Bang bangs!

(Some of you might already know about this from my FB/twitter)
So yesterday I was pretty stressed about the way my bangs looked and I kept thinking that I needed a change so I took the scissors and bam! I cut my bangs. Just like that!
I've got no knowledge whatsoever about hairdressing so it's a miracle that it doesn't look like a complete disaster but heck! you've got to do what you want, or to try it at least!
Otherwise I'd just keep complaining about how much I needed a change and that I didn't know what to do and so on and so on, so I thought that the best way to do something was to actually do it.
You know how it goes:

Do or do not, there is no try.
-Yoda.

(Es probable que algun@s ya sepás de que va la cosa por mi twitter/FB)
Pues ayer estaba bastante tayada con el tema de mi flequillo y cómo se veía y no dejaba de pensar en que quería un cambio, por lo que cogí las tijeras y me dediqué a hacer un poco el apaño. Tal cual!
No tengo ningún conocimiento de peluquería, por lo que es un milagro que no haya quedado hecho un desastre!
La verdad es que soy de la opinión que si algo te ronda la cabeza y tienes la necesidad de hacerlo y lo quieres, lo mejor es que vayas y lo hagas, no solo que lo intentes o que te quedes pensándolo!
Ya lo decía Yoda... xDDDD

So... This is how my bangs looked before my impulsive scissor attack:
Así que bueno, así es cómo tenía el flequillo antes del impulsivo ataque de tijera:

And this is how they look after it!
Y así es cómo ha quedado!

Also, an extra selca (aka camwhoring) shot for all of you, with pouty lips and everything:
Y de regalo una autofoto (que camwhoring se entiende igual) con labios sugerentes o patiles, como se prefiera xDDDDD (el día que me ponga a sacar los labios de verdad temblará Donald xDDD)

As you might see, I had my SLR in my hand there. Well, the thing is that no matter how much I try, I don't like the way I look in pretty much ANY pic I take with that cam if the lights aren't like uber fantastic (or sunlight), and since usually that only happens in the bathroom... I won't post any good quality pic for now.

Como podéis ver, tenía la SLR en la mano y bueno, la cuestión es que da igual cuanto lo intente (porque lo intento, lo aseguro), no me gusta cómo salgo en CASI ninguna foto que hago con ella a no ser que la luz sea fantástica y estupendosa y... bueno, eso solo suele pasar cuando: a) tienes focos, b) es de día o c) estás en el lavabo. Así que por ahora no habrá fotos bonitas xDDDD

Well, what do you think about the change?!
Bueno, qué pensáis del cambio?!


BY THE WAY! I was also trying to record a sort of tutorial for the eye make-up I'm wearing in these pics, which is based in Yun's style in one of the pages of this A/W Egg Beauty! I was thinking about doing a series of inspired styles from the magazine so I can start posting more make-up content!

Sadly, my cam stopped recording halfway and I was in a bit of a hurry and didn't have the time to remove everything  and start again, so I chose to let it go. But, do you like the idea? Would you like to see a "tutorial" (I don't like the word tutorial) on this style and the idea of my inspired series?

Let me know and thanks for reading!

POR CIERTO! Estaba intentando también hacer una especie de tutorial para el maquillaje de ojos que llevo en esas fotos, que está basado en uno de los estilos que Yun lleva en la edición de otoño/invierno de la Egg Beauty (que me compré en el salón del manga)! Estaba pensando hacer una serie de maquillajes inspirados en los estilos de la revista para empezar a postear más contenido orientado al maquillaje, que por lo que ví interesa!

Desgraciadamente la cámara decidió mandarme a paseo a la mitad, y como tenía un poco de prisa no era plan de quitármelo todo y volver a empezar, así que preferí pasar, pero así os puedo preguntar primero! Os gusta la idea? Os gustaría ver un "tutorial" (o lo que sea, porque no me gusta el concepto de llamar tutorial a lo que pueda hacer, ni que sea yo una experta en nada! xDDDD) de este estilo y la idea del resto de estilos inspirados así como una serie?

Comentadme algo y gracias por leer, como siempre!!

Hair boredom

Hey !

I'm writing this entry because I want to do something with my hair but I'm unsure about WHAT should I do.
I know that I want darker hair and I've got a few ideas but I'm a bit afraid of changing because I might miss my current blonde (even if I think that I've gone too far with going to a lighter shade each time, lol).

Escribo esta entrada porque ya llevo un tiempo pensando en que quiero hacerme algo en el pelo (oscurecer, la idea es oscurecer), pero no me acabo de decidir en qué quiero exactamente. Llevo un tiempo pensando en que me aburro de verme igual, que necesito hacerme algo y cambiar, y por otro lado en que me gustaría tener un color con el que no tuviese la necesidad de decolorarme las raíces cada vez que me hago algo porque a este paso... no me va a crecer el pelo nunca y no me gusta cómo me queda con la largada que lo tengo (bueno, digamos que me gusta más largo).

It's just that I need a change. I'm bored of always looking the same way, and I also feel like I should reach a shade of blonde that didn't demand me to previously bleach my roots, or my hair will never grow again (and I really don't like the way short/medium hair -well, my current length- suits me).


Lately I've been in love with Mipoti's hair:  medium blonde base, lighter/darker streaks all around. Maybe I should just do some darker cap highlights and see if I like it, but Idk. I'll probably get some ring extensions too.

Estoy cogiendo mucha inspiración, o digamos que me llama mucho la atención el pelo mechado multicolor con rubio (medio? oscuro?) que lleva Mipoti en algunas fotos, así que lo más probable es que busque hacerme algo similar. Eso sí, poniéndome extensiones (probablemente de anilla, porque estoy hasta el ... las narices de tener el pelo "corto"). Quizá pruebe a hacerme mechas de gorro a ver qué tal queda, porque no me apetece cambiarme todo el pelo de color de golpe.

Let me show you some (more) inspirational pics of Mipo's hair!

Os dejo ahora con algunas fotos inspiracionales (más) del pelo de Mipo para que veáis a qué me refiero!

Well, I have to admit that I have a huge crush on her, but that's something totally different....

Camwhoring update of the week!

I'm like uber stressed between work and college. Waking up early, getting late at  home, and pretty much not having time (or energies) for anything, and it gets worse when you want to give the 100% of yourself at every single thing you do.

I wish I could do all the stuff I think about and I wish I could give you more and more interesting posts, since I'm thankful for every single follower I have and I'd like to be enough...But so far this is all I can do and all I have!
I really wish I was a better blogger, but for now this is it. Better times will come.

Estoy como super estresada entre el (los) curro y la uni. Es como que la rutina de levantarme pronto y llegar tarde me deja sin tiempo ni ganas para hacer absolutamente nada. Sé que me tengo que acostumbrar y que es cuestión de tiempo, pero intento dar todo lo que puedo de mí y llega un punto que cuando llego a casa me siento incapaz de hacer otra cosa que sentarme en la silla y mirar al infinito (pero por desgracia no con la mente en blanco, lol).

Me gustaria ser mejor blogger, ofrecer posts más interesantes, motivar más a todo el que me lee porque estoy agradecida de cada persona que me lee y de cada gesto que podáis hacer, pero de momento esto es lo que hay.
Ya vendrán tiempos mejores.

So here's a shameless camwhoring updates with some of the selfpics I've taken since the last update, lol!
Let me know what you think and give me as much concrit as you want -I already give myself enough destructive criticism, lol-. I'm open to suggestions!
(But I do have style preferences though, hehe)

Y sin más dilación, aquí tenéis un nuevo post camwhoril con algunas de las fotos que me he ido tomando desde la última actualización! Hacedme saber lo que pensáis, estoy abierta a críticas -positivas, claro, las negativas ya me las hago yo suficiente-, aunque claro, tengo mis propias preferencias en cuanto a estilos :P

I like the way I look sometimes but then I take the pic and it's like omfg FFFUUU, Y U NO PRETTIER? So I guess this is the reason why I end up with the awkward angles and such. Gee. But still, I like sharing my looks and makes and being able to get your opinion and being able to get better from it ^3^.

I need to find a lipstick that suits me, a pink-ish nude that I like because I had MAC Myth and it's like too nude for me (sometimes I wish I had long thin lips but...). I guess you can see that I'm not im my happiest moment from my pics and this is kinda sad lol.

Well, downfalls lead to rises, I guess.

By the way, would you like me to use a cut to put all the pics when the posts are pic heavy or is it OK this way? Thanks for the feedback! <3

Sabéis, es como que muchas veces me gusta cómo voy pero luego me echo la foto y... baaah. De 20 a veces salvo 2, XDDD. Claro, así una acaba en los ángulos y poniendo el surtido de jetos más raros que existen. Pero bueh, me apetece enseñar mis looks y maquillajes y que me podáis dar vuestra opinión y mejorar gracias a ello.

También necesito encontrar un labial rosita que me siente medio bien, porque tengo el Myth de MAC y es como que parezco un fantasma. Llevo tiempo pensando en preguntar a las expertas maquilladoras, pero me parece mucho morro! Aunque bueno, yo también doy consejos de lo que sé y no me molesta, pero... No me gusta hacerme pesada.

Por cierto, os gustaría que si tengo que poner fotos las pusiese con un corte? (Como en Daily Gyaru y cosas así) O ya os va bien tal y como está? Gracias por vuestra opinión <3

Random update! With outfits! And camwhoring! And boobs! PICHEAVY ALARM!!

Hello everyone!

It's been a while since my last post, isn't it?
Well, I'm quite busy and I haven't been able to come up with any great topics to discuss with you (lol), so even if I'm very grateful for the opinions and comments you left on my last post (well, I'm grateful for any comment <3) and I'd love to keep up the topic going I'm afraid I'll have to make a simple post with some of my outfits these days.

I also have pending to make an update with Queenie's visit to Barcelona, so without further ado here it comes!

Since I started talking with her I found out that she's a great person whose chat I really enjoyed so I was very happy to find out that she was coming to Barcelona!

The first day we met (I had to get ready at work EVERYDAY since I had a 10'5 h shift, lol!) we went to have dinner at Montaditos (a very cheap and cool bar, which is always filled with tourists). I mistook the street and left the car like 20' far but... well, that way she could do some (more) tourism, lol

Drawing the corner of the eye wasn't meant for my eye shape, lol

It's like it's TOO MUCH!

But I liked the outfit!! xD

I really don't have many pics form that day because... Well, I tried a different style of make-up and I believe that I either did it too heavily or it doesn't really suit me, I'm not sure lol
I also actually like to enjoy better the moment I'm living by actually living and capturing it with my memory than taking thousands of pics of it to show it afterwards. Idk, maybe I'm weird.
I'm sure you've seen pics of it on facebook though!

  The second day we meet with Sue (if you've seen the Spanish initiative Gyaru Channel I'm sure you've seen her! She doesn't have a blog yet, so I can't really link it, lol) and went to have some bubble tea and have a walk to the Maremagnum Mall (which is placed right at the sportive docks of Barcelona and where shops don't close on Sundays -it's crazy that shops actually close on Sundays, right?!-, where we found a curious fella dressed as a sumo fighter in a segway. I just... What is this I dont even. We took some pics with him and kept going, lol. At least he wasn't wearing one of these awful mexican hats (nothing against mexicans or their hats, keep reading) that most tourist shops seem to fancy selling at the ramblas. I mean, dude, it's not even Mexico! It would be like going to the States and buying a statue of the Big Ben.
GAH.

I'm surrounded by cuties <3

As you can see, he was pretty... well, bizarre

The fuck happened to my hair?!

And the last day we did a group meeting we went with Chechi and Cristina (Poza) who are also from Hysterical (<3 <3) to have dinner at a Japanese restaurant at the center of Barcelona called Sushi-Ya, which is always yummy. I was with fever and had been sick for about a week, so I really didn't look pretty well. I include an overedited face shot so you can check it out in case you're curious xDDDD

Herpyderpyme, but they all look so cute that I had to upload it, lol

 I have to say that I was very happy to share time with her because she's a great person and has proved herself to be a great friend (and she's also a beautiful and sexy woman, which is always nice to have around), so... <3

Aaaand... That's pretty much it!

From now on, outfit and random pics!



Random outfit for going to the cinema!

Random partying outfit!

And an (almost) makeupless outfit test!

And from the day Hiki came back!
(I loved how it looked like that day, and this is why I've got these pics as my profile pics pretty much everywhere LOL)

My new Yumetenbo dress!

(And a different approach to that dress, with lighter makeup and straight hair -would've said straight puffy, but its puffiness disappeared lol)

And... This.
I have to find a light pink/nude lipstick that suits me and doesn't make me look like... idk

I'm pissed at myself because most times I forget to take pics of my outfits and makeup, or if I take them then I don't like them and stop trying so it's for nothing... but well.


Sorry for the über wall of text and thanks for reading!!

<3 <3<3

Why all the hate?

Disclaimer: This post contains opinion!

I have been thinking a lot about this lately, and I thought it was a good subject to bring here.
The fact is that anyone that knows at least a little how this community goes will know that one of the most popular critics is "That's not gyaru!".
There are guides and guidelines in order to become a (good) gyaru. A whole set of rules and do's and dont's.But still, this isn't enough, because from there it borns the "Doing X isn't enough to be gyaru!" discussion. It's not my intention to enter into this topic, as it's been discussed broadly and while I have my opinion like anyone else (opinions are like balls) but it amazes me that this is in fact a subject of discussion. 

I've been in different dressing styles (which belonged to different urban tribes, to call it somehow) and this was never a subject of discussion, so it makes me wonder why.


For instance, I highly doubt that if some guy starts getting interested in punk and listening to punk music and dresses alike to the musicians he listens to, I doubt he'll find anywhere a list of dont's. 
Of course, _every_ urban tribe has its own rules (because doing something and not doing something else it's what caracterizes them), and you probably won't see a goth in pink (or maybe you could, but yanno) or a punk wearing Swarovski decoden (that one is harder to find, right? although there are some approaches, lol).

And, well, every urban tribe has its degree of trueness and competition, but it's not at high and heavy as it happens in gyaru (or j-fashion in general, I dare say).

But... Why does this happen?

One of the first posible reason that I can think of it's because it has no musical background (or not as deep as other subcultures have). It might sound stupid, but if you fail to give the looks, what do you have left? 

The gyaru spirit? Sure. 

We've all come to this discussion in one point or the other. You can be a rebel, you can go against society and the mass media and the rules and averageness and all that stuff without being gyaru, so that attitude might belong to anything else. This wouldn't be like this if there was a musical background. 

Take goths. A teen might not be all dressed up in expensive victorian-ish velvet clothing, but she might listen to all those goth rock bands, and with just a t-shirt with the logo of the group, some jeans and heavy dark make-up there'd be no doubt of what urban tribe she belongs to (or at least her tendency).

Another reason that comes to my mind is that, under the surface, it's a highly competitive fashion. I'm the kind of person who finds it easy to like pretty much everyone and I really don't need much to grow fond of people and care about them (I'm a care bear, lol). I prefer sharing to competing but I know that there are a lot of people who like having adversaries. This is indeed a good way to push you to get better, but you might end up crossing the line of friendly competition to enter the realms of hate, and hate leads to suffering (and it's the path to the dark side).

(yes, this is what appears when you google Gyaru Secrets)

I also think that the fact that it's a japanese fashion is also somewhat of a barrier due to the racial (physical) differences. This might sound silly or wrong, but I really don't mean it in a bad way, but I came up to this conclusion a couple years ago when I made a first attempt at japanese fashion with visual kei. No matter how many make-up tutorials I tried to follow, my eye keept looking different. Then I realized that the crease in my eyelid was the reason of my failure.

I compare my pictures to japanese gyaru's and I fail to see the same. But that's obvious, because no matter how better my skills might get at make-up and hairstyling (at which, by the way, I suck) I will never see the same, since my features are different, for a start. Of course, there are awesome gaijin gyaru who grasp the essence of gyaru, who give you that feeling instantly at a first sight but... 

And finally, I believe that part of it is created by itself. It's like the feed-back creates the fear, the fear of being criticized for not being gyaru enough makes people being more critic ("because... I'm going to be criticized by ... you? you don't even look that gyaru!") and so on, and so on. 

What do you guys think about it?