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Showing posts with label lolita meetup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lolita meetup. Show all posts

Saturday, November 22, 2014

adventures in loli-land #1: museum murder mystery

Dear fairies,

Let's backtrack, shall we? I am still catching up on what I did over the past few months! During the summer I went to another lolita meetup which was a murder mystery at the art museum. I asked my best friend, Catherine, to tag along with me. Before the meetup, we met with my friend Vivian at her university theatre changing rooms to get dolled up in lolita. At first I wasn't sure which outfit to wear, but since Vivian was going for her Frankenweenie ouji style suit with a feathered hat, I decided to go with my Alice and the Pirates Jellyfish Princess x Kuranosuke Stripe jumperskirt (which I wore later for Halloween) with a feathered hat ^_^ Since Catherine isn't a lolita (yet) I let her borrow my Innocent World x Mucha one piece dress (perfect for an art museum meet)
and put together the best accessories I had to go with it for a sort of bohemian look.




Once we were all ready to go, we went to meet up with the rest of the group who was eating at Cafe Express. I had a yummy chicken pesto salad and headed out to the museum once we got our fill. This was an art museum I have never been to before and its free admission permanent collection was just so wonderful that I recently visited it again.



The murder mystery began with a crime scene outline of a victim who was murdered by one of several characters from art pieces around the museum. In every section of the museum there were live actors who were sitting in front of paintings or statues of people, and they assumed the character of the artwork they were in front of. The museum visitors had to go around asking the characters questions about the crime and what had happened in order to obtain clues as to who might have killed the victim. This was very awesome to see all of these people dressed in their costumes and stay in character the entire night. Although we didn't correctly guess who it was, we all unknowingly took a picture with the murderer before we knew who she was!



I loved talking with the others at the meetup, hanging out with my best friend, and seeing beautiful art such as one of Claude Monet's water lily paintings. This was technically my second lolita meetup where I wore lolita. The first one was a few years ago for a Valentine's Day meetup at a vegan restaurant where I wore a sax blue Bodyline one piece. I think I did pretty well for my first legitimate coord at the museum, but I'm still growing in that department.
So, expect to see more adventures in loli-land posts soon! I hope this doesn't put any of my lovely fairies off  >.<  I still love fairy kei and wear it most of the time in my everyday life!



 What I Wore




Feathered Hat With Veil: Icing by Claire's

Kuranosuke Stripe Jumper Skirt: Alice and the Pirates

Lace Bell Sleeve Blouse: Dear Celine


Black Knee High Socks: Offbrand


Platform Tea Party Shoes: Offbrand

Black Gloves: Offbrand


White Hello Kitty Purse (not shown): Loungefly



~Sparkling Ga Eul




Wednesday, July 16, 2014

fairy at lolita birthday waffles meetup

Dear Fairies,

I am back from a terribly long and unpredictable hiatus. Things have been crazy as I near the end of my college career. I have a lot to catch up on as I have done a few things I would like to post here to share with you ^_^

I am part of the lolita community in my area, so I have joined maybe three meetups so far as I build up my frilly wardrobe. One of the girls, Xochitl, was having a birthday party at a lovely waffle and pastry cafe called Cafe Brown Sugar.

This was my first real lolita meetup since I went to my first one ever in a sax Bodyline dress that I'm currently reconstructing. I couldn't figure out what to wear to the meetup considering I was a fairy, with very few frilly pieces, going to a lolita gathering. I wanted to look just as cute and a bit more formal to match the lolita style. Therefore, I came up with the idea of creating a sort of fairy kei/ cult party kei hybrid to wear to the meetup. Personally, I think it was a great choice as I had a few compliments from the girls at the meet ^_^ I was even surprised to know that one of them knew what cult party kei was!

I had earlier made Xochitl some fairy kei accessories in return for her generous donation towards the original play I was working on to produce, Tchaikovsky. I still hadn't had the chance to give them to her, so I put them in a little gift bag along with some candy (a Ring Pop and Fun Dip) and I headed out to the cafe.




A lot of the other girls had awesome waffles and coffee. Xochitl got a green tea ice cream waffle which looked amazing. I wasn't feeling the huge waffles, so I just settled for some small yummy fish-shaped waffle pastries filled with sweet red bean.

Photo Taken by Allred Photography
The cafe itself was very nice and had two stories with a brick interior. I liked the quotes and paintings on the walls with quotes from famous people. The wall we took pictures in front of had a quote from J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan. I love Barrie and Peter Pan ^_^

Photo Taken by Stephanie Rose
Photo Taken by Stephanie Rose



Photo Taken by Allred Photography
The other girls were so lovely and we had a good time looking around at some Korean shops in the area where they had groceries, books, cosmetics, and tons of cute things. There is a wonderful Korean cosmetics store called The Faceshop which has some amazing stuff. The only thing I bought while at this meetup was a peach-colored lip gloss from The Faceshop, and I signed up for their rewards program. I highly recommend the Chia Seed line since I have the moisturizer, which can change my dry skin to smooth in one application.



I had to leave early from the party, but this was a fun meetup and I definitely won't be afraid to wear fairy kei to a lolita event again ^_^ In fact, I would highly recommend it to some of you lonely fairies looking for J-fashion friends whom you can even educate on fairy kei.



 What I Wore


Bow Barrette: made by me

Blue Sparkly Glasses: Claire’s (on sale)


Shirt: Papaya (on sale)


Blue 
Nightgown (skirt): thrift

Cream Pengoir: thrift

Pink Tights: Nordstrom (gift)

White Tights (underneath): Target (full price)

Hello Kitty Angel Socks: H & M (full price)

Pumps: Charlotte Russe (full price)


Necklace: made by me


Little Twin Stars Wristband: Sanrio

Fluffy Heart Pin: made by me


Sparkly Pink Ribbon Pin: made by me

Hello Kitty Purse: Sanrio (on sale)



~Sparkling Ga Eul