Monday, May 13, 2013

Two False Lashes Review: Dolly Wink no. 1 Dolly Sweet (top) & Kiss Me Heroine Make Impact False eyelashes NEW EDITION 09 (bottom)

Wow, haha, that's a long title...but since I bought them to be worn together, I figured I should do the review of them together! ^^ Starting with the top lashes: Dolly Wink no. 1 lashes. 

Here's the case, this is after I had worn the top pair
The case is shaped like a cute little perfume, or shampoo, or something toiletries-ish, bottle ^^; With cute little flowers and cute little Tsubasa! The lashes themselves are SO luxurious! :3 They're super light and sooo soft. I honestly wasn't expecting anything this nice despite all the hype... but they're perfect! They give me the exact look I'm going for, something natural, but unnatural all at the same time. I wanted something cute and slightly dramatic~ and I got it ^.^

Looks totally legit, right? For all you know, I could just have ridiculously long and fluttery eyelashes~ :P (my left eye, your right, is the one with the lash, just in case you couldn't tell) Best part is, that they're so light-looking, that i barely need any makeup to go along with it, just my basic makeup: eyeliner for the top, some white eyeshadow in the inner corners, which swoops down to line the lower lashline, and the same white eyeshadow along the middle of my top eyelid. (Tho, in this pic, I don't believe that I have any eyeshadow on)
Now for a pic of both top and bottom lashes together, 'cause we're moving on to the bottoms:


BTW, the dolly winks came with a cute little tube of glue

So did the Kiss Me Heroine ones!
Okay, here are the bottoms, which I was hoping would be a cheaper alternative to the Dolly Wink no. 5, but...These are technically more expensive at $9.99 for ONE pair, while the Dolly Wink's are just $18.99 for TWO pairs. However, my mom made me stick to a $30 budget, so...two sets of Dolly Winks just wasn't gonna happen. XD Anyways, I just rambled about money, which was completely unnecessary... (except for those on a budget like me). SO, these are really short, I'm not talking about the actual lashes, but rather the band, which, like the Dolly Winks, is invisible. Maybe this is just a normal thing for Japanese bottom falsies (the length thing, not the invisible band thing)? The lashes themselves are rather coarse feeling, especially if you touch the Dolly Sweet Dolly Winks, then touch the Kiss Me Heroine ones right after each other. And the lashes are a good length, not too long so that they still easily pass for bottom lashes (which they are, but...idk, I've seen some really long bottom lashes before, and it just looked wrong) 
Now, let's see what kind of a difference they can make when put on:


Okay, BYE!! <3
here's the link to pretty and cute, where I got all this stuff: http://www.prettyandcute.com/cart.php?referralId=16736
To use magic 10% off coupon, push the above link and put welcome12 at checkout.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

I cut my wig!! (gothic lolita wigs - classic wavy in strawberry blonde)




Originally, with long side swept bangs, as seen here ->
I decided to cut them after discovering that I don't look very cute with side swept bangs :P And it only took me three days to cut it! XD lolz, not really, but seriously, it did take a really long time, and I had started the project four days ago and finished yesterday. The first day, I had tried to cut it straight across for about five minutes. I failed miserably. I successfully cut about three strands of hair, and barely even an inch off those. So I tried again the next day: this time, sectioning off parts and trapping them between my fingers THEN, trying to cut it with normal scissors again, and again, straight across. Yet again to no avail. So then, I started getting creative and did some research. And found a solution that only took about an hour:

HOLD THE SCISSORS VERTICALLY!

Now, some of you may already know this, but I didn't, and none of videos on YouTube were any help since they all used shears instead of normal scissors. SO...they all just cut straight on through with their fancy scissors made for hair-cutting. (which I couldn't do..soooo)
Anyways, I finally found the answer in the COMMENTS of a video on cutting blunt bangs. I don't remember who it was that said it so, sorry, I can't credit and/or thank you. But they claimed to be a hairdresser and said to hold the scissors vertically instead of horizontally. So, figuring I had nothing to lose, I went ahead and tried it, and it cut! Now, this is not as fast as any of those videos on YouTube that I watched, but it works, and it works faster than the whole cutting-straight-on-through thing, plus the result was a nice, not too severe, blunt bang that looked really rather natural. C:
Sure, it's uneven, it's not perfect, but it worked. And it's still long enough to be swept to the side some.

Review: Bodyline l179 OP with Rose Hat in pink (pik)















Behold! Le bonnet!
Alright! Got new dress! (two new dresses, really, but... 9.9 )
Anyways, this is Bodyline's l179 OP with Rose Hat, but the weird thing is...there isn't a hat, I mean, the stock photo looks like a hat, but...IT'S A BONNET!
Right, so...yeah. ^^;



















Quality: Pretty good! Considering it was only $33, I think this is excellent quality! It's not shiny or particularly cheap-looking.
Color and Design: Nice pink, not exactly my fave shade of pink though, it's kinda salmon-y...which I don't like, but regardless, it's still very nice color-wise. There is not pattern, it's a solid color so... let's take this dress apart (metaphorically, of course) and stare at it. Starting from the top!


Comes with neck straps/ties/thingamajiggers.

Three bows on the bodice along with some...lines? (IDK, I don't really speak fashion)
Shirring along the whole back, allowing it to stretch A LOT

Please note that, while these sleeves are gorgeous, and would've stopped around my elbow; there is no elastic! Thus, I COULDN'T EVEN GET IT OVER MY ELBOW! And, it wasn't even because I have fat arms or something ('cause I don't) It was just them being ridiculous! Luckily, as seen over here ->
The sleeves are detachable! <3 So I quickly and easily removed them and put the dress on! Now, these aren't attached like the other Bodyline dresses I have, the others were attached using elastic (and the sleeves had elastic) these are just put on using normal 'button-through-hole-in-cloth' technique :/
They're so pretty! I was truly heartbroken... (i have a thing for bell-shaped skirts and sleeves :9 )

Side zipper~

Lovely skirt with a scalloped hem- Beautiful! <3

The waistties have a ruffle on the ends of them that matches the ruffles along the hem of the skirt

It came with 4 removable flowers (I know, I lost one of them already)
Full-length Selca

Normal Selca showing off the bonnet