Dunkelsüß - Member of the month // Animexx mod

Every month, our german Lolita website randomly choses a "Member of the month", where you get asked 10 questions about your Lolita life, which will then be featured on the website. After almost 8 years being a member, I was chosen for this month ^_^

Even if our website is not that active anymore, I still read those little interviews every month, because I find them very interesting, and I'm happy that I can finally participate too ^_^

You can read the article here => http://dunkelsuess.de/site/index.php/Comments/Blog458

It's in german only, however I don't say anything there what I didn't already have said here on my blog, so you don't miss anything xD

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Now some other news, not really interesting for you but I want to write it in my blog for my memory. Since 3-4 years, I was a mod for Lolita pictures on Animexx, where I controlled each picture if it can be uploaded in the Lolita category or not. However Animexx is dead for Lolitas, there are only 2 groups left who organize their Lolita meet-ups there, and which became the only ones who upload their pictures sometimes. I now stopped being a mod because I actually don't see any point in controlling the pictures when nobody even uses the gallery anymore, so noone cares if the uploaded picture is Lolita or not. I still had thought about this decision for months because it used to be important for me, but it's absolutely not anymore.

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Small meet-up / pink x black outfit

Yesterday I visited Le Pompom with my friends again. I'm not sure if the owner changed the recipe of the cupcakes but they were much more delicious then before ^_^

Also I tried to combine my outfit with black! I think the last time I have worn a Lolita outfit with black elements is 3 years ago? xD That also must have been the last time I have worn my cute star bag!

Here are the other lovely girls:

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

365 LLC - Travel Wishlist

I have a few countries and cities I definitly want to visit in my life:

- USA: a very big dream of mine, I want to travel the whole country and maybe even live there for several months, just because I want to know how it is to live there and understand their culture more.

- Japan: besides shopping for Lolita I also want to travel to several cities, since I started to watch tons of documentaries about this country and realized it has many other interesting things to offer.

- St. Petersburg, Moskau: I want to see those beautiful castles and buildings.

- UK, Ireland: Both countries have beautiful landscapes.

I also have some other places I want to see, but those are the most important ones. The other ones are also more very specific things then a whole country or city. Whenever I see something interesting, I save the link or pictures.

Kind regards,
Miuko~ <3

365 LLC - 5 words about your style

I think I wear a quite specific style of Lolita, my outfits always have the same elements, so I tried to list them. Only the color pink is not in all of my outfits but in 90% xD

- pink
- cute
- princessly
- glitterly
- gold

International Lolita Fashion Photobook

Yesterday a new e-Book got released by Ai Akizuki, which contains 200 pictures from Lolitas around the world. Several months ago, Ai asked on her Facebook page to send in some pictures for a book, and I also sent one which is used in the book. It is even used on the cover!

You can buy the book on Amazon for 4,61€ , it is a Kindle book but you don't need a Kindle, you can also download an App for your computer or mobile phone and read it there.

I bought the book, but I'm a little disappointed, since the pictures are quite small and you can't zoom in (it's nearly as pixelated as the preview...). Also they weirdly cut some pictures to have them all in the same size. And I think they didn't made any selection of pictures, they just put every picture they got into that book (I mean most pictures are good, but some are lacking quality).
Sorry, I sound a little critical, but those were just my first thoughts after flipping through the book. After all it's still a cute book, it contains some great outfits and the layout is nice. It's divided by continent and country, and it's always surprizing how many Lolitas live in countries you don't hear much about (like Israel, Colombia, South Africa).

Here is the page with my picture:

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

365 LLC - Favourite Lolita places

I barely do meet-ups in my hometown (Cologne), because most of my friends live closer to Düsseldorf and it just have better shops and cafés. But I will tell you my favourite places in both cities.

Le PomPom (Cologne)
This is a very cute cupcake café, I mainly go there because the interior is beautiful and the owner likes Lolita and is always happy to see us :)

Nordpark (Düsseldorf)
It's a park with many photo opportunities! It also has a japanese garden.

Südpark (Düsseldorf)
Another park with photo opportunities.

Relax (Düsseldorf)
It's a café and restaurant, not really pretty, but it has authentic japanese food, I always order Cream Soda and Curry there.

Takagi (Düsseldorf)
It's a japanese book store and I always go there to but the newest Kera or Bible, or to just brose through the magazines and cute stationary they have.

There are places in Cologne and Düsseldorf which might be much more awesome, but those are the places I mostly visit when I wear Lolita.

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

365 LLC - Wardrobe Goals

My goal for the next months is to invest in blouses and cardigans, and not in dresses, because I really don't have many of them and I could make so much more out of my closet if I would have more matching items. Also I want to invest in shoes and head accessories, because of the same problem. But I will only buy items if I have spare money which I don't need / want to spend for Japan.