Bleeding onto other blogs

Hahaha nothing I can really share right now,

but things are kind of moving crazy fast for me at the moment, I'll share once I have something solid to show you guys<333333 (and when I have time :'D)

ANYWAY about the blog bleeding part- I recently took a class with an amazing milliner, Jasmin Zorlu ( http://www.jasminzorlu.com/ )

she posted some shots from the class here:
http://jasminzorlu.blogspot.com/

hahaha you can see the hat I made at the link above, but here's some clearer pics on my new foam head :'D





It's made from crinoline, feathers and netting

also I made a new hat and accessories for the Red Sky at Night party

(sadly the dress i wanted to buy was sold out so I wore my meta JSK and couldn't enter the outfit competition Dx)







I was really happy because a lot of people liked it and asked how I made it <3
I"ll post a tutorial on here later and on sew_loli once I have the time~


honestly my photos of the event and my outfit sucked! my camera was acting up for some reason that night!

however there better photos at looooo's blog : http://kalamarikastle.com/?p=259
(ahhh! I was really suprised a closeup of my hat was part of the main post ;___;)

anyway I took a breather the next day and went to tea with my friend Julia <3





The place was called 'Teas the Season' and is located in down town San Mateo- it's not quite as good as Crown and Crumpet in SF, but it's a hell of a lot closer for me! Also you can cut costs if you go with a friend and order one pot of tea and then seperate plates of sandwiches/scones/sweets from eachother~ They also have knitting nights (friday) and monthly book club meetings! I want to go knit there but I've been super busy lately. Read More......

Fanime + outfit snaps

Sadly I wasn't able to afford the 'Fancy french event' as we were all calling it, but I did have a blast at fanime! Not posting my cosplay photos, but I was in lolita for half the weekend.



I picked up a brand new Algonquins t-shirt from the swap meet on friday for 20$- according to the tag, the retail was about 60! (Never underestimate swap meets- 80% of the stuff you probably won't be intrested in, but you can find some real gems if you look hard enough!)

The head bow is from Chantilly (35$) , and the flower head band I think is from Paris kids(7$), both were bought at the magical boutique.

of course no photos were allowed, but it was crazy seeing so much brand in one place at once! It was amazing to be able to see tripple fortune head pieces and brands like atlier pierrot and chantilly up close- eventhough I'm more of a goth at heart, I fell half in love with the black colorway of Angelic Pretty's Wonder Cookie skirt *__*



This is what I was wearing on Sunday morning, repping the old school bxw coordinate- the JSK is by Baby and of course the bow is the one I bought at the magical boutique.

I wish I could have gotten more outfit shots but here's what I do have-











I wish I took some more photos before the lolita fashion show! Everyone looked amazing! Hahaha I was kind of out of it and half blind, (thankyou wig and contact lenses...) so I didn't feel like fiddling around with my camera





here's me and my pal Julia- I'm repping goth and she's wearing a super awesome punk loli coordinate!



full outfit...



in action! Eventhough I was in the fashion show last year too I was still really nervous and didn't know how to pose!



smiling because it's over hahahaha

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This is the most lucid I've been for awhile so I thought I'd take the chance to update.

I swear I didn't mean to forget to post for almost a month, but words cannot describe how busy I've been- expect a few 'catch up' posts every now and then because shoving it all into one post would be a tad overwhelming.

I really want to do another inspiration post sometime soon, but in the mean time, here's my tumblr- http://carbonidiot.tumblr.com/

I pretty much reblog anything that inspires me or that I think would look awesome with the eyeburning color scheme.

Warning: off the top of my head, inspiring words are

deconstruction, polkadots, porno, bondage, fetish, bandages, meat hooks, lace, garters, uniforms, tattoos, nosebleeds, vivisection, fur and gore gore gore.

It's not as horrible as I make it sound, but personally I take a lot of inspiration from guro/erotic and grotesque imagry, so the content may be disturbing to some.

hahaha there's more fashion related content on there then I make it sound too...

anyway there was an epic los angeles meetup/potluck last saturday so here's what I wore:

Headband: forever 21

Vest:INC

Blouse: from goodwill

Skirt: hand made

Socks: forever 21

Boots: goodwill

Parasol: Baby the stars shine bright

Purse: H&M

Photos by blue_st @ deviantart-> http://blue-st.deviantart.com/

much thanks to Oli for organizing such an awesome meetup ;3;~

ANYWAY that's all for this time, but look forward to more frequent updates including

+Review of the super cute Crown & Crumpets

+On the set of a short film

+Preview of the annual Otis fashion show

+More fashion illustration hw... orz

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WELL THEN

Honestly I've been putting off the catch up post for a while since there's so much to catch up on D:

ANYWAY in order of oldest to newest things

halloween costume-

(dress by meta- apron + hat by me)

Also, here's my mid term

Honestly the designs are boring, so I just zoomed in on the fashion figures...

speaking of fashion figures, I just finished this weeks illustration project- we were pretty much given only the constraints of 'it has to have 'shine',

and womens swimsuit back and side pose, so I did two suits inspired by french graffitti artist Fafi~ I think it turned out pretty well

but I'll let you guys know what the teacher thinks :'D

(for reference on my mid term I got a B- / C+ - Yikes!)

Last weekend i didn't attend the tea party, but I did go to PMX-

(dress by meta, blouse + boots from goodwill, crown by me)

so now in school I'm like this-

(taken by a classmate- unfortunately photo was not staged ):)

So that's about it, other then practicing fashion heads from diffrent fashion illustrators

Whew- that wasn't so bad~ I'll probably have a bunch to post after this weekend filled with bats, cats and a fashion show~!

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Fuck yeah fridays

PRETTY MUCH like 'Things I love Thursdays' except for it being one day late and involving more 4 letter words :]

(haha real reason it's not on thursday? I'm usually pulling an all nighter for fashion illustration on Friday)

Anyway here we go-

- High fashion photo shoot meets... gundams. Do you get it? Nope? Don't worry- neither do I, but the photography is quite nice.

- Alice Auaa now available at Marui One!

- Supperate System now offering 10500 yen luckypacks! (Value is estimated at around 20000!)

- Milanoo is having a sale on some of their lolita clothing-  Note- pictures on that site are very obviously stolen, but girls have ordered from there and been happy with the  result.  Personally, I'd just avoid ordering anything that puts a focus on or contaains a lot of lace!

-ALSO not really fashion related, but my copy of Disconnect came *3*!

I'm a HUGE fan of the artist and I contributed some guest art for the print version~

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DUCK ON HEAD! DUCK ON HEAD!

A new fashion craze is sweeping the lolitas!

Even among a fashion where the wierd and the wonderful are both viable options for head wear- this new bizarre trend is...

DUCKS!

That's right ladies. Ducks. So stick a duck on your head and head over and submit a pic over here

She explains it better than I ever could, so basically it's a project in the spirit of this glorious post that toujourspret made to EGL way back in 07.

I mean we need more of those inspirational kinds of posts instead of melodramatic teal deer bawwing without understanding the facts.

Before you get your bloomers in a knot let me say this,  I'll be the first one to admit that back in the day when I was starting out lolita if lolita fucks had been in existance at that time, I probably would have been a regular on there. Not posting there, but being posted on there.  In fact eventhough I have never considered myself one of the 'e-famous' or rather 'e-infamous' girls, my pictures have pretty much made the rounds of any relevant fuck/wank comm and even a couple non related ones.   Some times it's been justified and other times it was obvious delicious vendetta omnomnom.  I've even had anon trolling on my old account on unlocked entries.

ANYWAY what I'm trying to say is young lolitas,  if you get posted to a fucks/drama/snark comm, don't dispare. We've all been there.  And before you go crying off about it remember it wont make you any more popular and go ahead and re-read the ducks post.  I know sometimes it's terribly difficult to distinguish snarking on your outfit from snarking about you personally, but take it nicely, don't run in defending your self, don't run away to a diffrent account, don't flounce dramatically.  We may seem like bitches but all we want you to do is maybe adjust that duck on your head a bit because you have it on backwards, and then we can all go to a tea party together, or catch a movie, or play mini golf, or what ever it is frilly girls with ducks on their heads do.

Wear your duck proudly girls!

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Gothic White

So the other day I was thinking, why don't you see many white gothic outfits?  It would be an intresting change from the all black outfits which turn into a person shaped black hole when photographed in bad lighting.

Sadly though, in this day and age the common misconception that 'goth' is basically just wearing all black all the time.  In lolita there's the disturbing rise of the use of the term 'bitter loli'. Ignoring the fact that in japanese it sounds like Nigga Loli (as a kind anon on loli secrets poinded out), I think it's pretty rediculous that just because a dress is mostly black it is no longer in the 'sweet' category.  Call Toy Parade or any of the other sacherine sweet prints by Angelic Pretty 'bitter', all you want- I'm still getting a tooth ache over here.  Also, if I had a nickle every time I saw someone with a frilly cupcake dress with lace everywhere and bows exploding all over it BUT in a black x white colorway, calling their outfit 'gothic' I would be able to afford those delicious (overpriced) tempura rolles at the food court under the fashion campus.

Anyway, aside from an obvious sweet print (pastel colors, stuffed animals, candy, puppies, bows, ect.) what design features mark a printless dress as gothic rather then sweet?  Gothic clothing is more mature, it presents more of a streamlined sillouette.  Accessories may include crosses (both normal and inverted), chunky jewelry, choakers, gloves, high platforms, and fishnet are definately more prominant then in 'normal' lolita style.  Also on a more mature note, occasionally more 'fetishy' elements are present like corsets.

But in conclusion let me say this is by no way an official guide ; although I enjoy the gothic style I am by no means a goth and am definately not an authority on the style!  

Anyway goth (I presume) is usually in black because of the connotations the color has where the style originated- death, darkness, night ect.  However, white also shares some of theses- even in the west, ghosts are usually portrayed as being pale ethereal forms, and in Asia, the color white signifies death and mourning.

Dresses by alice auaa

Skirt by H. Naoto

Bandi's Pandas runway show

Blouse by alice auaa (is it me or do those sleeves look like internal organs?)

Blouse by Moi meme moitie

Advertisement by H. Naoto

Alexander McQueen runway show

Skirt by Atlier Boz

Candy Spooky Theater

Kaya

Velvet Eden

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School- START!

Today was the second day of officially being a fashion major!

Why no update yesterday? After all I was plenty excited!

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too excited.  My room mate and I weren't able to sleep a wink the night before so on monday we were kind of disfunctional D:
I can't tell you how his day went, but we both chugged some coffee before heading out!

My schedule in no particular order is

Model drawing, pattern drafting, textile science, speech, sophomore studio, fashion illustration and contemporary art studies.

So far I've had pattern drafting, textile science, speech and contemporary art studies.

first impressions:

Pattern drafting: Agh it seemed a little fast paced for me- my head was spinning a little towards the end! Maybe it was just a combo of it being my first class, being already intimidated by drafting patterns and coffee failiure... Seriously, towards the end I really started feeling sick D:! I'm sure it will go better next time x___x

Textile science: It seems at first it will be a lecture class and then later will be the more hands on stuff.  Although the teacher was fairly engaging, running on less then an hour of sleep and two cups I still fell asleep periodically in the beginning... I find it's best if I just let my self conk out inconspicuously for a short time so I'm able to function for the rest of the class.

Contemporary art survey: We didn't go much into the nature of the class, but it seems interesting.  During introductions the fact I wear lolita came up and the teacher asked me to wear a dress to class next week... I hope the weather cools down a little!  As much as I love my meta OP I'd rather wear my new JSK with a blouse for a less infantile first impression. 

Speech: I'm not going to lie, it seemed like a boring class, but the teacher was totally engaging. Anyway I'm not a good speaker and get really nervous when public speaking so it's a good class for me to take.  Also the teacher moved it up so it ends at about 5:30- allthough that means it starts soon after contemporary art survey, I like the change.

Anyway I'm super happy- all my teachers seem really cool<3

Also, I was brain storming saving money ideas and decided to post- they're pretty relevant for any fashionista/impulse buyer :B

- sell old school supplies- I don't know how it works at your college but we have to buy tones of course readers that we won't otherwise use! Better to get money for them even if it's just a fraction of the original price

- carry around water and a snack- It might seem a bit strange if you're go out eating with your friends and you pull out a lunch instead of buying one, but I'm sure they'll understand.  Also if you always have something to drink, you won't get super thirsty and end up splurging on some jamba or starbucks! (trust me, you might start out saying 'oh it's not much' but it adds up pretty quickly)

- share books- again supplies are costly- especially at art school!  If it's possible, find a friend with classes diffrent days then you so you can use just one set of books.  Just make sure they're reliable!

- watch out for bargains- a no brainer- but keep an eye peeled for 10 for 10$ deals at your local super market.  I mean 10 lean cuisines/cans of soup/w/e  looks like a lot of food at first, but you're going to need it!  Also, a note: make sure you buy things you're going to eat- I bought three containers of cottege cheese with pineapple last year on sale only to throw them out... they tasted disgusting!  At Ralphs they have huge bags of potatoes for cheap- if you don't mind a starchy diet, they're a good deal.

- keep an eye on your fridge- last year when I moved out I found a fair ammount of food I'd managed to forget about in the pantry which had to be thrown away. If you're on a tight buget and think you have to make a grocery trip, do a thurough investigation of your cabinets, drawers and fridge.  Make sure to eat things before they expire!

- buy the basics- rice, noodles (not the instant kind!), chicken broth and tortillas are my personal college basics. (yes, how carb concious of me, I'm glad you noticed)  with the addition of one or two simple ingredients they become full meals- also depending what you decide to put in, the cost per meal could be less then 1$

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