30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Twenty-six

Too tired for witless banter. Blaaaargh.

Day 26: Your Facebook profile picture.

Since I've already used my Facebook profile picture in one of the photo of the day posts, I'll post my last one from before the present one.

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Twenty-five

This is the point where I start chugging "I think I can", I believe. 

Day 25: Your favorite lolita themed artwork.

I don't have a particular, single favorite I'm afraid. So, instead, enjoy a few images from artists that always inspire me.

by sakizo

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Twenty-four

So close! I'm almost there! Can I make it?! Are you still with me? Or do you skip these posts in your reader by default now?

Day 24: A picture of you from a meet.

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Twenty-three

I'm not going to type all that much today. Since you get to see:

Day 23: A picture of your handwriting.

Enjoy!

Click to enlarge (somewhat)

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Twenty-two

We're drawing in on the end of things. Ohme, ohmy.

Can I make it?! Or will I falter before I reach the finish-line?!

Day 22: A picture of your room.



Oh.


Shit. Uhm.

Well. I'm in the middle of moving, so I think that you'll just have to make do with this (awful, fisheye) photo of my living room, complete with knitting mother. I'm in the middle of moving and all, so things are a huge mess with clothes everywhere, boxes stacked on boxes, piles of paper everywhere and a lot of random shit.

I promise to make up for this before I leave the country. Just like I promise to make up for the Day in Your Lolita Life post, too.

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Twenty-one

Are you sick of these posts dominating my blog, yet? Look at the post archive! Seriously! Just look at it! Almost every other line is a post from this meme!

Day 21: Your favorite fictional lolita.

Screen capture care of AnimePaper.net

 In general, I don't like fiction that focuses on lolita as its main topic. It gets to be shallow and trite most of the time and there isn't exactly a huge canon to draw from.

I did, however, really like Miwako (and Arashi, since they are a pair) from Paradise Kiss. She was a lolita character who made the fashion her live without being annoying about it (at least in my opinion); having her appear in other styles also helped soften the blow, really.

Miwako's character hit a lot of the stereotypes of lolita, but had a good deal of depth to her beyond that, and broke quite a few stereotypes as well. I really loved the relationship that she had with Arashi, because it was sweet and pure, but hardly the detached and "innocent" relationship you'd expect from a stereotypical lolita. She still had a personality and desires beyond the clothes, which I really did enjoy.

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Twenty

I've made it two thirds of the way through this meme and once again, I am faced with a difficult decision. I have quite a few people in mind who fit today's topic, but I unfortunately have to pick only one.

Day 20: A picture of a lolita friend.

My friend, Chi-burger as a b'henna'd pirate!

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Nineteen

This is another hard topic, today. Again, because I have a hard time choosing what to highlight. Also, this post took foreeeever to put together. I kept getting distracted and having to go back to my bathroom to look up the names/numbers of each color. haha

Day 19: What’s in your make-up bag?

Loooooove that lip color. And ... holy crap! No WIG?!

For today, I'm only showing off a (comparatively) small selection of the items I use the most. My whole bathroom is pretty much covered in make-up products, sorted into different containers by what they are (one for eyes, one for lips, one for powders, one for brushes and so on).

I'm also in the process of my semi-monthly weed-out of old products, in preparation for my big move. I mostly use drugstore brands because of my habit of culling the herd so often, with the occasional Sephora splurge for things like primer, false eyelashes or tools I can't get elsewhere. Everything I'm showing off in this post is fairly new (no more than three months old, probably) and all are something I use pretty frequently.

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Eighteen

Are you still with me on this meme? I hope so! Today's theme is a good one:

Day 18: A picture of your favorite lolita style.




Yo ho, Yo ho... by ~Gurololi on deviantART

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Seventeen

We're into the back half of the meme, now, and still going strong!

Day 17: What do you want more then anything right now?

I want a lot of things right now, but in terms of material, lolita-related things, I want this:

Remember how I said I don't have a dream dress? Well, I lied. I saw this and this is it.

This dress is really, really badass and amazingly awesome. I usually hate wa-lolita items, but Meta has a real knack for coming up with things that I love using kimono print fabrics.

Plus, it's a collaboration with Hakuouki, an anime series based on an otome/dating sime game that I was addicted to this spring (seriously; it was very much a guilty pleasure that I normally would not admit to having watched).

In terms of non-material, non-lolita items, I really want my packing to be finished, already!

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Sixteen

This is a sad day, because can't fulfill the meme's requirement.

Day 16: Your outfit for the day.

I'm sick (I've lost my voice, no joke) and schlubbing around the house in PJs until I go to the doctor, so I unfortunately am not wearing lolita. Alas.

Instead, I give you photos from yesterday, when I was feeling pretty okay and had some errands to run. It's not lolita, but at least it's cuter than jeans and a t-shirt?

I've put on weight lately but somehow I look thinner than usual
in this photo. My gastro doctor would not be pleased with me.

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Fifteen

And today I hit the halfway mark! Hooray!

Day 15: A picture of your last lolita purchase.

A modest haul, as purchased through mukunoki.
Photo provided by the shopping service before shipment.

Back when I got my tax return in the spring, I had a little bit of a splurge for the first time in a long time. I purchased several items on mbok and Yahoo! Japan through Mukunoki's shopping service, including a long Innocent World jumperskirt, an Alice & the Pirates salopette and an h.NAOTO frill bustle-back vest.

In the same order, I also purchased a few h.NAOTO GRAMM items, including a lace-strewn, cream-colored cutsew, a long, hooded black vest and a really cute asymmetrical bolero with corset lacing.

As for the shopping service, Muku and Kaori were both incredibly helpful and quick to answer my questions. They were friendly and provide a great service. They're a bit more expensive than some of the other shopping services available, but for the extra care that they take in making sure you have a good experience, I feel like it's quite worth it.

I haven't bought anything since then, as I'm saving up for my trip to Australia, but a friend of mine is finishing up some pieces that I commissioned from her quite a long while ago. I may have photos of those pieces, soon, as they're nearing completion!

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Fourteen

That's right, still grooving along with the meme! I can't really believe it either. It's been two weeks now, almost halfway there!

Day 14: A picture of your dream item.

Elodie Doll JSK specs on the Lolibrary

 

I don't really have a "dream" item right now, but this dress is at the top of my wishlist. It's the Elodie Doll Jumperskirt by Mary Magdalene.

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Thirteen

Right, no prelude today:

Day 13: A picture of your favorite sweets.

Cheesecake counts, right?

Get the recipe from AllRecipes.com

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Twelve

Believe it or not, this one was really hard to do. There aren't many photos available to me digitally that fit today's topic:

Day 12: A picture of yourself before lolita came in to your life.

This is a photo that my mom put on Facebook recently to try and embarrass me. The boy in the photo with me is an old childhood friend; he's about a year older than me. When we were kids, he used to ask me to marry him (I slapped him for it once; a movie I saw on TV made me think it a brilliant idea). Then, after he started kindergarten, he stopped asking me to marry him and just asked me to have sex with him, instead.

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Eleven

I was going strong, until I hit this one.

Day 11: One day in your lolita life in pictures.

I've been working a lot lately, so I haven't worn lolita often. I didn't know that this topic was coming up or I would have taken more photos the last time I wore lolita.

I offer to you, instead, photos from when I went to a concert with my boyfriend last fall (he'll probably kill me for this one later). I didn't wear lolita, but I was pretty frilly all the same. He gave me shit for it all day and kept calling me "Strawberry Shortcake", which bit him in the ass, later.

I promise to take photos of a "normal" day and repost this part of the meme the next time I get to dress up!

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Ten

Can you believe it? I've made it a third of the way through this meme! I can barely believe it. I mean. Seriously. I usually give up after two days on these suckers.

Day 10: What’s in your bag?

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Nine

Chuggin' right along and keeping going. Today's theme is:

Day 9: 10 things you will never do in lolita.

There are very few things that I wouldn't do in lolita just because I'm in lolita, so a couple of these are probably going to be "I wouldn't do these things at all and it just happens that I wouldn't do them in lolita either!"

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Eight

Moving along and still with the meme (are you sick of this yet? Seriously? If you are, I can always stop). Though today is a good one, since I've been thinking about it a lot lately!
Day 8: 10 songs that inspire you for lolita.

30 Day Lolita Challenge: Day Seven

This post is actually going to be harder than the last six. Well. You'll see in a few minutes just why:

Day 7: 10 people who inspire your lolita style.