Sweet'n'Goth Lolita Event

Today I visited the small Lolita event "Sweet'n'Goth", which was part of the small convention "Harajuku Day". Since there are often beginner-Lolitas at the convention, some Lolitas decided to make a little Tea Party for them and give tutorials about the fashion.

I'm not a beginner but I still visited it, because I thought it would be a great opportunity for a meet-up. Also some of my friends were there, but not as many as I thought.

First my outfit. I have to say I really loved my hair and outfit, haven't worn something like this in a long time.

There were around 20 people attending the event. At first it started with a make-up tutorial, which was a nice idea, but it ended up being quite long. Then we could grab some food. A maid café had prepared some cupcakes and sandwhiches. We spended a lot of time talking and eating, and then the organizers realized that we don't have enough time anymore for another tutorial about Lolita shopping ^^'

But there was still a little time left for the posing workshop. I liked the idea very much and this is even something for non-beginners, however I didn't made use of it because there were too many people and I wanted to have a look at the main stage of the convention.

Slightly later there was a Lolita fashion show, I also watched it. After then I directly left because I was very tired and I wanted to go a little shopping.

So in total I stayed like 3,5 hours at the event, way too short for the amazing hair I had ^^'''. I don't know if I will visit it again, because it's really more for beginner-Lolitas, but I think it was great for them.

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Tea Time at Hotel Bensberg

Today I had a "real" Tea Time at Hotel Bensberg, because a friend wanted to celebrate her birthday. In Germany, we don't have such a thing like in the UK (which is a pity because I looove Tea Time!), so I was very curious how it would be.

I expected to pay a lot of money for a small amount of food, because Hotel Bensberg is a 5-star hotel, however I was quite disappointed by the food! I wouldn't mind a small amount but the food didn't really taste amazing. Everything was kinda dry and loveless. So yeah not a place I would visit again. However the Hotel staff was veeery nice, and the Tea was good too. And of course chatting with my friends was also great :)

Picture is by Yoyo ^_^

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

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