Gothic Lolita

 

I've always had a weakness for fashion that's a little left of center; and after attending a Cosplay a few weekends ago my love of Gothic Lolita styles is back. Now I just have to figure out how to work in into my daily outfit; not such an easy thing when your stuck wearing a dull uniform most days at work.

So what to do?????  All I can think right now is add small elements that make me smile and don't freak out my customers.  Oddly enough I don't think many customers see me more than a body behind a counter trying to take their money but I'll have a whinge about that another day LOL

However they do seem to notice my nails alot.  Maybe cause I talk a lot with my hands or maybe its because they hate handing over money to me for my skills/products/time.  So I think this is a good place to start.  Currently I have purple glitter tips on my nails which get a comment most days as the sparkles often catch the light in the store.  Maybe its time to up the stakes with some ultra cute pink detailed nails like these (see left), now to just add some skulls into the pattern. 

Or how about this stunning black and purple from the ultra cool and inspiring Nailside blog. Just looking at these designs on this site makes me want to spend the night following the great instructions and get painting. At least this is one thing that doesn't seem to fall under the 'dress code' of my uniform, and yes I have gone through the dress code handbook looking for 'standards' on the small things like nail/hair colour and jewelery.

From Nailside

Right now the idea of dying my hair deep blood red or dark purple/navy is really calling to me.  Hence this pic is really calling to me at the moment.  Its really speaking to me and I can't get this image out of my mind.  So far the plan tomorrow night after work is to chill out with a glass of wine and put my hair in curlers.  Which means no visitors please, nobody needs to see me in that state.  

Ok step one me thinks....I'll let you know how that goes.  Next step I think might have to be some gothic hello kitty style in my accessories, nothing to over the top at this point but enough to stop me feeling so vanilla in this world.  

Which does remind me of a post that hopefully (if I can get all my thoughts in order) will go up later this week.  Now I'm not ashamed of loving a good montage; you know those ones where girl tries on lots of stuff, has her make up done and hair changed - with no thought of the credit card debit- and ends up all sparkles and beautiful.  This has lead me to start watching a few of those 'what not to wear' style shows and as much as I love a good make over its left me feeling like they just want us to conform to the same 'on every rack' of dressing that can stifle your creativity.  Personally some of my style icons are the gals out there who ignore the trends and wear what makes them happy, which of course leads me back to the whole dressing style in parts of japan, USA, Aust and UK.  

Ok I'm getting off track but I think its time to start digging through my wardrobe and find the starting point for tomorrow or maybe friday's 'new' work outfit.  So watch this space as I embrace more of what i love.

Oh yeah and if any clothing stores like VnV, One day in Paradise, Wildlocks, Clockwork Couture etc wanna help me go through a movie style make over drop me a line and I'm there in your professional hands

how cute

When I was younger my school friends and I had a demented tradition at the end of every school year where we would go and get our photo’s taken together. We would get changed, head into Surfers Paradise, QLD and go to an arcade parlor for our tradition. The first lot we’d always take were the little black and white ones in those photo booths that you put in $5, get 4 poses and then a print photo strip. Ok so far not weird, but the second lot we’d get were no ordinary photos; these ones were done in “Ye olde time costumes”. So now I have this demented collection of myself and friends growing up in high school in outfits ranging from western saloon girls to prim and proper Victorian ladies. Nothing funnier than seeing yourself at 16 dressed as a western saloon girl with two of your mates. I should have known back then that these photos were the beginning of my love for historical fashion.

Anyway after reading another blog I was inspired to drag a couple of my current Victorian friends out to a photo booth place in the centre of Melbourne to reenact my past of sorts. However instead of going “Ye Olde Time” photos we went for crazy Japanese style instead, hence my current indulgence with the gothic Lolita and Hime Garu styles. What is all this craziness you may ask? Well you jump into a booth, select the background you want, pose and then draw/add stars/cats ears/words what ever you want to the image. Sort of like a form of digital scrap booking. I’ll scan and upload in a bit of our photos, but I have to stop laughing first at them first.

For those of you who don’t have access you can jump online at my new favorite website Puricute and upload your own photos to do the same; like these ones. Perfect for all you princess out there.

Super Cute .....gimmie

I am having a major desire to hit the airport and jump a flight to Japan, it could just be the fact I’m spending a lot of time in hotels and airports in Australia that the desire to trade tickets and go off into the wild is distracting. Or it could just be the fact that I saw the coolest suitcase yesterday.

Now strangely this was not the first time I’ve come across this suitcase, I originally saw it a few months ago when Super Kawaii Mama featured it, so it was trippy to see it walking through the airport. If you have no clue what I’m on about I’m talking about the super cute Hideo Wakamatsu cherry suitcase.

So this has got me also thinking again about Hime Gyaru. I love bad girl retro and and trying to find a way to test the waters with hime garu and maybe even see if they can combine so now it to hit the net for some inspiration and hopefully a super cute outfit. Especially since sat night is meant to be a doll inspired party. Fingers crossed.