New Shoes!

So... Fairly recently I bought some shoes off eBay, I shouldn't have bought them because... Being a student, I am very poor but I couldn't just miss out on these amazing deals! >.< I bought a pair of white rockinghorse shoes (which I've wanted a pair of for ages!) for only £9.55 including postage and packaging! Which I thought was pretty amazing.

Then I bought these cute little lolita shoes, but they were more expensive at a buy it now price of £20 and £4.50 postage and packaging. I didn't want to miss a good deal like this, so I rapidly snatched them up and they are now hopefully going to be part of some kind of future lolita cosplay Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ!

Manga Nail Art

From a tutorial I found on YouTube, I decided to make comic nail art. There was lots of preparation involved such as finding some vodka (which wasn't so hard to find), white nail polish and pages of manga. I was very sad to cut up volume 6 of Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicles, but it was a cheap second hand version which I haven't got any other book for. Once I'd found small enough faces in the manga, I dipped them in the vodka and pressed the picture face down against my already painted nail. 

They turned out okay, in the end I added a small amount of nail polish remover to the vodka mix thinking that on contact the nail polish would melt a bit and the comic would fuse to my nail (in theory) in kind of worked. Anyway, here is the tutorial so you can try it out as well, and hopefully not fail miserably.

Water Marble Nail Art II

Second try with the marble nail effect! This time I wanted to experiment with something that would go with my outfit. When I tried this before it didn't work, but that was because the transparency of the silver and bronze didn't really show on the black. So, I changed the base colour to white with silver on top, then did the marble effect with black and bronze varnish. I thought it turned out quite well! I still have loads of nail varnish on my actual finger which is why my fingers look really grubby but that's just varnish. I'm not a dirty person! Promise! Next I'll see what happens when I buy gold nail varnish and add that next to the mix, I think this effect is really cool but a little too cold for my steampunk outfit with is gold and brown (therefore more warm!). 

London MCM Expo Oct 2011

This year me and Onee-chan didn't want to cosplay characters. It was kind of a last minute decision because we weren't planning on going, but in september we decided that we should because we love expo so much! Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ
The theme we were going to do was Wa Lolita. I'd describe it as lolita meets geisha and I soon got really excited. My colour scheme was black and white and Onee-chan's was red and black. I got even more excited when I was told we were asked to do a photoshoot once we were there by GDWass Photography! This was one of the contacts we had made when we did the Bleach meet. And this is one of her photos of me at Expo.

(Picture by Getty Images)

I could have added more to my outfit I guess. I think I should have gotten a better wig, or some proper lace to put in my hair. The lace I had wasn't really lace, more like really thin material and broke almost everytime I tried to tie a bow! I would probably also add more black around the costume or in the umbrella just to make the outfit come all together and match properly. I had a lovely time and can't wait for next expo!