more makeup means that you automatically look good. Don't try to mask the part of your face you don't like, try to emphasize the parts you like. 

Take a look at this, this is one of my favorite pictures... even if it's my one of my favorites I haven't used much makeup, it's exactly enough I think:

What makeup did I used?

- Primer (I'm not sure how to call it, we call it foundation in Dutch)
- Pink rouge
- Mascara
- eyeliner
- False eyelashes
- Red lipstick
- A light colored eye shadow

False eyelashes

Like many lolitas I love false eyelashes, maybe you are wondering why I still love false eyelashes while I always say that you don't have to use much makeup. It's because I don't have long eyelashes.. then people say: ''Use some mascara and then it will be okay!'' Mascara doesn't work, I tried many different brands, my eyelashes stay short. My under lashes are longer then my upper lashes, weird isn't it?! That's why I tried false eyelashes once... Since then I NEED to wear false lashes when I wear lolita. My favorite ones are those long drag queen like false lashes, extreme long and thick lashes are so pretty! And I love false lashes with sparkles, stars or even a whole decorated theme in it. (like those very expensive flower ones) False eyelashes are my favorite part of my makeup besides the lipstick.

                                                     

           My eyes with false eyelashes

   Some amazing false eyelash examples:

 Lipstick

The finishing touch for every look, the lipstick. Lipstick is feminine, elegant and it makes a face vividly I think. My favorite color for Gothic Lolita is mysterious red (111) from YSL and for Sweet Lolita baby pink from a unknown brand. 

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