[discussion] Summer Hairstyle Ideas part 2

Piggy-backing on last year's entry, I made a new collage of slightly more current hair styles for spring and summer! Just like last year, I focused on hair styles that could potentially be done with natural hair (although I'm sure like half of these are wigs). For example, hair without bangs/fringe, side parts, natural/curly hair, or braids and updos that can bring hair off the back of the neck for a breezy summer look. As quintessential as the dolly look of blunt cut bangs and long ringlet curls is to the lolita aesthetic, sometimes you want options to stand out from the rest of the crowd, or fix up your own hair on an extra hot day when you would rather not wear a wig. I gathered these looks from various Gothic Lolita Bibles, Kera magazines and photoshoots for current release dresses from the brand sites. Hope this is of interest to you!

I am really liking the thick braids, ribbon braids, and puffy twin buns. I kinda wish we could see the back of the head for the up dos in the center!

[coord] DreamHack Austin Japanese Street Fashion show

This was the second year Dreamhack, an e-sports and gaming event, took place in Austin, Texas, and my good friend had volunteered to take care of arranging panels for the attendees to do when they're not gaming or watching others gaming. Since the programming didn't advertise early enough and thus get a lot of panelists coming, it was time for a few Japanese street fashion things! Some of the videogames were made in Japan, so it was relevant, lmao. I volunteered to mod the panel rooms, do one panel, and also walk in the fashion street with my ouji stuff because no one ever wants to do ouji. One of the DJs playing the event wanted to MC at the last minute, and it turns out he had modeled for visual-kei styles and vaguely knew what Japanese street fashion was about and thought my outfit was cool! Yeah, feels good to be validated by someone more famous than myself!

Jacket, hat, bowtie, rose pin: Alice and the Pirates; sarouel pants: Putumayo; butt-skirt: Black Peace Now; socks: Heart E; badge: Metamorphose; blouse, jewelry and boots: off-brand, handmade, Claire's (was not wearing glasses at the fashion show)

Notice that I am rewearing my jacket from Ikkicon 2 years ago, but I bought the matching hat on 50% clearance from the San Francisco shop finally. The matching pants haven't been seen for sale, lol, so I got a pair of Putumayo x Tales of Xilia shorts because they were relevant to videogames and matched, and added the half-skirt from a pair of Black Peace Now pants for a similar punk look. Anyway, not sure about the baggy harem pants look on me since I'm short, but I think it was a good experiment into a more goth punkish ouji style.