♡ November Glossybox ♡

みなさん、こんにちは!
Note: in my last post about Glossybox; I wrote about a colour of their box they tend to use... but it was a mistake because it is another company that uses a certain blue colour and so because of my silliness in not knowing... I made an error! So please forgive me ( ；´Д｀)

I love this months theme so much because it's getting us all prepared for the holiday season ヾ(*д*) and for the past few Christmas's I haven't exactly been jolly... but this year I certainly feel different about it and enjoying all the tests my mother and I are doing on recipes to decide what to do for Christmas / Boxing day in particular. Anyway going off course...

The brands we were given this month involve ones I have certainly heard of, but never tried in my life - Dermalogica and Nails Inc are certainly brands that I am used to having in my life because of a good friend, who is an amazing beauty therapist, would give me all these products for me to try and enjoy. Also I have heard of the Dr Jart+ brand but it just didn't appeal to me as a younger consumer. 

My favourite part about Glossybox is the care and attention to detail the staff members give to each and every box and I adore the packaging along with the tissue paper and pieces that keep the products safe on their journey from the HQ to customers houses.

It's not even December yet and I'm already anxious to get my final (boooooo!) box from my subscription! I think when I can afford it... I'm definitely buying myself another subscription! Forever cursing and thanking my godmother for getting me hooked!

Thanks for reading!

xoxo

♡ ロンドン Baby! ♡

みなさん、こんにちは! 

Trouble, troublemaker yeah that's your middle name wooaahh ♪♫

As per usual... I roll out the blog posts a week after each event has happened (〜￣▽￣)〜 Last Saturday afternoon; I /finally/ met up with Emilia and her friend Ash! I have been conversing with Emilia online since the beginning of the year, hitting it off straight away and so for a while we had been throwing ideas back and forth to meet each other in person - usually ending up in failure but we finally had success! (,, ･∀･)ﾉ゛

I was extremely lucky to get a lift off my dad into London - huzzah for him working at London City Airport - and so I met Emilia and Ash outside Camden station at around 12.30pm - it took me forever to get from the airport because I had to change over from the jubilee line to northern line at London Bridge station and because of the amount of weekend people it was just hdfdljkshfdlsk (｀Д´*) the three of us mooched around Camden for a good couple of hours - Ash needed some hoodies and even though she asked for my help with haggling prices, I swear she is a natural haggler with the stall holders! We walked around the stables before sitting down for a few minutes so that we could have a breather and for Ash to have a smoke - and as I have now officially quit smoking I was comfortable to be around her without craving for one myself! We were going to get a snack to eat but the amount of time it took to get to order we just decided against it and went to meet Ash's friend Stephen instead and headed over to Leicester Square via the good ol' London bus service - it was a lot quicker and a lot cheaper than going via the underground!
Once at Leicester Square; we split off into pairs and headed to each restaurant that we wanted to eat at! I actually took Emilia to Misato - where I have had wonderful experience previously and wanted to share it with her... along with the excellent food and cheap prices! We messed around and pretended we were on a date... to the point where we accidentally ordered the same food and drink (」゜ロ゜)」 and I actually got compliments from the extremely cute waiter... oh now I get complimented when I am in a serious relationship?! SHEESH ((*゜Д゜) I'm just joking... I love you really sweetiepie （・∀・）

Amazing chicken katsu teriyaki (｀ω´*)

I swear the food in Misato I could easily eat all the time... Anyway after food; Emilia and I headed over towards the Leicester Square gardens to meet Ash and Stephen again. When we arrived there, we noticed that there were some people in the garden raising money for charity - dressed up as comic book heroes and villians! There was Wolverine, Magneto as well as a complete Iron Man costume that looked absolutely immense as well as a couple of storm troopers! Emilia and Ash went up and had their photographs taken with loads of the people but I was too chicken and only had my photo taken with Indiana Jones... as well as Emilia because like I said... chicken ( ꒪Д꒪)ノ

We then headed over to the プリクラ booth to do the usual プリクラ MAGIC session that I do with pretty much all of my friends. During decoration, I got a phone call from my dad saying that if I wanted a lift back home then I was welcome to... at this point it was dark and getting a lift home from him would have a) saved me £15 and b) saved me almost two hours of travel so I opted for the free ride home so I said goodbye to my wonderful friends ｡･ﾟﾟ･(>д<;)･ﾟﾟ･｡

I had such a wonderful day out and about and as much as I do like to see my friends... I did feel all panicky and horrible spending so much time outside... am I really becoming a hermit?! I hope not because this will definitely be a set back for future plans 。ﾟ(ﾟﾉД｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡ I'll try and become more sociable... I promise!

Peace Out
xoxo

♡ Why Do I Wear Make-up? ♡

みなさん、こんにちは!

So I saw this post by Winona and I thought it was a very inspirational post so I have decided to do one for myself. If I had seen this six months ago I would not have done this for the life of me... but now I feel more comfortable with my skin, despite it being in such bad condition at the moment, so here we go! 

What we have to do is show our face half bare and half with make-up on - without editing the pictures because that is naughty naughty (・｀ω´・) I have cheated a little and re-added some recent pictures - the left being me without make-up and right is with make-up etc... cheating cheater that's me! This post... it's kind of like giving us a chance to show that we are comfortable with who we are without the whole 'make-up is bad' nagging going on in the background. I would love to see others do this and hey, if I can pluck up the courage to do so then so can YOU!

1. When did you start to wear make-up?

It wasn't until I went to college - so around the age of 15/16 - when make-up became interesting to me and so I went through the whole experimenting phase with finding out what colours suited my skin tone and what foundations / concealers / powders were right for my awful combination skin etc.I want to say that I was comfortable with myself during school days but truthfully I wasn't because of horrendous bullying but I never succumbed to the /ploy/ of make-up because I was such a tomboy. Since the age of 13; I've had the wonderful trouble of teenage acne skin problems and because of my size back then, my cheeks would easily turn red so I had lots of uneven skin colour and these problems continued on throughout college and hey I still have some of these problems now even though I am turning 23 in two weeks time! 

2. How do you feel without make-up?

Well, I did go through a phase during my university years where I wouldn't even walk to the corner shop to buy a pint of milk without wearing foundation, powder and mascara. But since having a job at the nursery; wearing so much make-up everyday became a task as well as being surrounded by co-workers who didn't wear make-up at all, I slowly started wearing less and less to the point where I can comfortably walk around without a scrap of make-up on. Working at the nursery certainly brought me out of my shell and put into my head that wearing make-up or not wearing make-up is NOT  bad thing and so I shouldn't be judged on my decision on whether I want to wear make-up or not on certain days. I am officially comfortable with how my face looks without make-up - even with the blemishes I still get every now and again.

3. What do you like about make-up?

I like the fact that one day if I fancy it; I can go around wearing natural looking make-up for a day look then adding some glitz and glam - and some false eyelashes - and turn that into a going out night look. I like how there is all sorts of make-up for different skin types and I like how no one is compressed to a singular brand in their life. I also love seeing all the make-up styles from all over the world via different genres of music and different styles of fashion.

4. Tell your story about your growing love for make-up:

My love for make-up certainly isn't a natural thing, it grew on my as I hit a certain age in life. Already at this point I was into Japanese music especially visual kei / j-rock / j-pop etc so I took to copying and editing the styles that I saw on particular idols in these genres - mainly looking at The Gazette and Alice Nine for visual kei inspiration and then looking at j-pop idols such as Namie Amuro and Koda Kumi etc. Then around 2009 I was introduced to k-pop and I was hooked by their bright coloured and subtle yet extreme make-up styles and so my make-up changed to follow these particular styles. Nowadays I look into more street style inspiration make-up as well as loving the Gyaru fashion and make-up side of things - especially Rokku Kei style. I know I will never be as good as the models in the pages of magazines like EGG, Popteen, Ageha etc but I enjoy learning about the different styles and giving it all a go because then I know I've tried it without thinking that it wouldn't suit me anyway. I love looking at /mature/ style make-up also - looking at inspirational bloggers like Style Suzi and Sebastian Simon.

5. Tell your three holy grail make-up products:

Missha Perfect Cover BB Cream in No. 13

Skin Food Peach Sake Silky Smooth Powder

No.7 Extreme Length Mascara

I seriously do want my friends and (very limited but all the same) followers to have a go at this because despite not liking the pictures of myself - but then again I never really do like pictures of myself - I feel more confident and relaxed about doing this.

Thanks for reading

xoxo

♡ October Glossybox ♡

みなさん、こんにちは!
It's been a while since I've written a post that didn't have anything to do with films or dramas... so have a nice breaker from it all with this post about Glossybox! As much as I would like to, I myself cannot afford a subscription to this monthly product but my wonderful godmother was kind enough to purchase me a three-month subscription for my birthday - which isn't until next month but she wanted to do it for this month so it could go to December - did that make sense in description wise? I am absolutely stoked with this present and today the postman was wonderful enough to deliver my first box! 

As many of you may know; October is the month for Breast Cancer Awareness and for this month's Glossybox - they turned their signature blue box, well pink! To be honest, I was expecting the box to be bigger - I suppose staring endlessly at photographs on their facebook page warps your mind with certain expectations - but with the fact that they only put five products into per box, I can understand the size even more. Also what was cute was putting a sticker with the breast cancer ribbon on the information card:

Having a card with all the information about each product / sample was extremely helpful too! Especially with someone like me who cannot tell the difference between certain brands and what each product is meant to do in your beauty regime etc

And all the products I am pretty chuffed with... well the anti-wrinkle cream I surely don't need yet in my life but it's nice to have it on tap - also I need to keep it away from my mother as she seems to have her beady eyes on it! I cannot wait to try the Sally Hansen nail varnish because when looking at the colour closely it's not a straight up black colour, there seems to be a grey hue to it? Did that make sense? And the blemish lotion will hopefully help get rid of these last pesky teenage spots I have on my chin! Argh!

Does anyone subscribe to Glossybox at all? I do feel it is a great investment to have and I look forward to the day where I can comfortably purchase a subscription from them!

Thanks for reading!

xoxo

♡ Another Shopping Service Experience ♡

みなさん、こんにちは!
Ugh I am actually behind on what I have been wanting to write in form on blog posts and recently, things have become stressful and tension is running high in my parents house. But anyway I will not bore with details about that because they are my problems and no one else's! It must have been two - possibly three - months ago when I places an order with Kairi - my wonderful shopping service who lets me order lots and lots of things off mbok / auok - a Japanese auction site like ebay but you have to have a Japanese address to sign up and order. 

I've also noticed that when I order stuff from mbok / auok, I tend to stick with one or two bands... I want to say it is strange but with my mind it's just a normal thing I suppose! This time around I had a haul of Vivid items, one of my favourite PSC bands. One of the first items that I pulled out of the box was the three, first edition versions of their「REAL」single followed closely by their out of print 「夢」 ～ムゲンノカナタ～ single which I have honestly looked everywhere for so I am so grateful that I now have a copy in my collection!

Another of my items were a Ryoga and Reno cheki - not them together but two separate chekis - and this is now my third Reno cheki and my first for my collection. I am a slight freak and collect three of each person which seems to drive people crazy but hey my mind is crazy so yeah!

Next are some photosets and photographs. Is it obvious that Reno is my favourite member from Vivid?  I do love all the members but there is just something about Reno that draws me towards his direction. That sounds really sad doesn't it? (´；ω；`) Oh and I also got a couple of Reno posters but I forgot to take pictures of them and now I cannot be bothered to unroll them just for pictures...

And my final item is not Vivid related but Alice Nine related... ok Shou related in all honesty! (*ﾉ▽ﾉ) I actually blame my friends Rachael and Iky for getting me so addicted to Shou because they are like the biggest Shou fangirls that I know of and I used to be (still am though) a Saga fangirl but now I love both of them equally - and the other members are all joint second place hahaha (*´∀`*) I love these photocards of Shou because it's over eras dating from 2007 to 2011 and yeah... I like Shou between those eras because his fashion is amazing!

I was so happy with what Kairi had won for me and as of recent he won me three Yamamoto Yusuke photobooks for less that 3000 yen for all three! Compared to buying off sites like cdjapan and yesasia I tend to save more money ordering through Kairi which is good and he always sends it off ASAP which gets to me at my end ASAP also! Ummm yes... that is all I can think of for this blog!

Peace Out
xoxo