Paris Paris ♫ Day 1

As background song please choose this one now xD

Today I want to write about my Paris trip which was 1 month ago :)

This time I travelled for 3 days with 3 friends: Ami, Loopy and Himecookie (they were also in Utrecht with me).

We had to get up really early at 5 am to take the train to Paris. Where I live we have a train directly connected to Paris with only 3 stops inbetween, so we need only 3.5 hours, and the train is really cheap, cheaper than travelling within Germany! I hope I find a new job soon where I earn more money and can travel more often to Paris :D

But now to my trip, when we arrived, we went directly to the hotel to change into Lolita clothes and then shopping! Last year I bought nothing in the brand stores except something small for friends, but this year I found something for me :D First we visited the Btssb shop!

Busy with shopping

I saw many pretty dresses and blouses but everything was too expensive or didn't fit ;_; But in the end I fullfilled my dream and bought an Usakumya-chan!

With my new purchase in front of holy Btssb xD

Then we went to Angelic Pretty! This year Maki & Asuka were also there :D (Really sad that AP Paris is now closed ;_____;) I made small presents for them, a postcard and german chocolate.

When I entered the store I was really in heaven! I think we spend 1 hour in the store, just looking at everything! I have to admit I was a bit nervous to give the presents to Maki & Asuka and I even thought about not giving the presents to them, because I had fear that they don't like it but in the end they were happy about it ^_^ Unfortunately they didn't had a big selection of dresses or items which I liked, but I found a pink blouse! I really wanted to buy a pink blouse during my Paris trip and it even was the only one in the whole store xD

Of course I also took a picture with Maki & Asuka:

It was really hot that day, over 30°C!!! But Maki & Asuka were wearing blouses with long arms and a wool cardigan!!! When we asked Maki if it isn't too hot she answered "Yes it is but I have to look perfect *laughed*" xD

We also met a really nice girl form the USA, she asked if she could come with us because she didn't knew anyone. We agreed and so we went back to Btssb and then to Princess Crepe!

Our whole group with the girl from USA <3

Even the shop staff wears Btssb!

I want to make a real photoshoot in that shop >_<

Then we went back to the hotel to change our clothes, drop our shopping stuff and get some food! After a little break we went out again to go to Laduree and the other 2 Lolita shops in Paris.

Laduree really have the BEST Macarons in the world, but also the most expensive xD But they are so delicious you have to try them and they are worth the money!

After this we wanted to visit the other 2 Lolita shops in Paris, giq'chaq and Harajuku. But giq'chaq was closed and Harajuku had only gothic stuff (besides a Moitie dress for 500€...).

Then it was already very late and we went back to the hotel. We had an amazing view over Paris and Sacre Coer from our hotel room!

Btw this is all the stuff I bought in the 3 days:

~ Angelic Pretty blouse
~ Angelic Pretty postcard + bunny button => free gifts for buying the blouse
~ Angelic Pretty cantonier for my Lady Rose (I bought it from Ami but it was in Paris so it counts xD)
~ Btssb Usakumya Bag
~ Sephora lipstick
~ Chocomint Sugar Heart hairclip
~ Mameshipamyupamyu plush (OMG it is so cute I swear, I played the whole day with it after I came back from Paris xD)
~ Barbie necklace


Thank you for reading~ ♫♫♫

"Growing up" in Lolita Fashion

Recently I updated my wishlist folder on Photobucket. I started it around 2 years ago and I always added new dresses to my wishlist but never deleted some. But a few days ago I did and I realized that my taste grew up. 1-2 years ago many dream dresses were OTT Sweet Lolita like Milky Planet, Sugary Carnival, Toy Parade, Toy Fantasy and Milky Chan. But now these dresses are to childish for me. I still like them but I feel to old in them.
My only childish dress I own is Little Bears Cafe. When I first got the dress, I had no problem with wearing it, but now I feel a bit uncomfortable in it. I have the fear that I look like an adult who wants to fit in a child dress, so I always do my hair and make-up in a way that I look younger when I wear the dress. But I think I will never sell this dress because I love the print too much, I sometimes just have to be really brave to wear it xD

Also I realized that prints and especially popular prints were a big deal for me. But now I look for more special dresses which not many other people have. Currently I'm searching for a dress which is just one color but still have many details like many ruffles, different laces, a special cut, many ribbons etc.
Ok I have to admit I bought 1 abslolutely popular dress which is Day Dream Carnival, but I always dreamed of a pony themed dress which doesn't look too childish and this dress looks pretty sweet-classic to me, exactly the way I like it right now :)

Dresses I love right now (of course all from Angelic Pretty xD)

Princess in love OP

Symphony Frill JSK

Victoria Princess OP

Lace Lady OP

Did some of you also experienced a recent change?
Thank you for reading,
Miuko

Kawaii Weekend in Utrecht ~ Sunday Picknick

I didn't wrote something the last days because I'm designing a new layout for my blog... but it is so hard because I have absolutely no skills in graphic design >__< But I already changed the size of my blog so I can post bigger pictures, I hope you like it!

But now onto the last part of my Kawaii trip, the Sunday Picknick!
On Sunday was an official programm point where you could visit the castle and have a picknick, but to be honest it was too expensive for us so we went to the castle by ourselfs. We just joined the group during picknick :)

The castle was really beautiful and it had a pretty rose garden with a (fake) well in the middle. We didn't do much except taking a lot of pictures! I will show you my favourite ones:

A dutch girl said that all castles in the Netherlands are made of brown clincer like this!

Here you can see my hat better ~ It is selfmade ^-^

Here are the lovely outfits of my friends:

Evangeline

Ami

May

Yuki

Himecookie

Loopy

After a few hours we drove back to Germany because we were really tired! But all in all I really enjoyed the trip and I hope next year will be something like this again!

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Kawaii Weekend in Utrecht ~ Saturday Evening

My second post about Utrecht!
We had literally a party at a club named "Tivoli". It was really fun to go to a party where all people were dressed in Lolita fashion xD Of course there was program but between the program points a DJ played real party music, and it was really good! I secretly hoped for cocktails but unfortunately they had only liquor, which I don't like (and I think it's totally not classy to drink them in Lolita fashion :-P)

When I entered, I directly run to the selling booth to grab some merchandise of Misako and RinRin! Everything was pretty cheap, postcard set 1€, Misakos book 10€ and  RinRin's CD + postcard 5€ (but later I discovered it had only one song T_T)

The first program point was the performance of Misako Aoki and her new song "Maepatsu Himeka". Everyone should do the dance!

After this, RinRin performed three songs! First her own song "Kira Kira dreamy" and then 2 cover songs.

I don't want to be critical but you could clearly hear that both of them sing only playback and also the voice on the playback was not their real voice ^_~ But I know they are mainly models and not singers and it was still a lot of fun to see their performance.

Videos of the performances (it was the first time RinRin performed her song!!!)

Then the first part of the outfit contest started. Everyone who attended the contest had to go on stage, there was a real catwalk :D I don't know why but I was real nervous when I went up the stage, even if I know that it was only for fun!

Sorry for the derpy face xD

And a video of the outfit contest:

While Misako and RinRin went backstage to choose the winners of the outfit contest, there was a fashion show by Linda Friesen 4 o'clock, and then Scarlet Penta performed a few songs. I personally never heard of Scarlet before but she has a beautiful voice.

My favourite dress form Linda Friesen

Scarlet Penta singing~ ♫

The last point was the announcement of the contest winners, and guess what I WON 3RD PLACE!!!!! You can't believe how proud I was when Misako and RinRin choosed me as 3rd place, I felt so honored!!! Especially because half of my outfit was selfmade: hat, shoes, necklace and gloves.

Misako and RinRin explained why they choosed my outfit for the 3rd price

I got my present -  a brown parasol from Btssb *__*

And a video from the announcement of the winners:

Like I told you before, RinRin liked my hat and the chiffon skirt of my friend Evangeline very much. And after they announced the 3 winners I thought "hmm why didn't they chose Evangeline, is there another price?". And then RinRin really announced that there was a fourth special price xD And of course it was Evangeline :DDD

Evangeline's outfit

2nd place

1st place

All the winners!

After the announcement it was already around 10 p.m. so we went directly to the hotel and fall asleep xD

Here some last pictures from the party and a group picture!

Next entry is about the Sunday picnic :)

~*~ Most pictures are from the photographer of the event, Me.Photographie

Please check out his page: www.MeFotografie.com ~*~