GLISH - favorite pictures

Hello dears!
The last 1,5 weeks I participated in the game "GLISH" - Great Lolita International Scavenger Hunt. It's a game where you get around 50 challenges, and you have to take a picture for each one. For each completed challenge, you get some points, depending on how difficult the challenge was.

My group was "Team Cookie" and was composed of Lolitas from Canada, USA, England and Germany. We could complete all the challenges, however the winner group "Team Chocolate" donated more money and / or got more points for difficulty/creativity, so they won first place (GLISH is also dedicated to collect donations for charity). But each team did a really good job and the main purpose was to have fun!

I want to show you my favorite pictures of the game, but please also check out the Instragram-accounts of each team, I couldn't include all the awesome pictures because my blogpost will already be too long xD.
* Team Cookie * Team Chocolate * Team Cherry * Team Strawberry * Team Macaron * Team Cupcake * Team Scones *

First I will show you my pictures:

Lolita Sports

The four seasons

Create kawaii food art

Recreation of Mr. Yan's famous poses

Pose with a BJD in matching coord

Now my favorite challenges and pictures from all teams:

Challenge: Recreate a painting.

Team Cookie

Team Strawberry

Team Macaron

Challenge: Movie poster posing.

Team Cookie

Team Chocolate

Team Cherry

Team Strawberry

Challenge: Lolita on a horse.

Team Cookie

Challenge: Lolita haunting.

Team Cookie

Team Chocolate

Team Strawberry

Challenge: Draw the squad.

Team Cookie

Team Chocolate

Team Cherry

Team Macaron

Recreation of Mr. Yan's famous poses in pictures.

Team Chocolate

Challenge: Lolita in space.

Team Cherry

Challenge: Pose with your team's name item.

Team Strawberry

Team Cupcake

Challenge: Create kawaii food art.

Team Strawberry

Team Macaron

Challenge: Lolita sports.

Team Strawberry

Challenge: Pose with a BJD in matching coord.

Team Strawberry

Team Cupcake

Challenge: Optical illusion.

Team Macaron

Team Cupcake

Challenge: Lolita at work.

Team Macaron

Team Cupcake

Challenge: Lolita Turkey Trott.

Team Macaron

What is your favorite picture?
Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

REVIEW: Eternita Magazine + Under the Sea Event scans

In October, a new magazine called Eternita was released in Japan. The name seems to me like a mix of eternal and Lolita. It actually has a few english words on the cover which say: "Fashion magazine for grown-up Alices". And indeed this magazine is dedicated to grown up Lolita Fashion or Otome styles.

At the beginning it shows items from basically all the Otome brands like Milk, Pink House, Leur Getter, Michal Negrin and many more. Then it follows with items from all major Lolita brands, like Angelic Pretty, Btssb, Innocent World etc., but it only shows the grown-up pieces of those brands.

After that they present some tutorials for natural hair styles and make-up, as well as a bigger chapter about handmade items. They show 15 tutorials for small sewing projects and accessories, which is quite a lot compared to the Lolita Bible. I find them quite inspiring and I even found a few I would like to recreate.

The last pages are event snaps with a full page of the Under the Sea event! (You can view all outfit pictures and more pictures of the event at the Facebook page of Eternita *here* ^_^).

Overall I like the magazine, it has comparable quality to the Lolita Bible, but it is definitely more related to Otome than Lolita style. So I recommend it more for people who are interested in Otome or very natural Lolita styles.

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

(Weird) stuff from Japan which I never thought I would love now

Since I started with Lolita, I entered a whole new world! Before, I didn't knew anything about Japan, let alone about an existing "Japan scene" outside of Japan. In my hometown, every summer there is a huge Anime Convention, and before, I always thought it was a gaming convention and people dress in their favourite gaming characters (well not completely wrong, but I just didn't knew that there was a big Japan-related community behind it).

Through Lolita I learned a lot about Japan, and I also got interested to learn more about this country. I'm definitely not a Japan-fan, but there are some things here and there I just fell in love with.

Of course they are NOT weird for me, however they seem weird for other people, and when I heard the first time about them, I was sceptical too, and probably also found them a little weird before I learned more about them. That's why I chose this title, I do not mean it in a negative way!

1. Maids & Maid Cafés
I have to admit, I love Maid outfits, I think they are sooo cute, but I'm afraid of wearing them and looking like a total noob xD. And I also think that I don't have the figure for it, in my size it would really look more weird than cute. When I was in Japan, I visited the @home Maid Café, and the experience was really nice. I love the lovely decorated food, the moe moe spells and of course the cute staff.

2. J-Pop Music
I don't hear a lot of J-Pop, but I became a huge fan of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and hear her songs almost every day! I also like the old songs of Nana Kitade, acutally hers were the first J-Pop songs I started to hear. I also love Kanon Wakeshima. And sometimes I even hear a few songs of Malice Mizer.

3. Para Para Dance / Odottemita
I really love this dance styles (especially Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's dances) and I secretly try them to do at home too. But it's super difficult to learn them from videos. So far I can only do 3... xD

4. Other japanese food than Sushi
While you can find Sushi restaurants at every street corner, you can barely find restaurants which serve traditional japanese food. But through other Lolitas I found out about the japanese street in Düsseldorf, where there are several restaurants! My favorite foods are Karaage and Beef Curry.

5. Matcha
You will never understand what's so special about this tea until you tasted delicious Matcha ice cream, Matcha Iced Latte, Matcha Oreos, Matcha Pockys, Matcha chocolate...

6. Kimonos
I'm not sure if I will ever wear a Kimono, since there are so many things that you can do wrong, and I don't want to embarass myself, but I find them really beautiful. I have to admit that I love the Gyaru-styling the most.

7. Conventions
Visitors of conventions are often considered as weird nerds, and I have to say some of them really are, but I just love to go to conventions. I like the relaxed atmosphere where everybody has fun and nobody judges you, I like that you can meet many friends and of course I like that you can do / buy stuff there you are really interested in.

8. School uniforms
I especially like the Kogal style or the Idol uniform style. But like Maid uniforms, it's hard to find them in my size, especially if you don't want cheap looking ones. But I really hope to find one for next wear, conventions are a nice opportunity to wear them.

9. Mount Fuji
Yes you read right, I started to fell in love with this mountain. I just think it looks so beautiful, I really would have never thought that one could start to like a MOUNTAIN, but when you see mount Fuji, you have to admit that it is indeed a very pretty mountain. I also like that there are so many Fuji-related things in Japan, I guess this also plays a role why I started to like it.

Are there also any japanese things you were sceptical at first, but later fell in love with them?

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Berlin - Urban Fairytale event

Hello dears!

Last weekend I travelled to Berlin for the Urban Fairytale event. I decided it quite spontaneously after the event in Amsterdam, because I was a little sad that I didn't had any other Lolita events I could look forward to (back then the AP Tea Party wasn't announced yet). But I only wanted to go if it would be cheap, and I saw a girl selling her sunday ticket cheaper than the original price, so I only visited the sunday event and not both days.


SATURDAY
On Saturday I travelled together with Mabu and we needed 5 hours by train. We arrived around 2pm and after dropping my luggage at the hotel, we met with some other Lolitas (who also wanted to only visit the sunday event) and went to the J-Store. The shop is quite small, but it has a good selection of Lolita magazines (of course overpriced but still 2€ cheaper than the shops in Düsseldorf xD) and it even sells a few Lolita items from Innocent World and Angelic Pretty, and J-fashion items from Milklim and Ragtag (overpriced as well). But it has a very awesome thing which is a Purikura machine!!! Mabu and I decided to use it, and as visitors from the Urban Fairytale event, we even got 2€ discount. So we paid a total of 6€, which I think is a very good price. I also bought an Angelic Pretty magazine there and a small towel (in Japan you can buy them everywhere, however I didn't found any cute ones for such a cheap price).

In the store we also met Quini, with who I shared my hotel room. Then we continued our way to Uniqlo. My friend really wanted to see it because it is a japanese brand, however it is not what you would expect (most people hope it's like Liz Lisa, but it's more like H&M, even less fancy). Since we were hungry, we visited a japanese restaurant. Then we wanted to get refreshed and went back to the hotel. In the evening, Quini, Mabu and me met again to drink some cocktails. In the bar was a Martini promoter, so we got a Martini drink for free hehe.

SUNDAY
On Sunday it was finally time for the event. Since we had to check out from the hotel quite early, we had time to kill and decided to already go to the location of the event and take some pictures. We also met some other Lolitas there who had to check out early, so we spend almost the whole time taking pictures. Then I got a little hungry and decided to quickly grab an icecream before the event.

Finally the event started and we were allowed to enter. Everyone got a goodie bag, even non-VIP ticket holders, so I got a cute Btssb necklace! My first stop was the dealers room and after greeting my friends who also sold there, I directly went to Moon Bunny for their incredible cute items! I had a hard time to decide what NOT to buy, since I wanted to buy everything! But I only want to buy things I can use for outfits I already own, so I bought a mermaid bunny bag-chain, and later I went back to the stall and bought cookie bunny earrings and a necklace.

The dealers' room, there were more stalls behind me

Then I went to the Btssb stall to admire all the items. I expected they would only bring left-overs and sell it for really high prices like in the Paris shop, but actually they brought a nice selection of dresses and sold most of the stuff for really good prices (e.g. Kumya-chan JSK 28000 Yen costed 214€, which is even better than the current exchange rate! In Paris it costs 322€). Otherwise they didn't brought that much stuff, a lot of flower-veil headpieces, some socks and a little jewellery. To my surprise they even brought several Usakumya bags, and I was so happy, because I looove Usakumya!!! It was the only item which didn't had such a good price, but still cheaper than in Paris, and I really wanted one. But I only brought a little amount of money with me, because I spent enough money the last weeks and I'm bad at handling it. BUT later during the event, I came back to the stall and asked if I can only pay with cash, and then they told me I can also pay with Paypal!!! I was sooo happy that I could add another Usakumya to my family *o*

I bought the small one on the right *o*

The first program point was the Btssb fashion show. It was nice to see and I think they also showed some dresses which are not released yet. After this the indie brand fashion show started. I already knew some of the outfits from the Amsterdam fashion show, but this time the chairs were really close to the stage and the light was really good, so I could see more details of the outfits and admire the quality even more!

Then it was time for the Bring&Buy, the most important program point xD. It was very well organized, they only let in a few people at a time, and they had enough hangers for all the dresses. Since I didn't wanted to make any big purchases I mostly looked at the accessories, but there weren't many of them. However I brought two items for sale myself and I was happy that I could sell both of them! I saw many girls leaving the Bring&Buy happily, so I think it was a great success.

The Bring & Buy

Since I got a little hungry again, I decided to get two of the tiny cupcakes and a drink. Everyone got a coupon for 1 free drink, but non-VIP ticket holders had to pay for the food. However it was quite cheap, 1€ for a piece of cake, 0.70€ for a tiny cupcake, and 0.80€ for additional drinks.

Then I was just wandering around the rooms, when I saw that you could take pictures with the Btssb guests. Quickly afterwards the autograph session with the Btssb guests started. I found it sooooo cute that the Btssb model drew a Usakumya with her autograph *o*

Some items from the goodie bag + the autograph

Then I kinda missed some of the program, I just forgot to pay attention to it xD. I missed the outfit competition, most of the Printalicious game and almost the group picture haha. And then the event was already over!

My purchases from Btssb and Moon Bunny - yes I love bunnies *o*

All in all the event was very well organized and really great! I think many people were a little sceptical, but now that I visited the event, I regret a little that I only went for one day! There were many stalls to shop from, good prices at the Btssb stall, a well organized Bring&Buy, affordable food, funny games, a good oportunity to take pictures with the guests and get autographs from them, and there was even a photo corner and several photographers to get a nice outfit shot. And the rooms were cool even though it was super hot outside, this was actually my biggest fear.
However there were not that many visitors, I expected around 300 people like in Amsterdam, but it were like 120. And 90% were german, I guess this is why there weren't so many people, because barely any foreingers came.

Btw Sana was also a special guest at the event, but he didn't really had a part in the sunday event, despite being a model in the Btssb fashion show (he is a visual kei music artist).

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3