[coord] New Year's Community Meetup

The local community had another annual New Year meetup for the whole area last weekend. I wasn't sure I could make it since the theme was stars and I didn't finish a new headdress for my star-themed dresses. But I went ahead and wore my grandest dress, Angelic Pretty's Antoinette Decoration just to impress everyone and assert my alpha male dominance. Which I learned does not actually exist in wild wolf packs.

One-piece dress, bonnet, tights: Angelic Pretty; jacket: Zara; shoes: offbrand; flowers and hair accessories: Forever 21, handmade; jewelry: Forever 21, Daiso, Claire's

Since I bought the set from Angelic Pretty USA, there was not much else I needed to do to make it impressive, lol. I wore the jacket because it was chilly and wet outside, and since I wore my gold shoes recently, I brought out the cream heels for a more understated look. I added an ostrich feather to my bonnet and some flowers and head chains to give it a richer and more sumptuous feel, similar to Triple Fortune bonnets. But my favorite part of this coord is the braided bangs that I told myself I'd do for years and finally did on this old wig I bought for a cosplay that didn't work out. The wig had ringlet curls in the back but untrimmed parted bangs in the front, so I brushed the bangs to the front and braided them to the side to avoid cutting them wrongly. Anyway, I was impressed by myself so... yeah, lmao. I think my wrists looked bare without the jacket, I did have bracelets to wear but I put on super long deco nails and gave up trying to put on bracelets after that lol. Next time I will finish making some lace wrist cuffs and bell sleeves, another project I have yet to start on.

[coord] Ikki-con Tea Party with Baby the Stars Shine Bright

This year (last year a little bit) I headed down to Austin again to help out with the j-fashion staff for their lolita events! I came in on Friday night and helped out with the fashion show clean-up on Saturday, but most of my time was spent getting ready for the tea party on Sunday afternoon. Despite the difficult circumstances that came up last minute, I think we pulled off a fairly good event, I hope everyone, guests and staff, agreed!

The theme for the tea party was "fairy tale" and to match with the gorgeous centerpieces Cat designed for the tables, I bought an older Baby dress from takoyaki co, the Opale cut of the Sweet Jewelry Princess print, and made my own headdress to match.

JSK: Baby the Stars Shine Bright; blouse: Innocent World; neckbow: Metamorphose; tights: off brand (wearing Meta socks in this pic lol); shoes: Taobao; necklace: Forever 21; corsage, headdress: handmade; wig: Daiso 

I had wanted to buy a similar round flower headdress from the American Baby shop but they didn't have the colors I wanted, so I made my own using a large Daiso rose and smaller flowers I had lying around from Michaels, pastel ribbons from my stash, and some jeweled tulle and raschel lace from Joann's bargain bins because this Joann's will never call my number so I couldn't get the nice tulle cut. I might just go to another Joann's or shop online or something lmao. Anyway, I rather liked the look of the asymmetrical headdress even though the veil part was kinda oversized ooops. Another successful attempt at making my own accessories!

[coord] Tacky Christmas Sweater coord

We had a White Elephant and general gift exchange party with some local lolitas. Alas, the tea place we wanted to meet at did not take reservations and had a two hour wait due to the holidays, so we met up at a Bucca di Beppo and had a solid Italian meal in our lolita instead lmao. I promised to wear a tacky Christmas sweater so here it is!

Skirt: Metamorphose, tights: Grimoire, boots: Bodyline; jacket: Dear Celine, blouse: off-brand, wig and reindeer antlers, crystal pendant and bracelet: Daiso, stole and necklace: Forever 21, flower wreath and necklace: handmade

This was another budget outfit with Daiso items, handmade and offbrand items. The only true lolita brand was Meta, a lucky pack skirt from 2 years ago. But I was glad to coord this vest that my Australian family gave me, as well as the jacket and stole. Overall, it was a good attempt, I'm proud of myself.