Hello hello!
Today I will be sharing my recent make-up (and slight opinion/review) and what magazines and doujinshi I bought! I see that COSMODE has some really useful tutorials/tip in their last 2 issues, but I'm not sure if I would upload them/translate. :/ どうしよ
And also, I'm planning to buy some CDs within the month or so, so I will be sharing that (CD photos~) as well. Also thinking of maybe sharing my Taobao purchases in future? Especially since you can't be sure of what you're gonna get, so if someone reviews the store/item first it would be good? More people sharing the better, aye? Although starting from next year I plan to just buy wigs from Taobao, and some props as I plan to make my own costumes. I guess costume would depend on whether it's complicated to make, or cheaper (because some fabric are really expensive aye, and I would be only using a bit, but I can't buy a bit. Most stores sell by the yard/metre and hardly go smaller than that. Unless it's spotlight I suppose. /hit)
ANYWAY.
That's my loot from KOC II and FOW 3 (my mail-order doujinshi haven't arrived yet lol, I think it's because one of the books just ended the pre-order, so haven't started selling)
AKIFUSHI ANTHOLOGY AT THE TOP. It was good. Very good. Akina (明菜) didn't appear after all though ): Guess she was busy. I was looking forward to seeing Akina's AkiFushi!! Oh well. Another K book is maine (まいね)'s doujinshi ONSEN de SCEPTER. (but I got it from KAC shop, from KOC II)
Other those two, the rest are....all...Levi uke books. (/-/) すみません兵長 HONESTLY THOUGH. I prefer Levi as a seme but. All my favourite circles ship the other way round and their styles are very nice so. I only have one LeviEren book lol.
Next up is my new make up! (from 2 months-ish to 2 weeks ago)
I have two different photos because I bought new makeup after taking the first photo ^^; (Oh and some photos were taken with my DSLR therefore the difference in quality ;;)
Anyway, most of them are Japanese brand makeup.. because makeup from Sephora is way too expensive for me to buy regularly.
I have Heroine Make pressed lucent powder, Dolly Wink/Candy Doll limited edition brown bottom lashes, mascara, gold eyeshadow base, lipstick, pink/grey eyeshadow palette, STILA brightening concealer, KATE eyebrow colour-in, Majorca Majolica blusher, CANMAKE nose shading powder, ETUDE HOUSE eyeliners and foundation brush.
I have only used the Heroine Make pressed powder, Dolly Wink mascara, Candy Doll lipstick, STILA concealer, KATE eyebrow colour-in and CANMAKE nose powder.
I used all of them for my cosplay on STGCC (save the lipstick)
Well, some opinions on the products?
Regarding the Heroine Make lucent powder, honestly I was expecting something like translucent setting powder? I used a friend's setting powder once and I thought I'd want to buy one but she got it from Taobao and I didn't know how to look for it lol.
So actually the lucent powder is just very light (shade) powder. I have a photo of how it looks like opened:
The puff feels very soft and nice =w= upon patting it on your face it will look very bright (if you're not that fair) but after blending it out it actually "disappears" so I guess it sort of fulfils my requirements for a translucent powder.
The STILA concealer is rather thick, and I don't know if it's just me, but when I twist the top to dispense product through the brush I end up with more than I need even though I didn't mean to dispense that much... I don't need so much concealer TT_TT I wasted like probably 10cent coin-sized amount of it alr.
The colour for KATE's eyebrow colour-in is their newest colour, BE-1, which is supposed to match your skintone.
The CANMAKE nose powder was really really very much less pigmented that I expected it to be. I suppose it's really for a "natural contour" kind of look but I really like my contour harsher especially when I'm taking photos (but my glasses covered up the nose contour anyway LOL I forgot about it). Mmm. It's okay I guess. I haven't tried it for normal make up days.
I also bought a powder brush from ecotools
Nope not good, in my opinion. I'm not sure if it because I had BB cream on, and too little powder but it feels weird to brush it on my skin. And it's dropping fibres already!! ): Where are the good and cheap brushes.
The liners from ETUDE House are automatic gel liners. The Line Nuance is a eyeshadow + liner in one.
I haven't tried them out yet... They should be okay I guess? Gel liners all feel/seem the same to me :x
Thinking of buying ettusais brown liquid liner (I love ettusais liquid liners the best, but Diamond Lash and Dolly Wink always rank highest in POPTEEN why).
That's all for now! Haven't properly written up a haul(?) entry with so many pictures! Will update when I get my mail-order doujinshi.
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Labels: 2013, cosmode, doujinshi, life, makeup chat, popteen, purchases
Annyeong! (um ya I like to say that)
Yesterday, (18 Aug/Sun) PIKA PIKA Maid Cafe held their first full maid cafe event at *scape WAREHOUSE, co-organised by COSMO! My friends are the PIKA PIKA meido-san and they asked me to help out at their merchandise booth that day! Along with an acquaintance, Mirai's handsome boyfriend, Jimu!
As I was working at the merchandise booth, I wasn't expecting to take photos or videos, so I didn't bring my camera out, so I have nothing to offer for this entry. m(_ _)m
The event was filled with performances, by the PIKA PIKA meido and also guest performers were invited, thanks to EOY! Wotaroid was also there to support the performances with wotagei off-stage and they were really zai. This is their Facebook page, do check them out: ♥
There were stage games and lively emcee-ing by Mika and Ringo as well. Mika and Ringo really bicker alot wwww Jimu calls them a stand-up comedy lolol. Of course, those who know them understand that this is how they communicate!
Many people took videos of the performances, so I guess they will be posted on PIKA PIKA's Facebook page. Nakitty Channel also went to the event, I think he should have videos up soon~
Well, there wasn't anything much going on that day, since I was at the merchandise booth for the most part. And even if I advertise anything, it's sorta too late lol ;;
This Saturday is Natsumatsuri, organised by the Japanese Association Singapore. AND! FINALLY! I has connections to get advanced tickets ;u; Slap me but I never went for Natsumatsuri in the past (since 6 years ago lol) because I didn't want to queue that long to get in. But it's not confirmed if they can get the tickets, so I'll see how first. If not I also won't go again ;_; If I do manage to go I would wanna borrow a yukata from one of my friends.
AH YES. KOC II was yesterday as well~ I asked my proxy to help me get an anthology (and hopefully the novelty!!
I shall end this post here, and I'll update again with Natsumatsuri if I do manage to go, and my doujinshi maybe next week when they all arrive!
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Labels: 2013, COSMO, doujinshi, event, life, natsumatsuri, pika pika meido
Good morning~ lol. Ah I'm so tired. Fridays are one of my most packed days. Usually I have tuition from noon to 6 (at different places) and then I have night class, but it's holiday week!
But today was still busy. After tuition I had to go down to Queenstown to pay school fees and then went down Orchard (because I love Kino, and I also went to inquire again about spoon2Di Vol 38. Gonna call on Wed to ask them if it's in stock alr and ask them to reserve one. Will blog about it when I get it, because of the 36P K feature! それやばい and also angela will be in the magazine! And the furoku is awesome.).
I also bought the Kurobas Character Bible at Kino. I was actually thinking if I should get the Chinese or Japanese one, because Japanese is easier to read, for me because I learnt simplified Chinese but Taiwan translations are in traditional Chinese so sometimes it's pretty hard. Eh. Actually it doesn't make much of it difference. Aiya my Chinese just sucks. OTL Actually it's pretty good, but not really anything awesome. Anyway, so the Chinese one is cheaper, and I really need to save money because of my cosplans for STGCC. But I ended up buying the Japanese one anyway. And I know that translations of the main points in the CharaBible are available online but I wanted to buy it since I knew it was coming out so yeah. I also got KERA Jul issue today. Spent so much today....
After shopping at Kino, I headed to Somerset for dinner with my church cell group. We had ramen. Mm. I actually went there once with my dad before, and decided not to go back, but my cell wanted to go there so I just thought, okay, fine, but their ramen really not worth it. It's so ex but it's not nice and the toppings are rather stingy. ==" Woah, now that I really think about it, it's actually bloody ex. D: But there was this 1-for-1 ramen promotion so that's why we even went there in the first place. Actually our friend is a shareholder(?) of the restaurant so that's why we went there to show some support, but I'm really sorry man, I'm never going to eat there again. :/ I'm not really much on reviews so I'll just end this here. Aoba Ramen is still my love. I love Hokkaido ramen. OH. I really don't like Ajisen though. The last time I ate it was the first time I did in at least 10 years. And I didn't even eat half of it. haiiz.
Really long never eat Aoba liao. ): Maybe after August, when I can spare some money to splurge on expensive food. I think at least 1 year never eat, almost 2 years le ahh. D: Was damn sad when I found out that they were no longer at Tampines 1 but then I saw them at Vivo and was so happy, like heng ah I can still eat my Aoba ramen lolol.
After ramen, we decided to take the bus to River Valley Road and have frozen yoghurt at swirl art. Not bad. They are way cheaper than sogurt, like omg. When I was done with my yoghurt, I felt it and I seriously got a shock, like I was expecting it to be quite expensive since it's pretty heavy, but it was $5.80. It was at least twice as heavy as my standard sogurt ok, and my standard sogurt costs me $5+ too. And the yoghurt is really nice too. Toppings not as extensive as sogurt, but enough for me. And they also sell other food, so maybe I'll go there again one day!
I have this bad habit of blogging everything in one shot and I apologise. It makes my posts ridiculously long.
So on Monday, I went out and managed to get some shopping done! (Not my money so yeah.) Bought a few clothes from Lowry's Farm that I fell in love with when I saw them. I didn't manage to get all that I wanted, but it's enough, for now. Really happy because I haven't gone shopping for new clothes in 6 months. /hit And this season there are really alot of clothes that I like!! I wanna get some clothes from newlook too~~ I need new shoes though. I wanna buy Converse sneakers as well. Wanna get a new pair of black high-cuts. No photos because I didn't take any. Maybe in future. (I keep saying that don't I, sorry orz)
And also presenting highlight purchases of the week/month(?)
So I ordered a doujinshi from Toranoana (through a proxy) and it arrived this afternoon!! It's by my favourite circle so I'm really excited. I pretty much collect her doujinshi, except her MiSaru (K) ones.... prolly because her first MiSaru was a R18 and at that time I was pretty much icky over NSFW/R18 stuff. Yeeeeeap. (But then I pretty much got immune to it, and then I bought a R18 AkiFushi). I don't ship ren'ai SaruMi though so yeah that's another thing. If it's middle school SaruMi then I'm okay with ren'ai but for 19y/o SaruMi, nope. I just honestly want them to make up and be friends again.
Btw, GoHands is releasing some K goods and they decided to remove Fushimi's glasses for some of the designs. 超萌(Chinese) What's more moe than megane-danshi is megane-danshi with megane OFF. And Fushimi's whole expression just changes srsly.
Anyway, the next highlight is that I bought K SIDE: BLACK & WHITE!! 88888 Yay. Super ex though lol. And it's also the only novel I started reading. I bought RED and BLUE like damn long ago but I still haven't read them lol. And my Kagerou Daze is still halfway... orz
Btw, this ^ is basically all the stuff I bought for last month. New doujinshi from KOC and Toranoana, and recent stuff from Kino. I didn't include the other magazines in though.
Doujinshi I got this time round in KOC were from Taisho Democracy, zai and one more circle whose name I can't quite recall now orz suimasen.
Btw, here is my current doujinshi collection (stack size). It's super small compared to other people because oi proxy commission is expensive. I've seen how much doujinshi Washi can buy in one event and it's like. o_o That's like freaking heavy. Yeaaah. I also wanna go to doujin event la really. One day.
Okay. This is all I'll be blabbing about today! Yay I added photos in today's post hahaha xD
Good night everyone, it's almost 3AM already omg. I need to wake up early tomorrow; going Anime Matsuri at Funan (for KiDChan's workshop! Super excited)
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Labels: 2013, doujinshi, life, lowrys farm, online purchases, purchases, swirl art froyo, toranoana
Okay, I haven't been blogging at all recently because I'm really too much of a lazy person *bows* and also blogging regularly isn't really a habit nowadays, since I kicked it like in mid-2012, because I was blogging way too crazy stuff (like you don't even want to know...).
And it's really getting hot here in Singapore and it makes me feel like not doing anything 何もしたくない何をやる気が起きない
My electronic devices are heating up like....*shakes head* Not sure if it's because my phone is dying (and I dropped it twice from my height yesterday too ;_;) or if it's really the temperature here, but it keeps hitting 40~45 degress Celsius, which is obviously not a healthy temperature for your battery to be at.
This morning I went to Macs nearby to buy McBreakfast and the moment I stepped out of my house I just started perspiring and it's only 11 in the morning excuse me? And the air-conditioning everywhere else is so freaking cold, can you imagine stepping out of a bus and be greeted by this crazyass heat. OTL I just wanna nua on my bed. I don't even wanna read doujinshi because I'll leave fingerprint marks on the covers because of the heat. =="
Anyway, this is probably gonna be a photo-less(?) post because I am too lazyyy and my phone lags way too much nowadays it gets irritating to edit the photos I take.
Oh, I don't have a working air-con in my house by the way. All the air-cons in my house are spoilt somehow or the other. Like the one in my room doesn't blow cold air.....==" the only working air-con we have is currently in a room we don't use. At all. *dies*
Okay, back to what I'm planning to update here on this space.
1 KOC doujinshi!
They arrived on Wednesday afternoon~ And my proxy was so nice to get a paper (ペーパー) from K&T/炬燵太郎 for me even though I didn't ask for any doujinshi from that circle. (Well I did want the cup..but it's kinda small for my liking. I like big mugs~ 500mlくらい) She placed the 2 papers (other from Quartierlatin) in a file and when I opened the packaged I saw Kotaro's paper first, and I was so so so surprised and excited and when I saw that it was really from Kotaro I was like freaking happy I instagrammed it instantly. Plus Kotaro didn't upload her paper on pixiv (Wasi did so I knew how it looks like). Kotaro's style is so damn pretty seriously. Her guys are all damn ikemen and her girls look damn cool and beautiful. I only think that she spaces eyes too far apart sometimes but that's of little concerrrrnnnn *flowers everywhere*
2 PASH May
Bought this from AmazonJP because Kino sold out lol. And I also forgot how hard PASH posters are to remove... haiiz. Btw I totally bought this just for the S4 poster lol. Content-wise.... hmm.... Okay la. /hit
3 I fell sick on Wednesday (lolwut)
HAHAHA YEA. I think it's cus I didn't drink alot of water the previous 2 days and the weather was just killer so I had a bit of dry/sore throat which resulted in a bit of cough and I had vocal lesson so I was singing and then after that when I reached home: full-blown cough lolol.
The next morning ended up with blocked/runny nose + super crazy cough = sick liao lor. lolol. Couldn't go for class and tuition the whole day. Srsly when I fall sick I'm just bed-ridden. And I don't feel like eating or doing anything so I just lie in bed and suffer (while tweeting about it lolol). It actually feels pretty terrible ahaha my immune system is getting worse. Didn't use to get sick so badly or often when I was younger (oh, the irony)
Anyway, the next day (yesterday) I ended up with a fever as well SIGH. Plus headache because in my body headache = fever.
Srsly mannn don't wanna fall sick again but with this kind of weather.... HAIIZ.
I'm almost okay already though, just have cough and a little bit of blocked nose. Was planning to see doctor today last night but ended up I didn't need to~ Yay. (doctors are expensive...actually I don't even know what means expensive for me anymore lol my sense of values is warped. btw to see a doctor at the polyclinic is 10bucks)
I probably should cook dinner soon.
Byeeee
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Labels: 2013, amazon jp, doujinshi, K, life, pash, purchases, random update
Yosha yosha konbanwassu mina-san!
So anyway, sometime last month (2nd week of March?) I bought some stuff from Japanese online stores through a proxy (: Because as you know, many Japanese online stores don't ship outside Japan. The shops that I purchased from were THREE!, Animate and ToraNoAna.
This is the whole set of items I got:
Not gonna insert photos of the covers of the CDs because they are available on the websites, but sometimes the CDs have special designs on them, or the inside of the CD case, so I'll include photos of those instead~!
But first below, this is the tokuten (特典) for Mi-chan's doujin CD 7-2.5~My Hobby~. It's just a plastic card, like a credit card. There are 7 seven designs, for 7 songs, and the design I got was for the song GLAMOUROUS SKY. (btw Animate sells this CD too, but I just decided to go with THREE instead.)
The CD and the inside~ Look at pretty Nana-chan~~ (but I think Moca is prettier, sorry Mi-chan!)
Next CD is 7-My precious 2 years-. The 2 years is the time that he and Nana-chan have been together~ And there's a small booklet that comes with it and it's super (*´∀`*). みーちゃんいけめん。It's basically a photo booklet of Nana-chan & Mi-chan. The lyrics booklet for 7-2.5 is also full of his photos and it's just. (*ﾉ▽ﾉ)(ღ˘⌣˘ღ)ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノみーちゃん大好きwwww
Third CD I got was Dasoku's first solo album "DASOKU". The illustration for the CD is really cool! And this is the inside of the CD~ I couldn't take a photo of the CD itself straight-on because its surface is mirrored. So yeahhh I had to take it at an angle. The CD design is really beautiful as well!
This also comes with a tokuten but it was sold out before I could get it. (Do you even use sold out, because technically it's a gift but they just have lesser stock than the actual product.) So I didn't get the tokuten. If I remember, it's a calendar or something?
And there's a secret track and it's Scissorhands. Yup.
Last CD is Honeyworks's Utattemita compilation album No. 3 (ハニワ曲歌ってみた3), that they released for FuyuComi (Comiket83) last year! I love Honeyworks, and the utaite/producer list is just (☆▽☆) Yup. Ohhh and I bought the Limited Edition one, because the tokuten for that was a illustration card for Love Confession Rehearsal. The tokuten for the Regular Edition is SUKI KIRAI. But the cover for the ltd ed was a Thai celebrity/entertainer(? - was mentioned by Honeyworks) LOL.
But anyway, the inside of the CD case is really cute!
So that concludes the CD section(?)! Now on to the books~
I actually ordered one more doujinshi from ToraNoAna through another proxy (whose work schedule clashes with the post office's so yeah, not sure when s/he will be able to mail it). But anyway, I bought 3 doujinshi and 2 K artbooks (I don't really know if I can call them artbooks because the second one is more like a collection of concept sketches/character design settings.) By the way, speaking of character designs, I heard (on pixiv, lol) that the initial designs for Misaki and Fushimi for their hair was that Misaki had his fringe held up by a hair band[alice band, headband, however you call it...] (like Ritsu from K-On) and Fushimi had the side of his hair braided [um yeah, like I don't even? lol. why would a guy bother braiding his hair for school everyday....] BUT anyway. Yeah. I like those designs actually. LOLOL. Let me find a link for the fanart where I found out about this... (butbut lemme just say I really don't know whether it's really their initial designs lol, I think tumblr would have told me /hit) 絵リンクこちらです: ♥
Anyway!!
Aside from the doujinshi, I got K Original Artwork Collection (?? I'm sorry man, I'm just interpreting based on the Kanji. My Chinese background makes me lazy /hit) Vol 2! Which was only sold on Animate on a pre-order basis and I was like wow screw you now I can't get it through Kinokuniya (OH by the way I found out that Kinokuniya stocks spoon2Di so Imma get vol 33 from them because I realised it's cheaper. Even though by a bit. AND I WANT PRINCE ANIMAGE SPRING 2013 OMG THE COVER IS SO PRECIOUS AND APPARENTLY THERE'S A POSTER OF THAT COVER ILLUSTRATION INCLUDED. [i sound like a sarumi shipper even though i don't ship sarumi that way why lol.] Well, I'm just gonna go down Kinokuniya and check if their spoon2Di stocks are in~ maybe I'll go down this Sunday, and get Popteen and KERA at the same time. (Okarie is graduating from Popteen you knowwww. May's Popteen will be the last issue that she's in)
Erm yeah so I digressed.
So I got the K artbooks from Animate because nowhere else sells it. Yup. I haven't gone through the artbook yet soooo. Yeah.
はいここで終わります。
My items from CDJapan actually arrived today but no one was at home to receive the package so tomorrow morning I'll have to go down Serangoon post office to get the stuff before school. Haiiz.
Goodnight people~
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Labels: 2013, animate jp, artbooks, doujinshi, K, lagoa three, life, online purchases, toranoana, utaite talk
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