Ganguro, Love it or hate it?

★GANGURO★

★Love it Or Hate it★

 

 I've never taken it seriously myself when wearing it, but one of my most favourite styles from Japan is Ganguro. Its so unusually and I personally think it's beautiful. The Ganguro look, I would say is an extreamly over the top holiday maker, as if on a trip to Hawaii, these people coat themselves in summer clothing, rainbow flower's and extream tan to achieve this kind of American bimbo look.

From what I've known and gathered, Ganguro is a bit of a rebelious look agaisnt tradtional beauty, against the look of pale skin, black/dark hair and pale common look of socity. Ganguro's go ALL OUT over the top with these look. Translated to "black face" Kanji：顔黒 Hiragana: がんぐろ Katakana: ガングロ the Ganguro make up consists of extreamly dark foundation/fake tan, white eyeshadow and nose strike, with over powering colour's to the mix giving an extremely dark and grotesque look~

I tried it SLIGHTLY once for a costume of a chacrter for a LARP I was part of. Yes, I LARP, I'm a full on nerd, however the Ganguro look I think is personally something I doubt I could do on a daily basis. You need some gut's to be able to do this in England. Anyway's I made a design for my larp character being this unusually thing and from this drawing I created my own OC *origenal Character* for the LARP and also made my outfit for said character. So you could say this was my first attempt of the ganguro style, mixed a thingy bit with some goth (it was a vampire LARP afterall)

Next time if I was to re-do it properly and not as a costume, I would use way darker foundation and brighter colouful cltohing and hair

Would I wear it normally? Maybe, I'm not agaisnt trying new things and I'll try things at least once, so who knows maybe I will~

My Auntie's Wedding

 

More of a share of love. My Auntie just got married, and I wish her many year's of happiness ahead of her, so I'd thought I;d share a few pic's and hope in a few year's we can look back and enjoy what a wonderful day it was~

It was such a lovely day, the skies may have looked gloomey but it was actually really sunny and hot, with a nice warm breaze to top it off. Was hard work being cheif bridesmaid~

 Was such a lovely day, and such a lovely wedding. Felt a bit retro in my bridemaid's get up, but always fun to try summent new~

BTSSB Secret Cake Factory Review

Secret Cake Factory Scalloped JSK

★Review★

 

Secret Cake Factoryスカラップ ジャンパースカート

 

Brand: Baby the Stars Shine Bright

Release Year: 2009

Price: ￥30,240

Available Colors: Sax Blue, Pink, Brown, Black

Measurements: 87cm length, 82~90cm bust, 74~82cm waist

Materials: Fabric (100% cotton), lining (100% polyester)

Additional Information: The dress has back shirring.

 

A few people wanted to know a litle bit about my dresses and so I decided to start doing a few reviews starting with my favourite dress. Secret cake factory. The first thing I'll say about this dress is, its oddly quite short in comparision to most BTSSB dresses but it is eaisly sorted by the ruffled/elastic straps.

It is however extreamly comfortable, it is probbaly the most cosy dress I own. The dress has really relaxed shirring at the back, so it does not pull when worn. The scallop cut is really nicely done, very smooth to the touch. The bow however is a bit of hassel as you can see, it is a bit loose in shape and flops really easily, it is certainly something I would future invest into reshaping, or to be more exact, take off the centre bit of fabric and making it tighter. I often take the bow off when I wear it, and place it elsewear, but as soon as I get around the altering it, I shall wear it centre.

A few comparision pic's of the BTSSB images and photo's I've taken.

I have actually owned this same dress twice! The current one I own is the jsk but I did used to own the OP before this, it was my first proper sweet lolita dress, I do 100% repeat that this dress is very comfy, however the fully shirred OP was not so cosy to wear~

 Pic of me in a resent co-ord

 Pic of me in the fully shirred OP 2012

★★★OVERALL OPINION★★★

I personally enjoy this dress allot, it is cofy, has allot of give and despite being shorter than most BTSSB dress's it is actually a nice length~

★4.5/5★

My main reason by docking a 0.5 is being the hassle with the bow, however once this is altered I'd happily give it full marks