Sorry I've been really bad at blogging recently, but I have a fun post for today!
On discussing how much we missed the skankier side of Gyaru and street fashion in general my friends Chriss, Ellie and I decided to have a Skank Day!
Skank Day basically involved dressing up in trashy clothes and wandering around London doing trashy fun things like going to Soho and sitting in Street corners.
I loved my hair. I found curling a piece of hair inwards and curling the next outwards and continuing in that pattern makes your hair look bigger.
My outfit consisted on a distressed River Island pencil skirt that I wore as a dress (The elastic squashed my boobs so much I wouldn't be surprised if they went down a cup size haha), a Glad news varsity jacket, knee-high socks with frills (which I eventually changed to tights because you could see my underwear through my "dress"), a chain that I wore as a belt with a fox tail attached to it.
We met outside the Empire Cinema in Leicester Squaure and while Chris and I waited for Ellie to arrive we went to get Chriss's thigh-high boots whose heels snapped off (that's London roads for you) and the nice man at the shoe-fixing place seemed to approve of our Skank Day idea so he fixed the boots for free! Skank points for us!
On meeting Ellie, we were all hungry so we went to McDonalds of course for some SKANK FUEL and went to the Trocadero to slob in "the corner" and take grotesque pictures of us eating and reapplying our makeup.
Next was the parapara machine, DDR and one of those weird Korean dance machines with the arrows pointing diagonally. It had SHINee and B2ST songs on it, we were very happy.
Our Skank army needed a name so we referred to ourselves as the ageHoes for the day
Here are a few of the Purikura that we took.
Admittedly it isn't hard to look like a skank or even stand out in London when you're wearing dark, tight fitting clothes because everyone else is wearing florals, leggings and Uggs..
The day couldn't be complete without a trip to Soho of course! Our first port of call was this amazing new bakery called Cox Cookies & Cake which sold the prettiest looking cupcakes I've ever seen!
The icing was covered in edible glitter as well as the molded chocolate Skulls with red glitter eyes.
and because it's located in Soho, you have to have some appropriately themed ones!!
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WOOOO!!
The whole shop was black with glitter and silver with a mirrored ceilings! So awesome.
The staff wore black and had cute little studded aprons on! The dude there was so cute, he was like "Harajuku girls!" and we had to explain to him what a skank was XD Bless
After cupcakes, we toured the Lingerie shops. I finally got a look into the shop Trashy Lingerie that I've been eyeing up for a while. We saw so much cute lingerie! It's a shame I have no-one to wear them for haha. I was dissappointed by the stuff they sold in Ann Summers. The brand is really popular here in the UK but they just don't match up to the cuteness of MA*RS lingerie
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We learned several things from our themed day
- 1. People avoid you at the train station
- 2. You could be mistaken for a prostitute
- 3. Nice men who fix shoes fix your broken thigh-highs for free
- 4. Stupid girls at the Trocadero might throw money at you
- 5. Leery guys will leer
- 6. You could get hit on by a man with a guitar
- 7. Spanish guys may ask you if he can join your party
- 8. Weird kids might try to touch your butt
- 9. Standing around in general makes people think you’re street performers.
- 10. Chavvy boys wearing fake Ed Hardy tracksuits might try and hit on you
Themed days are really fun. I hope to do more of them and I encourage you all to have one with your friends once in a while.
I leave you with our song for the day
I GOT DAT SOUP OF LUV UH UH UH UH UH UH
Tomorrow I should be shopping for hair extensions with my lovely Marie
That sounds like the most fun in the world XD I wish I had people to be skanky with LOL. Sounds like you had a lot of fun!
ReplyDeleteBTW, LOVE your hair!
I really love your hair, it's so cute *-*
ReplyDeletelovelovelove this 8D!!!
ReplyDeleteYour hair's awesome! I love it! *_*
ReplyDeletehaha awww, skank!!!! i miss you so much!
ReplyDeleteHI! I'm usually a silent follower, but I'm going to London for a few days and was wondering if you had any recommendations for shopping/food/whatever? Thanks a bunch :)
ReplyDeleteSkank Day = awesome idea.
ReplyDeletethe way you never ever tell me when you're going out ;aaaaa; i spend my says wandering around buying pointless pink things.
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Great idea! haahhahaa I love that you guys were called the ageHoes - hilarious! :)
ReplyDeletethis outfit is so sexy ~ cant wait to meet you again rrrr~
ReplyDeleteso cutie
ReplyDeleteMOST FUN IN AGESSSSS! The ageHoes must meet again at some point. You're right I should start collecting the money thrown at me for Japan.
ReplyDeleteOMG my friend and I were just talking about this!! Haha we were talking about how we wear heels and black everyday ... We must be sluts lolol. This post was def the most interesting to read
ReplyDelete@Ayame: Come to London and you can be skanky with us!
ReplyDelete@Monica: Miss you too haha~
@Mana. i recommend going to all the clothes shops along oxford street as well a as Selfridges and the giant Primark, and see Portobello road and Brick Lane for vintage stores. For food, china town is pretty good for cheap yummy chinese/japanese/korean food.
@Effy: GIRL IM SOZ D: Next time I'm up in London, I'll give you a call <3 <3
@Rui You're such a perv! Come to London agani <3
@Ellie I NEED YOU IN MY LIFE MORE. Maybe next time we sit down in our corner, we can put a hat down so people can chuck money in it hahaha
@Mint. Heels and black are awesome, they should be worn everyday!
YAY PRANCE PRANCE PRANCE.
ReplyDeleteThis has me dreaming so much of lengerie now though.
I'm all "I CAN'T GO ON IN MY LIFE WITHOUT ALL THAT CUTE UNDERWEAR D8"
Next time, we must try harder. And have bigger hair. And skankier dresses. And do even more skank-tastic things.
We should also try being multi coloured instead of black some time... seeing as it's getting warmer!
Rainbows hoes!! RainbHoes. LOOOL! We will strive to be skankier next time!
ReplyDeleteI really fancy going lingerie shopping in general. None of my underwear matches, it makes me a bit sad and they're not way near as fancy as I'd like them -cry-
I cant decide what I love more, your outfit or the tit cupcakes :O
ReplyDeleteI mentioned this post on my blog.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.chaudie.net/2011/04/weekly-lovely-5/
*o* I love you hair !!haha xD
ReplyDeletelooks like you had a lot of fun & love your outfit xD
LOL @ THOSE CUPCAKES.
ReplyDeletethe muscle-y arm ones remind me of trogdor. HAHAHA.
That outfit is actually quite cute, but it's got skankiness and attitude as well :P. Your hair is so cool, are the tips permanently dyed? A themed day sounds fun. I bet you got a lot of attention.
ReplyDeleteThank you Mojexox! The tips are permanently dyed but they are hair extensions.
ReplyDeleteThat outfit is actually quite cute, but it's got skankiness and attitude as well :P. Your hair is so cool, are the tips permanently dyed? A themed day sounds fun. I bet you got a lot of attention.
ReplyDeleteYAY PRANCE PRANCE PRANCE.
ReplyDeleteThis has me dreaming so much of lengerie now though.
I'm all "I CAN'T GO ON IN MY LIFE WITHOUT ALL THAT CUTE UNDERWEAR D8"
Next time, we must try harder. And have bigger hair. And skankier dresses. And do even more skank-tastic things.
We should also try being multi coloured instead of black some time... seeing as it's getting warmer!
Thank you Mojexox! The tips are permanently dyed but they are hair extensions.
ReplyDeletethe way you never ever tell me when you're going out ;aaaaa; i spend my says wandering around buying pointless pink things.
ReplyDelete;a;
HI! I'm usually a silent follower, but I'm going to London for a few days and was wondering if you had any recommendations for shopping/food/whatever? Thanks a bunch :)
ReplyDeleteI mentioned this post on my blog.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.chaudie.net/2011/04/weekly-lovely-5/