Nude Lips for Gyaru!

Before I start this post, does anyone know what happened to universal-doll.com?? It says her account is suspended? D: D: D:
(Maybe she hasn't paid her webhosting fees on time? LOL IDK! Come back soon, Mitsu! D:


So anyway today's post is going to be about nude lips for gal style make up (make!)



Let's talk about a few products you could use for achieving the nude lip look!


Candy Doll Lip Concealer + Gloss
MAC Myth Lipstick
Kat Von D "Celebutard" Lipstick
Lime Crime Coquette Lipstick
Tarina Tarantino





L to R: Lime Crime Lipstick in Coquette, Kat Von D Lipstick in Celebutard, and MAC Myth.


L to R: Candy Doll Pink Gloss alone, Candy Doll pink gloss overtop of Nude Lip Concealer (below that some of the concealer by itself), MAC Lipglass in Poetic License, and far right is the Tarina Tarantino Gloss in Ruffle.

Overall I prefer Candy Doll's the best and MAC second best.

Lime Crime Makeup Review: Lipsticks!!!

For those of you who don't know, Lime Crime Make-up is a company notorious for a few things: selling obscenely bright cosmetics, and shady business practices. Despite the shadiness and the rumors of their re-packaging, I buckled down and bought some of their lipsticks. Why? I LOVE the colors they offer, and of course, the amazing purple unicorn packaging. >D Sparkly purple unicorns? YES PLEEEASE!



So yeah.

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That aside. I have 7 lipsticks:

- My Beautiful Rocket (orange)


- Cosmopop ( pastel/creamy orange)
(some how forgot to take a photo up close of this one...sorry guys! Will add it later!) :x

- Coquette (pinky nude color, new)


- Great Pink Planet (pastel pink)


- D'Lilac (pastel blueish purple)


- Airborne Unicorn (more of a reddish/pinkish purple)


and

- Countessa Fluorescent (Barbie doll pink!)


Countessa, worn:

(I am wearing this over exfoliated lips (used LUSH sweet lips scrub), Burt's Bees Honey Balm base, and OVER my lipstick I am wearing Rimmel Clear Gloss!!




SWATCHES!

L to R: Countessa Fluorescent, Airborne Unicorn, D'Lilac, Great Pink Planet, Coquette, Cosmopop, My Beautiful Rocket

THE GOOD:
- Verrry pigmented. almost annoyingly so. :x
- CUTE packaging, good for putting in purse. Loved the boxes they came in too.
- Unusual colors that you can't really find anywhere else!
- Was able to Google for coupon codes and found one (fb10) that got me 10% off every single item I bought, so basically free shipping!
- Easy to use site, easy to pay, not complicated at all, etc.!!
- I was pissed that they accidentally shipped to the wrong address, so they reimbursed the cost it took for my dad to ship the lipsticks from my other home to my current address! Yay! The shipping was only $3.00 but they didn't overlook it as trivial and reimbursed me. I was honestly more annoyed about the wait time. But anyway!


THE BAD:
- So pigmented that they STAIN your lips when you wipe it off. You need to use makeup remover to get it off all the way and even then...
- Kinda "greasy"...
- Some formulas are better than others, for some reason. Not sure if this has to do with a product being vegan or not...??
- L.C. is very VERY bad at setting their lipsticks properly in molds. My lipsticks arrived with random scuffs and "cuts" in them. Also can tell that they're not properly fixed on their bases. See photos below of My Beautiful Rocket orange lipstick. I bought it (at Modcloth.com, not L.C.) about a year before I bought all of the other colors in this post, and it's already freaking broken! :( And I only used it like once every two months at the most.
- They shipped one of my orders to my billing address by accident. u___u;


"Mess Up" photos:


My poor "My Beautiful Rocket" lipstick after a year of owning it...it had already broken a bit from its base!! >(

Weird "cuts" on my "Great Pink Planet" lipstick. It came out of the box like this. Wtf?




VIDEO REVIEW!

Long Time No Post!

Dear my lovely readers:


I am so sorry for once again abandoning this blog! I will be posting more soon, hopefully! I've been super busy with applying for internships, going to interviews, and still dealing with school work and that sort of stuff.

There will be a new layout coming soon for Spring done by my friend Anne, if she can help me with it. :D We'll be doing a fashion panel/show in a few weeks at Anime St. Louis so if you're in the area, you should come to it! It will be really fun and it will take place on Saturday April 16th I think from 12pm - 1pm but I need to doublecheck. :D



Some posts I have planned for my blog:

How to Look Like a Liz Lisa Gal
Cheap Gal Finds!!
ModCloth Love
Missguided and Boohoo.com Reviews
TONS of make-up reviews and Tutorials
Lime Crime Makeup Review
Himegal & Lolita

AND MORE!!
Coming soon!!




For now I will take the rest of this post to show off some of my Innocent World Swag.
:D

I promised to post about it a while ago but I forgot. >__<;;

Ordering from Innocent World is veryyy easy!
Just go to their site and click your preferred choice of language on the upper right hand corner of the screen. Right now they only have Japanese, English, and I think French. Hopefully they will add more languages soon! :D

When you order you just pick the item you want, and copy and paste the item code to their special order form. It's really, really easy. Then you fill out the order form and hit submit. Only do this if you are 100% sure you want to order...otherwise if you can't pay them, they might not let you order again in the future. :(

Once you confirm your order, they sent you an automatic email reply saying that they got your order. A few days later they will ask you to send your payment via Paypal and they invoice you. It's in Yen. Once you pay, they will ship your item out in a few days! Sometimes it can take a while if there is a big sale or holiday in Japan.



Finally your package arrives! YAY! :D


They ship in brown Innocent World store bags.

...and they always include a cute little note! :D

So cute <3 !!


Weee!

Some of the things I have ordered are below. I really love how versatile their clothing is...! You can make it casual or fancy depending on your event/mood.

Strawberry Rose Garden JSK! So well made!


Quality is always top-notch! :D

Blouse with long sleeves and jabot...I forgot the name of this one. >_<;

They do multiple sizes too! S, M, and L. Sometimes LL for shoes. And short or long for dresses. I am 5'5" and I ALWAYS get the long version. I *could* get away with short versions of their dresses but IMHO, my torso is kinda longish so the bigger sizes fit me better.

Blouse when worn.

With JSK. (excuse boots...not part of outfit...but I was in a hurry to put it on!) :D

Again excuse teh boots. xD

Emmie Rose JSK. SO LOVELY! And I got it on sale too! ;3

Coordinated! With a little mori influence....<3 crocheted vests!

Similar to Pompadour JSK...IDK the name...I got it used.

Worn while out for afternoon tea with my roommate. :3

My roommate traded me this OP for a BtSSB green snow dot OP that I didn't wear at all.

This is a much older IW design. I still adore it though! :3

IW's Gertrude Skirt. It has a GORGEOUS black chiffon bustle in back. ;___; *dies* haha.

Coordinated skirt.... I can also wear this skirt with a black top and black tights and black shoes for an elegant evening out/date look. :3

Pompadour Set in Green, longer version (~101cm?)


As you can see, they made some special Pullip Dolls too! :D My doll matches me! :D

I got the "Pullip Tiphona" doll and I decided to twin with her last autumn. :)


So much love for IW!!

<3 BONUS!

Not Innocent World, but Juliette et Justine, another favorite classic lolita brand of mine! :D

Worn dress: After my roommate and I went for some tea. :3

Hope you guys and gals enjoyed this post! :3 LEAVE ME COMMENTS!! <3<3<3

Vote For Me?

Hey readers!

So Lolita Wigs is having a contest on facebook.

I figured I'd enter in sweet lolita with my new blonde x pink split wig I got from them! The winner gets 3 wigs (1st place), and 2nd place winner gets 2 wigs while 3rd place winner gets 1 wig plus a bob.

Cool huh?

I have 50 likes so far but I am going to need a lot more...I would really appreciate it if you all could help a loli out. :)

Here is a link to my post: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=206207566056802&set=a.205957859415106.56924.167804953230397&theater




You need a facebook account to vote, obviously. All you have to do is hit "like" on my photo! :) I think you MAY have to be a fan of the LolitaWigs page on Fbook to vote too but I am not 100% sure.

Spring break this Saturday....more updates forthcoming along with my promised Innocent World post as well as a gyaru fashion post! :3

And here is the rest of it.

Welcome to the Magical World of Swimmer!

I know I promised my next post would be about Innocent World but I gotta take a quick break to show off my new Swimmer swag! :D

***INFO!!***

For those who are reading this who do not know about "Swimmer"....it is a store in Japan that sells SUPER CUTE items!! I have never been to the actual store myself as I did not even know about it until after I left Japan (grrr!) but it looks like HEAVEN on the inside! :D



http://www.swimmer.co.jp/

The online shop is divided into five sections: Fashion Goods, Bag & Pouch, Wear, Bath and Kitchen, and Interior.

As the name would suggest--fashion goods contains items such as hair ties, headphones, combs, keychains, makeup brushes, etc.!

Bag & Pouch section is cute tote bags, pass cases, pouches, purses and makeup bags. Sadly the super cute present box bags seem to be available in store only and not on their online shop, or perhaps they are older because I had to find mine on mbok! >_<;;

Wear section contains underwear, hoodies, shirts, socks, pants, etc.

Bath & Kitchen has stuff like bento boxes, cups, towels, chopsticks, trashcans, tissue box covers, soap pumps, and even toilet cleaning wands!!

Interior contains items like clothes hangers, picture frames, alarm clocks, fans, jewelry boxes, computer mouses, mini folding tables, etc.

Unfortunately, as far as I know, Swimmer does NOT ship overseas! BUT if you can get someone living in Japan, aka a shopping service (SS) to go to a shop for you, they can buy you the items!! Usually you will have to pay a fee. Just google Japan shopping service. I've used both Mai Ozawa and Chibi_Tenshi on LJ. Poke around and see who you can find! :)

Also if you do live in Japan, according to their site: "Once your order amount is 3,150 yen (tax included) or more, shipping is free." Sweet! :)


Here are some of the things I've purchased from swimmer:


(Please ignore random eyeshadow palette that snuck into my photo!) :P

Click the jump to see more!



Violin Keychain

Believe it or not--it serves a purpose! It has little slots to prevent your headphone wires from getting tangled! Sweet!


Headphones! SUPER CUTE Pastel headphones! :)


Suuuper Adorable and Handy Present Box Purse! It holds a LOT!


Alarm Clock


Note Books (kinda glossy pages??)


Makeup brushes! They remind me of magical girl anime stuff. :D


Bonus!
Not sure if it's swimmer or not but my shopping service included this cute item as a bonus present:

She is so sweet! All of her packages come with a free gift! :)

Quality-wise Swimmer is only so/so. I have had certain items like their handbags, pouches, pass-cases, etc. that have lasted a LONG time while their watches and alarm clocks tend to break after only a few months of use! All or most of their products are pretty cheaply made, in China. But the prices are not expensive. The headphones were around 1,400Y or so which is around $17 ish at the current (crappy) exchange rate. But the headphones aren't as bad as some people might say!


I would also like to say that there will be a new layout coming soon for spring! I decided to do a layout for each season so there will be four lovely layouts each year. :D That should be ample time for me. But it won't be limited to four if I have time! :D