After being in a 'dark' fashion phase for so long (e.g. black everything, or neons, spikes, heavy structures, brash everything) I've found myself craving to look the polar opposite.
Recently I have been craving frills, lace and anything pastel coloured but at the same time those are things that I have never really been comfortable wearing because I've always been worried I'd come across looking too 'cutesy'.
Still I was determined to get my fix of frills, pastels and lace clothes that aren't too cute and thankfully I came across an adorable designer and brand called Etsuna Otsuka.
Marvel at the LACEY REALNESS.
Don't those clothes make you want to just frolic in a field? I know I do.
Willing to sell my soul for these dresses. Yes I am!
Her latest collection channels brides, princesses, mermaids, ballerinas; basically everything you wanted to be as a little girl but it's done in a way that's not overly cute or typically childish
Eating might be a bad idea while wearing these because anything you drop of them will show up
Despite all the happy inspirations, I feel like there is an undertone of creepy happening with this brand, which I love.
Also the designer is a babe and I love it when designers wear their own clothes.
ooooh
Aaaaah
It's times like now I wish my sewing skills weren't so rusty! I'd love to be able to make stuff like this. But seeing as I can't for the meantime, I will be invading as many vintage stores as possible for vintage lingerie and babydolls.
Can you believe that it's nearly the end of May? April was like the slowest month of my life but with May; I think I was aware it was May for about 2 days and now suddenly it's gone!
I love discovering or being recommended new music so I thought I'd share some of my favorite tunes for the month!
My music taste hasn't really changed much over the past few years, it's always been quite diverse but yah, here's my faves~
I haven't really been keeping up with kpop as much as I used to ((I still shamelessly creepy on the pretty new boys tho -ugly laughter-)). There are so many new groups debuting like every week that it fries my brain, but I just happened listen to Tarzan by the Wonderboyz and was entranced by how bloody catchy it is! Feels like summer~ IF WE HAD SUMMER IN ENGLAND UUGGH. The video's a bit creepy tho.
The video has yet to come out for this song but I'm awaiting eagerly! I think Studio Killers are gonna be huge, especially thanks to their main gal, Cherry. I've always loved the whole concept of animated popstars, like the Gorillaz or Shanks and Bigfoot (remember them?) Their visuals are amazing, you have to check out their video for Ode to the Bouncer and Eros and Apollo and like fall in love with Cherry. Their lyrics address some pretty controversial issues but its still very lighthearted!
Appaz this song takes samples of a character called Yuna from the game Final Fantasy's theme music and another Final Fantasy theme song called Zanarkand? I didn't know that before I heard it. I am a MASSIVE Owsey fan. His music is so soothing and ambient and it makes me want to dream and be happy and aaaah. So nice, have a listen!
Not many people know much about UK Hip-hop music, but we have some really incredible musicians. Last Night in Paris are an arts and music collective containing a load of incredible young artists, fashion designers, music producers, photographers, film makers etc and they just produce the most amazing.. well everything. If you like The Weeknd or Miguel or love ambient, trip-hop or lo-fi, you will definitely love these guys, check out their Youtube channel too for their other songs~
In my eyes, G-dragon can do no wrong. Except maybe for the giant feet part in this vid EW, and the fact I have no clue what is happening this video. Yup I'm definitely deluded. This is such like a danceable song and it makes me want to dance (and then sit back down cos I cracked my hip from overexcitement) This is my walking song. I walk down the street thinking 'MURDER' with this playing full blast. I feel like such a bad-man.
UGH I'm obsessed with this song. Mainly because of the video. It's so poppy and 80s and just CUTE and I want a cute twin. I think it's quite an interesting sound coming from Japan. I think AmiAya are something a little different, it doesn't sound like regular Jpop. But I love it. And I want to be Ami and Aya. And sit on that rainbow tank. Ah ah visual overload~~
This song played high quality with ear phones is the most ethereal magical song ever. The video sounds exactly how the video depicts. I really wish Piana was still active with music as I only just discovered how amazing she is ;_;
I always forget about this song until it pops up on my phone playlist and I'm like HOOOLLY CRAP THIS IS AMAZING. Glen Check is actually a Korean band (omg a Korean BAND, whutt?). Leather's sound kind of reminds me of that whole electro/indie thing that was quite popular a couple of years ago, which I never particularly liked, but I LOVE THIS. I think it would totally go down well at a nightclub anywhere.
Sneaky entry! I've know about With Joyful Lips for ages but because I've been watching a lot of Bollywood movies recently, this was worth a share in my May faves! Anmol Ghadi is a mash up of sample sounds from an old Bollywood movie of the same name, and it just sounds so magical and glitchy
OK last one!
Only recently have I begun to appreciate some of the amazing songs that have been produced by the music software phenomenon Vocaloid. The software can allow people to create spoken lyrics from written words, and some of the results are really... meh. This vocals isn't the original Vocaloid version of 'Tawagoto Speaker' but it's a cover and a damn good one at that, I think it sounds better sung with a natural human voice, especially since the music itself is really well produced.
So there we have it guys, my favourite songs for May! What did you think?
Tell me what your favourite songs are this month!
I suddenly remembered that I used to post hideous pictures of myself like 2 years ago and I definitely think I need to get back into the swing of that. So here we go!
OH SNAAAAP I have finished university for the year!! As I have no more learning to do for the rest of the academic year, my body has also decided to go on a little vacay as usual.
It's funny how suddenly when you have a lot of time off you suddenly get ill.
I'm not too sure how it's happened but my wardrobe has expanded quite rapidly in the last few months so I'm going to be showing you quite a lot of new things that I have gotten in the last new weeks.
Recently I managed to buy one of my dream skirts, which is this UNIF Garter skirt that I had been eying up over the last year but I've never been able to find it online as it kept selling out. Thank the Cosmic Owl that Shimbi pointed it out to me so I could buy it and OH MY STARS IT IS A BEAUT.
All my clones are gonna get you
You can't actually attach anything to the garter straps, which is a shame.
I wanted to go for an OTT girly but creepy look. I don't normally feel comfortable wearing really girly clothes but tying in some black made me happier for some reason.
Took some pictures of my face because I actually could be bothered to do my makeup that day.
Have I introduced you to my cat?
I'm having a massive wardrobe purge at the moment as there is a lot of stuff that I don't wear anymore, so I'll be putting up a sales post on here in the next few weeks.
Hi all! Just wanted to show you some stuff that I have bought over the last couple of months. Hopefully this post will be a reboot into me starting to blog regularly again, seeing as I'm almost free from university for the year.
Asos £7 on sale!
Excuse the wrinkles, I haven't worked out how to appropriately iron neoprene. This was a bit of a spontaneous buy but who can argue with £7! This thing looks so good on but when you sit down the zips open to half way down my hips. Constant adjusting!
Cassette Playa
Me and my babe Randa were helping out Carri of Cassette Playa with her pop up sample sale a few days ago so I got to pick out a few tshirts for helping out~
The back~
This babe is called Flame Face if I remember, look at his little stroppy face. Aw <3 br="">
This ones a bit of a shocker, I like to wear it with my green Asos skirt just to doubly offend peoples' eyes. It's a little big but I'm not arguing with Lazy Oaf's sale prices.
Topshop: £32 I think?
My mother and I went into Central London to go to an exhibition and came back with shopping as you do. I fell in love with this cute cutout top. I think it's one of those pieces that will never go out of style because they aren't overly trendy to begin with so this is going to be in my wardrobe for a good few years. All I need now is a cat related skirt and I can put together an entire outfit based around cat items!
They're gonna get you
I left a couple of things because they're either scattered around the house or are in the wash. I'm really happy to actually have some things to wear for Spring because most of my clothes are winter related.
I'm also trying to ween myself off buying black stuff again. A few years ago I banned myself from buying anything black for an entire year and stuck to it but since I stopped the ban, everything in my wardrobe is suddenly black again! Not good!
Before I go, here's me and Randa working really hard at the Cassette Playa popup.
To be fair I didn't even know that H&M has a design award up until a few days ago but I am SO glad I do. Basically, it's a competition which is open to students of 19 major fashion colleges from Europe and the prize is to have their collection made into a line for H&M to be sold in shops.
So why is this so exciting? Uh cos the winner Minju Kim is like amazing?
Look how cute and avantgarde this stuff is! DAT STRUCTURE. DEM SHOES. DEM MASKS.
Minju Kim is a South Korean native studying at Artesis; the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
Her collection was called My Dear Friend, you can see the rest of the outfits here
Look at her at the end, bounding around. What a cutie pie.
The name for the collection and one of the main sources of inspiration for Minju were observations that she made of people around her who were 'disguised' as friends i.e. act like but are not true friends, and that they have ugly sides to them.
It's amazing how such a cute looking collection can have such dark connotations! I love that juxtaposition. What's even cooler is her sketchbook where you can really see how her mind in working and where she gets more inspiration from.
This first page got me right in the kokoro [heart].
Aww look at the skirt, it looks like blood... but cute blood
...I ....LOVE....Junji Ito....in ways that I can't comprehend...
Look at all that kawaii going on on the right. LOOK AT DEM POTENTIAL CHARACTER GOODS.
Animu sparkles up in this bitch. So much creepy cute going on. Dayum.
UUGGH MY FEELINGS. And the best part is that we're going to be seeing this collection in the shops in Autumn so I refuse to eat and hoard my money until then when I can buy everything!
Except maybe this mask
JESUS CHRIST KILL IT WITH FIRE.
Is anyone else as surprised by her inspiration as I am??
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by Barratts shoes and was asked if I would be interested in reviewing a pair of their shoes, obviously I said yes because come on it's shoes.
They arrived really quickly; in about 4 days. I wasso excited to get them, I left university a day early than I normally do just to get them.
OH MY GOD I DIED.
Picture behind isn't of significance, I just thought it looked cool.
I kind of wish I bought some winter-suitable boots instead because I
always complain about having cold feet in winter but I can never find
any that I like so I thought 'Why not!' and picked the most death-welcoming pair I could find.
My general shoe criteria is 'If someone is scared they might get injured by my shoes, I am doing it right' so these babes fit nicely into my shoe collection!
I absolutely love them, they are so beautiful! The studs are blunt so you won't stab yourself or other people accidently when you're walking. I haven't worn them out yet, the reason why (other than the snow) is because they are just so high!
Ooooh look at that sexy side shot.
I have really small feet and the smaller your feet are, the smaller the heel you can handle. These shoes have a good 6" of heels and even though there is a bit platform they're just that little bit too high to be able to walk around in them for too long. I'm hoping intense ankle stretches before I swear them will help this!
My knees were buckling so bad *strokes shoes* you are worth the pain
After the snow has gone I will be taking these out for a proper walk because I really want to be able to wear them out for long periods of time without injuring myself.
Thank you so so much to Kieron from Barratts for contacting me and being so helpful with the whole process, and I really enjoyed our chats about Kpop ^_^, and thank you to Sami for recommending me to him!
In recent news. I have an interview for a social media internship at a London Street brand tomorrow!
I would tell you who but like... if I don't get it I'll be hella embarrassed.
A couple of days before new year, I wanted to try something a bit different because I've had the same boring brown hair for quite a while. It just didn't feel like me so I thought 'Hey, new year, new hair!'
I'm kind of He-man now
Originally I was going for a dark silver colour but that didn't exactly go to plan because my hair literally turned green.
This photo does it justice, it was GREEN AS THOSE RADISH LEAVES BACK THERE
Anyway 6 hours, 2 days at the salon and £250 later I have blonde hair, thank you to my amazing stylists for rescuing my poor hair, no thanks to Wella colorfresh 5/19 toner for trashing my tresses.
It's taken some getting used to but I really love my new hair. I think it's a lot more flattering on my face than having longer hair, though I really loved having hair extensions down to my waist.
I have a load of pictures from the Christmas holidays of when I went on adventures with my friends but unfortunately my camera broke and has to either be sent off for repairs or I'll need to get a new one, but hopefully I can upload those soon~
I will leave you with my outfit I wore for New Years day with the family~
Top: Topshop Belt: Vintage Skirt: AOS Socks: River Island Shoes; Jeffrey Campbell
