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?

Stupid Vlog

HELLO!

So yesterday I tried a slightly different style and I was pretty happy with it!
When I came home at last I was so sad to have to remove my makeup and undo my hair and such that decided that it'd be a great excuse to do a vlog, LOL!

Bad thing about it it's that... well, the audio is a bit out of sync and that my accent hasn't gotten any better but... Heck, I try my best lol.


Well,  I hope you enjoy my randomness!

(Herpy derpy thumbnail LOL)

Oh, I also thought it could be a good idea to post a couple pics of the outfit and such! :D

Oh, I also thought it could be a good idea to post a couple pics of the outfit and such! :D

 Pic edited with Line Camera! (Pick's image editing soft)
I love that social network!

 Also, the inevitable unavoidable embarrassing duckface, but I like the way the hairdo looks, lol.

 With my dear Miyu <3

 And this pic was too fun to avoid posting it xDDDD We were in front of a fan, lol

 Some of the girls, I love them all <3

Another group pic... With a lot of us lacking! It looks like it's an Hysterical tradition to lack good group pics! We did some, but I don't have them.
I love them all, they're great. It's such a wonderful thing to have friends like them. One of these days I'll make an update for them! <3

Aaaand... This is all for now.
Thanks for reading and so! <3