Review: Etsy Fake Nails (Aya1gou - Harajuku, Big Bows, 3D Bow, Kawaii Nails...etc)

Hi! It's been a while~ ^^; But I'm here! And I have a review for y'all! Now, I had been looking everywhere for some affordable, but still super cute and hopefully durable, fake nails. And I think I've found some...!

These things are adorable, long, lengthening, and have some acrylic bows/hearts along with some adorable polka dot nail polish and little tiny nail rhinestones! Every nail is decorated with either a bow with a rhinestone at the knot, or two little hearts with two rhinestones in between~ And then, of course, they are all painted with a french style manicure with bright pastel colors and white dots!

Now then, how about you walk with me through my unboxing?

Now, these were packaged super cutely, except for the cardboard box, but even that was taped shut with cute little utensil tape~! Also, for those wondering, I am able to type and game with these on, as I have typed this entire post with them on, and thus, I should be able to press, like, five letters to game. And they are super flattering on my totally fat little fingers~ Make 'em look long and thin!! XD

Here is a link to the shop, not to the listing I bought these from as that listing is now invalid... yeah, one only! :D (For now, at least...) https://www.etsy.com/shop/Aya1gou?ref=l2-shopheader-name
But I promise that you'l find something cute! She has a lot of nails and they're all awesome and rather cheap, averaging around $20, but going as low as $9!

Also, if you enjoy lenses as well as nails, then  you're probably no stranger to this warning, but please be careful when putting in your lenses, especially with longer nails like these!!

Biggest Trip of My Short Life... :D

Okay, as many of you in the lolita circuit know, the one and only: Baby, the Stars Shine Bright, has opened a store on the east coast, which happens to be where I live. 

Of course, however, being broke, and young, and living in the south, and all, I was unable to attend the grand opening... :(

BUT! My wonderful mother offered to take me and two friends up there~ We leave this week! "Why the heck do I care?" you may be asking... The truthful answer? You probably don't care! But I'm excited... Thus, I am sharing!

Another question you may be asking is: "Why the heck is this so exciting?"

Answer? Because I've never been inside (Or directly outside) a lolita store!

This isn't even my first time going to NYC, in fact, it's, like, my sixth... But I feel like this is going to be the most exciting trip yet! I've got it all planned! Maps and all! Coords even!

My makeup for the trip was carefully crafted over many test-runs, and many outfit changes... ^^;

My most recent, and probably official, test-run is below~

Wish me luck and fun~! <3

False Lash Review: Dolly Wink no. 10 (Sweet Cat)

Hello~ I'm finally getting up off my big lazy butt and writing a review!

Obviously, as said by the title, it's for the Dolly Wink no. 10 false eyelashes! (Also known as 'Dolly Wink: Sweet Cat') I've had these for a while, and have only worn them a couple of times(once in my house, and once to a BJD meetup), but I must say, they're rather spectacular!Let's have a look-see, yes?

A look at how Tsubasa wears them, shown on the packaging.

Now, this was taken after I had worn the top pair for the first time, thus the whole 'they aren't perfect-looking-ness'. Now, these are my first criss-cross, 'natural', lashes. And I say that they do their job of looking natural, all while looking so wonderfully unnatural, because, I mean really, who has lashes this long and luxurious-looking? It takes some work to get them looking completely like your real lashes (It involves a lot of pushing some areas up and some areas down... for my eyes at least...). It comes with glue, which I don't trust due to my natural paranoia... even though, with my last pair of Dolly Winks, I used it and it worked great!

Sadly, I forgot to take a picture of the packaging, but it looks the same as my Dolly Wink no. 1, except this one is purple. It's still a cute little perfume/ shampoo/ body wash/ something toiletries-ish bottle.
Let's have a look at how they look on, yes?

This is with them both on... This was the first time I had worn them, so please excuse my uncomplimentary make-up

And here it is with only one on, so you can see the difference it makes

In my opinion, the last picture, the one of me only wearing one, shows you exactly how big a difference a simple false eyelash can make! Again, this is just my opinion, but I believe that the eye with the eyelash looks more open and awake, maybe even a little more 'come-hither'. 

NOW, WARNING TIME!  

The lash band is BLACK, which means that either one of two things is gonna happen with these lashes: 1) If you put it on without any eyeliner, it will give you eyeliner. 2) If you put it on without any eyeliner and it's not perfectly placed, it's gonna look funky (not the good kind of funk).

Now that that's out of the way, SELCA/ SELFIE TIME~ 

(I will forever prefer 'selca' over 'selfie' since 'selca' was first and it's name makes more sense ('self-camera'), plus, I love k-pop)

The wig I'm wearing can actually be bought a Pretty and Cute!

I got my eyelashes at Pretty and Cute!
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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
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Lioele Blooming Gloss in Cherry Red

Lioele's Blooming Gloss is AWESOME~ :) I bought this because it had such awesome reviews and I was looking for a nice reddish gloss to give me some drama, when I need it, with a red tinted lip. I use it as a tint over my light pink lip butter (revlon's lip butter in cupcake) sometimes, and sometimes I just simply use it over it to give it a little more color to it. Most of the time though, I just use it on its own to give my lips a little red tint, producing this really nice magenta almost? color. NOW. The main reason I had to buy this was because the reviews on Pretty&Cute were all talking about the same two things: the smell (weird, right?), and the moisturizing components to it.  Well, now it's my turn to talk about them. -arrogant nod- 

Moisture!YES! It has it! I would wear it over my lip balm at night to sorta 'seal it in'? Anyways, it work great at doing that, the only downside is that, since I never blot my lips (I'm stupid, I know), I now have magenta lip-marks all over my pillow. XD On its own, it works pretty well, it feels very slick and smooth going on, not sticky at all, and covers your lips in this soothing moisture. For instance, the first time I used it, I had, again stupidly, picked at my lip until it bled and the second I put it on, my lips stopped throbbing and I swear, it sealed the blood in or something and stopped it from bleeding anymore.

Now for the weird part: the SMELL~ I know what you're thinking, especially if you've read the reviews on Pretty&Cute, in which everyone is ranting (happily) about the scent of this thing; you're thinking "Is it really that great of a smell?" The answer? YESH! I don't even know how to describe it! It's something out of a dream or something, the kind of smell that you love, but its just so indescribable. It smells of fruit, that much I can tell you. Very sweet fruit...maybe a touch of citrus? All I know is that my friends think that I'm weird because I keep on asking them to smell my lips XD The first time I did that, I was in a car full of people (it was during a party), had just applied the lipgloss before entering the car and was enjoying the scent, when, suddenly, it hit me, I HADN'T SHARED THIS WONDERFUL SMELL WITH EVERYONE ELSE! So I quickly turned to my friend sitting to my right and whispered, "Smell my lips!" She pulled a funny face, but did it, and then her scowl turned into a big smile. "That smells so good!" she said and everyone else just stared.... So I offered it to the others, sadly, they were boys and didn't want the awkwardness of sniffing my lips, so... XD

Pic time~:

Please ignore the blood...like I said up there ^ I had picked at my lip (NEVER DO THAT)

This is it layered over Revlon's Lip Butter in Cupcake

These are my normal, pale-ish lips

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Review: Pretty and Cute lashes in 099

These are my second pair of lashes that I've worn, and they were a bit hard to get on, but that could just be because they aren't broken in yet. BOY WERE THEY LONG! I mean, i knew that they were going to be full, and on pretty and cute, they have a system in the item description where they tell you how long and thick your lashes are going to be using cute little hearts, it told me that they were going to be longer than my other lashes, the pretty and cute lashes in 061, but for some reason, it didn't process in my head :P SO, needless to say, I was surprised when I put them on and they were, well, long! My parents scolded me, saying they were too dramatic, but they really suit my more full-on gyaru make up...but then again, gyaru make up is kinda dramatic. ^^; okay, pic time:

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Review: Pretty and Cute Lashes in 061

These lashes are the first false lashes I ever bought and successfully wore. (I actually owned a bunch of lashes before this, but never put them on, at least not by myself, and except for when I had dance rehearsals) They are easy to wear, nice and long without overpowering or drooping (in a bad way) my eyes. They give a natural Japanese dolly-eye effect, but are too natural too be called hime gyaru lashes or something...perhaps something more like an anime eye than a gyaru eye.

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